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1.		Rust 0.9 released (mail.mozilla.org)
		340 points by kibwen on Jan 9, 2014 \| 146 comments
2.		Overstock.com Is Now Accepting Bitcoins (wired.com)
		339 points by ironchief on Jan 9, 2014 \| 265 comments
3.		Frameworkless JavaScript (moot.it)
		278 points by pauljonas on Jan 9, 2014 \| 188 comments
4.		Poll: What level of math is programming roughly analogous to?
		233 points by shawndumas on Jan 9, 2014 \| 158 comments
5.		Lost city in Darfur (openstreetmap.org)
		229 points by Noelkd on Jan 9, 2014 \| 70 comments
6.		Implementing a JIT Compiled Language with Haskell and LLVM (stephendiehl.com)
		207 points by rwosync on Jan 9, 2014 \| 23 comments
7.		Homogenization of scientific computing – Python is eating other languages’ lunch (r-bloggers.com)
		193 points by reactor on Jan 9, 2014 \| 178 comments
8.		Lessons from working 6 months on a math problem and failing (resin.io)
		188 points by alexandros on Jan 9, 2014 \| 34 comments
9.		Inject JavaScript to explore native apps on Windows, Mac, Linux and iOS (frida.re)
		178 points by oleavr on Jan 9, 2014 \| 50 comments
10.		Why CCP is still using Python 2 (robg3d.com)
		167 points by stockholmsin on Jan 9, 2014 \| 94 comments
11.		Google+ invite lands man in jail (fastcompany.com)
		165 points by fridek on Jan 9, 2014 \| 197 comments
12.		Lessons learned from a year as a self-published author (leanpub.com)
		161 points by joshearl on Jan 9, 2014 \| 52 comments
13.		Must-have Django packages (devcharm.com)
		154 points by rule30 on Jan 9, 2014 \| 96 comments
14.		Workers on Samsung factory site battle police in Vietnam (cbc.ca)
		158 points by pnhoang on Jan 9, 2014 \| 119 comments
15.		Cryptocat for iPhone and Android – Call for Review (crypto.cat)
		150 points by magikarp on Jan 9, 2014 \| 81 comments
16.		Teen Reported to Police After Finding Security Hole in Website (wired.com)
		146 points by Libertatea on Jan 9, 2014 \| 117 comments
17.		Easel Acquired by GitHub (easel.io)
		144 points by ollysb on Jan 9, 2014 \| 36 comments
18.		PirateBrowser - No more censorship (piratebrowser.com)
		130 points by Brajeshwar on Jan 9, 2014 \| 72 comments
19.		A Dolphin's Tale: The Story of GameCube (dromble.com)
		127 points by MBCook on Jan 9, 2014 \| 60 comments
20.		Poll HN: What is your personality type?
		120 points by justhw on Jan 9, 2014 \| 125 comments
21.		Graphs Show How Reddit Got Huge by Going Mainstream (wired.com)
		115 points by danielhonigman on Jan 9, 2014 \| 70 comments
22.		Happy Guys Finish Last: The Impact of Emotion Expressions on Sexual Attraction (ubc.ca)
		107 points by espeed on Jan 9, 2014 \| 39 comments
23.		IBM's Watson For Business: The $1 Billion Siri Slayer (fastcompany.com)
		109 points by shuaib on Jan 9, 2014 \| 68 comments
24.		Ghash.io very close to 51% of bitcoin pool (bitcointalk.org)
		102 points by randartie on Jan 9, 2014 \| 125 comments
25.		All Norwegians become crown millionaires, in oil saving landmark (reuters.com)
		98 points by ibsathish on Jan 9, 2014 \| 199 comments
26.		How Silicon Valley became "The Man" (hbr.org)
		103 points by jenningsjason on Jan 9, 2014 \| 47 comments
27.		Sources: We were pressured to weaken mobile security in the 80's (aftenposten.no)
		96 points by kmskontorp on Jan 9, 2014 \| 15 comments
28.		Bitcoin, litecoin, dogecoin: How to explore the block chain (grantammons.me)
		94 points by frist45 on Jan 9, 2014 \| 5 comments
29.		To aspiring indie devs (sagacityapp.com)
		81 points by adn on Jan 9, 2014 \| 35 comments
30.		Udacity's Sebastian Thrun, Godfather Of Free Online Education, Changes Course (fastcompany.com)
		78 points by gtCameron on Jan 9, 2014 \| 87 comments
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