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1. Good News You Might Have Missed in 2013 (thegatesnotes.com)
369 points by ohjeez on Dec 26, 2013 | 167 comments
2. What is it like to be a geek in a prison? (quora.com)
368 points by edw519 on Dec 26, 2013 | 249 comments
3. Steve Jobs Danced To My Song (medium.com/where-you-lead-i-will-follow-...)
240 points by shawndumas on Dec 26, 2013 | 29 comments
4. Uruguay is the Economist's Country of the Year (economist.com)
221 points by dimfisch on Dec 26, 2013 | 108 comments
5. Chicago makes Computer Science a core subject (edtechmagazine.com)
206 points by taylodl on Dec 26, 2013 | 153 comments
6. Dell Ultra Sharp 24" 4K display (dell.com)
199 points by seanmcdirmid on Dec 26, 2013 | 149 comments
7. Intel XDK: An HTML5 development IDE (intel.com)
157 points by moonlighter on Dec 26, 2013 | 51 comments
8. Emacs users are like Terry Pratchett’s Igors (chrisdone.com)
151 points by nkurz on Dec 26, 2013 | 83 comments
9. Ubuntu HTML5 SDK (ubuntu.com)
155 points by Sami_Lehtinen on Dec 26, 2013 | 49 comments
10. Don't Support Information Architects (candlerblog.com)
148 points by chmars on Dec 26, 2013 | 87 comments
11. Is Ruby Fast Yet? (isrubyfastyet.com)
132 points by j_s on Dec 26, 2013 | 91 comments
12. Facebook is basically dead and buried with UK teenagers (experientia.com)
120 points by r0h1n on Dec 26, 2013 | 114 comments
13. Rapgenius.com Traffic and Demographic Statistics (quantcast.com)
120 points by themichael on Dec 26, 2013 | 127 comments
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 | 27 comments
15. What are the 'real numbers', really? (vanderbilt.edu)
107 points by dhammack on Dec 26, 2013 | 96 comments
16. Ask HN: How to fire your co-founder?
110 points by mesogamer on Dec 26, 2013 | 81 comments
17. Professor admits faking AIDS vaccine to get $19M in grants (nypost.com)
101 points by lmg643 on Dec 26, 2013 | 50 comments
18. Why Entrepreneurs Are Bad At Finding Their Competition (berserkia.com)
94 points by bsirkia on Dec 26, 2013 | 45 comments
19. Keyboards, UX, and “Fuck” (blogmask.herokuapp.com)
90 points by habosa on Dec 26, 2013 | 53 comments
20. Da Vinci's String Organ (npr.org)
91 points by dylandrop on Dec 26, 2013 | 18 comments
21. Sourcing.io (sourcing.io)
94 points by jmduke on Dec 26, 2013 | 57 comments
22. Exposing Houdini’s Tricks of Magic (1929) (modernmechanix.com)
86 points by gruseom on Dec 26, 2013 | 11 comments
23. Equational reasoning (haskellforall.com)
82 points by svenkatesh on Dec 26, 2013 | 13 comments
24. Show HN: A small (less than 2 kb) CSS framework (andhart.github.io)
79 points by J-H on Dec 26, 2013 | 36 comments
25. Serious Science (serious-science.org)
79 points by agrostis on Dec 26, 2013 | 26 comments
26. Bitcoin paradise (economist.com)
74 points by peter123 on Dec 26, 2013 | 69 comments
27. Show HN: I mapped 30k+ paintings around the world (artnear.me)
70 points by pzaich on Dec 26, 2013 | 24 comments
28. JSVM (github.com/jawb)
69 points by jawb on Dec 26, 2013 | 16 comments
29. Baidu IME secretly transmitting Japanese users’ data (asahi.com)
66 points by nullpo on Dec 26, 2013 | 17 comments
30. Y Combinator Reaches Farther Beyond Silicon Valley (bloomberg.com)
64 points by bananacurve on Dec 26, 2013 | 29 comments

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