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1.
David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show' (theguardian.com)
323 points by patrickk on Dec 8, 2013 | 363 comments
2.
No Man’s Sky Is A Huge Procedurally Generated Sci-Fi Exploration Sim (indiestatik.com)
280 points by radley on Dec 8, 2013 | 116 comments
3.
NSA morale down after Edward Snowden revelations, former U.S. officials say (washingtonpost.com)
267 points by mxfh on Dec 8, 2013 | 167 comments
4.
Baby's First Garbage Collector (stuffwithstuff.com)
217 points by daw___ on Dec 8, 2013 | 84 comments
5.
CPU reliability – Linus Torvalds (2007) (yarchive.net)
203 points by semicolondev on Dec 8, 2013 | 95 comments
6.
Further improving digital certificate security (googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)
190 points by lelf on Dec 8, 2013 | 84 comments
7.
Airbnb says this man does not exist. So I had coffee with him (pando.com)
184 points by antr on Dec 8, 2013 | 190 comments
8.
An open letter from Carl Bernstein to Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger (theguardian.com)
179 points by swores on Dec 8, 2013 | 63 comments
9.
Is it bad practice to use your real name online? (security.stackexchange.com)
167 points by anuragramdasan on Dec 8, 2013 | 161 comments
10.
Arvind Kejriwal (techapj.com)
166 points by jalan on Dec 8, 2013 | 44 comments
11.
An effective eye drug is $50, but many doctors choose a $2,000 alternative (washingtonpost.com)
128 points by jorganisak on Dec 8, 2013 | 115 comments
12.
“No-fly” trial: Closing arguments (papersplease.org)
127 points by revelation on Dec 8, 2013 | 42 comments
13.
Not everyone is going to like the thing you made, and that’s okay (wilwheaton.net)
122 points by frostmatthew on Dec 8, 2013 | 25 comments
14.
Touch Gesture Icons (mobiletuxedo.com)
110 points by Sami_Lehtinen on Dec 8, 2013 | 19 comments
15.
Writing HTTP Middleware in Go (justinas.org)
112 points by babawere on Dec 8, 2013 | 23 comments
16.
India state polls: Common Man's party wins Delhi seats (bbc.co.uk)
108 points by giis on Dec 8, 2013 | 13 comments
17.
Feedly is Now Hijacking Shared Links And Cutting Out Original Publishers (the-digital-reader.com)
90 points by mwilcox on Dec 8, 2013 | 37 comments
18.
Chromium: I just wanted to quickly hack an iframe blocker for personal use (github.com/gorhill)
89 points by gorhill on Dec 8, 2013 | 39 comments
19.
My Code made it to a Hollywood Movie (securitytube.net)
83 points by pearjuice on Dec 8, 2013 | 51 comments
20.
StackOverflow and Github Visualized As Cities
84 points by hermanschaaf on Dec 8, 2013 | 35 comments
21.
Shameful Profiling of the Mentally Ill (nytimes.com)
81 points by zzzeek on Dec 8, 2013 | 49 comments
22.
Talloc: The Tutorial (samba.org)
71 points by papaf on Dec 8, 2013 | 24 comments
23.
What I learned from Howard Stern about interviewing people (growingsoftware.org)
69 points by vcherubini on Dec 8, 2013 | 29 comments
24.
Generating Complex Procedural Terrains Using the GPU (2008) (nvidia.com)
67 points by younata on Dec 8, 2013 | 15 comments
25.
Availability.is (availability.is)
66 points by anu_gupta on Dec 8, 2013 | 60 comments
26.
Microsoft CEO Search: Stalemate (mondaynote.com)
65 points by jcurbo on Dec 8, 2013 | 53 comments
27.
Anatomy of a failed rendition (booktwo.org)
62 points by mgunes on Dec 8, 2013 | 13 comments
28.
The Case for Filth (nytimes.com)
59 points by msrpotus on Dec 8, 2013 | 33 comments
29.
German president to boycott Olympics in Russia over human rights (cnn.com)
59 points by alexgrcs on Dec 8, 2013 | 45 comments
30.
Why do we value gold? (bbc.co.uk)
57 points by marcopolis on Dec 8, 2013 | 75 comments

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