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1.		Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel peace prize (theguardian.com)
		1028 points by ahjones on Jan 29, 2014 \| 191 comments
2.		1/9998 = 0.0001 0002 0004 0008 0016 0032 0064 0128 0256.. (wolframalpha.com)
		617 points by rsiqueira on Jan 29, 2014 \| 96 comments
3.		Lenovo to buy Google's Motorola handset division (reuters.com)
		478 points by rpledge on Jan 29, 2014 \| 253 comments
4.		Coursera blocks access to students in Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria (coursera.org)
		359 points by zactral on Jan 29, 2014 \| 184 comments
5.		Let banks fail: Iceland’s plan looks to be working (financialpost.com)
		338 points by _0nac on Jan 29, 2014 \| 150 comments
6.		Show HN: Product Hunt – Hacker News for Products (producthunt.co)
		360 points by rrhoover on Jan 29, 2014 \| 101 comments
7.		AMD reveals its first ARM processor: 8-core Opteron A1100 (arstechnica.com)
		306 points by shawndumas on Jan 29, 2014 \| 191 comments
8.		Court: Google infringed patents, must pay 1.36 percent of AdWords revenue (arstechnica.com)
		294 points by kjhughes on Jan 29, 2014 \| 180 comments
9.		AWS Tips, Tricks, and Techniques (launchbylunch.com)
		295 points by sehrope on Jan 29, 2014 \| 56 comments
10.		IE7 users, we need to talk… (nursingjobs.us)
		280 points by trothamel on Jan 29, 2014 \| 180 comments
11.		Jb’s story about how he nearly lost his Twitter handle (d.pr)
		260 points by robin_reala on Jan 29, 2014 \| 118 comments
12.		The NHS is selling your private data – here's the price list [pdf] (hscic.gov.uk)
		252 points by ghswa on Jan 29, 2014 \| 114 comments
13.		US bans students from “blacklisted” countries from getting access to Coursera (hummusforthought.com)
		233 points by btimil on Jan 29, 2014 \| 123 comments
14.		Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		229 points by palebluedot on Jan 29, 2014 \| 80 comments
15.		Ask HN: What's the worst you've ever screwed up at work?
		217 points by kadabra9 on Jan 29, 2014 \| 309 comments
16.		Patch's new owner lays off staff in 1:39 conference call (soundcloud.com)
		183 points by coloneltcb on Jan 29, 2014 \| 149 comments
17.		SymPy Gamma: an open-source, Python-based alternative to Wolfram Alpha (sympygamma.com)
		156 points by gioi on Jan 29, 2014 \| 59 comments
18.		The world’s rich stay rich while the poor struggle to prosper (johnkay.com)
		132 points by rrgmitchell on Jan 29, 2014 \| 130 comments
19.		Nordic.js: A two-day conference all about JS in Stockholm 18-19 September 2014 (nordicjs.com)
		123 points by jede on Jan 29, 2014 \| 22 comments
20.		Show HN: Unregistered word.tld domain names for your project (dictionarydomains.co)
		128 points by thiele on Jan 29, 2014 \| 61 comments
21.		Google brings Chrome apps to Android and iOS (thenextweb.com)
		123 points by bane on Jan 29, 2014 \| 39 comments
22.		Drilling surprise opens door to volcano-powered electricity (theconversation.com)
		122 points by unspecified on Jan 29, 2014 \| 81 comments
23.		Metered Billing (beta) (linode.com)
		118 points by martey on Jan 29, 2014 \| 38 comments
24.		DataHand (wikipedia.org)
		111 points by hdivider on Jan 29, 2014 \| 63 comments
25.		Facebook's new optical storage solution [video] (facebook.com)
		111 points by riledhel on Jan 29, 2014 \| 63 comments
26.		The Two Teenagers Who Run the Popular Twitter Feed @HistoryInPics (theatlantic.com)
		108 points by freshfey on Jan 29, 2014 \| 103 comments
27.		Use Bootstrap, Nobody will Notice (strapfork.com)
		100 points by charlieirish on Jan 29, 2014 \| 40 comments
28.		California regulator seeks to shut down 'learn to code' bootcamps (venturebeat.com)
		104 points by coloneltcb on Jan 29, 2014 \| 134 comments
29.		State of The Union address minute by minute on Twitter (twitter.github.io)
		104 points by aroch on Jan 29, 2014 \| 97 comments
30.		Ask Google to choose your next domain (rvmenu.com)
		102 points by bernardjhuang on Jan 29, 2014 \| 30 comments
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