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1.		What Hard Drive Should I Buy? (backblaze.com)
		688 points by nuriaion on Jan 21, 2014 \| 266 comments
2.		2014 Gates Annual Letter: Myths that block progress for the poor (gatesfoundation.org)
		490 points by pyduan on Jan 21, 2014 \| 307 comments
3.		Your best passive income? (2014)
		395 points by kirk21 on Jan 21, 2014 \| 420 comments
4.		Fake Name Generator (fakenamegenerator.com)
		397 points by galapago on Jan 21, 2014 \| 159 comments
5.		New Year, New CEO for GitHub (github.com/blog)
		365 points by goodwillhunting on Jan 21, 2014 \| 92 comments
6.		Today my startup failed (chrishateswriting.com)
		342 points by jc4p on Jan 21, 2014 \| 128 comments
7.		AMC movie theater calls FBI to arrest a Google Glass user (the-gadgeteer.com)
		319 points by sounds on Jan 21, 2014 \| 294 comments
8.		Why Bitcoin Matters (nytimes.com)
		315 points by untilHellbanned on Jan 21, 2014 \| 259 comments
9.		Show HN: Ridiculously cheap bulk geocoding (geocod.io)
		224 points by thecodemonkey on Jan 21, 2014 \| 101 comments
10.		Announcing the Female Founders Conference (March 1) (blog.ycombinator.com)
		216 points by jl on Jan 21, 2014 \| 275 comments
11.		Economics Simulation (ipython.org)
		209 points by ntoshev on Jan 21, 2014 \| 121 comments
12.		Yesterday, the Internet Solved a 20-year-old Mystery (onthemedia.org)
		197 points by brie22 on Jan 21, 2014 \| 58 comments
13.		OpenBSD receives approximately $100,000 in donations (marc.info)
		161 points by skreuzer on Jan 21, 2014 \| 35 comments
14.		Outbox Is Shutting Down (outboxmail.com)
		155 points by mariusz331 on Jan 21, 2014 \| 93 comments
15.		Snowden-haters are on the wrong side of history (reprog.wordpress.com)
		133 points by ColinWright on Jan 21, 2014 \| 146 comments
16.		With Traction But Out Of Cash, 4chan Founder Kills Off Canvas/DrawQuest (techcrunch.com)
		136 points by ssclafani on Jan 21, 2014 \| 44 comments
17.		Open letter to the Yale Community from Dean (yale.edu)
		123 points by shaufler on Jan 21, 2014 \| 82 comments
18.		Exposing Malicious Tor Exit Relays (kau.se)
		121 points by musty on Jan 21, 2014 \| 14 comments
19.		Startup failure post-mortems (cbinsights.com)
		122 points by asanwal on Jan 21, 2014 \| 22 comments
20.		My Mind: A new web-based mind map editor (github.com/ondras)
		122 points by ondras on Jan 21, 2014 \| 54 comments
21.		Female Founders Conference (femalefoundersconference.org)
		117 points by nRike on Jan 21, 2014 \| 102 comments
22.		Setting OmniGraphSketcher Free (omnigroup.com)
		114 points by nickmain on Jan 21, 2014 \| 13 comments
23.		The New Aaron Swartz Documentary at Sundance (newyorker.com)
		110 points by footpath on Jan 21, 2014 \| 2 comments
24.		U.S. Court: Bloggers Are Journalists, even when they're libeling you (theatlantic.com)
		109 points by milesf on Jan 21, 2014 \| 19 comments
25.		Show HN: Workflow for front end developers to create desktop applications (github.com/anonyfox)
		101 points by anonyfox on Jan 21, 2014 \| 38 comments
26.		CarWoo is shutting down (carwoo.com)
		107 points by uptown on Jan 21, 2014 \| 110 comments
27.		SSL Labs: Stricter security requirements for 2014 (ivanristic.com)
		103 points by ivanr on Jan 21, 2014 \| 56 comments
28.		Antimatter experiment produces first beam of antihydrogen (cern.ch)
		99 points by hiby007 on Jan 21, 2014 \| 50 comments
29.		New EC2 M3 Instance Sizes and Lower Prices for S3 and EBS (amazon.com)
		103 points by pentium10 on Jan 21, 2014 \| 47 comments
30.		Bug #9424: ruby 1.9 & 2.x has insecure SSL/TLS client defaults (ruby-lang.org)
		90 points by mikeevans on Jan 21, 2014 \| 26 comments
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