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1.		Blackphone (blackphone.ch)
		408 points by jorrizza on Jan 15, 2014 \| 204 comments
2.		Super successful companies (samaltman.com)
		397 points by dko on Jan 15, 2014 \| 148 comments
3.		VC Pitches in a Year or Two (avc.com)
		280 points by SethMurphy on Jan 15, 2014 \| 96 comments
4.		Nassim Taleb: We should retire the notion of standard deviation (edge.org)
		248 points by pyduan on Jan 15, 2014 \| 244 comments
5.		The Next Phase of Node.js (nodejs.org)
		235 points by sintaxi on Jan 15, 2014 \| 130 comments
6.		Why Are There So Many Pythons? (toptal.com)
		211 points by akbarnama on Jan 15, 2014 \| 111 comments
7.		N.S.A. Devises Radio Pathway Into Computers (nytimes.com)
		205 points by nealyoung on Jan 15, 2014 \| 139 comments
8.		Living a High-DPI desktop lifestyle can be painful on Windows (hanselman.com)
		188 points by henrik_w on Jan 15, 2014 \| 142 comments
9.		No-fly list takes legal hit (mercurynews.com)
		186 points by andrewfong on Jan 15, 2014 \| 49 comments
10.		Coming soon: Stripe CTF3, distributed systems edition (stripe.com)
		181 points by gdb on Jan 15, 2014 \| 44 comments
11.		Why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour into 60 minutes? (scientificamerican.com)
		170 points by smalu on Jan 15, 2014 \| 148 comments
12.		Bitrot and atomic COWs: Inside “next-gen” filesystems (arstechnica.com)
		169 points by pedrocr on Jan 15, 2014 \| 132 comments
13.		The Periodic Table of Rust Types (mearie.org)
		150 points by lifthrasiir on Jan 15, 2014 \| 85 comments
14.		Light Table ClojureScript Tutorial (github.com/swannodette)
		150 points by joshuacc on Jan 15, 2014 \| 8 comments
15.		[dupe] US physically hacks 100,000 foreign computers (aljazeera.com)
		150 points by kostyk on Jan 15, 2014 \| 105 comments
16.		The Productivity Cycle (alexsexton.com)
		143 points by slexaxton on Jan 15, 2014 \| 38 comments
17.		Making remote work work: An adventure in time and space (mongohq.com)
		146 points by mrkurt on Jan 15, 2014 \| 53 comments
18.		TrueCrypt Master Key Extraction And Volume Identification (volatility-labs.blogspot.com)
		143 points by lelf on Jan 15, 2014 \| 73 comments
19.		How does SSL work? (security.stackexchange.com)
		139 points by gozzoo on Jan 15, 2014 \| 27 comments
20.		Dogecoin now accounts for more transactions than any other cryptocurrency (bitinfocharts.com)
		139 points by acangiano on Jan 15, 2014 \| 139 comments
21.		Are passwords stored in memory safe? (security.stackexchange.com)
		129 points by amalantony06 on Jan 15, 2014 \| 72 comments
22.		Xpra: Screen for X (xpra.org)
		127 points by luu on Jan 15, 2014 \| 34 comments
23.		WikiLeaks releases Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Environment draft (wikileaks.org)
		122 points by mwilcox on Jan 15, 2014 \| 19 comments
24.		How To Hire Outsourced Developers (donnfelker.com)
		120 points by donnfelker on Jan 15, 2014 \| 77 comments
25.		We Hacked North Korea With Balloons and USB Drives (theatlantic.com)
		120 points by vonnik on Jan 15, 2014 \| 82 comments
26.		FarmLogs Raises $4M Series A To Further Advance Farming Into The Age of Apps (techcrunch.com)
		119 points by vollmarj on Jan 15, 2014 \| 36 comments
27.		MapGive - Open Mapping from the US State Dept. (state.gov)
		113 points by chippy on Jan 15, 2014 \| 25 comments
28.		Hate Parking Tickets? Fixed Fights Them In Court For You (techcrunch.com)
		103 points by jaredsohn on Jan 15, 2014 \| 136 comments
29.		Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development (halfarsedagilemanifesto.org)
		102 points by virtualsue on Jan 15, 2014 \| 63 comments
30.		Silicon Valley workers may pursue collusion case as group (reuters.com)
		95 points by ForHackernews on Jan 15, 2014 \| 89 comments
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