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1.		NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show (washingtonpost.com)
		588 points by 001sky on Dec 4, 2013 \| 290 comments
2.		Have I been pwned? Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach (haveibeenpwned.com)
		491 points by mountaineer on Dec 4, 2013 \| 283 comments
3.		Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry (boredbanker.com)
		422 points by tdeangelis on Dec 4, 2013 \| 156 comments
4.		DHS stalls no-fly list trial by putting witness on no-fly list (boingboing.net)
		404 points by dredmorbius on Dec 4, 2013 \| 117 comments
5.		Sheerwind (sheerwind.com)
		312 points by jeena on Dec 4, 2013 \| 135 comments
6.		Kima15: $150K for 15% in 15 days (kima15.com)
		313 points by jber on Dec 4, 2013 \| 154 comments
7.		Has StackOverflow saved billions of dollars in programmer productivity? (skeptics.stackexchange.com)
		285 points by yitchelle on Dec 4, 2013 \| 173 comments
8.		Kicktrolling (kickstarter.com)
		265 points by darkstar999 on Dec 4, 2013 \| 81 comments
9.		SpaceX Successfully Completes First Mission to Geostationary Transfer Orbit (spacex.com)
		262 points by jamesmoss on Dec 4, 2013 \| 63 comments
10.		A Testament to X11 Backwards Compatibility (theresistornetwork.com)
		258 points by foob on Dec 4, 2013 \| 89 comments
11.		Google Acquires Seven Robot Companies, Wants Big Role in Robotics (ieee.org)
		244 points by eguizzo on Dec 4, 2013 \| 138 comments
12.		Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing (gifpop.io)
		235 points by tpsc on Dec 4, 2013 \| 111 comments
13.		Much of what investment bankers do is socially worthless (2010) (newyorker.com)
		212 points by Aloha on Dec 4, 2013 \| 171 comments
14.		Ben Noordhuis's Departure (nodejs.org)
		208 points by clloyd on Dec 4, 2013 \| 229 comments
15.		Google Puts Money on Robots, Using the Man Behind Android (nytimes.com)
		186 points by ipince on Dec 4, 2013 \| 81 comments
16.		Evading Airport Security (schneier.com)
		185 points by Garbage on Dec 4, 2013 \| 162 comments
17.		Yotaphone (yotaphone.com)
		178 points by rnl on Dec 4, 2013 \| 102 comments
18.		On programming without malloc (jvns.ca)
		183 points by jvns on Dec 4, 2013 \| 104 comments
19.		List of cognitive biases (wikipedia.org)
		168 points by mrb on Dec 4, 2013 \| 62 comments
20.		I will not hack on your codebase for free in an interview (hownottohireadeveloper.blogspot.co.uk)
		159 points by groundCode on Dec 4, 2013 \| 244 comments
21.		The lie of the API (verborgh.org)
		148 points by Mustafabei on Dec 4, 2013 \| 118 comments
22.		Oldest Human DNA Yet Found Raises New Mysteries (nytimes.com)
		143 points by Irene on Dec 4, 2013 \| 56 comments
23.		Two million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords stolen (cnn.com)
		144 points by swasheck on Dec 4, 2013 \| 102 comments
24.		What's New In Git 1.8.5 (atlassian.com)
		116 points by durdn on Dec 4, 2013 \| 71 comments
25.		Is iOS7 jailbroken yet? (isios7jailbrokenyet.com)
		111 points by sethbannon on Dec 4, 2013 \| 106 comments
26.		Perl One-Liners (nostarch.com)
		85 points by pkrumins on Dec 4, 2013 \| 45 comments
27.		So I decided to program a Solar System simulator in WebGL and Javascript (la-grange.ca)
		83 points by martimoose on Dec 4, 2013 \| 26 comments
28.		Ask HN: Which daily habit has affected your productivity the most?
		81 points by read on Dec 4, 2013 \| 77 comments
29.		Play, Scala, and Iteratees vs. Node.js and Socket.io (brikis98.blogspot.be)
		87 points by toong on Dec 4, 2013 \| 24 comments
30.		How Old Is The Shepherd? (robertkaplinsky.com)
		81 points by gwern on Dec 4, 2013 \| 97 comments
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