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1.		The Criminalization of Everyday Life (tomdispatch.com)
		482 points by mankypro on Dec 10, 2013 \| 337 comments
2.		“We cannot trust” Intel and Via’s chip-based crypto, FreeBSD developers say (arstechnica.com)
		348 points by robin_reala on Dec 10, 2013 \| 176 comments
3.		Turn any application that uses stdin/stdout into a WebSocket server (github.com/joewalnes)
		311 points by adito on Dec 10, 2013 \| 88 comments
4.		Firefox 26 is released (mozilla.org)
		305 points by lambda_cube on Dec 10, 2013 \| 200 comments
5.		New US spy satellite logo features world-devouring octopus (arstechnica.com)
		289 points by Eye_of_Mordor on Dec 10, 2013 \| 124 comments
6.		Show HN: Minecraft clone in 2500 lines of C - even supports multiplayer online (github.com/fogleman)
		287 points by fogleman on Dec 10, 2013 \| 149 comments
7.		Meet Jack. Or, What The Government Could Do With All That Location Data (aclu.org)
		278 points by G5ANDY on Dec 10, 2013 \| 107 comments
8.		Reddit’s empire is founded on a flawed algorithm (iangreenleaf.com)
		278 points by est on Dec 10, 2013 \| 131 comments
9.		Linear algebra tutorial in four pages (minireference.com)
		256 points by ivansavz on Dec 10, 2013 \| 111 comments
10.		Doom released 20 years ago today (wikipedia.org)
		256 points by timmillwood on Dec 10, 2013 \| 108 comments
11.		Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram (nature.com)
		252 points by ForHackernews on Dec 10, 2013 \| 134 comments
12.		EFF has 2x matching donations until Dec 17th (eff.org)
		252 points by yincrash on Dec 10, 2013 \| 23 comments
13.		Cars Kill Cities (progressivetransit.wordpress.com)
		189 points by Jakob on Dec 10, 2013 \| 217 comments
14.		Nobel winner declares boycott of top science journals (theguardian.com)
		194 points by nkurz on Dec 10, 2013 \| 78 comments
15.		Leo the Homeless Coder Finished His App, and You Can Download It Right Now (slate.com)
		162 points by antr on Dec 10, 2013 \| 93 comments
16.		Disqus cracked – Security flaw reveals users’ e-mail addresses (cornubot.se)
		159 points by SuperChihuahua on Dec 10, 2013 \| 87 comments
17.		The Redis criticism thread (antirez.com)
		152 points by HeyChinaski on Dec 10, 2013 \| 44 comments
18.		Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
		160 points by tagabek on Dec 10, 2013 \| 163 comments
19.		Earn $4 in bitcoins for any commit to sferik/t, a command-line Twitter tool (tip4commit.com)
		149 points by sashazykov on Dec 10, 2013 \| 111 comments
20.		Bitcoin 0.8.6 Released: Updates Block Size Limits, Free Transactions, OS X Bugs (thegenesisblock.com)
		140 points by CrunchyJams on Dec 10, 2013 \| 22 comments
21.		The Price We Pay for Cheap Meat (rollingstone.com)
		130 points by jjxavier on Dec 10, 2013 \| 210 comments
22.		Why cul-de-sacs are bad for your health (slate.com)
		127 points by golfstrom on Dec 10, 2013 \| 138 comments
23.		The AeroFS Private Cloud (aerofs.com)
		127 points by yurisagalov on Dec 10, 2013 \| 66 comments
24.		Academia.edu slammed with takedown notices from Elsevier (venturebeat.com)
		123 points by alecco on Dec 10, 2013 \| 47 comments
25.		Ubuntu Touch OS wins its first smartphone partner (cnet.com)
		122 points by tanglesome on Dec 10, 2013 \| 60 comments
26.		Doom’s Creator Looks Back on 20 Years of Demonic Mayhem (wired.com)
		115 points by adventured on Dec 10, 2013 \| 39 comments
27.		Google Data centers (google.com)
		119 points by blearyeyed on Dec 10, 2013 \| 55 comments
28.		Server-generated JavaScript responses (37signals.com)
		122 points by steveklabnik on Dec 10, 2013 \| 96 comments
29.		Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees (firstround.com)
		106 points by ca98am79 on Dec 10, 2013 \| 28 comments
30.		The origin of zero-based array indexing (tive.org)
		103 points by fizwhiz on Dec 10, 2013 \| 107 comments
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