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1. Snowden ally Appelbaum claims his Berlin apartment was invaded (dw.de)
294 points by pantalaimon on Dec 21, 2013 | 108 comments
2. A basic guide to when and how to deploy HTTPS (erik.io)
253 points by gits1225 on Dec 21, 2013 | 134 comments
3. How Dogecoin changed my perspective on cryptocurrency (steveklabnik.com)
224 points by steveklabnik on Dec 21, 2013 | 166 comments
4. An update on Truecrypt (cryptographyengineering.com)
202 points by clarkm on Dec 21, 2013 | 44 comments
5. Smartphone can use its microphone to extract RSA decryption key from laptop (schneier.com)
156 points by BrandonMarc on Dec 21, 2013 | 40 comments
6. Having a Servant Is Not a Right (nytimes.com)
156 points by GabrielF00 on Dec 21, 2013 | 228 comments
7. Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (mitpress.mit.edu)
153 points by luu on Dec 21, 2013 | 37 comments
8. Show HN: Vector - A High-Level Programming Language for GPU Computing (zhehaomao.com)
142 points by zhemao on Dec 21, 2013 | 54 comments
9. The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume II (caltech.edu)
126 points by jonbaer on Dec 21, 2013 | 22 comments
10. Architectures that will inspire your programming (andrzejonsoftware.blogspot.in)
122 points by iamtechaddict on Dec 21, 2013 | 22 comments
11. A Brief History of NSA Backdoors (ethanheilman.tumblr.com)
107 points by EthanHeilman on Dec 21, 2013 | 10 comments
12. [dupe] What Google would have looked like in the 1960s (masswerk.at)
100 points by lanbird on Dec 21, 2013 | 24 comments
13. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS supports TRIM on SSD drives (leaseweblabs.com)
98 points by maus80 on Dec 21, 2013 | 76 comments
14. Google streetview world coverage (googlecode.com)
90 points by lelf on Dec 21, 2013 | 54 comments
15. Erlang: The Written History (josetteorama.com)
90 points by josette on Dec 21, 2013 | 16 comments
16. France's Carmat implants its first artificial heart in human (reuters.com)
86 points by bnegreve on Dec 21, 2013 | 21 comments
17. Without morality, the market economy will destroy itself (theguardian.com)
78 points by petethomas on Dec 21, 2013 | 117 comments
18. When You Criticize Someone, You Make It Harder for that Person to Change (hbr.org)
78 points by selmnoo on Dec 21, 2013 | 33 comments
19. Rapid AngularJS Prototyping Without Real Backend (codeorbits.com)
76 points by patelsan on Dec 21, 2013 | 13 comments
20. Protesters vandalize Google bus, block Apple shuttle (usatoday.com)
69 points by radley on Dec 21, 2013 | 154 comments
21. Simple responsive HTML email template (github.com/leemunroe)
70 points by fonziguy on Dec 21, 2013 | 14 comments
22. How open source changed Google and Google changed open source (techradar.com)
67 points by fraqed on Dec 21, 2013 | 7 comments
23. The Late, Great American WASP (wsj.com)
57 points by grellas on Dec 21, 2013 | 62 comments
24. Thank you Microsoft, and so long (byterot.blogspot.com)
56 points by aliostad on Dec 21, 2013 | 48 comments
25. Rapid Backbone Prototyping With Real Backend (brainy.io)
53 points by catshirt on Dec 21, 2013 | 10 comments
26. Why Your Name Matters (newyorker.com)
49 points by dsr12 on Dec 21, 2013 | 58 comments
27. Lost Brazil order raises threat to Boeing fighter jets (reuters.com)
51 points by geekfactor on Dec 21, 2013 | 41 comments
28. A tiny library to send file descriptors across processes (github.com/sharvil)
50 points by nkurz on Dec 21, 2013 | 18 comments
29. A format for creating press releases (mediacollege.com)
50 points by sifarat on Dec 21, 2013 | 8 comments
30. Creating Read-Only References to Objects in JavaScript (bolshchikov.net)
46 points by bolshchikov on Dec 21, 2013 | 11 comments

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