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1.
Software patent reform just died in the House (washingtonpost.com)
525 points by alecco on Nov 20, 2013 | 225 comments
2.
Machine learning is easier than it looks (insideintercom.io)
459 points by jasonwatkinspdx on Nov 20, 2013 | 167 comments
3.
Undo (sachagreif.com)
300 points by sgdesign on Nov 20, 2013 | 98 comments
4.
Mathematicians Team Up on Twin Primes Conjecture (simonsfoundation.org)
288 points by digital55 on Nov 20, 2013 | 94 comments
5.
What happens when the U.S. President uses your startup for a conference call (mixlr.com)
283 points by gplloyd on Nov 20, 2013 | 62 comments
6.
When We Lose Antibiotics, Here's Everything Else We'll Lose Too (wired.com)
273 points by jcklnruns on Nov 20, 2013 | 175 comments
7.
The American Police State (chronicle.com)
271 points by danso on Nov 20, 2013 | 182 comments
8.
Can anyone tell me what these services do? (intel.com)
230 points by laserDinosaur on Nov 20, 2013 | 96 comments
9.
Bokeh – Interactive web visualization library in Python (pydata.org)
234 points by trueduke on Nov 20, 2013 | 64 comments
10.
US senators say there’s “no evidence” bulk metadata surveillance is useful (arstechnica.com)
225 points by rosser on Nov 20, 2013 | 69 comments
11.
Show HN: DotNetFiddle – JsFiddle for .Net (dotnetfiddle.net)
217 points by refactormonkey on Nov 20, 2013 | 88 comments
12.
Weak passwords brute forced (github.com/blog)
203 points by olefoo on Nov 20, 2013 | 143 comments
13.
US and UK struck secret deal to allow NSA to 'unmask' Britons' personal data (theguardian.com)
196 points by shill on Nov 20, 2013 | 51 comments
14.
Hack of Cupid Media dating website exposes 42 million plaintext passwords (arstechnica.com)
181 points by fmavituna on Nov 20, 2013 | 166 comments
15.
PostgreSQL: Don't use CHAR or VARCHAR (jonanin.com)
179 points by Jonanin on Nov 20, 2013 | 79 comments
16.
Is Your Game Crap? This Fan Will Fix It for You (wired.com)
157 points by lxm on Nov 20, 2013 | 63 comments
17.
Blame Rich, Overeducated Elites as Our Society Frays (bloomberg.com)
152 points by irishjohnnie on Nov 20, 2013 | 187 comments
18.
Stuxnet's Secret Twin (foreignpolicy.com)
137 points by hangonhn on Nov 20, 2013 | 56 comments
19.
How to make fake data look meaningful (danbirken.com)
138 points by birken on Nov 20, 2013 | 41 comments
20.
DNA genius and double Nobel Prize winner Fred Sanger dies aged 95 (cambridge-news.co.uk)
134 points by yread on Nov 20, 2013 | 44 comments
21.
You can no longer just leave Syracuse airport [video] (nbcnews.com)
120 points by ck2 on Nov 20, 2013 | 140 comments
22.
Show HN: Fully-featured Nil interpreter in less than 1 line of JavaScript (ajf.me)
115 points by TazeTSchnitzel on Nov 20, 2013 | 29 comments
23.
R-Fiddle (r-fiddle.org)
112 points by kmfrk on Nov 20, 2013 | 31 comments
24.
The Transparent Chinese (nytimes.com)
109 points by kercker on Nov 20, 2013 | 54 comments
25.
Lua Fun: A high-performance functional programming library designed for LuaJIT (github.com/rtsisyk)
102 points by sibman on Nov 20, 2013 | 31 comments
26.
ELF101 a Linux executable walkthrough (code.google.com)
102 points by ange4771_ on Nov 20, 2013 | 20 comments
27.
Xbox One: The Review (polygon.com)
99 points by lotso on Nov 20, 2013 | 104 comments
28.
The engineer who fixed his own heart (bbc.co.uk)
100 points by drucken on Nov 20, 2013 | 39 comments
29.
Want to use my wifi? (thejh.net)
94 points by TheJH_ on Nov 20, 2013 | 56 comments
30.
NSNotificationCenter with blocks considered harmful (sealedabstract.com)
90 points by dcaunt on Nov 20, 2013 | 35 comments

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