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31.		Google offering free Chromebooks to Indian schools (indiatimes.com)
		65 points by kshatrea on Dec 27, 2013 \| 49 comments
32.		Activists crowdsource escape from North Korea (aljazeera.com)
		65 points by ramisms on Dec 27, 2013 \| 59 comments
33.		Running your JS code in Python (sheetjs.com)
		63 points by sheetjs on Dec 27, 2013 \| 17 comments
34.		First time in the country, ED raids a Bitcoin seller in Ahmedabad (dnaindia.com)
		67 points by chaitanya on Dec 27, 2013 \| 39 comments
35.		How Spotify builds products [pdf] (dropboxusercontent.com)
		63 points by bernatfp on Dec 27, 2013 \| 44 comments
36.		ReText - Markdown editor for Ubuntu (sourceforge.net)
		62 points by rk0567 on Dec 27, 2013 \| 31 comments
37.		User Culture Versus Programmer Culture (pgbovine.net)
		57 points by slyall on Dec 27, 2013 \| 49 comments
38.		Poll: Are you looking for an exit, or building a lifestyle business?
		58 points by japhyr on Dec 27, 2013 \| 55 comments
39.		My Favorite jQuery Plugin Template (kolodny.github.io)
		56 points by kolodny on Dec 27, 2013 \| 17 comments
40.		How to be a hacker (theguardian.com)
		55 points by amadeuspzs on Dec 27, 2013 \| 44 comments
41.		Shading a Bigger, Better Sequel: Techniques in Left 4 Dead 2 [pdf] (valvesoftware.com)
		53 points by danso on Dec 27, 2013 \| 16 comments
42.		Local State Is Poison (2012) (awelonblue.wordpress.com)
		53 points by jamii on Dec 27, 2013 \| 38 comments
43.		The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (2010) (cbsnews.com)
		49 points by _of on Dec 27, 2013 \| 42 comments
44.		Ask HN: Do you know anyone who left the tech world and found happiness?
		50 points by johnward on Dec 27, 2013 \| 65 comments
45.		The Cap Trap (aaronkharris.com)
		43 points by katm on Dec 27, 2013 \| 9 comments
46.		Welcome to The Console Living Room (archive.org)
		45 points by bane on Dec 27, 2013 \| 13 comments
47.		Trapping A Transcendental - Finding numbers that aren't solutions to polynomials (penzba.co.uk)
		44 points by ColinWright on Dec 27, 2013 \| 42 comments
48.		We Pretend to Teach, They Pretend to Learn (wsj.com)
		43 points by grellas on Dec 27, 2013 \| 48 comments
49.		Testing the ‘Apple tax’ (yahoo.com)
		40 points by anu_gupta on Dec 27, 2013 \| 58 comments
50.		2014 Predictions for Web Design (envato.com)
		38 points by collistaeed on Dec 27, 2013 \| 21 comments
51.		Dyeing the cheese orange – Beware of benchmarks (onebigfluke.com)
		35 points by bslatkin on Dec 27, 2013 \| 16 comments
52.		“Computer Chess” is the year’s best movie about technology (pando.com)
		35 points by 01Michael10 on Dec 27, 2013 \| 9 comments
53.		The danger of "language" in programming (2009) (loup-vaillant.fr)
		34 points by phowat on Dec 27, 2013 \| 56 comments
54.		New Mac Pro 2013 Teardown (macsales.com)
		31 points by protomyth on Dec 27, 2013 \| 39 comments
55.		Using CloudFlare to mix domain sharding and SPDY (cloudflare.com)
		37 points by jgrahamc on Dec 27, 2013 \| 10 comments
56.		The Man Who Loved Only Numbers - Paul Hofman on Paul Erdos [video] (vega.org.uk)
		32 points by csabapalfi on Dec 27, 2013 \| 10 comments
57.		Are HN submissions dominated by a small elite of users?
		36 points by jhh on Dec 27, 2013 \| 25 comments
58.		Ask HN: How do you do your To-Do list?
		30 points by aadilrazvi on Dec 27, 2013 \| 53 comments
59.		Operation Vula (schneier.com)
		29 points by Garbage on Dec 27, 2013 \| 5 comments
60.		Ask HN: Have you remapped the Caps Lock key? [Poll]
		28 points by robinh on Dec 27, 2013 \| 64 comments
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