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31.		60fps scrolling using pointer-events: none (thecssninja.com)
		104 points by yashness on Dec 9, 2013 \| 32 comments
32.		Peter Higgs interview: 'I have this kind of underlying incompetence' (theguardian.com)
		103 points by jonbaer on Dec 9, 2013 \| 16 comments
33.		Internet horror stories: How ISPs screwed over users (arstechnica.com)
		91 points by tanglesome on Dec 9, 2013 \| 75 comments
34.		Marvin Minsky – The beauty of the Lisp language (webofstories.com)
		87 points by fxbois on Dec 9, 2013 \| 47 comments
35.		Google employee shouts down protesters as they block private Google shuttle (sfbg.com)
		85 points by sp332 on Dec 9, 2013 \| 161 comments
36.		How LinkedIn screwed up our friendship (kirillzubovsky.com)
		85 points by kumarski on Dec 9, 2013 \| 59 comments
37.		Show HN: MightyName.com – Search over 4.7M available English .com domains (mightyname.com)
		83 points by mikkom on Dec 9, 2013 \| 40 comments
38.		Best Practices For Making Things Happen (jasonshen.com)
		79 points by jasonshen on Dec 9, 2013 \| 26 comments
39.		Why there won't be a third book in the Halting State trilogy (antipope.org)
		82 points by danohuiginn on Dec 9, 2013 \| 37 comments
40.		A Battery Breakthrough that Proved Too Good to Be True (technologyreview.com)
		76 points by jcklnruns on Dec 9, 2013 \| 32 comments
41.		Choosing Go to implement the new GOV.UK router (gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk)
		75 points by benilov on Dec 9, 2013 \| 96 comments
42.		Plain English explanation of Big O (stackoverflow.com)
		74 points by gs7 on Dec 9, 2013 \| 43 comments
43.		A Seed VC’s Decision Tree (robgo.org)
		72 points by ghosh on Dec 9, 2013 \| 39 comments
44.		How Apple’s Lightning-Plug Guru Reinvented Square’s Card Reader (wired.com)
		73 points by ghosh on Dec 9, 2013 \| 37 comments
45.		Stop Being Cute and Clever (pocoo.org)
		70 points by craigkerstiens on Dec 9, 2013 \| 10 comments
46.		A new theoretical model suggests quantum entanglement helps hold DNA together (technologyreview.com)
		68 points by jonbaer on Dec 9, 2013 \| 34 comments
47.		Most frequently enabled Emacs packages (adereth.github.io)
		66 points by Adrock on Dec 9, 2013 \| 38 comments
48.		How to do a startup in your spare time (bellebethcooper.com)
		63 points by vanwilder77 on Dec 9, 2013 \| 32 comments
49.		Edit a Google doc with vim (commandlinefu.com)
		63 points by obilgic on Dec 9, 2013 \| 18 comments
50.		Advanced Regular Expression Tips and Techniques (pypix.com)
		62 points by cfontes on Dec 9, 2013 \| 10 comments
51.		Run-ahead transfer prediction in the Mill CPU architecture (ootbcomp.com)
		63 points by signa11 on Dec 9, 2013 \| 39 comments
52.		Swiss parliamentary postulate: Bitcoin is a currency (bitcointalk.org)
		59 points by lest on Dec 9, 2013 \| 4 comments
53.		Putin dissolves state news agency, tightens grip on Russia media (reuters.com)
		62 points by mankypro on Dec 9, 2013 \| 36 comments
54.		Ex-Napster exec fatally struck by sheriff's patrol car while biking (latimes.com)
		55 points by 001sky on Dec 9, 2013 \| 85 comments
55.		Discoveries of Data Scientist Who Spent a Year at the New York Times (contently.com)
		54 points by sabon on Dec 9, 2013 \| 13 comments
56.		Rise of the 'new rich': 1 in 5 Americans reach affluence (dallasnews.com)
		51 points by tokenadult on Dec 9, 2013 \| 98 comments
57.		Create a Simple Music Streaming App with Flask (pypix.com)
		51 points by pypix on Dec 9, 2013 \| 6 comments
58.		Why being invited to try Circle made me think about a whole load of other stuff (gist.github.com)
		54 points by red_anorak on Dec 9, 2013 \| 21 comments
59.		Vast Freshwater Reserves Found Beneath the Oceans (sciencedaily.com)
		48 points by mankypro on Dec 9, 2013 \| 40 comments
60.		How We Decoded Some Nasty Multi-Level Encoded Malware (sucuri.net)
		46 points by cubictwo on Dec 9, 2013 \| 15 comments
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