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1. Sacked by a Google algorithm (duckworksmagazine.com)
685 points by seanalltogether on Dec 29, 2010 | 283 comments
2. Touching Your Junk: An Ontological Complaint (eblong.com)
225 points by aheilbut on Dec 29, 2010 | 22 comments
3. The Oatmeal (online cartoon) earns ~$1000/day (economist.com)
185 points by arn on Dec 29, 2010 | 67 comments
4. Why your child's school bus has no seat belts (msn.com)
171 points by thedoctor on Dec 29, 2010 | 104 comments
5. Woman with Immortal Cells (todayifoundout.com)
161 points by srean on Dec 29, 2010 | 41 comments
6. Rails 3 Cheat Sheets from Envy Labs (envylabs.com)
145 points by ludicast on Dec 29, 2010 | 9 comments
7. The Hot Girl Effect and Networking (sirdg.com)
132 points by lynx44 on Dec 29, 2010 | 69 comments
8. You Should Self-Publish (jakonrath.blogspot.com)
133 points by wglb on Dec 29, 2010 | 43 comments
9. How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Computing and Programming (htdp.org)
121 points by zoowar on Dec 29, 2010 | 17 comments
10. Complete Noobs Guide to Hacking Nginx (schmichael.com)
123 points by schmichael on Dec 29, 2010 | 31 comments
11. The Ulam spiral: hidden structure among the prime numbers (bitbucket.org/ctkrohn)
118 points by ctkrohn on Dec 29, 2010 | 39 comments
12. Poll: Is HN your main online news source?
112 points by jaxn on Dec 29, 2010 | 76 comments
13. How the Gun on the Original Duck Hunt Game Worked (todayifoundout.com)
112 points by aresant on Dec 29, 2010 | 9 comments
14. Programming Has Been Difficult (But Rewarding) (jamesjohnsona.tumblr.com)
102 points by Miller450 on Dec 29, 2010 | 26 comments
15. Monads Are Not Metaphors (codecommit.com)
96 points by flapjack on Dec 29, 2010 | 39 comments
16. PS3 Master Key Found and PS3 Dongle ID Key Generator Released (ps3hax.net)
93 points by y0ghur7_xxx on Dec 29, 2010 | 52 comments
17. Show HN: My first significant project with Backbone.js - a simple online editor (quietwrite.com)
91 points by jamesjyu on Dec 29, 2010 | 36 comments
18. Wired's Response to Glenn Greenwald (re:Lamo-Manning Chat Logs) (wired.com)
90 points by Athtar on Dec 29, 2010 | 60 comments
19. Old-skool virus writers still exist. (pastebin.com)
88 points by FSecurePal on Dec 29, 2010 | 59 comments
20. Long distance relationship? Perl can help. (code.google.com)
86 points by mayank on Dec 29, 2010 | 20 comments
21. Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation (hbs.edu)
84 points by caustic on Dec 29, 2010 | 15 comments
22. Maze Generation: Eller's Algorithm (jamisbuck.org)
85 points by duck on Dec 29, 2010 | 9 comments
23. Poll: How old were you when you started programming?
79 points by drx on Dec 29, 2010 | 118 comments
24. $15 phone, 3 minutes all that's needed to eavesdrop on GSM call (arstechnica.com)
75 points by blhack on Dec 29, 2010 | 15 comments
25. Heroku for... (morethanseven.net)
72 points by garethr on Dec 29, 2010 | 35 comments
26. Where Pair Programming Fails for Me (tersesystems.com)
70 points by tenderlove on Dec 29, 2010 | 38 comments
27. Greenwald Responds to Wired (salon.com)
61 points by zzzeek on Dec 29, 2010 | 25 comments
28. Dremel – Google's tool for analyzing trillion-row tables in seconds [pdf] (melnix.com)
56 points by tillulen on Dec 29, 2010 | 18 comments
29. Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen tries again with patent megasuit (arstechnica.com)
55 points by blhack on Dec 29, 2010 | 56 comments
30. Perl 6 in 2010 - a retrospection (perlgeek.de)
55 points by perlgeek on Dec 29, 2010 | 28 comments

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