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31.U.S. website blackout draws praise in China (latimes.com)
84 points by nickolai on Jan 20, 2012 | 3 comments
32.Why College Students Leave the Engineering Track (nytimes.com)
79 points by robg on Jan 20, 2012 | 65 comments
33.Do Great Things (techcrunch.com)
78 points by dabent on Jan 20, 2012 | 31 comments
34.SOPA and PIPA both shelved for now. (arstechnica.com)
72 points by vidyesh on Jan 20, 2012 | 8 comments
35.Oops I ruined your life (cooper.com)
68 points by nreece on Jan 20, 2012 | 32 comments
36.How $99 and four hours every 2 weeks can provide rocket fuel to an Entrepreneur (terrybeech.com)
67 points by gootik on Jan 20, 2012 | 18 comments
37.How Google Spawned The 384-Chip Server (wired.com)
60 points by coolrhymes on Jan 20, 2012 | 23 comments
38.Google shutting down Picnik (picnik.com)
59 points by there on Jan 20, 2012 | 21 comments
39.The cleanest vimrc you'll ever see (yanpritzker.com)
52 points by skwp on Jan 20, 2012 | 36 comments
40.Eudora Goes Open Source (wiki.mozilla.org)
48 points by edu on Jan 20, 2012 | 10 comments
41.iOS catches up to Android in December sales, thanks to iPhone 4S (arstechnica.com)
47 points by shawndumas on Jan 20, 2012 | 23 comments
42.Show HN: Radi v0.8 - my HTML5 animation app now has brushes, shape poses, etc. (radiapp.com)
45 points by pavlov on Jan 20, 2012 | 10 comments
43.Show HN: Skimling - A Platform to Help Kids Improve Their Writing (skimling.com)
44 points by jjets718 on Jan 20, 2012 | 44 comments
44.What happens to your files when a cloud service dies? (extremetech.com)
43 points by ukdm on Jan 20, 2012 | 25 comments
45.The State of NoSQL in 2012 (practicalcloudcomputing.com)
42 points by asteroid on Jan 20, 2012 | 3 comments
46.Kodak: Gone in a flash (economist.com)
42 points by bootload on Jan 20, 2012 | 14 comments
47.Show HN: Charts for Hacker News Polls (hacksandthoughts.posterous.com)
40 points by sbashyal on Jan 20, 2012 | 15 comments
48.JavaScript’s internal character encoding: UCS-2 or UTF-16? (mathiasbynens.be)
37 points by mathias on Jan 20, 2012 | 15 comments
49.DOJ investigation yields fresh evidence against Google, Apple in lawsuit (engadget.com)
34 points by cooldeal on Jan 20, 2012 | 13 comments
50.MicroConf 2012: The Conference for Self Funded Startups (softwarebyrob.com)
36 points by gacba on Jan 20, 2012 | 8 comments
51.Rust 0.1: first alpha version of the Rust programming language (mail.mozilla.org)
33 points by mbrubeck on Jan 20, 2012 | 3 comments
52.Refuting the "Power Law for Serial Killer Behavior" study (umich.edu)
32 points by microtherion on Jan 20, 2012 | 2 comments
53.WOW Week at PatientsLikeMe (winfieldpeterson.com)
41 points by wpeterson on Jan 20, 2012 | 10 comments
54.Confessions of a Binge Drinker (theatlantic.com)
32 points by nbj914 on Jan 20, 2012 | 21 comments
55.Scientists to Pause Research on Deadly Strain of Bird Flu (nytimes.com)
31 points by tokenadult on Jan 20, 2012 | 8 comments
56.Summify Users: We're here for you. You're safe. (news.me)
36 points by jrlevine on Jan 20, 2012 | 4 comments
57.Rails 3.2.0: Faster dev mode & routing, explain queries, tagged logger, store (rubyonrails.org)
29 points by chaz on Jan 20, 2012
58.California HS student devises possible cancer cure (cbsnews.com)
28 points by shadowfiend on Jan 20, 2012 | 3 comments
59.AppHarbor adds node.js support (appharbor.com)
29 points by runesoerensen on Jan 20, 2012 | 7 comments
60.Faster compression using an improved Fourier transform algorithm (theverge.com)
27 points by glymor on Jan 20, 2012

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