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1.		Toshiba says they made a mistake but they still cannot help me (site44.com)
		700 points by barhum on Jan 3, 2014 \| 192 comments
2.		Losing Aaron: Bob Swartz on MIT's role in his son's death (bostonmagazine.com)
		366 points by cjbprime on Jan 3, 2014 \| 204 comments
3.		David Cameron's Internet porn filter is the start of censorship creep (theguardian.com)
		321 points by iamben on Jan 3, 2014 \| 205 comments
4.		Show HN: Given an API, Generate client libraries in Node, Python, PHP, Ruby (github.com/pksunkara)
		268 points by pksunkara on Jan 3, 2014 \| 73 comments
5.		Business Ideas for 2014 (scottsbarlow.com)
		203 points by strwbrry on Jan 3, 2014 \| 77 comments
6.		How printers and Photoshop detect and refuse to process images of currency (cam.ac.uk)
		191 points by kibwen on Jan 3, 2014 \| 116 comments
7.		Docker on Linode (linode.com)
		187 points by ljoshua on Jan 3, 2014 \| 66 comments
8.		How misaligning data can increase performance 12x by reducing cache misses (danluu.com)
		165 points by luu on Jan 3, 2014 \| 29 comments
9.		Growing From $5,000 to $25,000 in MRR (statuspage.io)
		179 points by dannyolinsky on Jan 3, 2014 \| 16 comments
10.		129 Cars (thisamericanlife.org)
		162 points by cpymchn on Jan 3, 2014 \| 62 comments
11.		Intermittent fasting: The good things it did to my body (bbc.co.uk)
		158 points by gps408 on Jan 3, 2014 \| 148 comments
12.		I've been programming since I was 10, but I don't feel like a "hacker" (lizdenys.com)
		162 points by geofft on Jan 3, 2014 \| 108 comments
13.		Ask HN: How do you drive web traffic to your successful side projects?
		166 points by ericthegoodking on Jan 3, 2014 \| 99 comments
14.		Senator presses NSA to reveal whether it spies on members of Congress (theguardian.com)
		158 points by joshfraser on Jan 3, 2014 \| 73 comments
15.		Python 2.x vs. 3.x survey results (python.org)
		154 points by janzer on Jan 3, 2014 \| 79 comments
16.		You can now create a Bitcoin clone by filling out a simple webform (coingen.io)
		132 points by BlueMatt on Jan 3, 2014 \| 76 comments
17.		Durr: A shivering unisex bracelet that investigates our perception of 5 minutes (skreksto.re)
		132 points by wyclif on Jan 3, 2014 \| 101 comments
18.		Academics Against Mass Surveillance (academicsagainstsurveillance.net)
		122 points by jobstijl on Jan 3, 2014 \| 36 comments
19.		Unfinished, unfair and brutally difficult (polygon.com)
		117 points by danso on Jan 3, 2014 \| 49 comments
20.		iOS 7 only is the only sane thing to do (berzniz.com)
		117 points by berzniz on Jan 3, 2014 \| 79 comments
21.		Federating Do-It-Yourself ISPs from around the world (ffdn.org)
		112 points by taziden on Jan 3, 2014 \| 32 comments
22.		Read your Standard Libraries (codingforinterviews.com)
		107 points by bcjordan on Jan 3, 2014 \| 54 comments
23.		IBM 704 Scientific Computer (zl2al.com)
		100 points by wlj on Jan 3, 2014 \| 4 comments
24.		The Difficulty Of Private Contact Discovery (whispersystems.org)
		99 points by FredericJ on Jan 3, 2014 \| 71 comments
25.		Researchers have identified how the ‘wall’ around cancer tumours functions (cam.ac.uk)
		97 points by codebeaker on Jan 3, 2014 \| 18 comments
26.		Compile Clojure to Objective-C (github.com/joshaber)
		91 points by dgellow on Jan 3, 2014 \| 38 comments
27.		ICANN's new rules for domain registrants require you to verify an email address (iwantmyname.com)
		91 points by alexbilbie on Jan 3, 2014 \| 82 comments
28.		"Silence is for the weak" (circleci.com)
		91 points by pbiggar on Jan 3, 2014 \| 36 comments
29.		Twitter SVP Chris Fry Breaks Down How His Engineering Org Works (recode.net)
		83 points by adidash on Jan 3, 2014 \| 31 comments
30.		Show HN: Relearning to code after 20 years (weather-explorer.com)
		85 points by rrosen326 on Jan 3, 2014 \| 31 comments
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