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1. Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer (reuters.com)
899 points by bbatsell on Dec 20, 2013 | 320 comments
2. Letter From A Psychopath (twitlonger.com)
383 points by mannjani on Dec 20, 2013 | 330 comments
3. What Happens When One of Your Coworkers Dies (thebillfold.com)
369 points by ohjeez on Dec 20, 2013 | 196 comments
4. Canada's top court has overturned all restrictions on prostitution (aljazeera.com)
303 points by kostyk on Dec 20, 2013 | 213 comments
5. “WarGames” Magazine Identified (rat.bz)
300 points by m_walden on Dec 20, 2013 | 77 comments
6. Regex Golf (alf.nu)
285 points by subbz on Dec 20, 2013 | 169 comments
7. N.S.A. Dragnet Included Allies, Aid Groups and Business Elite (nytimes.com)
279 points by weu on Dec 20, 2013 | 113 comments
8. Why am I here? (sivers.org)
205 points by DavidChouinard on Dec 20, 2013 | 103 comments
9. Google Bus blocked, window smashed in West Oakland (indybay.org)
202 points by negrit on Dec 20, 2013 | 319 comments
10. Telegram’s Cryptanalysis Contest (cryptofails.com)
189 points by svv on Dec 20, 2013 | 130 comments
11. Google just approved our first CyanogenMod phone (plus.google.com)
177 points by bane on Dec 20, 2013 | 53 comments
12. Go away Cameron – Bypass UK's porn filter (goawaycameron.co.uk)
156 points by asmosoinio on Dec 20, 2013 | 157 comments
13. Origami - Design prototyping with Quartz Composer (facebook.github.io)
154 points by vanwilder77 on Dec 20, 2013 | 17 comments
14. After a year of struggling, my startup is now open source (github.com/chriszieba)
144 points by abeiz on Dec 20, 2013 | 57 comments
15. GnuPG - 16 Years of protecting privacy (gnupg.org)
140 points by e1ven on Dec 20, 2013 | 48 comments
16. Under Seattle, a Big Object Blocks Bertha. What Is It? (nytimes.com)
135 points by petethomas on Dec 20, 2013 | 71 comments
17. Clearer Conditionals using De Morgan's Laws (thoughtbot.com)
115 points by gabebw on Dec 20, 2013 | 78 comments
18. Web Domain White Elephant Exchange (docs.google.com)
112 points by shakes on Dec 20, 2013 | 97 comments
19. Gap between asm.js and native gets narrower with float32 optimizations (hacks.mozilla.org)
116 points by evilpie on Dec 20, 2013 | 114 comments
20. Browser Extension Password Managers Exposing Passwords Everywhere (isecpartners.github.io)
111 points by beNjiox on Dec 20, 2013 | 87 comments
21. Buckminster Fuller - Everything I Know (42 hours of video) (archive.org)
106 points by ColinWright on Dec 20, 2013 | 35 comments
22. Deconstructing Functional Programming [video] (infoq.com)
106 points by newgame on Dec 20, 2013 | 109 comments
23. The React tutorial rewritten in Om (github.com/jalehman)
97 points by jlehman on Dec 20, 2013 | 34 comments
24. 2013: A Year of Open Source at Facebook (facebook.com)
104 points by jamesgpearce on Dec 20, 2013 | 43 comments
25. Cards Stolen in Target Breach Flood Underground Markets (krebsonsecurity.com)
95 points by clarkm on Dec 20, 2013 | 83 comments
26. [dupe] Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a Super-Productive Programmer (2011) (smartbear.com)
88 points by Baustin on Dec 20, 2013 | 24 comments
27. Majority of published scientific data not recoverable 20 years later (upi.com)
87 points by bane on Dec 20, 2013 | 34 comments
28. The invisible hand that pushed Apple up and down for six years (cnn.com)
86 points by pedalpete on Dec 20, 2013 | 64 comments
29. Beware of Coinbase. They Reversed My BTC Sale
86 points by abijlani on Dec 20, 2013 | 25 comments
30. New APIs to release code on Heroku (heroku.com)
86 points by friism on Dec 20, 2013 | 10 comments

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