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1.Google to Acquire Nest (investor.google.com)
684 points by coloneltcb on Jan 13, 2014 [ext] | 568 comments [ext]
2.A member of our community is missing, help find him (izs.me)
594 points by mcgwiz on Jan 13, 2014 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
3.A 30 minute introduction to Rust (steveklabnik.com)
328 points by steveklabnik on Jan 13, 2014 [ext] | 156 comments [ext]
4. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
4.How the NSA Threatens National Security (schneier.com)
274 points by fortepianissimo on Jan 13, 2014 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
5.Adrian and Jacob retiring as Django BDFLs (holovaty.com)
265 points by adrianh on Jan 13, 2014 [ext] | 79 comments [ext]
6.Super Mario World "Executes Arbitrary Code" [video] (youtube.com)
234 points by ingenter on Jan 13, 2014 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
7. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 90 days ago | hide | 148 comments
7.The "Window Resizer" extension for Chrome now contains malware (2013) (productforums.google.com)
230 points by iamartnez on Jan 13, 2014 [ext] | 116 comments [ext]
8.The World’s Best Bounty Hunter Is 4-Foot-11. Here’s How She Hunts (wired.com)
207 points by danso on Jan 13, 2014 [ext] | 80 comments [ext]
9.Taking PHP Seriously (infoq.com)
208 points by kmavm on Jan 13, 2014 [ext] | 111 comments [ext]
10. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
10.Free screencasts to learn Go (gocasts.io)
185 points by aussiegeek on Jan 13, 2014 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
11.Shell programming with bash: by example, by counter-example (might.net)
169 points by ColinWright on Jan 13, 2014 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
12.How To: Hosting with Amazon S3, CloudFront and Route 53 (paulstamatiou.com)
154 points by PStamatiou on Jan 13, 2014 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
13. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
13.Outage post-mortem (dropbox.com)
143 points by goronbjorn on Jan 13, 2014 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
14.Hindley-Milner in Clojure (lispcast.com)
142 points by ericn on Jan 13, 2014 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
15.Pngquant – Lossy PNG compressor (pngquant.org)
130 points by pstadler on Jan 13, 2014 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
16. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
16.New brand site for Sony uses rendered JPG frames for 3D parallax scrolling (sony.com)
121 points by danhon on Jan 13, 2014 [ext] | 100 comments [ext]
17.Docker: The good parts (blog.shrikrishnaholla.in)
123 points by shrikrishna on Jan 13, 2014 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
18.Why Infinite-Scrolling in Mobile Apps is Destroying Content Consumption (thisiselevator.com)
119 points by kanebennett on Jan 13, 2014 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
19. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
19.1000x Faster Spelling Correction: Source Code released (faroo.com)
113 points by boyter on Jan 13, 2014 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
20.Report: NSA bulk metadata collection has “no discernible impact” (arstechnica.com)
112 points by fortepianissimo on Jan 13, 2014 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
21.Uber car attacked by Paris cab drivers on strike (bizjournals.com)
108 points by geekfactor on Jan 13, 2014 [ext] | 199 comments [ext]
22. Why you care for your dog better than yourself — and the fix (web.archive.org)
420 points by guz3550 602 days ago | hide | 25 comments
22.Ghost 0.4 Released (ghost.org)
106 points by paukiatwee on Jan 13, 2014 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
23.Everpix VC Feedback (github.com/everpix)
115 points by jhull on Jan 13, 2014 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
24.Facebook Acquires Branch (techcrunch.com)
106 points by alex1 on Jan 13, 2014 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
25. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
25.The Friends Of My Friends Are Not My Friends (minimaxir.com)
105 points by minimaxir on Jan 13, 2014 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
26.1% rule (Internet culture) (wikipedia.org)
105 points by aburan28 on Jan 13, 2014 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
27.Ask PG: Is HN Expired Link Eventual Fix Planned? [ext]
96 points by baldajan on Jan 13, 2014 [ext] | 118 comments [ext]
28. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 85 days ago | hide | 122 comments
28.The architecture of Stack Overflow [video] (dev-metal.com)
98 points by schmylan on Jan 13, 2014 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
29.A Lisp interpeter in a thousand lines of Bash (github.com/alandipert)
97 points by Morgawr on Jan 13, 2014 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
30.Why is reading lines from stdin much slower in C++ than Python? (stackoverflow.com)
93 points by luu on Jan 13, 2014 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
31. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 104 days ago | hide | 48 comments

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