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1.		We’re About to Lose Net Neutrality (wired.com)
		554 points by joseflavio on Dec 29, 2013 \| 262 comments
2.		On Hacking MicroSD Cards (bunniestudios.com)
		399 points by fernly on Dec 29, 2013 \| 68 comments
3.		Ask HN: How to increase self-discipline as a self-employed person?
		343 points by _pcpe on Dec 29, 2013 \| 121 comments
4.		Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses? (stackoverflow.com)
		324 points by gs7 on Dec 29, 2013 \| 52 comments
5.		Shopping for Spy Gear: Catalog Advertises N.S.A. Toolbox (spiegel.de)
		258 points by slashdotaccount on Dec 29, 2013 \| 87 comments
6.		The most Kafkaesque paragraph from today’s NSA ruling (washingtonpost.com)
		239 points by runn1ng on Dec 29, 2013 \| 61 comments
7.		Girls Who Code (avc.com)
		226 points by yurisagalov on Dec 29, 2013 \| 375 comments
8.		Inside TAO: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit (spiegel.de)
		197 points by Suraj-Sun on Dec 29, 2013 \| 28 comments
9.		Citibank India wants credit card, bank account numbers to stop marketing emails (citibank.co.in)
		168 points by manas2004 on Dec 29, 2013 \| 81 comments
10.		Uncomfortable parallels with the era that led to the first world war (economist.com)
		162 points by JumpCrisscross on Dec 29, 2013 \| 124 comments
11.		Do I Really Need a Programming Language? (ayudasystems.tumblr.com)
		150 points by momo-reina on Dec 29, 2013 \| 142 comments
12.		The UK "Porn" Filter Blocks Kids' Access To Tech, Civil Liberties Websites (bsdly.blogspot.co.uk)
		147 points by gts on Dec 29, 2013 \| 72 comments
13.		Announcing Ubuntu and Android dual boot developer preview (ubuntu.com)
		146 points by platz on Dec 29, 2013 \| 73 comments
14.		React's Diff Algorithm (perfplanet.com)
		143 points by vjeux on Dec 29, 2013 \| 21 comments
15.		Feynman: There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom (1959) (zyvex.com)
		138 points by MaysonL on Dec 29, 2013 \| 35 comments
16.		OpenSkyscraper – an open-source clone (in progress) of SimTower (github.com/fabianschuiki)
		131 points by danso on Dec 29, 2013 \| 41 comments
17.		OpenSSL.org hacked? (openssl.org)
		128 points by moeffju on Dec 29, 2013 \| 91 comments
18.		Panopticlick – How Unique, and Trackable, Is Your Browser? (eff.org)
		121 points by donnut on Dec 29, 2013 \| 58 comments
19.		The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming (2006) (codinghorror.com)
		118 points by bhaumik on Dec 29, 2013 \| 27 comments
20.		ARIN migrated from Oracle to PostgreSQL (arin.net)
		116 points by jeffdavis on Dec 29, 2013 \| 31 comments
21.		Xplain: Explaining X11 for the rest of us (magcius.github.io)
		108 points by momo-reina on Dec 29, 2013 \| 19 comments
22.		Rap Genius Traffic Has Dropped By Over 80% (quantcast.com)
		107 points by rubyron on Dec 29, 2013 \| 164 comments
23.		Snowden’s biggest revelation: We don’t know what power is, nor do we care (pando.com)
		94 points by npalli on Dec 29, 2013 \| 24 comments
24.		Paul Graham Isn't Keeping Women out of Tech (thedatingring.tumblr.com)
		86 points by kbambz on Dec 29, 2013 \| 166 comments
25.		Michelangelo’s Handwritten 16th-Century Grocery List (openculture.com)
		85 points by timr on Dec 29, 2013 \| 26 comments
26.		ObjClean (objclean.com)
		76 points by jawngee on Dec 29, 2013 \| 42 comments
27.		[dupe] British government porn filters block EFF, Linux, Amnesty and more (tgdaily.com)
		78 points by paullik on Dec 29, 2013 \| 20 comments
28.		CPSC 527 or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Write a Virus (danieru.com)
		72 points by Danieru on Dec 29, 2013 \| 22 comments
29.		The shok command shell (shok.io)
		65 points by nfoz on Dec 29, 2013 \| 49 comments
30.		jQuery Deconstructed (keyframesandcode.com)
		63 points by ekpyrotic on Dec 29, 2013 \| 6 comments
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