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1.Good News You Might Have Missed in 2013 (thegatesnotes.com)
369 points by ohjeez on Dec 26, 2013 [ext] | 167 comments [ext]
2.What is it like to be a geek in a prison? (quora.com)
368 points by edw519 on Dec 26, 2013 [ext] | 249 comments [ext]
3.Steve Jobs Danced To My Song (medium.com/where-you-lead-i-will-follow-...)
240 points by shawndumas on Dec 26, 2013 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
4. Why the word 'later' has killed more dreams than you can count (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 399 days ago | hide | 146 comments
4.Uruguay is the Economist's Country of the Year (economist.com)
221 points by dimfisch on Dec 26, 2013 [ext] | 108 comments [ext]
5.Chicago makes Computer Science a core subject (edtechmagazine.com)
206 points by taylodl on Dec 26, 2013 [ext] | 153 comments [ext]
6.Dell Ultra Sharp 24" 4K display (dell.com)
199 points by seanmcdirmid on Dec 26, 2013 [ext] | 149 comments [ext]
7. Why Uber-for-X Failed While Amazon Built an Impenetrable Moat ()
257 points by pen4647 498 days ago | hide | 50 comments
7.Intel XDK: An HTML5 development IDE (intel.com)
157 points by moonlighter on Dec 26, 2013 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
8.Emacs users are like Terry Pratchett’s Igors (chrisdone.com)
151 points by nkurz on Dec 26, 2013 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
9.Ubuntu HTML5 SDK (ubuntu.com)
155 points by Sami_Lehtinen on Dec 26, 2013 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
10. How the Internet Redistributes Social Capital and Unsettles Elites (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 433 days ago | hide | 93 comments
10.Don't Support Information Architects (candlerblog.com)
148 points by chmars on Dec 26, 2013 [ext] | 87 comments [ext]
11.Is Ruby Fast Yet? (isrubyfastyet.com)
132 points by j_s on Dec 26, 2013 [ext] | 91 comments [ext]
12.Facebook is basically dead and buried with UK teenagers (experientia.com)
120 points by r0h1n on Dec 26, 2013 [ext] | 114 comments [ext]
13. The defensive capex trap squeezing OpenAI and Anthropic (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 3 days ago | hide | 57 comments
13.Rapgenius.com Traffic and Demographic Statistics (quantcast.com)
120 points by themichael on Dec 26, 2013 [ext] | 127 comments [ext]
14.Show HN: I make my family postcards every year. Here's this year's. (lekevicius.com)
109 points by lekevicius on Dec 26, 2013 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
15.What are the 'real numbers', really? (vanderbilt.edu)
107 points by dhammack on Dec 26, 2013 [ext] | 96 comments [ext]
16. What 14 Years at Google Taught Me About Everything Except Code (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 106 days ago | hide | 48 comments
16.Ask HN: How to fire your co-founder? [ext]
110 points by mesogamer on Dec 26, 2013 [ext] | 81 comments [ext]
17.Professor admits faking AIDS vaccine to get $19M in grants (nypost.com)
101 points by lmg643 on Dec 26, 2013 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
18.Why Entrepreneurs Are Bad At Finding Their Competition (berserkia.com)
94 points by bsirkia on Dec 26, 2013 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
19. The Polish Recluse Who Cracked the Forgetting Curve (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 480 days ago | hide | 22 comments
19.Keyboards, UX, and “Fuck” (blogmask.herokuapp.com)
90 points by habosa on Dec 26, 2013 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
20.Da Vinci's String Organ (npr.org)
91 points by dylandrop on Dec 26, 2013 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
21.Sourcing.io (sourcing.io)
94 points by jmduke on Dec 26, 2013 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
22. How a Polymarket Wallet Outearned Google Predicting Gemini 3's Launch (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 59 days ago | hide | 13 comments
22.Exposing Houdini’s Tricks of Magic (1929) (modernmechanix.com)
86 points by gruseom on Dec 26, 2013 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
23.Equational reasoning (haskellforall.com)
82 points by svenkatesh on Dec 26, 2013 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
24.Show HN: A small (less than 2 kb) CSS framework (andhart.github.io)
79 points by J-H on Dec 26, 2013 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
25. Two grad students bet biology can eat the chemicals industry by 2030 (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 601 days ago | hide | 170 comments
25.Serious Science (serious-science.org)
79 points by agrostis on Dec 26, 2013 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
26.Bitcoin paradise (economist.com)
74 points by peter123 on Dec 26, 2013 [ext] | 69 comments [ext]
27.Show HN: I mapped 30k+ paintings around the world (artnear.me)
70 points by pzaich on Dec 26, 2013 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
28. Elon's $140 Billion, Maduro's Capture, and a $30K Polymarket Windfall (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 86 days ago | hide | 122 comments
28.JSVM (github.com/jawb)
69 points by jawb on Dec 26, 2013 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
29.Baidu IME secretly transmitting Japanese users’ data (asahi.com)
66 points by nullpo on Dec 26, 2013 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
30.Y Combinator Reaches Farther Beyond Silicon Valley (bloomberg.com)
64 points by bananacurve on Dec 26, 2013 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
31. Why giving advice fails and reflecting back changes minds (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 171 days ago | hide | 48 comments

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