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1.		Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked (snapchatdb.info)
		398 points by lightcontact on Jan 1, 2014 \| 213 comments
2.		The Lost Art of C Structure Packing (catb.org)
		335 points by Tsiolkovsky on Jan 1, 2014 \| 143 comments
3.		Show HN: Use any text as a domain name (github.com/amoffat)
		261 points by daenz on Jan 1, 2014 \| 141 comments
4.		Court Rules No Suspicion Needed for Laptop Searches at Border (aclu.org)
		258 points by frostmatthew on Jan 1, 2014 \| 178 comments
5.		What Snowden really revealed (aljazeera.com)
		239 points by kostyk on Jan 1, 2014 \| 54 comments
6.		Isaac Asimov Predicts in 1964 What the World Will Look Like in 2014 (openculture.com)
		237 points by beshrkayali on Jan 1, 2014 \| 116 comments
7.		Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2014)
		241 points by whoishiring on Jan 1, 2014 \| 287 comments
8.		Javascript patterns (shichuan.github.io)
		210 points by ekpyrotic on Jan 1, 2014 \| 45 comments
9.		React: Another Level of Indirection (lispcast.com)
		213 points by mercer on Jan 1, 2014 \| 82 comments
10.		Optimal Characters Per Line (mikeyanderson.com)
		189 points by mikeyanderson on Jan 1, 2014 \| 104 comments
11.		Burn the Fucking System to the Ground (popehat.com)
		187 points by MaysonL on Jan 1, 2014 \| 115 comments
12.		Dual_EC_DRBG backdoor: a proof of concept (blog.0xbadc0de.be)
		175 points by infinity on Jan 1, 2014 \| 27 comments
13.		Colorado Stores Throw Open Their Doors to Pot Buyers (nytimes.com)
		159 points by danso on Jan 1, 2014 \| 185 comments
14.		Show HN: Our little bootstrapped startup is powering CNN's ticker for NYE
		154 points by randall on Jan 1, 2014 \| 43 comments
15.		All Things Digital shutting down (allthingsd.com)
		147 points by ivank on Jan 1, 2014 \| 36 comments
16.		1.85% of Steam users run Linux (itsmdaily.com)
		141 points by ineov on Jan 1, 2014 \| 119 comments
17.		Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 (neocomputer.org)
		138 points by tujv on Jan 1, 2014 \| 12 comments
18.		“The Robot and the Baby” by John McCarthy (stanford.edu)
		104 points by ColinWright on Jan 1, 2014 \| 28 comments
19.		Etoile: a GNUStep-based Linux GUI written in Objective-C (etoileos.com)
		101 points by adamnemecek on Jan 1, 2014 \| 43 comments
20.		Clojure 2013 Year in Review (stuartsierra.com)
		108 points by llambda on Jan 1, 2014 \| 19 comments
21.		The Other 'F Word': Brewer Responds To Starbucks Over Beer Name (npr.org)
		99 points by mydpy on Jan 1, 2014 \| 53 comments
22.		What Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode (2003) (joelonsoftware.com)
		96 points by jervisfm on Jan 1, 2014 \| 33 comments
23.		The Problems With Debit And Credit Cards Are Deeper Than We Thought (readwrite.com)
		94 points by Cbasedlifeform on Jan 1, 2014 \| 91 comments
24.		Apartment, completely unused since 1942, discovered in Paris (belloblog.com)
		90 points by shawndumas on Jan 1, 2014 \| 21 comments
25.		Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2014)
		100 points by whoishiring on Jan 1, 2014 \| 151 comments
26.		Proof Market: Submit Coq proof, get paid with Bitcoin (proofmarket.org)
		92 points by waffle_ss on Jan 1, 2014 \| 30 comments
27.		Skype blog hacked (skype.com)
		86 points by tazer on Jan 1, 2014 \| 58 comments
28.		Latvia becomes 18th state to join the eurozone (bbc.co.uk)
		81 points by lelf on Jan 1, 2014 \| 103 comments
29.		Ruby’s GIL and transactional memory (mikeperham.com)
		82 points by ricny046 on Jan 1, 2014 \| 20 comments
30.		I Decided to Delete All My Facebook Activity (slate.com)
		79 points by jamesbritt on Jan 1, 2014 \| 67 comments
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