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1.		Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind for $400M (recode.net)
		352 points by jamesjyu on Jan 27, 2014 \| 199 comments
2.		Show HN: Random Street View (randomstreetview.com)
		356 points by hanezz on Jan 27, 2014 \| 166 comments
3.		Hackathon Starter – Boilerplate for Node.js web application (github.com/sahat)
		277 points by sahat on Jan 27, 2014 \| 50 comments
4.		What is really happening in Ukraine (slideshare.net)
		244 points by DeusExMachina on Jan 27, 2014 \| 312 comments
5.		Tesla Completes L.A.-to-New York Electric Model S Drive Chargers (bloomberg.com)
		229 points by gus_massa on Jan 27, 2014 \| 181 comments
6.		Animated Engines (animatedengines.com)
		215 points by d4vlx on Jan 27, 2014 \| 34 comments
7.		If You Used TorMail, the FBI Has Your Inbox (wired.com)
		215 points by barkingbad on Jan 27, 2014 \| 141 comments
8.		HTTP 2.0: GTFO (General Termination of Future Operations) (http2.github.io)
		192 points by ryanf on Jan 27, 2014 \| 85 comments
9.		Why are US corporate profits so high? Because wages are so low (reuters.com)
		185 points by d4vlx on Jan 27, 2014 \| 233 comments
10.		Results of the Grand C++ Error Explosion Competition (tgceec.tumblr.com)
		184 points by ot on Jan 27, 2014 \| 43 comments
11.		The Great Code Club (greatcodeclub.com)
		194 points by cocoflunchy on Jan 27, 2014 \| 81 comments
12.		Two "WontFix" vulnerabilities in Facebook Connect (homakov.blogspot.com)
		188 points by homakov on Jan 27, 2014 \| 35 comments
13.		King Candy Crushes Developers, The Saga (gemfruit.com)
		177 points by deletes on Jan 27, 2014 \| 43 comments
14.		Fig: Fast, isolated development environments using Docker (orchardup.github.io)
		175 points by andrewgodwin on Jan 27, 2014 \| 44 comments
15.		The Failures of "Intro to TDD" (testdouble.com)
		169 points by davemo on Jan 27, 2014 \| 84 comments
16.		US and UK spy agencies scoop up private data from 'leaky' phone apps (theguardian.com)
		174 points by weu on Jan 27, 2014 \| 95 comments
17.		US Government: Guards may be responsible for half of prison sex assaults (aljazeera.com)
		158 points by GuiA on Jan 27, 2014 \| 78 comments
18.		Python on Wheels (pocoo.org)
		151 points by donaldstufft on Jan 27, 2014 \| 74 comments
19.		Why do dynamic languages make it more difficult to maintain large codebases? (programmers.stackexchange.com)
		144 points by CmonDev on Jan 27, 2014 \| 209 comments
20.		In the world of war games, Volko Ruhnke has become a hero (washingtonpost.com)
		144 points by mcu on Jan 27, 2014 \| 22 comments
21.		An Estonian shares his country's strategy for navigating the digital world (theatlantic.com)
		131 points by mercenario on Jan 27, 2014 \| 44 comments
22.		Startups that have bootstrapped their way to profitability (beatrixapp.com)
		133 points by uptown on Jan 27, 2014 \| 63 comments
23.		MIT OpenCourseWare Bookshelf (mitopencourseware.wordpress.com)
		132 points by acdanger on Jan 27, 2014 \| 4 comments
24.		Take Buffett's Billion (takebuffettsbillion.com)
		127 points by songzme on Jan 27, 2014 \| 123 comments
25.		Nginx Patch: SPDY/3.1 protocol implementation (nginx.org)
		124 points by jdorfman on Jan 27, 2014 \| 28 comments
26.		Floorplan Light Switches (jnd.org)
		111 points by radley on Jan 27, 2014 \| 68 comments
27.		The craziest bug you never heard about from 2008: A Linux threading regression (timetobleed.com)
		99 points by tc on Jan 27, 2014 \| 32 comments
28.		Timothy Hart, Rest in Peace (fogus.me)
		98 points by DanielRibeiro on Jan 27, 2014 \| 10 comments
29.		iPad onscreen keyboard designed for LaTeX [video] (texpadapp.com)
		96 points by steeleduncan on Jan 27, 2014 \| 33 comments
30.		Why isn't People-Centric UI Design taking off? (hanselman.com)
		93 points by CodeCube on Jan 27, 2014 \| 75 comments
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