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1. Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind for $400M (recode.net)
352 points by jamesjyu on Jan 27, 2014 | 199 comments
2. Show HN: Random Street View (randomstreetview.com)
356 points by hanezz on Jan 27, 2014 | 166 comments
3. Hackathon Starter – Boilerplate for Node.js web application (github.com/sahat)
277 points by sahat on Jan 27, 2014 | 50 comments
4. What is really happening in Ukraine (slideshare.net)
244 points by DeusExMachina on Jan 27, 2014 | 312 comments
5. Tesla Completes L.A.-to-New York Electric Model S Drive Chargers (bloomberg.com)
229 points by gus_massa on Jan 27, 2014 | 181 comments
6. Animated Engines (animatedengines.com)
215 points by d4vlx on Jan 27, 2014 | 34 comments
7. If You Used TorMail, the FBI Has Your Inbox (wired.com)
215 points by barkingbad on Jan 27, 2014 | 141 comments
8. HTTP 2.0: GTFO (General Termination of Future Operations) (http2.github.io)
192 points by ryanf on Jan 27, 2014 | 85 comments
9. Why are US corporate profits so high? Because wages are so low (reuters.com)
185 points by d4vlx on Jan 27, 2014 | 233 comments
10. Results of the Grand C++ Error Explosion Competition (tgceec.tumblr.com)
184 points by ot on Jan 27, 2014 | 43 comments
11. The Great Code Club (greatcodeclub.com)
194 points by cocoflunchy on Jan 27, 2014 | 81 comments
12. Two "WontFix" vulnerabilities in Facebook Connect (homakov.blogspot.com)
188 points by homakov on Jan 27, 2014 | 35 comments
13. King Candy Crushes Developers, The Saga (gemfruit.com)
177 points by deletes on Jan 27, 2014 | 43 comments
14. Fig: Fast, isolated development environments using Docker (orchardup.github.io)
175 points by andrewgodwin on Jan 27, 2014 | 44 comments
15. The Failures of "Intro to TDD" (testdouble.com)
169 points by davemo on Jan 27, 2014 | 84 comments
16. US and UK spy agencies scoop up private data from 'leaky' phone apps (theguardian.com)
174 points by weu on Jan 27, 2014 | 95 comments
17. US Government: Guards may be responsible for half of prison sex assaults (aljazeera.com)
158 points by GuiA on Jan 27, 2014 | 78 comments
18. Python on Wheels (pocoo.org)
151 points by donaldstufft on Jan 27, 2014 | 74 comments
19. Why do dynamic languages make it more difficult to maintain large codebases? (programmers.stackexchange.com)
144 points by CmonDev on Jan 27, 2014 | 209 comments
20. In the world of war games, Volko Ruhnke has become a hero (washingtonpost.com)
144 points by mcu on Jan 27, 2014 | 22 comments
21. An Estonian shares his country's strategy for navigating the digital world (theatlantic.com)
131 points by mercenario on Jan 27, 2014 | 44 comments
22. Startups that have bootstrapped their way to profitability (beatrixapp.com)
133 points by uptown on Jan 27, 2014 | 63 comments
23. MIT OpenCourseWare Bookshelf (mitopencourseware.wordpress.com)
132 points by acdanger on Jan 27, 2014 | 4 comments
24. Take Buffett's Billion (takebuffettsbillion.com)
127 points by songzme on Jan 27, 2014 | 123 comments
25. Nginx Patch: SPDY/3.1 protocol implementation (nginx.org)
124 points by jdorfman on Jan 27, 2014 | 28 comments
26. Floorplan Light Switches (jnd.org)
111 points by radley on Jan 27, 2014 | 68 comments
27. The craziest bug you never heard about from 2008: A Linux threading regression (timetobleed.com)
99 points by tc on Jan 27, 2014 | 32 comments
28. Timothy Hart, Rest in Peace (fogus.me)
98 points by DanielRibeiro on Jan 27, 2014 | 10 comments
29. iPad onscreen keyboard designed for LaTeX [video] (texpadapp.com)
96 points by steeleduncan on Jan 27, 2014 | 33 comments
30. Why isn't People-Centric UI Design taking off? (hanselman.com)
93 points by CodeCube on Jan 27, 2014 | 75 comments

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