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1.For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact (smithsonianmag.com)
842 points by Anon84 on Jan 29, 2013 | 244 comments
2.Sublime Text 3 Beta (sublimetext.com)
589 points by conorh on Jan 29, 2013 | 360 comments
3.How the EVE Online Servers Deal with a 3,000 Person Battle (penny-arcade.com)
331 points by JGM564 on Jan 29, 2013 | 131 comments
4.Your Credentials Are Worthless Here (iamexec.com)
245 points by emmett on Jan 29, 2013 | 202 comments
5.Amazon Elastic Transcoder (amazon.com)
242 points by chrisacky on Jan 29, 2013 | 148 comments
6.64 GB Surface Pro will only have 23 GB free (marco.org)
201 points by rkudeshi on Jan 29, 2013 | 267 comments
7.Functional thinking: Why functional programming is on the rise (ibm.com)
187 points by Adrock on Jan 29, 2013 | 81 comments
8. [dupe] Brython, Python in the browser (brython.info)
181 points by dagw on Jan 29, 2013 | 65 comments
9.Google Giving Will Provide 15,000 Raspberry Pi's to UK Schools (raspberrypi.org)
178 points by whalesalad on Jan 29, 2013 | 73 comments
10.Apple Core Rot: Introduction (macperformanceguide.com)
162 points by mikecane on Jan 29, 2013 | 142 comments
11.What's so great about JavaScript Promises? (parse.com)
160 points by jamesjyu on Jan 29, 2013 | 70 comments
12.Show HN: Forget Flash, Skip GIF, Control iOS (divergentmedia.com)
155 points by mikewoodworth on Jan 29, 2013 | 35 comments
13.Facebook Isn't Worth It (seersuckermag.com)
151 points by rasca123 on Jan 29, 2013 | 96 comments
14.Explore Salaries and Equity at AngelList (angel.co)
147 points by rmah on Jan 29, 2013 | 60 comments
15.Just Stop (learntoduck.net)
129 points by chriscampbell on Jan 29, 2013 | 16 comments
16.Enterprise (yongfook.com)
125 points by fookyong on Jan 29, 2013 | 61 comments
17.Antigua gets OK to become copyright haven (sfgate.com)
115 points by iProject on Jan 29, 2013 | 34 comments
18.Show HN: I crossed a thesaurus with a domain availability checking API (domainmasher.com)
113 points by grinnick on Jan 29, 2013 | 43 comments
19.Udacity adds HTML5 Game Development Course (udacity.com)
114 points by vignesh_vs_in on Jan 29, 2013 | 32 comments
20.Instacode (linology.info)
109 points by hpaavola on Jan 29, 2013 | 43 comments
21.Goodbye Jody. You Really Were Awesome (bothsidesofthetable.com)
103 points by hippo33 on Jan 29, 2013 | 21 comments
22.Elastic (YC W11) launches Close.io, sales software designed by salespeople (pandodaily.com)
103 points by anemitz on Jan 29, 2013 | 58 comments
23.Tweetping, Twitter traffic in real time (tweetping.net)
98 points by pzeups on Jan 29, 2013 | 38 comments

It is temperature dependent. Try keeping up with the dogs running the Iditarod in Alaska :)
25.EcoMom Founder Jody Sherman Has Passed Away (pandodaily.com)
91 points by acremades on Jan 29, 2013 | 19 comments

Lacking guns and even bows, they could hunt only by digging traps or pursuing prey across the mountains until the animals collapsed from exhaustion.

It's interesting that they stumbled on the persistence hunting technique so naturally. Indirect evidence to support the Endurance running hypothesis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endurance_running_hypothesis).

27.TechCrunch vs. Hacker News: Which is a better front page to launch your startup? (prlambert.com)
91 points by paulitex on Jan 29, 2013 | 38 comments
28.Writing is hard, so do it (kyan.com)
88 points by robin_reala on Jan 29, 2013 | 33 comments
29.Y Combinator + Upverter Hardware Hackathon (upverter.com)
86 points by mwoodworth on Jan 29, 2013 | 22 comments
30.Torque3D is now on GitHub, MIT licensed (github.com/garagegames)
79 points by eugeniodepalo on Jan 29, 2013 | 23 comments

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