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1.		Applications Open For Summer 2011 YC Funding Cycle (ycombinator.com)
		183 points by pg on Jan 16, 2011 \| 59 comments
2.		Facebook Now Shares Phone Number & Address With Third-Party Apps (readwriteweb.com)
		184 points by rwwmike on Jan 16, 2011 \| 78 comments
3.		Shortchanging Your Business with User-Hostile Platforms (al3x.net)
		136 points by ssclafani on Jan 16, 2011 \| 93 comments
4.		Development and testing of the Stuxnet worm (nytimes.com)
		137 points by jonburs on Jan 16, 2011 \| 78 comments
5.		The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A has been published (stanford.edu)
		129 points by gnosis on Jan 16, 2011 \| 18 comments
6.		What if Tunisia had a revolution, but nobody watched? (ethanzuckerman.com)
		126 points by gregory80 on Jan 16, 2011 \| 49 comments
7.		Redirect a running process output to a file and log out (gist.github.com)
		121 points by zaius on Jan 16, 2011 \| 13 comments
8.		List of JavaScript Game Engines (reddit.com)
		110 points by kilian on Jan 16, 2011 \| 24 comments
9.		Implementing REST (code.google.com)
		97 points by DanielRibeiro on Jan 16, 2011 \| 2 comments
10.		Developer-driven development (schacon.github.com)
		97 points by mcantelon on Jan 16, 2011 \| 48 comments
11.		I got a bad review from TechCrunch, lessons learned (joshliu.co)
		91 points by ximeng on Jan 16, 2011 \| 43 comments
12.		Getaround: Peer-to-peer car sharing and car rental startup (getaround.com)
		90 points by ajaimk on Jan 16, 2011 \| 78 comments
13.		W3Fools Takes on W3Schools (readwriteweb.com)
		87 points by stretchwithme on Jan 16, 2011 \| 34 comments
14.		The OpenBSD IPsec-Stuxnet connection (extendedsubset.com)
		88 points by riffraff on Jan 16, 2011 \| 22 comments
15.		Offer HN: Free startup idea / designs
		82 points by lachyg on Jan 16, 2011 \| 36 comments
16.		How they used to sell computers: Oldest computer ads: (topdesignmag.com)
		81 points by cwan on Jan 16, 2011 \| 37 comments
		patio11 on Jan 16, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: I got a bad review from TechCrunch, lessons learne... All tech entrepreneurs are hoping to get coverage from TechCrunch. It is the best way to get early adopters, early traction and recognition. It gives you a sense of pride as well. Once your start-up is covered by TechCrunch, you feel you are finally a proper tech entrepreneur. Can I suggest caring less? You can take external validation from many places. Users are a good option: they pay money, care about the space, are less jaded, and are friends with people like themselves. TC is not a good place to recruit early users, unless you are building an app for poor geeks with short attention spans. If you are, you have bigger problems.
18.		Nedtries: an ordered container faster than hash tables and red-black trees (nedprod.com)
		75 points by jasonwatkinspdx on Jan 16, 2011 \| 20 comments
19.		As predicted on HN: Kindle Lending Club (kindlelendingclub.com)
		75 points by riffraff on Jan 16, 2011 \| 35 comments
		ajg1977 on Jan 16, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Facebook Now Shares Phone Number & Address With Th... Not really. That implies Facebook are offering a way to push your phone number and data into third party apps. What they are infact doing is now allowing third-parties to request extra, and very very personal, information about you using the same dialog that people have effectively now been trained to basically click-through. I really think this dialog needs two things: 1) Something that highlights the fact you are allowing third-parties access beyond your basic profile. All personal information is not equal. 2) A way for the user to opt out of sharing this extra information. As a result, the app may have to deny you access if it really really does need your address (why it would is hard to imagine), but this "all or nothing" approach seems wrong to me.
21.		GPL, ScummVM and violations (sev-notes.blogspot.com)
		65 points by CrazedGeek on Jan 16, 2011 \| 11 comments
22.		Why do ebooks cost so much? (dearauthor.com)
		66 points by barredo on Jan 16, 2011 \| 83 comments
23.		How to Identify a Good Perl Programmer (modernperlbooks.com)
		60 points by rcfox on Jan 16, 2011 \| 37 comments
24.		So long, and thanks for the Ph.D. (ucla.edu)
		58 points by sorenbs on Jan 16, 2011 \| 6 comments
25.		jade: a node.js template engine (jade-lang.com)
		55 points by fosk on Jan 16, 2011 \| 31 comments
26.		Airbnb (YC W09) Grew 800% in 2010 (ycombinator.posterous.com)
		55 points by jayliew on Jan 16, 2011 \| 44 comments
27.		A world without advertising (bemmu.posterous.com)
		54 points by bemmu on Jan 16, 2011 \| 51 comments
28.		Let’s Compete on Innovation Rather Than Patents (techcrunch.com)
		52 points by DanielRibeiro on Jan 16, 2011 \| 12 comments
29.		Why You Need to Learn JavaScript (w2lessons.com)
		52 points by mwbiz on Jan 16, 2011 \| 24 comments
30.		Graph.tk plots equations on a canvas and it's LGPL (graph.tk)
		51 points by clyfe on Jan 16, 2011 \| 6 comments
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