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1. NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show (washingtonpost.com)
588 points by 001sky on Dec 4, 2013 | 290 comments
2. Have I been pwned? Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach (haveibeenpwned.com)
491 points by mountaineer on Dec 4, 2013 | 283 comments
3. Show HN: I made an HN for the financial industry (boredbanker.com)
422 points by tdeangelis on Dec 4, 2013 | 156 comments
4. DHS stalls no-fly list trial by putting witness on no-fly list (boingboing.net)
404 points by dredmorbius on Dec 4, 2013 | 117 comments
5. Sheerwind (sheerwind.com)
312 points by jeena on Dec 4, 2013 | 135 comments
6. Kima15: $150K for 15% in 15 days (kima15.com)
313 points by jber on Dec 4, 2013 | 154 comments
7. Has StackOverflow saved billions of dollars in programmer productivity? (skeptics.stackexchange.com)
285 points by yitchelle on Dec 4, 2013 | 173 comments
8. Kicktrolling (kickstarter.com)
265 points by darkstar999 on Dec 4, 2013 | 81 comments
9. SpaceX Successfully Completes First Mission to Geostationary Transfer Orbit (spacex.com)
262 points by jamesmoss on Dec 4, 2013 | 63 comments
10. A Testament to X11 Backwards Compatibility (theresistornetwork.com)
258 points by foob on Dec 4, 2013 | 89 comments
11. Google Acquires Seven Robot Companies, Wants Big Role in Robotics (ieee.org)
244 points by eguizzo on Dec 4, 2013 | 138 comments
12. Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing (gifpop.io)
235 points by tpsc on Dec 4, 2013 | 111 comments
13. Much of what investment bankers do is socially worthless (2010) (newyorker.com)
212 points by Aloha on Dec 4, 2013 | 171 comments
14. Ben Noordhuis's Departure (nodejs.org)
208 points by clloyd on Dec 4, 2013 | 229 comments
15. Google Puts Money on Robots, Using the Man Behind Android (nytimes.com)
186 points by ipince on Dec 4, 2013 | 81 comments
16. Evading Airport Security (schneier.com)
185 points by Garbage on Dec 4, 2013 | 162 comments
17. Yotaphone (yotaphone.com)
178 points by rnl on Dec 4, 2013 | 102 comments
18. On programming without malloc (jvns.ca)
183 points by jvns on Dec 4, 2013 | 104 comments
19. List of cognitive biases (wikipedia.org)
168 points by mrb on Dec 4, 2013 | 62 comments
20. I will not hack on your codebase for free in an interview (hownottohireadeveloper.blogspot.co.uk)
159 points by groundCode on Dec 4, 2013 | 244 comments
21. The lie of the API (verborgh.org)
148 points by Mustafabei on Dec 4, 2013 | 118 comments
22. Oldest Human DNA Yet Found Raises New Mysteries (nytimes.com)
143 points by Irene on Dec 4, 2013 | 56 comments
23. Two million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords stolen (cnn.com)
144 points by swasheck on Dec 4, 2013 | 102 comments
24. What's New In Git 1.8.5 (atlassian.com)
116 points by durdn on Dec 4, 2013 | 71 comments
25. Is iOS7 jailbroken yet? (isios7jailbrokenyet.com)
111 points by sethbannon on Dec 4, 2013 | 106 comments
26. Perl One-Liners (nostarch.com)
85 points by pkrumins on Dec 4, 2013 | 45 comments
27. So I decided to program a Solar System simulator in WebGL and Javascript (la-grange.ca)
83 points by martimoose on Dec 4, 2013 | 26 comments
28. Ask HN: Which daily habit has affected your productivity the most?
81 points by read on Dec 4, 2013 | 77 comments
29. Play, Scala, and Iteratees vs. Node.js and Socket.io (brikis98.blogspot.be)
87 points by toong on Dec 4, 2013 | 24 comments
30. How Old Is The Shepherd? (robertkaplinsky.com)
81 points by gwern on Dec 4, 2013 | 97 comments

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