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1.Rent vs. Buy Visualization of Top 50 Cities (movity.com)
235 points by anon22 on Jan 24, 2011 | 144 comments
2.ACM considered harmful (se9book.wordpress.com)
233 points by pietrofmaggi on Jan 24, 2011 | 120 comments
3.How I Screwed Yasser Arafat out of $2mm (and lost $100mm in the process) (jamesaltucher.com)
220 points by cturner on Jan 24, 2011 | 70 comments
4.Qwiki Epitomizes the Current Startup Bubble (epicfumble.com)
161 points by shelly on Jan 24, 2011 | 85 comments
5.Waking up at 5am, my nearly 1 year review (notgeeklycorrect.com)
161 points by Spyou on Jan 24, 2011 | 81 comments
6.Can you see the flag on the Moon with a telescope? (rocketroberts.com)
125 points by jaybol on Jan 24, 2011 | 55 comments
7.20,000 square foot coworking / hackspace opens in Manhattan (nytimes.com)
119 points by reddittor on Jan 24, 2011 | 28 comments
8.Tim Cook Is Running Apple, but Not Imitating Steve Jobs (nytimes.com)
122 points by ssclafani on Jan 24, 2011 | 55 comments
9.Summary of "Must Read" articles for starting entrepreneurs (tappen.posterous.com)
115 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Jan 24, 2011 | 18 comments
10.The Dilbert Black Swan Portfolio: a skeptical/practical guide to investing (attardi.org)
114 points by steadicat on Jan 24, 2011 | 90 comments
11.Search leakage is not FUD. Google et al., please fix it. (gabrielweinberg.com)
114 points by bjplink on Jan 24, 2011 | 159 comments
12.Haskell improves log processing 4x over Python (bu.mp)
114 points by jmintz on Jan 24, 2011 | 41 comments
13.Stop Saying ‘Let me know when works for you’ (viniciusvacanti.com)
107 points by dwynings on Jan 24, 2011 | 61 comments
14.The Inside Story of How Facebook Responded to Tunisian Hacks (theatlantic.com)
105 points by ssclafani on Jan 24, 2011 | 43 comments
15.The GPL is a License, Not a Contract (groklaw.net)
101 points by gnosis on Jan 24, 2011 | 60 comments
16.Start Small, Stay Small (hn-books.com)
104 points by DanielBMarkham on Jan 24, 2011 | 14 comments
17.Bookmarklet turns any webpage into a wireframe (volkside.com)
101 points by arpit on Jan 24, 2011 | 25 comments
18.Equity in startups: Cap tables for Google, Apple, Genentech, Netscape, etc (epfl.ch)
91 points by aditya on Jan 24, 2011 | 20 comments
19.The code injected to steal passwords in Tunisia (jgc.org)
84 points by abraham on Jan 24, 2011 | 34 comments
20.Dropbox Founder on New Features and Global Expansion (thenextweb.com)
94 points by immad on Jan 24, 2011 | 36 comments
21.Programming is Easy, Software Development is Hard (thoughtclusters.com)
79 points by Garbage on Jan 24, 2011 | 50 comments
22.Permanently opt your browser out of online ad personalization via cookies (chrome.google.com)
77 points by abraham on Jan 24, 2011 | 37 comments
23.DHH: Un-Manage Your Employees (nfib.com)
75 points by marilyn on Jan 24, 2011 | 27 comments
24.What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit? (edge.org)
72 points by dood on Jan 24, 2011 | 32 comments
25.CSS3 toggle-button without JavaScript (simurai.com)
72 points by rafaelc on Jan 24, 2011 | 16 comments
26.Arrays considered somewhat harmful (msdn.com)
70 points by jonpaul on Jan 24, 2011 | 49 comments
27.Why should I have to install an app to figure out subway times? (stefanweitz.wordpress.com)
71 points by jheitzeb on Jan 24, 2011 | 34 comments
28.Show HN: EDW, quantitative analytics, machine learning. (mediafederation.com)
70 points by a904guy on Jan 24, 2011 | 18 comments

If the future of publishing is an ipad friendly Wordpress theme the industry is in more trouble than I could conceive. This kind of absurd hyperbole makes it hard to take small but interesting ideas seriously.

(I'm in all-day training today, so I can't participate on this thread much. Also, this is all my personal opinion.)

While Gabe's most recent post was a well-worded statement of his position, my guess is that Google's response was based on the billboard, which says "Google tracks you. We don't." On the website the billboard points to, Google employees are portrayed wearing ski masks and trying to spy on you. That does strike me as trying to a encourage a bit of fear?

This is a browser issue that's not specific to Google or even to search engines, but Google is the only company mentioned on donttrack.us until you get to the "more tools" section at the very bottom. Meanwhile, Google is the first (and only) large search engine to offer https to the best of my knowledge. It's a one-character addition to http://www.google.com for anyone that feels strongly about this topic.


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