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1. The Basement (cabel.me)
486 points by chrislloyd on Dec 20, 2012 | 36 comments
2. JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only (jetbrains.com)
367 points by rdemmer on Dec 20, 2012 | 380 comments
3. When I first heard the name "Safari" (donmelton.com)
350 points by ryannielsen on Dec 20, 2012 | 177 comments
4. MIT discovers a new state of matter, a new kind of magnetism (extremetech.com)
309 points by memoryfailure on Dec 20, 2012 | 51 comments
5. PlainSite Exposes 2,000 Intellectual Ventures Shell Companies (plainsite.org)
298 points by thinkcomp on Dec 20, 2012 | 86 comments
6. Congress Is Quietly Abandoning the 5th Amendment (theatlantic.com)
296 points by mtgx on Dec 20, 2012 | 193 comments
7. Engineering Pornography (2002) (jwz.org)
235 points by wallflower on Dec 20, 2012 | 77 comments
8. Nate Silver confuses cause and effect, ends up defending corruption (mathbabe.org)
232 points by anon1385 on Dec 20, 2012 | 79 comments
9. Wikipedia doesn't need your money (theregister.co.uk)
229 points by iProject on Dec 20, 2012 | 154 comments
10. Help HN: Developer laid off 5 days before Christmas, have kids
224 points by up_and_up on Dec 20, 2012 | 127 comments
11. Rice Cooker Hacks - The Ebert Way (priceonomics.com)
219 points by rohin on Dec 20, 2012 | 208 comments
12. An Interactive Guide To The Fourier Transform (betterexplained.com)
218 points by lnmx on Dec 20, 2012 | 25 comments
13. Steam for Linux Beta is now open to the public (steamcommunity.com)
206 points by Nathandim on Dec 20, 2012 | 74 comments
14. Show HN: Ember Table by Addepar (addepar.github.com)
199 points by ldvldv on Dec 20, 2012 | 49 comments
15. Apple kills a Kickstarter project (venturebeat.com)
177 points by lambtron on Dec 20, 2012 | 194 comments
16. RethinkDB 1.3 is out, now available on OS X (rethinkdb.com)
178 points by coffeemug on Dec 20, 2012 | 58 comments
17. Draw.io Doomsday sale - 100% off for 24 hours (draw.io)
176 points by davidjgraph on Dec 20, 2012 | 63 comments
18. Math Professor Invents Non-Reversing Mirror (techfragments.com)
154 points by ColinWright on Dec 20, 2012 | 78 comments
19. Tcl/Tk 8.6 released (now stackless, w/coroutines, tailcalls, and more) (tcl.tk)
144 points by anoved on Dec 20, 2012 | 39 comments
20. Spoiler Alert: First 3-D Printed Records Sound Awful (wired.com)
130 points by replicatorblog on Dec 20, 2012 | 60 comments
21. The Instagram Effect: National Geographic Suspends Its Popular Account (fastcompany.com)
126 points by anuaitt on Dec 20, 2012 | 36 comments
22. Explain SQL injection without technical jargon (security.stackexchange.com)
121 points by justhw on Dec 20, 2012 | 49 comments
23. Adobe acquires Behance (engadget.com)
110 points by qdot76367 on Dec 20, 2012 | 14 comments
24. Show HN: ppl - The Command Line Address Book (ppladdressbook.org)
106 points by h2s on Dec 20, 2012 | 54 comments
25. Ask HN: Salary Increases Over Time
102 points by thingummywut on Dec 20, 2012 | 91 comments
26. IFTTT raises $7M from Andreessen Horowitz, NEA and Lerer (thenextweb.com)
97 points by kenneth on Dec 20, 2012 | 40 comments
27. F# from your browser (tryfsharp.org)
88 points by btian on Dec 20, 2012 | 35 comments
28. A hardware lesson for software devs: from logical gates to the game of life (horev.net)
84 points by alonho on Dec 20, 2012 | 24 comments
29. HTML5 Bones: The template that goes back to basics (html5bones.com)
84 points by gulbrandr on Dec 20, 2012 | 33 comments
30. Functional Programming Principles in Scala: Impressions and Statistics (scala-lang.org)
80 points by Kopion on Dec 20, 2012 | 16 comments

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