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1. Request for Startups: Kill Hollywood. (ycombinator.com)
2060 points by dzlobin on Jan 20, 2012 | 665 comments
2. The next SOPA (marco.org)
558 points by dpkendal on Jan 20, 2012 | 165 comments
3. Jon Stewart calls out congressional nerd bashing over SOPA (msn.com)
416 points by aepstein on Jan 20, 2012 | 156 comments
4. Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload (torrentfreak.com)
390 points by nextparadigms on Jan 20, 2012 | 206 comments
5. MPAA lied to Congress about the jobs number (thebestpageintheuniverse.net)
345 points by nextparadigms on Jan 20, 2012 | 37 comments
6. Joel Spolsky's Totally Fair Method to Divide Up The Ownership of Any Startup. (onstartups.com)
335 points by hartleybrody on Jan 20, 2012 | 90 comments
7. Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text adventure game (arstechnica.com)
323 points by robin_reala on Jan 20, 2012 | 55 comments
8. SOPA is dead: Smith pulls bill (mashable.com)
227 points by melvinmt on Jan 20, 2012 | 76 comments
9. Haskell web programming (a simple tutorial) (yannesposito.com)
207 points by yogsototh on Jan 20, 2012 | 60 comments
10. Jonathan Coulton on MegaUpload and piracy (jonathancoulton.com)
202 points by dpkendal on Jan 20, 2012 | 56 comments
11. Why the feds smashed Megaupload (arstechnica.com)
198 points by evo_9 on Jan 20, 2012 | 69 comments
12. How to Be Relentlessly Resourceful [a practical guide] (jasonshen.com)
162 points by jasonshen on Jan 20, 2012 | 38 comments
13. SenseiDB: Open-source, distributed, realtime, semi-structured database (senseidb.com)
163 points by thomas11 on Jan 20, 2012 | 39 comments
14. Cost breakdown for Stripe, Braintree, Chargify, Recurly and Saasy (expletiveinserted.com)
152 points by ajessup on Jan 20, 2012 | 54 comments
15. Senator Harry Reid Caves: PIPA Postponed (techcrunch.com)
144 points by llambda on Jan 20, 2012 | 26 comments
16. Pages With Too Many Ads Above The Fold Now Penalized By Google (searchengineland.com)
136 points by coupdegrace on Jan 20, 2012 | 77 comments
17. DOJ Didn't Need SOPA to Shutdown "rogue site" MegaUpload (venturebeat.com)
131 points by bproper on Jan 20, 2012 | 34 comments
18. New Google Accounts Require Gmail and Google+ (googlesystem.blogspot.com)
127 points by lomegor on Jan 20, 2012 | 107 comments
19. Dreamhost asking users to change passwords after database breach (dreamhoststatus.com)
124 points by hopeless on Jan 20, 2012 | 48 comments
20. REST worst practices (jacobian.org)
123 points by rbanffy on Jan 20, 2012 | 64 comments
21. How to Have the Best Year of Your Life (without Setting a Single Goal) (zenhabits.net)
116 points by yogrish on Jan 20, 2012 | 64 comments
22. Anonymous Takes Down FBI.gov (protestsopa.com)
114 points by Torba on Jan 20, 2012 | 15 comments
23. Ruby on Rails Tutorial, second edition (updated for Rails 3.2) (railstutorial.org)
111 points by mhartl on Jan 20, 2012 | 18 comments
24. SICP taught in Python 3 - UC Berkeley online (eecs.berkeley.edu)
107 points by 73ChargerFan on Jan 20, 2012 | 25 comments
25. MegaUpload complaint has Dropbox Implications (plus.google.com)
105 points by vessenes on Jan 20, 2012 | 46 comments
26. Chrome Extension Development, By Practical Example (github.com/bcoe)
101 points by BenjaminCoe on Jan 20, 2012 | 10 comments
27. Microsoft calls for Gay Marriage in Washington State (theatlantic.com)
98 points by e1ven on Jan 20, 2012 | 50 comments
28. S-Expressions: The Fat-Free Alternative to JSON (shinkirou.org)
90 points by DanielRibeiro on Jan 20, 2012 | 45 comments
29. Mozilla Web Development doing an AMA on reddit (reddit.com)
85 points by huntern on Jan 20, 2012
30. SOPA Protests Sway Congress: 31 Opponents Yesterday, 122 Now (techcrunch.com)
83 points by aweSummer on Jan 20, 2012 | 4 comments

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