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1. Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013 (winamp.com)
957 points by bulibuta on Nov 20, 2013 | 500 comments
2. Software patent reform just died in the House (washingtonpost.com)
525 points by alecco on Nov 20, 2013 | 225 comments
3. Machine learning is easier than it looks (insideintercom.io)
459 points by jasonwatkinspdx on Nov 20, 2013 | 167 comments
4. Undo (sachagreif.com)
300 points by sgdesign on Nov 20, 2013 | 98 comments
5. Mathematicians Team Up on Twin Primes Conjecture (simonsfoundation.org)
288 points by digital55 on Nov 20, 2013 | 94 comments
6. What happens when the U.S. President uses your startup for a conference call (mixlr.com)
283 points by gplloyd on Nov 20, 2013 | 62 comments
7. When We Lose Antibiotics, Here's Everything Else We'll Lose Too (wired.com)
273 points by jcklnruns on Nov 20, 2013 | 175 comments
8. The American Police State (chronicle.com)
271 points by danso on Nov 20, 2013 | 182 comments
9. Can anyone tell me what these services do? (intel.com)
230 points by laserDinosaur on Nov 20, 2013 | 96 comments
10. Bokeh – Interactive web visualization library in Python (pydata.org)
234 points by trueduke on Nov 20, 2013 | 64 comments
11. US senators say there’s “no evidence” bulk metadata surveillance is useful (arstechnica.com)
225 points by rosser on Nov 20, 2013 | 69 comments
12. Show HN: DotNetFiddle – JsFiddle for .Net (dotnetfiddle.net)
217 points by refactormonkey on Nov 20, 2013 | 88 comments
13. Weak passwords brute forced (github.com/blog)
203 points by olefoo on Nov 20, 2013 | 143 comments
14. US and UK struck secret deal to allow NSA to 'unmask' Britons' personal data (theguardian.com)
196 points by shill on Nov 20, 2013 | 51 comments
15. Hack of Cupid Media dating website exposes 42 million plaintext passwords (arstechnica.com)
181 points by fmavituna on Nov 20, 2013 | 166 comments
16. PostgreSQL: Don't use CHAR or VARCHAR (jonanin.com)
179 points by Jonanin on Nov 20, 2013 | 79 comments
17. Is Your Game Crap? This Fan Will Fix It for You (wired.com)
157 points by lxm on Nov 20, 2013 | 63 comments
18. Blame Rich, Overeducated Elites as Our Society Frays (bloomberg.com)
152 points by irishjohnnie on Nov 20, 2013 | 187 comments
19. Stuxnet's Secret Twin (foreignpolicy.com)
137 points by hangonhn on Nov 20, 2013 | 56 comments
20. How to make fake data look meaningful (danbirken.com)
138 points by birken on Nov 20, 2013 | 41 comments
21. DNA genius and double Nobel Prize winner Fred Sanger dies aged 95 (cambridge-news.co.uk)
134 points by yread on Nov 20, 2013 | 44 comments
22. You can no longer just leave Syracuse airport [video] (nbcnews.com)
120 points by ck2 on Nov 20, 2013 | 140 comments
23. Show HN: Fully-featured Nil interpreter in less than 1 line of JavaScript (ajf.me)
115 points by TazeTSchnitzel on Nov 20, 2013 | 29 comments
24. R-Fiddle (r-fiddle.org)
112 points by kmfrk on Nov 20, 2013 | 31 comments
25. The Transparent Chinese (nytimes.com)
109 points by kercker on Nov 20, 2013 | 54 comments
26. Lua Fun: A high-performance functional programming library designed for LuaJIT (github.com/rtsisyk)
102 points by sibman on Nov 20, 2013 | 31 comments
27. ELF101 a Linux executable walkthrough (code.google.com)
102 points by ange4771_ on Nov 20, 2013 | 20 comments
28. Xbox One: The Review (polygon.com)
99 points by lotso on Nov 20, 2013 | 104 comments
29. The engineer who fixed his own heart (bbc.co.uk)
100 points by drucken on Nov 20, 2013 | 39 comments
30. Want to use my wifi? (thejh.net)
94 points by TheJH_ on Nov 20, 2013 | 56 comments

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