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1.		Yale censored a student's course catalog site. I made an unblockable replacement (haufler.org)
		775 points by shaufler on Jan 19, 2014 \| 199 comments
2.		For the Love of Money (nytimes.com)
		576 points by _ntka on Jan 19, 2014 \| 274 comments
3.		How Radians Work in 30 Seconds (googleusercontent.com)
		474 points by _pius on Jan 19, 2014 \| 100 comments
4.		Asciiflow (asciiflow.com)
		321 points by giis on Jan 19, 2014 \| 69 comments
5.		Python and Flask Are Powerful (jeffknupp.com)
		260 points by nichochar on Jan 19, 2014 \| 75 comments
6.		FreeBSD 10.0 is here (freebsd.org)
		235 points by sydney6 on Jan 19, 2014 \| 116 comments
7.		Your most important skill: Empathy (chadfowler.com)
		203 points by chadfowler on Jan 19, 2014 \| 53 comments
8.		What Happens When the Poor Receive a Stipend? (nytimes.com)
		181 points by MaysonL on Jan 19, 2014 \| 154 comments
9.		Cities and Ambition (2008) (paulgraham.com)
		185 points by joelrunyon on Jan 19, 2014 \| 124 comments
10.		Why Does A Good Kettle Cost $90+? (chewxy.com)
		176 points by boyter on Jan 19, 2014 \| 238 comments
11.		Hoplon: A Simpler Way to Program the Web (hoplon.io)
		161 points by johnwalker on Jan 19, 2014 \| 49 comments
12.		Ask HN: What are the most inspirational blog posts you've ever read?
		148 points by fromdoon on Jan 19, 2014 \| 58 comments
13.		Feedly Found a New Way to Steal Page Views From Publishers (the-digital-reader.com)
		144 points by user_666 on Jan 19, 2014 \| 60 comments
14.		Bitcoin 2.0 explained (yahoo.com)
		137 points by hansy on Jan 19, 2014 \| 65 comments
15.		Forget Setting Goals. Focus on Systems Instead (entrepreneur.com)
		123 points by rukshn on Jan 19, 2014 \| 57 comments
16.		Lisp: More is less (jameso.be)
		113 points by jobeirne on Jan 19, 2014 \| 118 comments
17.		Three Myths on the World's Poor (wsj.com)
		108 points by tokenadult on Jan 19, 2014 \| 37 comments
18.		Ask HN: I want to learn how to prototype hardware. Where do I start?
		108 points by allsystemsgo on Jan 19, 2014 \| 36 comments
19.		How Jason Bourne Stores His Bitcoin (maxtaco.github.io)
		107 points by sillysaurus2 on Jan 19, 2014 \| 49 comments
20.		Elites embrace “do what you love” mantra. But it devalues work & hurts workers (slate.com)
		101 points by RougeFemme on Jan 19, 2014 \| 81 comments
21.		Renting vs. buying a home (khanacademy.org)
		88 points by dctoedt on Jan 19, 2014 \| 150 comments
22.		Peelian Principles (wikipedia.org)
		83 points by cstross on Jan 19, 2014 \| 47 comments
23.		A Peek at Emacs 24.4: Auto-indentation by Default (emacsredux.com)
		82 points by mjn on Jan 19, 2014 \| 34 comments
24.		Windows Chrome, why do my fonts look so bad? (greens.io)
		82 points by JustResign on Jan 19, 2014 \| 56 comments
25.		Anatomy of a Program in Memory (duartes.org)
		81 points by rikelmens on Jan 19, 2014 \| 5 comments
26.		Ingredients of an All-Natural Banana (jameskennedymonash.wordpress.com)
		68 points by joosters on Jan 19, 2014 \| 46 comments
27.		Orbit.js – A standalone library for data access and synchronization (github.com/cerebris)
		72 points by jauco on Jan 19, 2014 \| 12 comments
28.		Nagios-plugins web site taken over by Nagios (redhat.com)
		66 points by juice13 on Jan 19, 2014 \| 25 comments
29.		Sneak into tech through the back door: a hopelessly limited how-to (danilocampos.com)
		67 points by bmmayer1 on Jan 19, 2014 \| 19 comments
30.		Namecheap has rebranded (namecheap.com)
		60 points by aroman on Jan 19, 2014 \| 73 comments
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