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1.		A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack (moertel.com)
		571 points by acqq on Dec 16, 2013 \| 143 comments
2.		If a Drone Strike Hit an American Wedding We'd Ground Our Fleet (theatlantic.com)
		480 points by gabriel34 on Dec 16, 2013 \| 354 comments
3.		NSA Coworker Remembers Edward Snowden: "A Genius Among Geniuses" (forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg)
		372 points by mzarate06 on Dec 16, 2013 \| 171 comments
4.		Decline of ‘60 Minutes’ Continues With This Week’s NSA Whitewash (thenation.com)
		331 points by pain_perdu on Dec 16, 2013 \| 92 comments
5.		RethinkDB raises an $8M Series A (rethinkdb.com)
		299 points by coffeemug on Dec 16, 2013 \| 126 comments
6.		Telegram - secure, free messaging (telegram.org)
		278 points by macalicious on Dec 16, 2013 \| 219 comments
7.		Water seems to flow freely on Mars (nature.com)
		275 points by cryptoz on Dec 16, 2013 \| 161 comments
8.		Surveillance critic Bruce Schneier to leave post at BT (arstechnica.com)
		273 points by indy on Dec 16, 2013 \| 71 comments
9.		The Log: Real-time data's unifying abstraction (linkedin.com)
		271 points by boredandroid on Dec 16, 2013 \| 17 comments
10.		Judge Rules Against N.S.A. Bulk Collection of Phone Data (nytimes.com)
		267 points by brnstz on Dec 16, 2013 \| 3 comments
11.		My run-in with unauthorised Litecoin mining on AWS (vertis.io)
		223 points by vertis on Dec 16, 2013 \| 120 comments
12.		Amazon's German Workers Strike (reuters.com)
		203 points by Varcht on Dec 16, 2013 \| 334 comments
13.		Mozilla in 2013 (blog.mozilla.org)
		188 points by robin_reala on Dec 16, 2013 \| 81 comments
14.		Turn O(n^2) reverse into O(n) (github.com/nominolo)
		175 points by _ks3e on Dec 16, 2013 \| 90 comments
15.		Why the 9-to-5 Day Is So Tough on Creative Workers (theatlantic.com)
		170 points by wellpast on Dec 16, 2013 \| 96 comments
16.		BitHub = Bitcoin + GitHub. An experiment in funding privacy OSS (whispersystems.org)
		163 points by chilgart on Dec 16, 2013 \| 49 comments
17.		The end of the Facebook era (takeaswig.com)
		153 points by chrysb on Dec 16, 2013 \| 135 comments
18.		Why are you still building consumer apps? Enterprise pays 4x more (developereconomics.com)
		146 points by MatosKap on Dec 16, 2013 \| 92 comments
19.		FDA: Antibacterial soaps could pose health risks (usatoday.com)
		143 points by brianmartinek on Dec 16, 2013 \| 66 comments
20.		Optimizing Nginx TLS Time To First Byte (igvita.com)
		131 points by igrigorik on Dec 16, 2013 \| 12 comments
21.		Amazon takes away access to purchased Christmas movie during Christmas (boingboing.net)
		126 points by cdvonstinkpot on Dec 16, 2013 \| 64 comments
22.		First, Let's Fire All The Managers (harvardbusiness.org)
		118 points by vellum on Dec 16, 2013 \| 79 comments
23.		Bitcoin and the Byzantine Generals Problem (nonchalantrepreneur.com)
		117 points by rmason on Dec 16, 2013 \| 81 comments
24.		Child Donated His Piggy Bank to NASA Got a Call From an Astronaut (theatlantic.com)
		115 points by RichardCM on Dec 16, 2013 \| 33 comments
25.		eBay remote code execution (secalert.net)
		116 points by knorc on Dec 16, 2013 \| 15 comments
26.		Jonathan Franzen: what's wrong with the modern world (theguardian.com)
		111 points by auggierose on Dec 16, 2013 \| 45 comments
27.		I Flew to Lagos and Got Beaten Up Because of a Nigerian Email Scam (vice.com)
		106 points by fvrghl on Dec 16, 2013 \| 138 comments
28.		Watsi Lands $1.5M Donation From Humble Bundle (thenextweb.com)
		99 points by minimaxir on Dec 16, 2013 \| 20 comments
29.		Ask HN: Help, I'm stuck on HN
		87 points by arianvanp on Dec 16, 2013 \| 52 comments
30.		Why It’s a Good Idea to Be a JavaScript Developer, and What it Takes to Be One (clientcide.com)
		87 points by seyz on Dec 16, 2013 \| 103 comments
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