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1.
The best things and stuff of 2013 (fogus.me)
259 points by platz on Dec 27, 2013 | 29 comments
2.
Sherlock Holmes Is in the Public Domain, American Judge Rules (nytimes.com)
237 points by kanamekun on Dec 27, 2013 | 116 comments
3.
Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system (csail.mit.edu)
200 points by cturner on Dec 27, 2013 | 78 comments
4.
Investment increases your risk (swombat.com)
194 points by swombat on Dec 27, 2013 | 113 comments
5.
Analysis of SSD Reliability during power outages (lkcl.net)
168 points by yapcguy on Dec 27, 2013 | 104 comments
6.
New Twist in International Relations: Corporate Keep-My-Data-Out-of-U.S. Clause (bloomberg.com)
156 points by RougeFemme on Dec 27, 2013 | 100 comments
7.
”No one at Google is Returning Our Calls” (digitstodollars.com)
156 points by antr on Dec 27, 2013 | 90 comments
8.
Great books about mathematics (kjro.se)
151 points by ColinWright on Dec 27, 2013 | 58 comments
9.
Inside Nick Denton's phony, hypocritical class war against tech workers (pando.com)
157 points by scilro on Dec 27, 2013 | 35 comments
10.
Why some people respond to stress by falling asleep (theatlantic.com)
154 points by pedalpete on Dec 27, 2013 | 30 comments
11.
Reflected hidden faces in photographs revealed in pupil (kurzweilai.net)
138 points by ca98am79 on Dec 27, 2013 | 112 comments
12.
Learn to think big (gabrielweinberg.com)
141 points by gmays on Dec 27, 2013 | 27 comments
13.
Glenn Greenwald keynote at Chaos Communication Congress [video] (youtube.com)
141 points by sp332 on Dec 27, 2013 | 44 comments
14.
Jesse Willms, the Dark Lord of the Internet (theatlantic.com)
135 points by 67726e on Dec 27, 2013 | 46 comments
15.
Show HN: LightPaper for Mac – Free Markdown editor (clockworkengine.com)
132 points by jnardiello on Dec 27, 2013 | 77 comments
16.
TCP in 30 instructions (1993) (cmu.edu)
132 points by adamnemecek on Dec 27, 2013 | 38 comments
17.
N.S.A. Phone Surveillance Is Lawful, Federal Judge Rules (nytimes.com)
132 points by philfreo on Dec 27, 2013 | 164 comments
18.
Admob refunded all my payments (makingmoneywithandroid.com)
123 points by Caligula on Dec 27, 2013 | 39 comments
19.
Trolling homework questions - sorting (codegolf.stackexchange.com)
110 points by DanBC on Dec 27, 2013 | 49 comments
20.
Snapchat - GibSec Full Disclosure (gibsonsec.org)
108 points by gulbrandr on Dec 27, 2013 | 39 comments
21.
A useful Caps Lock key (brettterpstra.com)
103 points by rbcoffee on Dec 27, 2013 | 136 comments
22.
What languages fix (paulgraham.com)
98 points by cadalac on Dec 27, 2013 | 84 comments
23.
Zotonic - A High Performance Web Framework in Erlang (aosabook.org)
93 points by deathtrader666 on Dec 27, 2013 | 27 comments
24.
The Secret Law of Page Harmony (retinart.net)
85 points by bavidar on Dec 27, 2013 | 15 comments
25.
Boardinghouses: where the city was born (bostonglobe.com)
84 points by pg on Dec 27, 2013 | 19 comments
26.
YogaGlo Update (yogaglo.com)
80 points by kadabra9 on Dec 27, 2013 | 70 comments
27.
FreeBSD Journal announced (freebsdnews.net)
81 points by drallison on Dec 27, 2013 | 37 comments
28.
The CDC 6600 Architecture (ygdes.com)
74 points by luu on Dec 27, 2013 | 12 comments
29.
PostgreSQL indexing in Rails (rny.io)
70 points by ricny046 on Dec 27, 2013 | 43 comments
30.
What Surveillance Valley knows about you (pando.com)
66 points by eggspurt on Dec 27, 2013 | 19 comments

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