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1. We’re About to Lose Net Neutrality (wired.com)
554 points by joseflavio on Dec 29, 2013 | 262 comments
2. On Hacking MicroSD Cards (bunniestudios.com)
399 points by fernly on Dec 29, 2013 | 68 comments
3. Ask HN: How to increase self-discipline as a self-employed person?
343 points by desushil on Dec 29, 2013 | 121 comments
4. Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses? (stackoverflow.com)
324 points by gs7 on Dec 29, 2013 | 52 comments
5. Shopping for Spy Gear: Catalog Advertises N.S.A. Toolbox (spiegel.de)
258 points by slashdotaccount on Dec 29, 2013 | 87 comments
6. The most Kafkaesque paragraph from today’s NSA ruling (washingtonpost.com)
239 points by runn1ng on Dec 29, 2013 | 61 comments
7. Girls Who Code (avc.com)
226 points by yurisagalov on Dec 29, 2013 | 375 comments
8. Inside TAO: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit (spiegel.de)
197 points by Suraj-Sun on Dec 29, 2013 | 28 comments
9. Citibank India wants credit card, bank account numbers to stop marketing emails (citibank.co.in)
168 points by manas2004 on Dec 29, 2013 | 81 comments
10. Uncomfortable parallels with the era that led to the first world war (economist.com)
162 points by JumpCrisscross on Dec 29, 2013 | 124 comments
11. Do I Really Need a Programming Language? (ayudasystems.tumblr.com)
150 points by momo-reina on Dec 29, 2013 | 142 comments
12. The UK "Porn" Filter Blocks Kids' Access To Tech, Civil Liberties Websites (bsdly.blogspot.co.uk)
147 points by gts on Dec 29, 2013 | 72 comments
13. Announcing Ubuntu and Android dual boot developer preview (ubuntu.com)
146 points by platz on Dec 29, 2013 | 73 comments
14. React's Diff Algorithm (perfplanet.com)
143 points by vjeux on Dec 29, 2013 | 21 comments
15. Feynman: There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom (1959) (zyvex.com)
138 points by MaysonL on Dec 29, 2013 | 35 comments
16. OpenSkyscraper – an open-source clone (in progress) of SimTower (github.com/fabianschuiki)
131 points by danso on Dec 29, 2013 | 41 comments
17. OpenSSL.org hacked? (openssl.org)
128 points by moeffju on Dec 29, 2013 | 91 comments
18. Panopticlick – How Unique, and Trackable, Is Your Browser? (eff.org)
121 points by donnut on Dec 29, 2013 | 58 comments
19. The Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming (2006) (codinghorror.com)
118 points by bhaumik on Dec 29, 2013 | 27 comments
20. ARIN migrated from Oracle to PostgreSQL (arin.net)
116 points by jeffdavis on Dec 29, 2013 | 31 comments
21. Xplain: Explaining X11 for the rest of us (magcius.github.io)
108 points by momo-reina on Dec 29, 2013 | 19 comments
22. Rap Genius Traffic Has Dropped By Over 80% (quantcast.com)
107 points by rubyron on Dec 29, 2013 | 164 comments
23. Snowden’s biggest revelation: We don’t know what power is, nor do we care (pando.com)
94 points by npalli on Dec 29, 2013 | 24 comments
24. Paul Graham Isn't Keeping Women out of Tech (thedatingring.tumblr.com)
86 points by kbambz on Dec 29, 2013 | 166 comments
25. Michelangelo’s Handwritten 16th-Century Grocery List (openculture.com)
85 points by timr on Dec 29, 2013 | 26 comments
26. ObjClean (objclean.com)
76 points by jawngee on Dec 29, 2013 | 42 comments
27. [dupe] British government porn filters block EFF, Linux, Amnesty and more (tgdaily.com)
78 points by paullik on Dec 29, 2013 | 20 comments
28. CPSC 527 or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Write a Virus (danieru.com)
72 points by Danieru on Dec 29, 2013 | 22 comments
29. The shok command shell (shok.io)
65 points by nfoz on Dec 29, 2013 | 49 comments
30. jQuery Deconstructed (keyframesandcode.com)
63 points by ekpyrotic on Dec 29, 2013 | 6 comments

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