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1.		Introducing our smart contact lens project (for diabetics) (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		638 points by dboyd on Jan 17, 2014 \| 177 comments
2.		Yale students made a better version of its course catalog. Yale shut it down (washingtonpost.com)
		439 points by zt on Jan 17, 2014 \| 125 comments
3.		I never finish anyth (greig.cc)
		334 points by 3stripe on Jan 17, 2014 \| 103 comments
4.		Announcing The Matasano/Square CTF (matasano.com)
		297 points by alepper on Jan 17, 2014 \| 72 comments
5.		Chrome Is The New C Runtime (mobilespan.com)
		294 points by aagr on Jan 17, 2014 \| 142 comments
6.		Go by Example (gobyexample.com)
		301 points by A_Ghz on Jan 17, 2014 \| 124 comments
7.		Dropbox raises about $250 million at $10 billion valuation (wsj.com)
		269 points by dctoedt on Jan 17, 2014 \| 166 comments
8.		What Happens When the President Sits Down Next to You at a Café (theatlantic.com)
		242 points by pliptvo on Jan 17, 2014 \| 146 comments
9.		Spotify position in support of systemd in the default init debate (debian.org)
		234 points by possibilistic on Jan 17, 2014 \| 174 comments
10.		JavaScript: The Right Way (jstherightway.org)
		235 points by gnuwilliam on Jan 17, 2014 \| 132 comments
11.		Ask HN: How to find part-time developer work?
		217 points by wasd on Jan 17, 2014 \| 118 comments
12.		Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces (wisc.edu)
		189 points by rubinelli on Jan 17, 2014 \| 35 comments
13.		Obama’s Changes to Government Surveillance (nytimes.com)
		174 points by 001sky on Jan 17, 2014 \| 183 comments
14.		Recommended Reading List for Developers [pdf] (intel.com)
		161 points by nkurz on Jan 17, 2014 \| 60 comments
15.		Keyboard innovation is making them worse (arstechnica.com)
		155 points by omnibrain on Jan 17, 2014 \| 240 comments
16.		SICP in Clojure (sicpinclojure.com)
		153 points by bernatfp on Jan 17, 2014 \| 59 comments
17.		Mystery Rock 'Appears' in Front of Mars Rover (discovery.com)
		144 points by ck2 on Jan 17, 2014 \| 88 comments
18.		The sum of all the positive integers is not -1/12 (rongarret.info)
		140 points by lisper on Jan 17, 2014 \| 53 comments
19.		Amazon Wants to Ship Your Package Before You Buy It (wsj.com)
		135 points by canistr on Jan 17, 2014 \| 121 comments
20.		How startups can compete with big company perks (esft.com)
		122 points by ericmsimons on Jan 17, 2014 \| 102 comments
21.		Obama's NSA 'reforms' are little more than a PR attempt to mollify the public (theguardian.com)
		111 points by wittyphrasehere on Jan 17, 2014 \| 42 comments
22.		Terry Tao on how to compute non-converging infinite sums (2010) (terrytao.wordpress.com)
		109 points by ColinWright on Jan 17, 2014 \| 24 comments
23.		Obama and the N.S.A.: Why He Can't Be Trusted (newyorker.com)
		105 points by ruswick on Jan 17, 2014 \| 43 comments
24.		Is looking for Wi-Fi access points purely passive? (superuser.com)
		102 points by lelf on Jan 17, 2014 \| 46 comments
25.		Ask HN: How do you deal with potential acquirers?
		105 points by rexreed on Jan 17, 2014 \| 23 comments
26.		World's First Massive Online Degree Program Starts Today (udacity.com)
		102 points by ibsathish on Jan 17, 2014 \| 66 comments
27.		How the Drug War Disappeared the Jury Trial (outsidethebeltway.com)
		98 points by jseliger on Jan 17, 2014 \| 66 comments
28.		Pres. Obama Remarks on Intelligence Programs [video] (c-span.org)
		102 points by sinak on Jan 17, 2014 \| 115 comments
29.		Why Do FM Frequencies End in an Odd Decimal? (fcc.gov)
		99 points by shoeless on Jan 17, 2014 \| 54 comments
30.		Customize iOS7 App Switcher with custom card view (github.com/vpdn)
		92 points by macalicious on Jan 17, 2014 \| 25 comments
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