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1.		How the Bitcoin protocol actually works (michaelnielsen.org)
		524 points by zootar on Dec 6, 2013 \| 55 comments
2.		Announcing the Safe, a Replacement for Convertible Notes (blog.ycombinator.com)
		517 points by katm on Dec 6, 2013 \| 111 comments
3.		Show HN: I mapped US medical prices. Save thousands by driving a few miles (bestmedicareprice.com)
		488 points by neilsharma on Dec 6, 2013 \| 222 comments
4.		Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system (theguardian.com)
		394 points by sampo on Dec 6, 2013 \| 194 comments
5.		People Don’t Actually Like Creativity (slate.com)
		375 points by wikiburner on Dec 6, 2013 \| 214 comments
6.		Bank of America's Research Report on Bitcoin [pdf] (amazonaws.com)
		265 points by WestCoastJustin on Dec 6, 2013 \| 226 comments
7.		BayesDB - a Bayesian database table (csail.mit.edu)
		269 points by sebg on Dec 6, 2013 \| 29 comments
8.		FuckIt.py - The Python Error Steamroller (github.com/ajalt)
		252 points by rbanffy on Dec 6, 2013 \| 97 comments
9.		The Internet mystery that has the world baffled (montrealgazette.com)
		239 points by chriswoodford on Dec 6, 2013 \| 114 comments
10.		Experiments to do with your baby (theatlantic.com)
		239 points by jawns on Dec 6, 2013 \| 73 comments
11.		Personal Fresh Air Desk (julioradesca.com)
		237 points by rizumu on Dec 6, 2013 \| 67 comments
12.		An HTML/CSS/JS code editor in 230+ bytes (xem.github.io)
		231 points by xem on Dec 6, 2013 \| 55 comments
13.		Schoolchildren ordered indoors as air pollution cloaks Shanghai (theguardian.com)
		210 points by ck2 on Dec 6, 2013 \| 205 comments
14.		The Day Mandela Was Arrested, With A Little Help From the CIA (newsweek.com)
		204 points by salient on Dec 6, 2013 \| 157 comments
15.		US Supreme Court Will Hear Case Re: Standards for Software Patent Eligibility (scotusblog.com)
		156 points by jakewalker on Dec 6, 2013 \| 57 comments
16.		Guy tries to sell chinese watch Z3 as his own work (kickstarter.com)
		154 points by guardian5x on Dec 6, 2013 \| 113 comments
17.		Elixir is for programmers (pluralsight.com)
		138 points by rohshall on Dec 6, 2013 \| 51 comments
18.		X server in 5000 lines of Common Lisp (github.com/pyb)
		136 points by luu on Dec 6, 2013 \| 66 comments
19.		Show HN: I've launched my iPhone journal app I've worked on for almost 2 years. (hey.co)
		139 points by blader on Dec 6, 2013 \| 116 comments
20.		After working +1200 hours in oDesk (malditointer.net)
		132 points by miquelcamps on Dec 6, 2013 \| 91 comments
21.		Is Unicode Safe? (jefftk.com)
		109 points by nsmalch on Dec 6, 2013 \| 42 comments
22.		Why I hate virtualenv and pip (pythonrants.wordpress.com)
		105 points by dissent on Dec 6, 2013 \| 113 comments
23.		Why we ditched Amazon AWS (testingbot.com)
		108 points by defied on Dec 6, 2013 \| 95 comments
24.		Sad News for the Opscode Community (opscode.com)
		103 points by benatkin on Dec 6, 2013 \| 17 comments
25.		Someone’s Been Siphoning Data Through a Huge Security Hole in the Internet (wired.com)
		103 points by texan on Dec 6, 2013 \| 43 comments
26.		Popular Flashlight App has been secretly sharing your location (fastcompany.com)
		95 points by bobbles on Dec 6, 2013 \| 79 comments
27.		ArangoDB (arangodb.org)
		94 points by majidazimi on Dec 6, 2013 \| 67 comments
28.		Safe Financing Documents (ycombinator.com)
		91 points by _pius on Dec 6, 2013 \| 7 comments
29.		Failed HN Launch vs. Reddit Paid Advertising: Which Converts Better (namecast.net)
		91 points by namecast on Dec 6, 2013 \| 58 comments
30.		Telepathwords: A New Password Strength Estimator (schneier.com)
		84 points by CapitalistCartr on Dec 6, 2013 \| 64 comments
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