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1.
“Vacations are for the weak” (sethbannon.com)
486 points by sethbannon on Jan 2, 2014 | 356 comments
2.
Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move (lists.gnu.org)
401 points by __david__ on Jan 2, 2014 | 302 comments
3.
Can-Do vs. Can’t-Do Culture (recode.net)
342 points by minimaxir on Jan 2, 2014 | 129 comments
4.
How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood (theatlantic.com)
336 points by coloneltcb on Jan 2, 2014 | 129 comments
5.
Ask HN: What's your speciality, and what's your "FizzBuzz" equivalent?
260 points by ColinWright on Jan 2, 2014 | 331 comments
6.
Lock Picking – A Basic Guide (hackthis.co.uk)
252 points by hackthisuk on Jan 2, 2014 | 110 comments
7.
Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers (arxiv.org)
210 points by ColinWright on Jan 2, 2014 | 147 comments
8.
Free Bootstrap Themes (blacktie.co)
195 points by aram on Jan 2, 2014 | 57 comments
9.
Gate Tower Building (wikipedia.org)
196 points by lelf on Jan 2, 2014 | 50 comments
10.
Hyperloop: Not so fast (mathworks.com)
196 points by cju on Jan 2, 2014 | 141 comments
11.
Resolving power button issues in Mac OS X Mavericks (binchewer.org)
189 points by madeofpalk on Jan 2, 2014 | 144 comments
12.
The Saddest SaaS Pricing Pages of the Year (priceintelligently.com)
171 points by pccampbell on Jan 2, 2014 | 82 comments
13.
Happy New Year from Y Combinator (blog.ycombinator.com)
163 points by sethbannon on Jan 2, 2014 | 12 comments
14.
NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption (washingtonpost.com)
156 points by JunkDNA on Jan 2, 2014 | 106 comments
15.
Jolla Outsells iPhone 5S and 5C in Finland (jollausers.com)
156 points by sirkneeland on Jan 2, 2014 | 81 comments
16.
Ask HN: Female hacker-founder AMA
151 points by dzink on Jan 2, 2014 | 74 comments
17.
K-means Clustering 86 Single Malt Scotch Whiskies (revolutionanalytics.com)
135 points by platz on Jan 2, 2014 | 25 comments
18.
Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth's magnetic field (frontiersinzoology.com)
138 points by gmatty on Jan 2, 2014 | 35 comments
19.
The Best To-Do List: A Private Gist (carlsednaoui.com)
146 points by Ashuu on Jan 2, 2014 | 90 comments
20.
Memory cache optimizations (libtorrent.org)
138 points by dbaupp on Jan 2, 2014 | 11 comments
21.
Improve Your Python: Metaclasses and Dynamic Classes With Type (jeffknupp.com)
115 points by lukashed on Jan 2, 2014 | 13 comments
22.
Building a Mesh Network in Rural Somaliland (commotionwireless.net)
113 points by benbristow on Jan 2, 2014 | 40 comments
23.
Machine that Levitates Objects Using Sound [video] (hardware-360.com)
95 points by justinmares on Jan 2, 2014 | 41 comments
24.
Pure JS OCR via Emscripten (antimatter15.com)
95 points by DrinkWater on Jan 2, 2014 | 25 comments
25.
Homebrew Cask – CLI workflow for the administration of Mac binaries (github.com/phinze)
86 points by dmmalam on Jan 2, 2014 | 24 comments
26.
Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 pass 10% market share, Windows XP falls below 30% (thenextweb.com)
79 points by hackhackhack on Jan 2, 2014 | 72 comments
27.
Distributed systems for fun and profit (free ebook) (mixu.net)
77 points by phiggy on Jan 2, 2014 | 14 comments
28.
Resolutions (penny-arcade.com)
75 points by ja27 on Jan 2, 2014 | 27 comments
29.
Ways to be a Better Programmer in 2014 (oreilly.com)
70 points by ingve on Jan 2, 2014 | 17 comments
30.
The Inverse Power of Praise (2007) (nymag.com)
69 points by wengzilla on Jan 2, 2014 | 39 comments

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