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1. Backdoor found in Linksys, Netgear Routers (github.com/elvanderb)
552 points by nilsjuenemann on Jan 1, 2014 | 136 comments
2. Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked (snapchatdb.info)
398 points by lightcontact on Jan 1, 2014 | 213 comments
3. The Lost Art of C Structure Packing (catb.org)
335 points by Tsiolkovsky on Jan 1, 2014 | 143 comments
4. Show HN: Use any text as a domain name (github.com/amoffat)
261 points by daenz on Jan 1, 2014 | 141 comments
5. Court Rules No Suspicion Needed for Laptop Searches at Border (aclu.org)
258 points by frostmatthew on Jan 1, 2014 | 178 comments
6. What Snowden really revealed (aljazeera.com)
239 points by kostyk on Jan 1, 2014 | 54 comments
7. Isaac Asimov Predicts in 1964 What the World Will Look Like in 2014 (openculture.com)
237 points by beshrkayali on Jan 1, 2014 | 116 comments
8. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2014)
241 points by whoishiring on Jan 1, 2014 | 287 comments
9. Javascript patterns (shichuan.github.io)
210 points by ekpyrotic on Jan 1, 2014 | 45 comments
10. React: Another Level of Indirection (lispcast.com)
213 points by mercer on Jan 1, 2014 | 82 comments
11. Optimal Characters Per Line (mikeyanderson.com)
189 points by mikeyanderson on Jan 1, 2014 | 104 comments
12. Burn the Fucking System to the Ground (popehat.com)
187 points by MaysonL on Jan 1, 2014 | 115 comments
13. Dual_EC_DRBG backdoor: a proof of concept (blog.0xbadc0de.be)
175 points by infinity on Jan 1, 2014 | 27 comments
14. Colorado Stores Throw Open Their Doors to Pot Buyers (nytimes.com)
159 points by danso on Jan 1, 2014 | 185 comments
15. Show HN: Our little bootstrapped startup is powering CNN's ticker for NYE
154 points by randall on Jan 1, 2014 | 43 comments
16. All Things Digital shutting down (allthingsd.com)
147 points by ivank on Jan 1, 2014 | 36 comments
17. 1.85% of Steam users run Linux (itsmdaily.com)
141 points by ineov on Jan 1, 2014 | 119 comments
18. Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 (neocomputer.org)
138 points by tujv on Jan 1, 2014 | 12 comments
19. “The Robot and the Baby” by John McCarthy (stanford.edu)
104 points by ColinWright on Jan 1, 2014 | 28 comments
20. Etoile: a GNUStep-based Linux GUI written in Objective-C (etoileos.com)
101 points by adamnemecek on Jan 1, 2014 | 43 comments
21. Clojure 2013 Year in Review (stuartsierra.com)
108 points by llambda on Jan 1, 2014 | 19 comments
22. The Other 'F Word': Brewer Responds To Starbucks Over Beer Name (npr.org)
99 points by mydpy on Jan 1, 2014 | 53 comments
23. What Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode (2003) (joelonsoftware.com)
96 points by jervisfm on Jan 1, 2014 | 33 comments
24. The Problems With Debit And Credit Cards Are Deeper Than We Thought (readwrite.com)
94 points by Cbasedlifeform on Jan 1, 2014 | 91 comments
25. Apartment, completely unused since 1942, discovered in Paris (belloblog.com)
90 points by shawndumas on Jan 1, 2014 | 21 comments
26. Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2014)
100 points by whoishiring on Jan 1, 2014 | 151 comments
27. Proof Market: Submit Coq proof, get paid with Bitcoin (proofmarket.org)
92 points by waffle_ss on Jan 1, 2014 | 30 comments
28. Skype blog hacked (skype.com)
86 points by tazer on Jan 1, 2014 | 58 comments
29. Latvia becomes 18th state to join the eurozone (bbc.co.uk)
81 points by lelf on Jan 1, 2014 | 103 comments
30. Ruby’s GIL and transactional memory (mikeperham.com)
82 points by ricny046 on Jan 1, 2014 | 20 comments

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