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1.		Killing cancer like the common cold (cnn.com)
		331 points by interconnector on Dec 7, 2013 \| 96 comments
2.		German Patent Ruling Threatens Microsoft's Windows Phone Earnings From Android (forbes.com/sites/timworstall)
		288 points by salient on Dec 7, 2013 \| 67 comments
3.		A CNN Viewer Has Questions for Mike Rowe (profoundlydisconnected.com)
		290 points by josephpmay on Dec 7, 2013 \| 221 comments
4.		Nobody builds nuclear reactors for fun anymore (scientificamerican.com)
		188 points by atomatica on Dec 7, 2013 \| 102 comments
5.		Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks – Part 1 (theprojectspot.com)
		168 points by bananacurve on Dec 7, 2013 \| 48 comments
6.		What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell (stephendiehl.com)
		164 points by psibi on Dec 7, 2013 \| 75 comments
7.		Show HN: Coinspotting - A Hacker News For Bitcoins and Other Cryptocurrencies (coinspotting.com)
		117 points by coinspotting on Dec 7, 2013 \| 52 comments
8.		Epic Fail: The Rise and Fall of Demand Media (variety.com)
		116 points by bcn on Dec 7, 2013 \| 62 comments
9.		Japan now the Hades of free speech and investigative journalism (japansubculture.com)
		104 points by adregan on Dec 7, 2013 \| 50 comments
10.		The Art of Rendering (2012) (fxguide.com)
		96 points by tellarin on Dec 7, 2013 \| 23 comments
11.		Hacker Typer: How To Look Insanely Busy In A Coffee Shop (2011) (hackertyper.net)
		91 points by erickhill on Dec 7, 2013 \| 32 comments
12.		There’s a 1,200-year-old Phone in the Smithsonian Collections (smithsonianmag.com)
		91 points by mdturnerphys on Dec 7, 2013 \| 36 comments
13.		Bamboo: An open-source real-time data analysis system (bamboo.io)
		95 points by mfalcon on Dec 7, 2013 \| 16 comments
14.		Graph databases and Python (slideshare.net)
		87 points by bjerun on Dec 7, 2013 \| 36 comments
15.		Quick Look plugins for developers (github.com/sindresorhus)
		84 points by ingve on Dec 7, 2013 \| 9 comments
16.		What and where are the stack and heap? (stackoverflow.com)
		85 points by gs7 on Dec 7, 2013 \| 30 comments
17.		DragonFly BSD (dragonflybsd.org)
		86 points by lelf on Dec 7, 2013 \| 54 comments
18.		Bitmessage – Send messages without leaking metadata (bitmessage.org)
		85 points by 3pt14159 on Dec 7, 2013 \| 64 comments
19.		You can’t get entangled without a wormhole (mit.edu)
		80 points by geuis on Dec 7, 2013 \| 70 comments
20.		Popularizing Haskell through easy web deployment (begriffs.com)
		80 points by tikhonj on Dec 7, 2013 \| 48 comments
21.		HIV returns in two patients after bone marrow transplant (cnn.com)
		79 points by linux_devil on Dec 7, 2013 \| 22 comments
22.		Spelunky Procedural Level Generation (tinysubversions.com)
		71 points by peterderivaz on Dec 7, 2013 \| 13 comments
23.		How to make $800/mo from three lines of code (jmduke.com)
		68 points by jmduke on Dec 7, 2013 \| 32 comments
24.		Lisp is Not an Acceptable Lisp (2006) (steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
		67 points by krmboya on Dec 7, 2013 \| 47 comments
25.		Build your own Linux Distro bootable from RAM (porteus.org)
		67 points by wocp on Dec 7, 2013 \| 16 comments
26.		Filter HN - Exclude All Bitcoin Articles. Made with AngularJS (hn-filter.appspot.com)
		63 points by ishener on Dec 7, 2013 \| 53 comments
27.		BASH as a Modern Programming Language [ppt] (oreillystatic.com)
		55 points by triberian on Dec 7, 2013 \| 51 comments
28.		Finger binary (wikipedia.org)
		50 points by lobo_tuerto on Dec 7, 2013 \| 48 comments
29.		Omaha Code School (omahacodeschool.com)
		57 points by noahtkoch on Dec 7, 2013 \| 36 comments
30.		StageXL: A Flash-like Dart Library Ready for Production Level Games (stagexl.org)
		49 points by WoodenChair on Dec 7, 2013 \| 9 comments
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