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1.Show HN: I Created the Inverse of Angry Birds (itunes.apple.com)
625 points by ghempton on Dec 20, 2011 | 123 comments
2.Dropping a Magnet Through a Copper Pipe (makezine.com)
569 points by jashmenn on Dec 20, 2011 | 106 comments
3.Desingineer – the mythical person every startup is looking for (brajeshwar.com)
365 points by Brajeshwar on Dec 20, 2011 | 200 comments
4.ISO C is increasingly moronic (varnish-cache.org)
283 points by phkamp on Dec 20, 2011 | 167 comments
5.Mozilla and Google Sign New Agreement for Default Search in Firefox (blog.mozilla.com)
250 points by dochtman on Dec 20, 2011 | 88 comments
6.My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Mac OS X (2011 Edition) (carpeaqua.com)
234 points by rograndom on Dec 20, 2011 | 120 comments
7.Good news: Mozilla fixed their damn browser (jasonlefkowitz.net)
198 points by smacktoward on Dec 20, 2011 | 54 comments
8.Ask HN: I really need your help (resolved)
194 points by teej on Dec 20, 2011 | 36 comments
9.Rails 3.2 RC1: Faster dev mode & routing, explain queries, tagged logger, store (rubyonrails.org)
185 points by aaronbrethorst on Dec 20, 2011 | 50 comments
10.Sony sued over PSN "can't sue us" clause (geek.com)
174 points by ukdm on Dec 20, 2011 | 70 comments
11.63% Prefer a Dark Themed Text Editor (paulrouget.com)
171 points by joeybaker on Dec 20, 2011 | 104 comments
12.37signals doesn’t like you sorting stuff. Are you just remaking a spreadsheet? (n8.tumblr.com)
166 points by nate on Dec 20, 2011 | 67 comments
13.Massive Ruby speed boost with JRuby and Java 7. (jruby.org)
147 points by donw on Dec 20, 2011 | 78 comments
14.A Stupid Idea, 1 Year After Launching on HN (idonethis.com)
149 points by rguzman on Dec 20, 2011 | 47 comments
15.My Career Advice: Make Yourself Redundant (ousbey.com)
136 points by Roedou on Dec 20, 2011 | 29 comments
16.GitHub releases their CI server, Janky (github.com/github)
135 points by alastairpat on Dec 20, 2011 | 21 comments
17.IBM: Mind reading is less than five years away. For real. (cnet.com)
124 points by azazo on Dec 20, 2011 | 90 comments
18.R for the JVM: 60% complete, help wanted! (code.google.com)
109 points by bedatadriven on Dec 20, 2011 | 15 comments
19.DeSopa: a Firefox addon to easily bypass SOPA DNS blocking (addons.mozilla.org)
112 points by kibwen on Dec 20, 2011 | 61 comments
20.Rob Pike on Go interfaces (groups.google.com)
104 points by fogus on Dec 20, 2011 | 37 comments
21.Ask HN: Your code editor, black on white or white on black? (docs.google.com)
103 points by tbassetto on Dec 20, 2011 | 116 comments
22.Notch's New Game - Minicraft (And An Android Port) (gun.io)
104 points by Mizza on Dec 20, 2011 | 37 comments
23.You knew the old Mozilla, meet the new Mozilla (ascher.ca)
99 points by tbassetto on Dec 20, 2011 | 13 comments
24.Indian government drops plan to censor the internet (indianexpress.com)
98 points by combiclickwise on Dec 20, 2011 | 11 comments

"Even today, long after becoming the sole supreme leader of North Korea, Kim refuses to allow graduates of the Namsan School in his inner circle. After all, those who have known Kim Jong Il since youth are bound to see him as human -- not the center of a god-like cult of personality."

In the new Steve Jobs biography, Walter Isaacson quotes Steve on why he didn't let his parents come to his school's campus: "I didn't want anyone to know I had parents. I wanted to be like an orphan who had bummed around the country on trains and just arrived out of nowhere, with no roots, no connections, no background."

Interesting how powerful people manipulate the story of how they got to be where they are. Speaking of which, I was raised by wolves.

26.Why Science is Failing Us (wired.com)
90 points by quasistar on Dec 20, 2011 | 68 comments
27.The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (2007) (lambdassociates.org)
88 points by llambda on Dec 20, 2011 | 38 comments
28.New kind of metal in the deep Earth (sciencedaily.com)
87 points by llambda on Dec 20, 2011 | 36 comments
29.Vnc.js: how to build a JavaScript VNC Client (linkedin.com)
87 points by LiveTheDream on Dec 20, 2011 | 14 comments
30.MITx is a game changer for higher education (masmithers.com)
82 points by michaeltwofish on Dec 20, 2011 | 16 comments

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