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1. MPAA Publicly Threatens to Stop Writing Checks (techdirt.com)
514 points by nextparadigms on Jan 21, 2012 | 105 comments
2. How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work (nytimes.com)
446 points by wallflower on Jan 21, 2012 | 307 comments
3. Investment Firm Y Combinator Goes on Offensive Against Hollywood (nytimes.com)
366 points by invisiblefunnel on Jan 21, 2012 | 91 comments
4. Fields medalist Tim Gowers: Elsevier — my part in its downfall (gowers.wordpress.com)
287 points by randomwalker on Jan 21, 2012 | 43 comments
5. Can we kill the music business too? (audiosearch.blogspot.com)
196 points by jamesgagan on Jan 21, 2012 | 70 comments
6. How Reddit went from a second-tier aggregator to the Web’s unstoppable force (slate.com)
187 points by robg on Jan 21, 2012 | 84 comments
7. We are sorry to inform you (ufl.edu)
185 points by iamabhi9 on Jan 21, 2012 | 52 comments
8. The Secret Document That Transformed China (npr.org)
172 points by nantes on Jan 21, 2012 | 53 comments
9. Polish Internet community goes nuts against ACTA (plus.google.com)
170 points by pawelwentpawel on Jan 21, 2012 | 25 comments
10. Explaining Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem to a Twelve Year Old (reddit.com)
156 points by awolf on Jan 21, 2012 | 34 comments
11. Programmer Sentenced To Death In Iran For Upload Software (techweekeurope.co.uk)
130 points by jrabone on Jan 21, 2012 | 17 comments
12. Turn your camera phone into a Geiger counter (hackaday.com)
125 points by bcl on Jan 21, 2012 | 27 comments
13. Investigate Dodd and the MPAA for bribery after public threats to congress (wh.gov)
118 points by Exoseq on Jan 21, 2012 | 12 comments
14. Cartels Are an Emergent Phenomenon, Say Complexity Theorists (technologyreview.com)
110 points by pg on Jan 21, 2012 | 66 comments
15. Mail Pilot: Email Reimagined (kickstarter.com)
113 points by alexobenauer on Jan 21, 2012 | 69 comments
16. Y Combinator’s Short-sighted War Against Hollywood (benparr.com)
106 points by brackin on Jan 21, 2012 | 68 comments
17. I don't owe you scala-tools.org (goodstuff.im)
102 points by automagical on Jan 21, 2012 | 74 comments
18. WebM-Enabled Browser Usage Share Exceeds H.264-Enabled ones (hsivonen.iki.fi)
94 points by stesch on Jan 21, 2012 | 55 comments
19. Chuck Moore on the Lost Art of Keeping It Simple (simple-talk.com)
95 points by gruseom on Jan 21, 2012 | 3 comments
20. The Ultimate Collection of Emacs Resources (batsov.com)
90 points by octopus on Jan 21, 2012 | 6 comments
21. Google has open-sourced SkyMap (googleresearch.blogspot.com)
88 points by kefs on Jan 21, 2012 | 12 comments
22. Jobs was told anti-poaching idea likely illegal (reuters.com)
84 points by FluidDjango on Jan 21, 2012 | 51 comments
23. Pencil - Sketching and Prototyping with Firefox (evolus.vn)
82 points by toni on Jan 21, 2012 | 13 comments
24. Ask HN: What is a good alternative to PayPal?
77 points by NadaAldahleh on Jan 21, 2012 | 46 comments
25. The Edge of HTML5 (html5-demos.appspot.com)
74 points by tilt on Jan 21, 2012 | 24 comments
26. Zynga 'losing $150 on every new paying customer' (develop-online.net)
73 points by evo_9 on Jan 21, 2012 | 39 comments
27. C++11 will be introduced by B.Stroustrup at Microsoft Event (msdn.com)
72 points by alpb on Jan 21, 2012 | 20 comments
28. Australia: US Copyright Colony or Just a Good Friend? (torrentfreak.com)
70 points by llambda on Jan 21, 2012 | 20 comments
29. Android App Inventor Open Sourced, Code Released (hackeducation.com)
68 points by tilt on Jan 21, 2012 | 2 comments
30. We, the people, stopped SOPA/PIPA -- Let's remember that (codylittlewood.com)
69 points by CodyLittlewood on Jan 21, 2012 | 10 comments

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