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1. Sophie In North Korea (sites.google.com)
356 points by cramforce on Jan 19, 2013 | 175 comments
2. O'Reilly donating ebook "Open Government" as a tribute to Aaron Swartz (github.com/oreillymedia)
349 points by code_chimp on Jan 19, 2013 | 27 comments
3. Mega has launched (mega.co.nz)
281 points by bavidar on Jan 19, 2013 | 258 comments
4. I ported LaTeX to Javascript (manuels.github.com)
250 points by manuels_ on Jan 19, 2013 | 70 comments
5. Another Ortiz case (wbur.org)
208 points by eric_bullington on Jan 19, 2013 | 136 comments
6. Some Notes About Time (unix4lyfe.org)
210 points by arb99 on Jan 19, 2013 | 113 comments
7. We expect too much of geeks (scripting.com)
187 points by benatkin on Jan 19, 2013 | 90 comments
8. Git Legit (git-legit.org)
165 points by misiti3780 on Jan 19, 2013 | 53 comments
9. Send a Facebook message to anyone's inbox, for free (lukasklein.com)
158 points by lukashed on Jan 19, 2013 | 31 comments
10. MIT Legal repudiated Xbox hacker too (bunniestudios.com)
160 points by irq on Jan 19, 2013 | 52 comments
11. Why trees can't grow taller than around 100 metres (newscientist.com)
137 points by drucken on Jan 19, 2013 | 18 comments
12. The Prosecution of Aaron: A Response to Orin Kerr (thepublicdomain.org)
134 points by wglb on Jan 19, 2013 | 44 comments
13. Breaking the MintEye image CAPTCHA in 23 lines of Python (jwandrews.co.uk)
129 points by cidquick on Jan 19, 2013 | 56 comments
14. Why Developers Don't Want to Work on Your Idea (2011) (swombat.com)
122 points by charlieirish on Jan 19, 2013 | 113 comments
15. Kim Dotcom's New Mega Encrypted Cloud Storage (forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner)
122 points by akosner on Jan 19, 2013 | 94 comments
16. Did Glee Rip Off a Jonathan Coulton Cover? (wired.com)
98 points by lowglow on Jan 19, 2013 | 47 comments
17. The Creepy Details of Facebook's New Graph Search (eff.org)
96 points by petrel on Jan 19, 2013 | 36 comments
18. Underdressed at CES 2013 (doublerobotics.com)
93 points by jayliew on Jan 19, 2013 | 32 comments
19. Someone lucky got id Software's original NeXT hardware (serverfault.com)
89 points by jaxb on Jan 19, 2013 | 31 comments
20. Microsoft goes its own way with Web audio/video spec, despite W3C rebuff (arstechnica.com)
82 points by coloneltcb on Jan 19, 2013 | 50 comments
21. Open source game-theoretic poker player (github.com/adamsmith)
74 points by adamsmith on Jan 19, 2013 | 41 comments
22. Online Dating for Scientists (newscientist.com)
65 points by BerislavLopac on Jan 19, 2013 | 49 comments
23. The Linux Command Line [pdf] (sourceforge.net)
62 points by shawndumas on Jan 19, 2013 | 11 comments
24. Get your SaaS or Cloud App to Sell Itself (sixteenventures.com)
61 points by charleshaanel on Jan 19, 2013 | 3 comments
25. The few paths to startup success (nathanspeller.com)
56 points by nspeller on Jan 19, 2013 | 16 comments
26. Support EFF: Move Your Domain Day on Namecheap (1/22) (namecheap.com)
58 points by ted0 on Jan 19, 2013 | 22 comments
27. Why type systems are interesting (2004) (lambda-the-ultimate.org)
55 points by gnosis on Jan 19, 2013 | 19 comments
28. JavaScript Quiz Set (bolshchikov.net)
55 points by bolshchikov on Jan 19, 2013 | 14 comments
29. Nginx Requests/Second – RaspberryPi vs Amazon EC2 (evilsoapbox.com)
54 points by chris_j on Jan 19, 2013 | 47 comments
30. Scalable Web Architecture and Distributed Systems (aosabook.org)
53 points by gits1225 on Jan 19, 2013 | 6 comments

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