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1. You Are Naturally Short Housing (thezikomoletter.com)
307 points by soundsop on Dec 11, 2012 | 202 comments
2. 23andMe raises $50M, cuts price to $99, sets goal of 1M genotyped customers (23andme.com)
305 points by joecackler on Dec 11, 2012 | 236 comments
3. Lorem Pixel (lorempixel.com)
282 points by marshray on Dec 11, 2012 | 51 comments
4. Welcome to a New Gist (github.com/blog)
287 points by kenneth on Dec 11, 2012 | 90 comments
5. ITunes 11 and Colors (panic.com)
266 points by thisisblurry on Dec 11, 2012 | 113 comments
6. Linux 3.7 released (kernelnewbies.org)
254 points by moonboots on Dec 11, 2012 | 114 comments
7. 8-Bit Generation Documentary (textfiles.com)
237 points by cleverjake on Dec 11, 2012 | 27 comments
8. Bot written to buy random things each month from Amazon (randomshopper.tumblr.com)
219 points by dmarinoc on Dec 11, 2012 | 95 comments
9. I'm 85 and I Learned To Code. You Should Too. (codehs.com)
195 points by zachgalant on Dec 11, 2012 | 40 comments
10. Apple blocking SkyDrive from iOS store, wants cut of revenue (microsoft-news.com)
178 points by recoiledsnake on Dec 11, 2012 | 165 comments
11. Checklist for Creating a Landing Page (unbounce.com)
175 points by matt1 on Dec 11, 2012 | 50 comments
12. How a load-balancing bug led to worldwide Chrome crashes (code.google.com)
176 points by jpdus on Dec 11, 2012 | 83 comments
13. Show HN: box2d-jquery - physics-engine for your DOM (fullstackoptimization.com)
167 points by franze on Dec 11, 2012 | 39 comments
14. Psy Makes $8.1 Million By Ignoring Copyright Infringements Of Gangnam Style (techdirt.com)
155 points by mtgx on Dec 11, 2012 | 100 comments
15. Netflix says Google Fiber is "most consistently fast ISP in America" (arstechnica.com)
152 points by Libertatea on Dec 11, 2012 | 51 comments
16. Jimmy Wales: $50 Android smartphones are disrupting Africa (techcrunch.com)
143 points by mtgx on Dec 11, 2012 | 79 comments
17. Samba 4.0 released (samba.org)
135 points by zdw on Dec 11, 2012 | 72 comments
18. It will take a 'baby elephant' to knock over this bike [video] (bbc.co.uk)
132 points by ZeljkoS on Dec 11, 2012 | 101 comments
19. Programmer behind YouPorn empire arrested in Belgium (translate.google.com)
122 points by car on Dec 11, 2012 | 83 comments
20. Show HN: Advanced Mathematics Library for Node.js and JavaScript (github.com/sjkaliski)
123 points by sjkaliski on Dec 11, 2012 | 48 comments
21. Uses For A Message Queue (iron.io)
117 points by paddyforan on Dec 11, 2012 | 20 comments
22. The Making Of OpenERP (openerp.com)
113 points by nghopenerp on Dec 11, 2012 | 100 comments
23. Unix Text Processing (1987) (oreilly.com)
108 points by rhollos on Dec 11, 2012 | 63 comments
24. Challenging Programming Exercises Published Weekly (programmingpraxis.com)
109 points by krat0sprakhar on Dec 11, 2012 | 19 comments
25. Surprises When Designing An iPhone App (jackg.org)
103 points by troubleden on Dec 11, 2012 | 53 comments
26. Marketing hacks to boost your startup (slideshare.net)
105 points by benjlang on Dec 11, 2012 | 56 comments
27. ZenPayroll raises seed round from the Mt. Rushmore of Valley entrepreneurs (pandodaily.com)
99 points by edawerd on Dec 11, 2012 | 64 comments
28. FreezeGun: easy mocking of Python datetimes (stevepulec.com)
88 points by spulec on Dec 11, 2012 | 16 comments
29. JavaScript PDP-1 emulator running the original code of “Spacewar!” from 1962 (masswerk.at)
86 points by sgt on Dec 11, 2012 | 10 comments
30. WordPress 3.5 “Elvin” Released (wordpress.org)
84 points by nosecreek on Dec 11, 2012 | 66 comments

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