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1. I Have No Talent (railstips.org)
334 points by jnunemaker on Jan 12, 2010 | 74 comments
2. The Fake Freeway Sign that Became a Real Public Service (good.is)
140 points by kf on Jan 12, 2010 | 40 comments
3. Almost a third of our portfolio is under attack by patent trolls. (unionsquareventures.com)
137 points by figured on Jan 12, 2010 | 72 comments
4. On how Google Wave surprisingly changed my life (maxklein.posterous.com)
133 points by icey on Jan 12, 2010 | 44 comments
5. Has Amazon EC2 become over subscribed? (blog-city.com)
97 points by blasdel on Jan 12, 2010 | 15 comments
6. Will single founders please stand up? (Musical edition.) (kalzumeus.com)
97 points by patio11 on Jan 12, 2010 | 26 comments
7. "Dabblers and Blowhards" - hackers are nothing like painters [2005] (idlewords.com)
95 points by mati on Jan 12, 2010 | 24 comments
8. Humorless "North Face" Sues "South Butt" For Trademark Infringement (law.com)
89 points by grellas on Jan 12, 2010 | 45 comments
9. Amish Hackers: How the Amish actually use and build their own tech (kk.org)
86 points by whatusername on Jan 12, 2010 | 13 comments
10. HN long term change (jacquesmattheij.com)
84 points by jacquesm on Jan 12, 2010 | 54 comments
11. Record police with phone camera in Boston, get arrested (boston.com)
80 points by ilamont on Jan 12, 2010 | 58 comments
12. Upload and store your files in the cloud with Google Docs (googledocs.blogspot.com)
75 points by johns on Jan 12, 2010 | 34 comments
13. Google to mobile industry: 'F*** you very much' (theregister.co.uk)
70 points by benpbenp on Jan 12, 2010 | 94 comments
14. Google Chromium Bug: Huge amount of goats teleported (code.google.com)
65 points by janitha on Jan 12, 2010 | 15 comments
15. Why Did Google Build a Phone? A Browser? (designbygravity.wordpress.com)
62 points by cschanck on Jan 12, 2010 | 21 comments
16. The risks of "$15 for $2097 worth of mobile internet" (projectgus.com)
60 points by angusgr on Jan 12, 2010 | 20 comments
17. Assembly Language Step By Step, for Linux (duntemann.com)
59 points by nkurz on Jan 12, 2010 | 11 comments
18. How Face Detection Works (cognotics.com)
54 points by niyazpk on Jan 12, 2010 | 2 comments
19. The Tel Aviv Cluster (nytimes.com)
54 points by uuilly on Jan 12, 2010 | 27 comments
20. Visual evidence of Amazon EC2 network issues (cloudkick.com)
56 points by polvi on Jan 12, 2010 | 6 comments
21. Apple, It's Time to Delete Safari From the iPhone (gizmodo.com)
51 points by jasonlbaptiste on Jan 12, 2010 | 24 comments
22. The West Is Choked by Fear (spiegel.de)
50 points by bluebird on Jan 12, 2010 | 61 comments
23. Mochi Media Acquired By Shanda Games For $80 Million (techcrunch.com)
49 points by andrewpbrett on Jan 12, 2010 | 14 comments
24. Protecting your email with 'AT domain DOT com' is making it easier to find (varenhor.st)
47 points by taylorbo on Jan 12, 2010 | 39 comments
25. Pinboard.in blog - Technical Underpinnings (pinboard.in)
44 points by kylebragger on Jan 12, 2010 | 19 comments
26. Heroku learns the hard way from Amazon EC2 outage (techtarget.com)
43 points by blasdel on Jan 12, 2010 | 22 comments
27. Survey Monkey for the Phone - A Business on Twilio (twilio.com)
45 points by goberoi on Jan 12, 2010 | 14 comments
28. GDrive is coming, 1GB free storage (googlesystem.blogspot.com)
42 points by ashley on Jan 12, 2010 | 31 comments
29. An Android Developer's Top Gripes (plusses and minuses) (developer.com)
42 points by wglb on Jan 12, 2010 | 15 comments
30. Metaprogramming: Ruby vs. Javascript (fingernailsinoatmeal.com)
38 points by drewolson on Jan 12, 2010 | 50 comments

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