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31. Twitter Suspends Anonymous’ Most Popular Account, @YourAnonNews (betabeat.com)
78 points by kennedysgarage on Dec 19, 2012 | 36 comments
32. The impoliteness of overriding methods (stuffwithstuff.com)
75 points by munificent on Dec 19, 2012 | 18 comments
33. Firefox OS challenges the closed mobile ecosystems (comoyo.github.com)
74 points by dagingaa on Dec 19, 2012 | 50 comments
34. USPTO invalidates key Apple patent used against Samsung (cnet.com)
70 points by eljaco on Dec 19, 2012 | 8 comments
35. Knowledge workers are bad at working – and what to do about it (calnewport.com)
66 points by michaelochurch on Dec 19, 2012 | 32 comments
36. Is my developer's home-brew password security right or wrong, and why? (security.stackexchange.com)
64 points by eranation on Dec 19, 2012 | 86 comments
37. Show HN: An e-course creator for hobbyists my wife and I built (coursecraft.net)
62 points by thenduks on Dec 19, 2012 | 26 comments
38. Pirate Party Shuts Down Pirate Bay Proxy After Legal Threats (torrentfreak.com)
61 points by Libertatea on Dec 19, 2012 | 16 comments
39. Dropbox deployment for front-end devs (backlift.com)
64 points by colevscode on Dec 19, 2012 | 10 comments
40. How We Achieved a .50s Page Load (netdna.com)
58 points by jdorfman on Dec 19, 2012 | 15 comments
41. Things Bosses Wish They Could Tell Employees (linkedin.com)
53 points by ColinWright on Dec 19, 2012 | 42 comments
42. Gittip Anyone on Twitter (gittip.com)
56 points by whit537 on Dec 19, 2012 | 15 comments
43. Bankrupt Kodak sells off patents to investors for $525M (bbc.co.uk)
50 points by dan1234 on Dec 19, 2012 | 49 comments
44. THQ Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy (kotaku.com)
47 points by Impossible on Dec 19, 2012 | 20 comments
45. The Immediate Future of Jekyll (parkermoore.de)
47 points by parkr on Dec 19, 2012 | 40 comments
46. Why does this C program compile? (stackoverflow.com)
45 points by manojlds on Dec 19, 2012 | 50 comments
47. Show HN: Wavo.me - A social network for music to take on Spotify and iTunes. (wavo.me)
44 points by glesperance on Dec 19, 2012 | 48 comments
48. U.N. report reveals secret law enforcement techniques (hacker10.com)
44 points by zoowar on Dec 19, 2012 | 14 comments
49. Tau Ceti's planets nearest around single, Sun-like star (bbc.co.uk)
43 points by morphics on Dec 19, 2012 | 32 comments
50. Carmack: Next-gen games will still target 30 fps (develop-online.net)
43 points by Pr0 on Dec 19, 2012 | 57 comments
51. Helping crowdfunded projects deliver on time and keep their backers happy (backerkit.tumblr.com)
40 points by rosanna on Dec 19, 2012 | 10 comments
52. Show HN: Soundkeep (Github for music) (soundkeep.com)
44 points by joshontheweb on Dec 19, 2012 | 29 comments
53. Kindle Fire HD: Much Better Than Original Kindle Fire (useit.com)
38 points by nradov on Dec 19, 2012 | 21 comments
54. Earth-like planet just 12 light-years away (news.sciencemag.org)
38 points by gautamc on Dec 19, 2012 | 18 comments
55. Kamcord raises $1.5M from a16z, Google Ventures to record mobile gameplays (techcrunch.com)
36 points by arathnam on Dec 19, 2012 | 2 comments
56. Web browser market share of all times visualized (figurepool.com)
36 points by durman on Dec 19, 2012 | 43 comments
57. Why use NancyFX? (jonathanchannon.com)
35 points by jchannon on Dec 19, 2012 | 7 comments
58. Linux is Burning My Laptop (crossplatform.net)
34 points by cplat on Dec 19, 2012 | 54 comments
59. 'Black swans' and 'perfect storms' become lame excuses for bad risk management (stanford.edu)
34 points by spathak on Dec 19, 2012 | 50 comments
60. What is Do Not Track (DNT)? An illustrated guide (whatisdnt.com)
31 points by rjim86 on Dec 19, 2012 | 30 comments

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