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1.		Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant (jasonkincaid.net)
		451 points by ssclafani on Jan 4, 2014 \| 246 comments
2.		How I reverse engineered my bank's security token (valverde.me)
		311 points by valverde on Jan 4, 2014 \| 63 comments
3.		Anatomy of a cheap USB-to-Ethernet adapter (projectgus.com)
		279 points by dshankar on Jan 4, 2014 \| 74 comments
4.		Why we have to boycott RSA (erratasec.com)
		271 points by techinsidr on Jan 4, 2014 \| 69 comments
5.		Rap Genius is Back on Google (rapgenius.com)
		242 points by tomlemon on Jan 4, 2014 \| 188 comments
6.		Apple Acquires Rapid-Fire Camera App Developer SnappyLabs (techcrunch.com)
		220 points by nirvanatikku on Jan 4, 2014 \| 89 comments
7.		The Builder's High (randsinrepose.com)
		199 points by guptaneil on Jan 4, 2014 \| 22 comments
8.		An 8086 PC emulator in 4043 bytes (ioccc.org)
		196 points by epsylon on Jan 4, 2014 \| 38 comments
9.		How Daft Punk Created One of Their Most Famous Samples (slate.com)
		169 points by rpm4321 on Jan 4, 2014 \| 94 comments
10.		Why You Should Probably Stop Using Antibacterial Soap (smithsonianmag.com)
		155 points by mglauco on Jan 4, 2014 \| 117 comments
11.		The problem is with the product (daringfireball.net)
		145 points by kgarten on Jan 4, 2014 \| 92 comments
12.		Haskell vs. Erlang for bittorent clients (jlouisramblings.blogspot.ca)
		142 points by reirob on Jan 4, 2014 \| 26 comments
13.		I Got Fired Last Week. That’s a Good Thing. Here’s Why (alexgivesup.com)
		140 points by nRike on Jan 4, 2014 \| 82 comments
14.		Five Paragraph Essays (42floors.com)
		134 points by jaf12duke on Jan 4, 2014 \| 73 comments
15.		Using Rust for an Undergraduate OS Course (rust-class.org)
		126 points by brson on Jan 4, 2014 \| 71 comments
16.		We Need Viable Search Engine Competition (peebs.org)
		117 points by nemesisj on Jan 4, 2014 \| 140 comments
17.		Python 3.3: Trust Me, It's Better Than Python 2.7 (2013) (speakerdeck.com)
		117 points by glynjackson on Jan 4, 2014 \| 37 comments
18.		Sen. Rand Paul says he's suing over NSA policies (ap.org)
		109 points by ColinWright on Jan 4, 2014 \| 70 comments
19.		How Python 3 Should Have Worked (2012) (aaronsw.com)
		101 points by tchalla on Jan 4, 2014 \| 76 comments
20.		How the Harper Government Committed a Knowledge Massacre (huffingtonpost.ca)
		98 points by triplesec on Jan 4, 2014 \| 52 comments
21.		OwnCloud 6 (owncloud.org)
		87 points by lelf on Jan 4, 2014 \| 39 comments
22.		Idaho to take back control of privately run state prison (theguardian.com)
		87 points by mschuster91 on Jan 4, 2014 \| 31 comments
23.		Show HN: LINQ for Go (github.com/ahmetalpbalkan)
		84 points by aabalkan on Jan 4, 2014 \| 51 comments
24.		New York State Is Set to Loosen Marijuana Laws (nytimes.com)
		84 points by weu on Jan 4, 2014 \| 50 comments
25.		Increasing the size of Ruby objects to minimize CPU cache misses (github.com/ruby)
		86 points by phiggy on Jan 4, 2014 \| 11 comments
26.		Hire this guy for love (mibake.co)
		83 points by cleverbaker on Jan 4, 2014 \| 32 comments
27.		Object oriented programming with ANSI-C (1993) (rit.edu)
		79 points by xkarga00 on Jan 4, 2014 \| 54 comments
28.		Ocean Radiation and the Fukushima Disaster (deepseanews.com)
		79 points by KamiCrit on Jan 4, 2014 \| 31 comments
29.		Web standards killed the HTML star (jeffcroft.com)
		76 points by Isofarro on Jan 4, 2014 \| 52 comments
30.		Economists agree: Raising the minimum wage reduces poverty (washingtonpost.com)
		74 points by curtis on Jan 4, 2014 \| 85 comments
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