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1. Blackphone (blackphone.ch)
408 points by jorrizza on Jan 15, 2014 | 204 comments
2. Super successful companies (samaltman.com)
397 points by dko on Jan 15, 2014 | 148 comments
3. VC Pitches in a Year or Two (avc.com)
280 points by SethMurphy on Jan 15, 2014 | 96 comments
4. Nassim Taleb: We should retire the notion of standard deviation (edge.org)
248 points by pyduan on Jan 15, 2014 | 244 comments
5. The Next Phase of Node.js (nodejs.org)
235 points by sintaxi on Jan 15, 2014 | 130 comments
6. Why Are There So Many Pythons? (toptal.com)
211 points by akbarnama on Jan 15, 2014 | 111 comments
7. N.S.A. Devises Radio Pathway Into Computers (nytimes.com)
205 points by nealyoung on Jan 15, 2014 | 139 comments
8. Living a High-DPI desktop lifestyle can be painful on Windows (hanselman.com)
188 points by henrik_w on Jan 15, 2014 | 142 comments
9. No-fly list takes legal hit (mercurynews.com)
186 points by andrewfong on Jan 15, 2014 | 49 comments
10. Coming soon: Stripe CTF3, distributed systems edition (stripe.com)
181 points by gdb on Jan 15, 2014 | 44 comments
11. Why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour into 60 minutes? (scientificamerican.com)
170 points by smalu on Jan 15, 2014 | 148 comments
12. Bitrot and atomic COWs: Inside “next-gen” filesystems (arstechnica.com)
169 points by pedrocr on Jan 15, 2014 | 132 comments
13. The Periodic Table of Rust Types (mearie.org)
150 points by lifthrasiir on Jan 15, 2014 | 85 comments
14. [dupe] US physically hacks 100,000 foreign computers (aljazeera.com)
150 points by kostyk on Jan 15, 2014 | 105 comments
15. Light Table ClojureScript Tutorial (github.com/swannodette)
150 points by joshuacc on Jan 15, 2014 | 8 comments
16. The Productivity Cycle (alexsexton.com)
143 points by slexaxton on Jan 15, 2014 | 38 comments
17. Making remote work work: An adventure in time and space (mongohq.com)
146 points by mrkurt on Jan 15, 2014 | 53 comments
18. TrueCrypt Master Key Extraction And Volume Identification (volatility-labs.blogspot.com)
143 points by lelf on Jan 15, 2014 | 73 comments
19. How does SSL work? (security.stackexchange.com)
139 points by gozzoo on Jan 15, 2014 | 27 comments
20. Dogecoin now accounts for more transactions than any other cryptocurrency (bitinfocharts.com)
139 points by acangiano on Jan 15, 2014 | 139 comments
21. Are passwords stored in memory safe? (security.stackexchange.com)
129 points by amalantony06 on Jan 15, 2014 | 72 comments
22. Xpra: Screen for X (xpra.org)
127 points by luu on Jan 15, 2014 | 34 comments
23. WikiLeaks releases Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Environment draft (wikileaks.org)
122 points by mwilcox on Jan 15, 2014 | 19 comments
24. How To Hire Outsourced Developers (donnfelker.com)
120 points by donnfelker on Jan 15, 2014 | 77 comments
25. We Hacked North Korea With Balloons and USB Drives (theatlantic.com)
120 points by vonnik on Jan 15, 2014 | 82 comments
26. FarmLogs Raises $4M Series A To Further Advance Farming Into The Age of Apps (techcrunch.com)
119 points by vollmarj on Jan 15, 2014 | 36 comments
27. MapGive - Open Mapping from the US State Dept. (state.gov)
113 points by chippy on Jan 15, 2014 | 25 comments
28. Hate Parking Tickets? Fixed Fights Them In Court For You (techcrunch.com)
103 points by jaredsohn on Jan 15, 2014 | 136 comments
29. Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development (halfarsedagilemanifesto.org)
102 points by virtualsue on Jan 15, 2014 | 63 comments
30. Silicon Valley workers may pursue collusion case as group (reuters.com)
95 points by ForHackernews on Jan 15, 2014 | 89 comments

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