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1. Typing at 255 WPM shouldn't cost $4000 (opensource.com)
247 points by tux1968 on Jan 15, 2012 | 73 comments
2. Alexis Ohanian vs NBC - Debating SOPA (msn.com)
233 points by sethbannon on Jan 15, 2012 | 155 comments
3. Learn C The Hard Way (learncodethehardway.org)
220 points by llambda on Jan 15, 2012 | 62 comments
4. Boing Boing will go dark on Jan 18 to fight SOPA (boingboing.net)
188 points by llambda on Jan 15, 2012 | 24 comments
5. Ask HN: Who's looking for employment?
188 points by johnwall on Jan 15, 2012 | 153 comments
6. What Jobs Do the Top 1% Have? (nytimes.com)
180 points by uptown on Jan 15, 2012 | 124 comments
7. Stop SOPA site template (zachstronaut.com)
178 points by cjauvin on Jan 15, 2012 | 37 comments
8. A Spellchecker Used To Be A Major Feat of Software Engineering (dadgum.com)
156 points by quanticle on Jan 15, 2012 | 61 comments
9. Military technology: Magic bullets (economist.com)
146 points by robinhouston on Jan 15, 2012 | 87 comments
10. Poll: Do you use app hosting or run your own server?
145 points by billpatrianakos on Jan 15, 2012 | 109 comments
11. Juvia: Free software Disqus comment server (github.com/phusion)
131 points by comice on Jan 15, 2012 | 26 comments
12. Redmon - A web interface for managing redis: cli, admin, and live monitoring (github.com/steelthread)
128 points by cookiestack on Jan 15, 2012 | 10 comments
13. Color schemes I can feel (design-seeds.com)
124 points by aymeric on Jan 15, 2012 | 24 comments
14. Startup will wash your car wherever it is located (cherry.com)
122 points by pitdesi on Jan 15, 2012 | 95 comments
15. Vi Illustrator (bilalquadri.com)
119 points by googletron on Jan 15, 2012 | 22 comments
16. The Greatest Running Shoe Never Sold (businessweek.com)
98 points by waitwhat on Jan 15, 2012 | 69 comments
17. A Lua interpreter in the NetBSD kernel (sourceforge.net)
93 points by gioele on Jan 15, 2012 | 22 comments
18. Reading list for distributed systems (reiddraper.github.com)
88 points by fs111 on Jan 15, 2012 | 9 comments
19. Data Science Toolkit: free-as-in-speech Natural Language Processing & Geo tools (datasciencetoolkit.org)
84 points by nosignal on Jan 15, 2012 | 3 comments
20. The Big List of Game Postmortems - from indie to AAA (pixelprospector.com)
82 points by speednoise on Jan 15, 2012 | 8 comments
21. Why SQL server was never ported to Unix (hal2020.com)
79 points by progga on Jan 15, 2012 | 47 comments
22. CSSrefresh - Automatically Refresh CSS files (frebsite.nl)
74 points by jenhsun on Jan 15, 2012 | 25 comments
23. Best TLD that can't be taken down by US/etc?
71 points by Andrenid on Jan 15, 2012 | 38 comments
24. Livestream of the PennApps hackathon demos (livestream.com)
70 points by pulak on Jan 15, 2012 | 16 comments
25. Elements of Successful iPhone Games (diaryofanappdeveloper.tumblr.com)
65 points by dunkjmcd on Jan 15, 2012 | 18 comments
26. Hacker says to release full Norton Antivirus code on Tuesday (reuters.com)
64 points by jhack on Jan 15, 2012 | 36 comments
27. Why iCloud won't beat Dropbox and the failure of Airdrop (calepin.co)
62 points by asselinpaul on Jan 15, 2012 | 49 comments
28. Linux Socket Programming By Example - broadcast example (ac.rs)
58 points by kruhft on Jan 15, 2012 | 4 comments
29. Blackout your WordPress site on January 18th (github.com/chrisguitarguy)
56 points by chrisguitarguy on Jan 15, 2012 | 5 comments
30. Identi.ca blackout 18 Jan 2012 8AM-8PM EST to protest SOPA/PIPA (status.net)
56 points by zoowar on Jan 15, 2012 | 11 comments

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