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1. Google, what were you thinking? (mocality.co.ke)
751 points by swombat on Jan 13, 2012 | 143 comments
2. Google's Kenyan ripoff? (boingboing.net)
457 points by Chirag on Jan 13, 2012 | 99 comments
3. Google responds to the Mocality blog post (plus.google.com)
380 points by thehodge on Jan 13, 2012 | 127 comments
4. My Call to Senator Schumer’s Office on PIPA: It’s So Much Worse Than I Thought (amandapeyton.com)
344 points by inmygarage on Jan 13, 2012 | 118 comments
5. DuckDuckGo gets a new look (duckduckgo.com)
331 points by edwardy20 on Jan 13, 2012 | 142 comments
6. New York City gets a Software Engineering High School (joelonsoftware.com)
329 points by apress on Jan 13, 2012 | 122 comments
7. Coding Skill and the Decline of Stagnation (notch.tumblr.com)
298 points by ekosz on Jan 13, 2012 | 195 comments
8. Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998 (paulgraham.com)
293 points by anateus on Jan 13, 2012 | 62 comments
9. Circumventing the No-Fly list in thirty seconds (rodneyfolz.com)
289 points by folz on Jan 13, 2012 | 154 comments
10. Bill Gates Gives Away More Money Than The Entire US Foreign Aid Budget (alltop.com)
288 points by pud on Jan 13, 2012 | 103 comments
11. Tim O’Reilly: Why I’m fighting SOPA (gigaom.com)
253 points by ukdm on Jan 13, 2012 | 27 comments
12. Microsoft confirms UEFI fears, locks down ARM devices (softwarefreedom.org)
254 points by zoowar on Jan 13, 2012 | 131 comments
13. Twitter Bootstrap Generator (martinbean.co.uk)
247 points by bravolima on Jan 13, 2012 | 48 comments
14. The Rise of the New Groupthink (nytimes.com)
242 points by user02138 on Jan 13, 2012 | 80 comments
15. What the Bagel Man Saw - An Accidental Glimpse at Human Nature (stephenjdubner.com)
199 points by adam on Jan 13, 2012 | 42 comments
16. How I Converted My Subscription Site from Paypal to Stripe in 2 Days (justinvincent.com)
186 points by jv22222 on Jan 13, 2012 | 59 comments
17. How I Learnt enough Python/Django to be Dangerous in 1 Month (eddychan.com)
156 points by eddy_chan on Jan 13, 2012 | 55 comments
18. How I got into MIT when I was 14 (laura-whatawonderfulworld.blogspot.com)
153 points by LDTeslaImmortal on Jan 13, 2012 | 105 comments
19. Pledge support to Wikipedia if they do a SOPA blackout (wikipediablackout.com)
143 points by yanowitz on Jan 13, 2012 | 24 comments
20. The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture (codinghorror.com)
130 points by gavinballard on Jan 13, 2012 | 85 comments
21. Justin.tv porting their site from Rails to Django? (djangohire.com)
125 points by plinkplonk on Jan 13, 2012 | 59 comments
22. DNS provision pulled from SOPA, victory for opponents (cnet.com)
121 points by phreeza on Jan 13, 2012 | 30 comments
23. Ask HN: Why is the "Google, what were you thinking?" link getting killed
117 points by bonaldi on Jan 13, 2012 | 30 comments
24. How Copyright Industries Con Congress (cato-at-liberty.org)
115 points by ops7eng5 on Jan 13, 2012 | 8 comments
25. My Recent Experience with PayPal Customer Service. (christianowens.com)
114 points by chrowe on Jan 13, 2012 | 27 comments
26. The World is Full of Real People (jumpstartlab.com)
106 points by j3 on Jan 13, 2012 | 63 comments
27. Emergency NYTech Meetup to Stop SOPA Jan 18 (nytm.org)
105 points by MattRogish on Jan 13, 2012 | 20 comments
28. Codemasters are on the scrounge (jheriko-rtw.blogspot.com)
105 points by jheriko on Jan 13, 2012 | 52 comments
29. Hopper: Stop emailing yourself notes, files, and images (gethopper.com)
104 points by endtwist on Jan 13, 2012 | 76 comments
30. My Recent Nine Months as an Indie Developer (eiswuxe.de)
106 points by potomak on Jan 13, 2012 | 40 comments

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