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1. What happens when you are the doctor on the airplane? (cockeyed.com)
363 points by JacobAldridge on Dec 27, 2012 | 195 comments
2. Rails is omakase (heinemeierhansson.com)
251 points by martinbc on Dec 27, 2012 | 195 comments
3. Show HN: How I turned an old book into a (barely) profitable website (howacarworks.com)
242 points by AlexMuir on Dec 27, 2012 | 104 comments
4. Json ⊄ js (medium.com/joys-of-javascript)
216 points by rpsubhub on Dec 27, 2012 | 102 comments
5. Developing Backbone.js Applications (addyosmani.github.com)
178 points by v33ra on Dec 27, 2012 | 43 comments
6. How To Become a Successful Freelance Web Developer (and Not Kill Your Career) (jamiebegin.com)
174 points by Killswitch on Dec 27, 2012 | 64 comments
7. Never Have the “What Would It Take to Keep You Here?” Conversation (moz.com)
171 points by sharkweek on Dec 27, 2012 | 92 comments
8. Free Data Science Books (p-value.info)
125 points by Anon84 on Dec 27, 2012 | 8 comments
9. Free DNS Tools (viewdns.info)
124 points by hughesey on Dec 27, 2012 | 6 comments
10. If you see a UI walkthrough, they blew it (maxrudberg.com)
114 points by aaronbrethorst on Dec 27, 2012 | 67 comments
11. Why We Should All Care About Today's Senate Vote on FISA (eff.org)
111 points by mtgx on Dec 27, 2012 | 40 comments
12. $26,679 in 24 hours: Stats from my latest book launch (nathanbarry.com)
110 points by richaclark on Dec 27, 2012 | 57 comments
13. Let's make a FirefoxOS app (12devsofxmas.co.uk)
109 points by edent on Dec 27, 2012 | 32 comments
14. Linux Is Coming to Windows 8 PCs... Slowly (ostatic.com)
81 points by Garbage on Dec 27, 2012 | 58 comments
15. Special Purpose Linux Distributions (slashgeek.net)
81 points by Tsiolkovsky on Dec 27, 2012 | 24 comments
16. Ouya begins shipping developer consoles (slashgear.com)
78 points by abdophoto on Dec 27, 2012 | 31 comments
17. On Being A Senior Engineer (kitchensoap.com)
77 points by wyuenho on Dec 27, 2012 | 25 comments
18. Goodbye Google Reader (mediumequalsmessage.com)
77 points by cwebbdesign on Dec 27, 2012 | 72 comments
19. Linus on kernel changes breaking user programs (from 2012/12/23) (lkml.org)
76 points by w1ntermute on Dec 27, 2012 | 35 comments
20. University wins $1.17 billion hard disk patent verdict against Marvell (arstechnica.com)
76 points by bitcartel on Dec 27, 2012 | 48 comments
21. Ask HN: I’m not cut out to be a programmer. What are my alternatives?
68 points by throwaway_acct on Dec 27, 2012 | 66 comments
22. Raspberry Pi creations (arstechnica.com)
70 points by Reltair on Dec 27, 2012 | 12 comments
23. Page speed really does matter (gigpeppers.com)
66 points by gingerjoos on Dec 27, 2012 | 52 comments
24. CoffeeKup is markup as CoffeeScript (coffeekup.org)
66 points by jonny_eh on Dec 27, 2012 | 41 comments
25. Journalists’ Addresses Posted In Revenge For Posting Of Gun Permit Owners (techcrunch.com)
64 points by emeraldd on Dec 27, 2012 | 88 comments
26. Geary: New lightweight email reader for GNOME designed around conversations (yorba.org)
64 points by amarsahinovic on Dec 27, 2012 | 16 comments
27. Computers: It's time to start over. (ieee.org)
62 points by buffer on Dec 27, 2012 | 44 comments
28. KDE Gains “Magic Monitor” Functionality With New KScreen (thepowerbase.com)
60 points by glazemaster on Dec 27, 2012 | 48 comments
29. 29C3 Live Stream from Hamburg (Keynote: Jacob Appelbaum) (fem-net.de)
59 points by rdl on Dec 27, 2012 | 32 comments
30. Creating a Great Place to Work (maxlynch.com)
55 points by pulleasy on Dec 27, 2012 | 48 comments

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