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1.Negative temperatures are not colder than absolute zero (empiricalzeal.com)
266 points by aatish on Jan 5, 2013 | 41 comments
2.Math notes to take you from one year of college calculus to grad student level (ucr.edu)
217 points by crntaylor on Jan 5, 2013 | 63 comments
3.Why I Program in Go (tech.t9i.in)
204 points by bcl on Jan 5, 2013 | 168 comments
4.Who wrote the 'Death Note' script? (gwern.net)
183 points by gwern on Jan 5, 2013 | 79 comments
5.English Letter Frequency Counts: Mayzner Revisited (norvig.com)
180 points by phenylene on Jan 5, 2013 | 26 comments
6.My Father's "Eviscerated" work - Son of J.R.R. Tolkien finally speaks out (worldcrunch.com)
153 points by porker on Jan 5, 2013 | 191 comments
7.The "well-calibrated interviewer" curse (rachelbythebay.com)
151 points by chuhnk on Jan 5, 2013 | 111 comments
8.Junior - A Native-Looking and Feeling Mobile HTML5 Front-End Framework (justspamjustin.github.com)
147 points by Hirvesh on Jan 5, 2013 | 31 comments
9.Deconstructing K&R C (2010) (learncodethehardway.org)
149 points by experiment0 on Jan 5, 2013 | 128 comments
10.Be Wrong as Fast as You Can (nytimes.com)
146 points by haberdasher on Jan 5, 2013 | 18 comments
11.All My Life I’ve Been Told I Was Special. It Was A Lie. (kotaku.com)
139 points by mtoddh on Jan 5, 2013 | 157 comments
12.Reeddit - Minimalist, elastic and read-only web app client for Reddit (berbaquero.github.com)
132 points by cheeaun on Jan 5, 2013 | 95 comments
13.AngularStrap - Bootstrap directives for AngularJS (mgcrea.github.com)
133 points by olouv on Jan 5, 2013 | 29 comments
14.Show HN: Send SMS to your number for free from shell (github.com/oxplot)
121 points by oxplot on Jan 5, 2013 | 35 comments
15.The Factory Floor, Part 1 of 4: The Quotation (or, How to Make a BOM) (bunniestudios.com)
114 points by Danieru on Jan 5, 2013 | 26 comments
16.A Million First Dates (theatlantic.com)
107 points by Anon84 on Jan 5, 2013 | 144 comments
17.The Software Millionaire Next Door (dedasys.com)
103 points by davidw on Jan 5, 2013 | 49 comments
18.Math even mathematicians don't understand (the sequel) (boston.com)
95 points by ColinWright on Jan 5, 2013 | 86 comments
19.Why Probabilistic Programming Matters (zinkov.com)
91 points by joeyespo on Jan 5, 2013 | 14 comments
20.Awakening (during anesthesia) (theatlantic.com)
75 points by llambda on Jan 5, 2013 | 44 comments
21.An Experiment: My Life With A Nexus 7 As My Phone (androidpolice.com)
77 points by mmastrac on Jan 5, 2013 | 48 comments
22.Google Maps redirect issue on Windows Phones is a matter of competition (thenextweb.com)
76 points by coloneltcb on Jan 5, 2013 | 83 comments
23.Disney Freaks Out Over Patents That May Mean It Can't Keep 3Ding Old Movies (techdirt.com)
69 points by Steer on Jan 5, 2013 | 10 comments
24.Reasons to be excited about Java in 2013 (jaxenter.com)
70 points by eranation on Jan 5, 2013 | 64 comments
25.Health regulatory and advocacy groups are deliberately corrupted (arstechnica.com)
69 points by Pr0 on Jan 5, 2013 | 14 comments
26.Cheddar is For Sale (cheddarapp.com)
66 points by samsoffes on Jan 5, 2013 | 54 comments
27.Ask HN: Where are all the programming jobs?
65 points by AncoraImparo on Jan 5, 2013 | 70 comments
28.Should error messages apologize? (ux.stackexchange.com)
65 points by laurent123456 on Jan 5, 2013 | 46 comments
29.Hacker news in your terminal (github.com/socketubs)
64 points by Socketubs on Jan 5, 2013 | 33 comments
30.Google Maps never supported IE on Windows Phone 8, and likely never will (thenextweb.com)
64 points by derpenxyne on Jan 5, 2013 | 71 comments

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