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1.		Sorry, RSA, I'm just not buying it (gist.github.com)
		539 points by dmix on Dec 23, 2013 \| 127 comments
2.		RapGenius Growth Hack Exposed (jmarbach.com)
		347 points by jmarbach on Dec 23, 2013 \| 215 comments
3.		AK47 assault rifle inventor Kalashnikov dies at 94 (bbc.co.uk)
		253 points by yawz on Dec 23, 2013 \| 281 comments
4.		How Iron Maiden found its worst music pirates - then went and played for them (citeworld.com)
		227 points by SuperChihuahua on Dec 23, 2013 \| 113 comments
5.		Cameron's Internet filter goes far beyond porn - and that was always the plan (newstatesman.com)
		216 points by r0h1n on Dec 23, 2013 \| 72 comments
6.		OpenEmu 1.0 Released (openemu.org)
		206 points by brymaster on Dec 23, 2013 \| 60 comments
7.		Californians: Ashamed of Senator Feinstein's lies on surveillance? Join Us (shameonfeinstein.org)
		211 points by zmanian on Dec 23, 2013 \| 61 comments
8.		Blackmail fail (gwern.net)
		203 points by a3voices on Dec 23, 2013 \| 72 comments
9.		Knossos: Redis and Linearizability (aphyr.com)
		182 points by m0nastic on Dec 23, 2013 \| 11 comments
10.		Data looks better naked (darkhorseanalytics.com)
		172 points by chethiya on Dec 23, 2013 \| 48 comments
11.		The case against Kim Dotcom, finally revealed (arstechnica.com)
		170 points by shawndumas on Dec 23, 2013 \| 136 comments
12.		An Open Letter to the Chiefs of EMC and RSA (f-secure.com)
		166 points by koenrh on Dec 23, 2013 \| 28 comments
13.		Interviewing as a Front-End Engineer in San Francisco (css-tricks.com)
		160 points by d_j_s on Dec 23, 2013 \| 183 comments
14.		The Mathematical Hacker (2012) (evanmiller.org)
		147 points by ColinWright on Dec 23, 2013 \| 102 comments
15.		Geohot presents an evasi0n7 writeup (geohot.com)
		146 points by innoying on Dec 23, 2013 \| 32 comments
16.		Focus on Ocean’s Health as Dolphin Deaths Soar (nytimes.com)
		112 points by mhb on Dec 23, 2013 \| 31 comments
17.		KeePassX 2.0 Alpha 5 released (keepassx.org)
		107 points by Mithrandir on Dec 23, 2013 \| 48 comments
18.		Gmail - Find Emails That Never Got a Reply (jonathan-kim.com)
		113 points by hijonathan on Dec 23, 2013 \| 23 comments
19.		The War on Terror's Jedi Mind Trick (theatlantic.com)
		105 points by dkasper on Dec 23, 2013 \| 27 comments
20.		Show HN: My 10-year-old son has made a card game, which he is giving away
		103 points by gregpilling on Dec 23, 2013 \| 34 comments
21.		Swiss to vote on proposals to treat bitcoin as foreign currency (finextra.com)
		101 points by baazaar on Dec 23, 2013 \| 22 comments
22.		PlainSite bans federal courts from accessing court data (plainsite.org)
		97 points by thinkcomp on Dec 23, 2013 \| 15 comments
23.		I used Firefox OS for 30 days and it made me want to quit phones (digitaltrends.com)
		95 points by msh on Dec 23, 2013 \| 99 comments
24.		RSA Response to Media Claims Regarding NSA Relationship (rsa.com)
		94 points by comex on Dec 23, 2013 \| 61 comments
25.		Who posts on Hacker News? (kmjn.org)
		93 points by mjn on Dec 23, 2013 \| 34 comments
26.		Jack Dorsey Joins Disney’s Board Of Directors (techcrunch.com)
		88 points by dko on Dec 23, 2013 \| 44 comments
27.		Even fine restaurants serve coffee made with capsules (aeon.co)
		84 points by jseliger on Dec 23, 2013 \| 89 comments
28.		Why the Pentagon’s many campaigns to clean up its accounts are failing (reuters.com)
		87 points by joshuahedlund on Dec 23, 2013 \| 36 comments
29.		FreeNAS 9.2 is out (freenas.org)
		82 points by tachion on Dec 23, 2013 \| 49 comments
30.		FBI agent tries to copyright torture manual, inadvertently makes it public (motherjones.com)
		84 points by DavidChouinard on Dec 23, 2013 \| 23 comments
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