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1. Cars kill cities (progressivetransit.wordpress.com)
553 points by ajju on Jan 26, 2012 | 336 comments
2. Wat (destroyallsoftware.com)
512 points by abahgat on Jan 26, 2012 | 98 comments
3. Show HN: my database engine for GPU (sourceforge.net)
364 points by antonmks on Jan 26, 2012 | 60 comments
4. Scaling GitHub (zachholman.com)
348 points by pascal07 on Jan 26, 2012 | 67 comments
5. Applications open for Y Combinator's summer 2012 funding cycle (ycombinator.com)
310 points by pg on Jan 26, 2012 | 106 comments
6. How to Make It on Craigslist (priceonomics.com)
269 points by omarish on Jan 26, 2012 | 172 comments
7. Reddit: 2012 State of the Servers (reddit.com)
217 points by blutonium on Jan 26, 2012 | 56 comments
8. Why we shut down a product that was $75,000/year profitable (wildbit.com)
227 points by alexknowshtml on Jan 26, 2012 | 77 comments
9. Google’s Python Lessons are Awesome (hartleybrody.com)
185 points by hartleybrody on Jan 26, 2012 | 13 comments
10. Mega-man: The fast, fabulous, and fraudulent life of Kim Dotcom (arstechnica.com)
184 points by llambda on Jan 26, 2012 | 89 comments
11. ACTA is being signed right now in the EU (thejournal.ie)
158 points by kermitthehermit on Jan 26, 2012 | 41 comments
12. Poles Take anti-ACTA Protests to the Streets (torrentfreak.com)
154 points by llambda on Jan 26, 2012 | 22 comments
13. PUT or POST: The REST of the Story (jcalcote.wordpress.com)
149 points by jherdman on Jan 26, 2012 | 49 comments
14. Comparing JavaScript, CoffeeScript & ClojureScript (dosync.posterous.com)
147 points by swannodette on Jan 26, 2012 | 47 comments
15. Observations from two weeks of SSH brute force attacks (lightbluetouchpaper.org)
132 points by bensummers on Jan 26, 2012 | 53 comments
16. Direct Debit API for 1%; max £2 (gocardless.com)
127 points by alexchamberlain on Jan 26, 2012 | 92 comments
17. Show HN: I've created a site about Bone Marrow Donation (cheekswab.org)
120 points by danielna on Jan 26, 2012 | 25 comments
18. Twitter Will Censor Certain Tweets In Certain Countries (readwriteweb.com)
122 points by Anon84 on Jan 26, 2012 | 65 comments
19. ACTA rapporteur denounces ACTA mascarade (laquadrature.net)
120 points by wwwhizz on Jan 26, 2012 | 18 comments
20. Today Apple, Google, 5 Others Battle “No Poach” Conspiracy Case (techcrunch.com)
114 points by nikhilpandit on Jan 26, 2012 | 72 comments
21. 22 EU states sign the ACTA ‘Internet censorship’ treaty (thenextweb.com)
114 points by joejohnson on Jan 26, 2012 | 31 comments
22. Drchrono (YC W11) raises $2.8 Million for iPad Health Record Platform (nytimes.com)
94 points by Skeletor on Jan 26, 2012 | 41 comments
23. Skills aren't taught at university; we develop them to cope with university (jeffdechambeau.com)
87 points by jeffdechambeau on Jan 26, 2012 | 41 comments
24. Pac-Man Proved NP-Hard (technologyreview.com)
86 points by llambda on Jan 26, 2012 | 19 comments
25. The Cleartrip Hurry Algorithm (mobocube.com)
83 points by SingAlong on Jan 26, 2012 | 33 comments
26. IBM creates 9nm carbon nanotube transistor that outperforms silicon (extremetech.com)
79 points by ukdm on Jan 26, 2012 | 31 comments
27. First look at 37signals big rewrite of basecamp (37signals.com)
78 points by andycroll on Jan 26, 2012 | 20 comments
28. Linux Package Manager Command Line Comparison (archlinux.org)
71 points by denysonique on Jan 26, 2012 | 31 comments
29. Testing Backbone.js Best Practices (involver.com)
72 points by joneath on Jan 26, 2012 | 8 comments
30. Backbone.js localStorage + remote sync (github.com/lucian1900)
70 points by lucian1900 on Jan 26, 2012 | 25 comments

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