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1. Geneva drive (wikipedia.org)
481 points by Arjuna on Dec 17, 2013 | 71 comments
2. We Need to Talk About TED (bratton.info)
415 points by TimSAstro on Dec 17, 2013 | 184 comments
3. Show HN: Myth – CSS the way it was imagined (myth.io)
357 points by ianstormtaylor on Dec 17, 2013 | 152 comments
4. CSS animated loading indicators (tobiasahlin.com)
327 points by hising on Dec 17, 2013 | 70 comments
5. We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m (2012) (ryancarson.com)
271 points by joeyespo on Dec 17, 2013 | 126 comments
6. High Speed Trains are Killing the European Railway Network (lowtechmagazine.com)
230 points by gvb on Dec 17, 2013 | 212 comments
7. Tech firms push back against White House efforts to divert NSA meeting (theguardian.com)
235 points by wrongc0ntinent on Dec 17, 2013 | 87 comments
8. [dupe] Just Delete Me – A directory of direct links to delete your accounts (justdelete.me)
214 points by shawndumas on Dec 17, 2013 | 39 comments
9. From carpool to deadpool: Ridejoy’s startup journey (ridejoy.com)
220 points by jcampbell1 on Dec 17, 2013 | 77 comments
10. JavaScript Promises: There and back again (html5rocks.com)
217 points by sacado2 on Dec 17, 2013 | 74 comments
11. The Cinematography of "The Incredibles" (floobynooby.blogspot.co.uk)
185 points by isaacjohnwesley on Dec 17, 2013 | 38 comments
12. Web Framework Benchmarks - Round 8 (techempower.com)
174 points by curiousAl on Dec 17, 2013 | 165 comments
13. Elsevier steps up its War On Access (svpow.com)
172 points by anu_gupta on Dec 17, 2013 | 82 comments
14. A visualization of global weather conditions, forecast by supercomputers (nullschool.net)
153 points by moonlighter on Dec 17, 2013 | 41 comments
15. Why Google isn't our Bell Labs (begun.co)
143 points by zchry on Dec 17, 2013 | 122 comments
16. PHP functions originally bucketed by strlen, were renamed to balance length (php.net)
140 points by mappu on Dec 17, 2013 | 157 comments
17. [dupe] How Sleep Clears the Brain (nih.gov)
127 points by graeham on Dec 17, 2013 | 47 comments
18. Fedora 20 released (fedoraproject.org)
124 points by drill_sarge on Dec 17, 2013 | 101 comments
19. FasterCGI with HHVM (hhvm.com)
110 points by seaghost on Dec 17, 2013 | 31 comments
20. Dissecting the GZIP format (2011) (infinitepartitions.com)
102 points by siromoney on Dec 17, 2013 | 19 comments
21. NSA goes on 60 Minutes: the definitive facts behind CBS's flawed report (theguardian.com)
104 points by SworDsy on Dec 17, 2013 | 10 comments
22. Crit-bit trees (cr.yp.to)
98 points by siromoney on Dec 17, 2013 | 41 comments
23. Meteor 0.7.0: Scaling realtime queries using oplog instead of poll-and-diff (meteor.com)
101 points by debergalis on Dec 17, 2013 | 23 comments
24. How to get a job after you've been rejected (karenx.com)
97 points by karenxcheng on Dec 17, 2013 | 68 comments
25. The future of PHP, at a distance (pooteeweet.org)
90 points by gararapa on Dec 17, 2013 | 49 comments
26. Request for Funding OpenBSD Project's Electricity (mail-archive.com)
94 points by adamnemecek on Dec 17, 2013 | 49 comments
27. Telegram, a.k.a. “Stand back, we have Math PhDs” (unhandledexpression.com)
93 points by nwh on Dec 17, 2013 | 53 comments
28. What's Coming in Ember.js in 2014 (emberjs.com)
107 points by makepanic on Dec 17, 2013 | 33 comments
29. Tor best practices (digital-era.net)
93 points by triberian on Dec 17, 2013 | 55 comments
30. Bitcoin Falls 20% on PBOC Rumors, Chinese Exchanges Reinstate Fees (thegenesisblock.com)
83 points by CrunchyJams on Dec 17, 2013 | 68 comments

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