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1.
The NSA: An Inside View (lorensr.me)
367 points by lorendsr on Dec 15, 2013 | 313 comments
2.
DNA seen through the eyes of a coder (ds9a.nl)
322 points by xuki on Dec 15, 2013 | 97 comments
3.
404 - File not found (uiuc.edu)
209 points by Brajeshwar on Dec 15, 2013 | 51 comments
4.
Wil Shipley: My “Doom” 20th Anniversary Stories (wilshipley.com)
198 points by zdw on Dec 15, 2013 | 25 comments
5.
Don't Distract New Programmers with OOP (dadgum.com)
192 points by ColinWright on Dec 15, 2013 | 218 comments
6.
CSS Variables in Firefox Nightly (hacks.mozilla.org)
186 points by daw___ on Dec 15, 2013 | 67 comments
7.
Debian 7.3 is out (debian.org)
159 points by duggieawesome on Dec 15, 2013 | 66 comments
8.
TCP HTTP Server written in Assembly (canonical.org)
154 points by thikonom on Dec 15, 2013 | 70 comments
9.
Voevodsky’s Mathematical Revolution (scientificamerican.com)
145 points by juliangamble on Dec 15, 2013 | 76 comments
10.
Why Emacs is a better editor – case study for JavaScript developer (binchen.org)
139 points by lelf on Dec 15, 2013 | 104 comments
11.
Inside the Saudi 9/11 Coverup (nypost.com)
123 points by NN88 on Dec 15, 2013 | 121 comments
12.
Before the Web, Hearts Grew Silent (nytimes.com)
120 points by jpren on Dec 15, 2013 | 43 comments
13.
Raphters: A web framework for C (thechangelog.com)
105 points by l0gicpath on Dec 15, 2013 | 35 comments
14.
On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git (sethrobertson.github.io)
105 points by DanielShir on Dec 15, 2013 | 73 comments
15.
Building a tiny ARM-based server (ntua.gr)
106 points by ttsiodras on Dec 15, 2013 | 41 comments
16.
Google is the new Bell Labs (davidlitwak.com)
96 points by dlitwak on Dec 15, 2013 | 102 comments
17.
The city of Munich switches to Open Source Software (pcworld.com)
90 points by Morgawr on Dec 15, 2013 | 12 comments
18.
Thousands of Germans get “porn troll” letters over streaming video (arstechnica.com)
88 points by route66 on Dec 15, 2013 | 26 comments
19.
IBM faces shareholder lawsuit over cooperation with NSA (cnet.com)
88 points by fraqed on Dec 15, 2013 | 12 comments
20.
So You Think You Have a Power Law (umich.edu)
83 points by saurabh on Dec 15, 2013 | 17 comments
21.
Is Life a Smoother Ride If You're a Chicken? (npr.org)
81 points by ColinWright on Dec 15, 2013 | 35 comments
22.
Hardware Lock Elision on Haswell (brooker.co.za)
80 points by mjb on Dec 15, 2013 | 4 comments
23.
Benchmarking Nginx with Go (gist.github.com)
79 points by dgudkov on Dec 15, 2013 | 13 comments
24.
WhatsApp on your computer: Pidgin plugin (github.com/davidgfnet)
81 points by vikas0380 on Dec 15, 2013 | 35 comments
25.
Sex, lies and the Internet: The tale of Lena Chen (aljazeera.com)
78 points by ValentineC on Dec 15, 2013 | 110 comments
26.
100 Days of Meditation (docs.google.com)
72 points by duncancarroll on Dec 15, 2013 | 50 comments
27.
Boys and Girls may get different breast milk (scientificamerican.com)
77 points by crassus on Dec 15, 2013 | 52 comments
28.
Optimizing loops in C for higher numerical throughput and for fun (lshift.net)
70 points by majke on Dec 15, 2013 | 50 comments
29.
From Object Oriented Programming to Functional Programming (github.com/dobiasd)
65 points by vimes656 on Dec 15, 2013 | 24 comments
30.
ThinkGeek: The nerd company at a crossroads (washingtonpost.com)
67 points by jamessun on Dec 15, 2013 | 45 comments

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