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1.The lost Van Jacobson paper that could save the Internet (root.org)
280 points by wglb on Dec 30, 2011 | 48 comments
2.Hitchhiker's Guide to Python (late.am)
256 points by dcrosta on Dec 30, 2011 | 35 comments
3.Spamhaus Nightmare: Domain Shut Down, No Notice, Over A Million Pages Down
245 points by jpadvo on Dec 30, 2011 | 95 comments
4.I made progress bars using only CSS3. You can use them for free. (dipperstove.com)
225 points by jsullivandigs on Dec 30, 2011 | 32 comments
5.Download Entire Wikipedia for Offline Use With an HTML5 App (googlecode.com)
196 points by antimatter15 on Dec 30, 2011 | 50 comments
6.Hashify: what becomes possible when one is able to store documents in URLs? (hashify.me)
186 points by potomak on Dec 30, 2011 | 77 comments
7.How to Become a Must-Have (smartfaststartup.com)
166 points by lesterbuck on Dec 30, 2011 | 23 comments
8.The Magna Carta Essay (collegemisery.blogspot.com)
163 points by edw519 on Dec 30, 2011 | 109 comments
9.I Just Ordered a Ladle from Amazon (abtinforouzandeh.com)
161 points by abtinf on Dec 30, 2011 | 65 comments
10.Stop reading this blog and learn something (avdi.org)
145 points by joshuacc on Dec 30, 2011 | 38 comments
11.Facebook no longer supports IE7 (thenextweb.com)
138 points by fosk on Dec 30, 2011 | 16 comments
12.Ask HN: I just got my first team lead. What should I do?
89 points by endymi0n on Dec 30, 2011 | 50 comments

Three years ago, I was the sole employee/founder of my startup. Today, I'm CTO of a 21-person company with a 6-person dev team.

As an individual developer, my default loop is "Find something to do. Do it. Repeat."

As a CTO, my default loop is "First, cycle through all my employees and make sure that I have equipped them to be happy and productive in their jobs. Second, find something to do. If possible, delegate it; if not, do it. Repeat."

14.How SOPA Could Ruin My Life (forbes.com/sites/insertcoin)
115 points by ops7eng5 on Dec 30, 2011 | 16 comments
15.How the first Pascal compiler was written (raw.github.com)
105 points by dchest on Dec 30, 2011 | 41 comments
16.Why do C++ folks make things so complicated? (johndcook.com)
101 points by ColinWright on Dec 30, 2011 | 112 comments
17.An email I received from Jimmy Wales regarding SOPA (reddit.com)
96 points by MRonney on Dec 30, 2011 | 8 comments
18.Verizon changes mind, cancels $2 payment fee (geek.com)
96 points by 11031a on Dec 30, 2011 | 37 comments
19.A newbie’s guide to scaling AWS (revisu.com)
97 points by maxticket on Dec 30, 2011 | 19 comments

I could come up with a list of things that I don't like about Ron Paul personally, and a few things that worry me politically.

But none of that really matters.

He's the only candidate that I feel I could actually trust to stick by his campaign rhetoric, and the only one I would trust to actually defend the constitution.

Ironic, given that we have a constitutional scholar in the White House and a historian running for the GOP nomination.

Ron Paul is wrong on some things I care about, but so is Obama, and certainly so is Newt or Romney. I think I'll vote for the lesser of a dozen evils, and go with Paul.

21.Verizon's audacious new fee for on-line payments (cnn.com)
85 points by raymondh on Dec 30, 2011 | 73 comments
22."DIY Dropbox" or "2-way directory (r)sync with proper deletion" (github.com/sickill)
82 points by ku1ik on Dec 30, 2011 | 32 comments
23.860k Stratfor Accounts Dump (pastebin.com)
77 points by mrb on Dec 30, 2011 | 72 comments
24.Samoa cancels Friday 30th and travels one day forward in time (nytimes.com)
77 points by tjriley82 on Dec 30, 2011 | 36 comments
25.What is the coolest thing you can do in ten lines of code? (stackoverflow.com)
73 points by sadiq on Dec 30, 2011 | 36 comments
26.Sending a spacecraft to Alpha Centauri (boingboing.net)
72 points by antoviaque on Dec 30, 2011 | 48 comments
27.Go Slow to Go Fast (onticoren.com)
72 points by craigkerstiens on Dec 30, 2011 | 17 comments

That's not nuclear.

Nuclear would be: you vote for SOPA you will be blacklisted from ever using google, gmail, facebook, twitter, aws. Your campaign, personal, and business websites will never appear in google searches. Your books will never be sold on amazon. You will never be allowed to have a google account, upload videos to youtube, or own an android device.

That is nuclear.

29.Insynchq : A Google Docs-Loving Dropbox Rival (thenextweb.com)
68 points by vidyesh on Dec 30, 2011 | 25 comments
30.Screencast: Make a remote data iOS table in minutes (parse.com)
67 points by jamesjyu on Dec 30, 2011 | 8 comments

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