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1. GoDaddy: A glimpse of the Internet under SOPA (david.weebly.com)
705 points by drusenko on Dec 26, 2011 | 38 comments
2. Update on GoDaddy Transfer Issues (namecheap.com)
396 points by PStamatiou on Dec 26, 2011 | 74 comments
3. The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value (forbes.com/sites/stevedenning)
376 points by DanielRibeiro on Dec 26, 2011 | 135 comments
4. Why (and how) we've switched away from Google Maps (nestoria.co.uk)
277 points by freyfogle on Dec 26, 2011 | 98 comments
5. The legacy of Srinivasa Ramanujan (thehindu.com)
238 points by rehack on Dec 26, 2011 | 23 comments
6. Open Letter to sites with annoying interfaces (bitonic.org)
206 points by Queue29 on Dec 26, 2011 | 75 comments
7. Is Godaddy delaying domain transfer requests? (skitch.com)
209 points by prateekdayal on Dec 26, 2011 | 47 comments
8. My husband is a programmer; I have no idea what that means. (renaebair.com)
162 points by webista on Dec 26, 2011 | 55 comments
9. December 29th is Dump GoDaddy Day (betanews.com)
160 points by mgrouchy on Dec 26, 2011 | 15 comments
10. Show HN: Redis/ruby-based realtime event-tracking (github.com/paulasmuth)
151 points by paulasmuth on Dec 26, 2011 | 21 comments
11. Why Aren't Other SOPA Supporters Being Punished Like GoDaddy? (pcworld.com)
134 points by flueedo on Dec 26, 2011 | 67 comments
12. Waffles: command-line tools for machine learning and data mining (sourceforge.net)
105 points by rkda on Dec 26, 2011 | 12 comments
13. GoDaddy Responds To Namecheap Accusations, Removes “Normal” Rate Limiting Block (techcrunch.com)
107 points by ssclafani on Dec 26, 2011 | 37 comments
14. Google+ spams GChat/XMPP contact lists with irremovable circle nonsense (plus.google.com)
97 points by zx2c4 on Dec 26, 2011 | 15 comments
15. Kidsruby - Learn Ruby for kids (kidsruby.com)
93 points by illdave on Dec 26, 2011 | 22 comments
16. "Zombie" Ants Found With New Mind-Control Fungi (nationalgeographic.com)
81 points by llambda on Dec 26, 2011 | 16 comments
17. Concepts in Programming Languages (cam.ac.uk)
74 points by g3orge on Dec 26, 2011 | 19 comments
18. Old, but gold - "Strategy Letter I: Ben and Jerry's vs. Amazon" (joelonsoftware.com)
76 points by adityakothadiya on Dec 26, 2011 | 33 comments
19. My summer at an Indian call center (motherjones.com)
74 points by justincormack on Dec 26, 2011 | 1 comment
20. Ask HN: Lifehacker mentioned my app & traffic boosted. How to keep momentum?
73 points by rapcal on Dec 26, 2011 | 33 comments
21. Why this investor abandoned setting up a startup fund in Chile (thenextweb.com)
72 points by xiaomei on Dec 26, 2011 | 20 comments
22. The ugliest C feature: <tgmath.h> (cuni.cz)
71 points by slavak on Dec 26, 2011 | 25 comments
23. Bye Daddy: Search who hasn't fled GoDaddy yet (byedaddy.org)
71 points by bpaf on Dec 26, 2011 | 26 comments
24. Anonymous did not attack Stratfor (pastebin.com)
67 points by steve8918 on Dec 26, 2011 | 21 comments
25. Oracle v. Google - A Last Minute Present to Google from the USPTO (groklaw.net)
65 points by Garbage on Dec 26, 2011 | 2 comments
26. GoDaddy not only helped write SOPA they are also exempt from it (donttreadonmike.com)
62 points by nextparadigms on Dec 26, 2011 | 3 comments
27. A Solar Trade War Could Put Us All in the Dark (technologyreview.com)
59 points by minecraftman on Dec 26, 2011 | 32 comments
28. Start Up Chile Entrepreneur Responds to Investor's Departure (thenextweb.com)
59 points by jamesjyu on Dec 26, 2011 | 5 comments
29. Show HN: An iPad app to teach kids how to program
57 points by smj2118 on Dec 26, 2011 | 36 comments
30. Show HN: My weekend project, realtime log viewer in Flask (conceptis.org)
58 points by llambda on Dec 26, 2011 | 26 comments

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