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1.		Intel's "cripple AMD" function (2009) (agner.org)
		356 points by luu on Jan 20, 2014 \| 124 comments
2.		Linux 3.13 (kernelnewbies.org)
		281 points by edwintorok on Jan 20, 2014 \| 46 comments
3.		Build Git – Learn Git (kushagragour.in)
		261 points by chinchang on Jan 20, 2014 \| 41 comments
4.		Code is not Literature (gigamonkeys.com)
		240 points by antifuchs on Jan 20, 2014 \| 83 comments
5.		Romanian saves OpenBSD? (thedrinkingrecord.com)
		217 points by mappu on Jan 20, 2014 \| 78 comments
6.		Half of taxpayer funded research will soon be available to the public (washingtonpost.com)
		203 points by RougeFemme on Jan 20, 2014 \| 78 comments
7.		Kids, this is story of How I Met... my VPS hacked (corrspt.com)
		192 points by lelf on Jan 20, 2014 \| 86 comments
8.		Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as poorest half of the world (theguardian.com)
		187 points by T-zex on Jan 20, 2014 \| 221 comments
9.		Candy Crush Saga creators have trademarked the word “candy” (gamezebo.com)
		188 points by danso on Jan 20, 2014 \| 89 comments
		Arjuna on Jan 20, 2014 \| parent \| context \| on: Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie ab... "And when Jobs (in the movie, but really a board does this) denied stock to the early garage team (some not even shown) I'm surprised that they chose not to show me giving about $10M of my own stock to them because it was the right thing. And $10M was a lot in that time." Nothing more need be said, really. This is the very definition of character and integrity.
11.		Dad gets OfficeMax mail addressed 'Daughter Killed in Car Crash' (latimes.com)
		165 points by coloneltcb on Jan 20, 2014 \| 64 comments
12.		The decay and fall of guest blogging for SEO (mattcutts.com)
		159 points by chaz on Jan 20, 2014 \| 139 comments
13.		Douglas Adams's Mac IIfx (vintagemacworld.com)
		146 points by yankcrime on Jan 20, 2014 \| 39 comments
14.		Show HN: Free, open-source site for finding beautiful hikes (hike.io)
		145 points by zakn on Jan 20, 2014 \| 83 comments
15.		You’re Eight Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist (cato.org)
		147 points by Argentum01 on Jan 20, 2014 \| 62 comments
16.		Cython 0.20 (github.com/cython)
		144 points by hyperbovine on Jan 20, 2014 \| 14 comments
		Dn_Ab on Jan 20, 2014 \| parent \| context \| on: Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie ab... Sidenote: You can tell Woz is an amazing genuinely good person with no hint of pretension or self importance. A lot can be discerned about famous personalities by who they choose to follow. For example, you can tell whether the person has little utility for social networks but maybe started out following a scattering of experts relevant to their interests. Usually though, the personality is using their handful of followed people as an importance signalling factor. Often they will be following somewhere between -5e6 to 10 hugely important to unbelievably hugely important people; people with names like Larry Page, Jeff Bezos, Paris Hilton, Bono, Lord Vishnu and Kanye West. On the other hand we have those like Steve Wozniak - following nearly 5000 people and deigning to reply to someone even the likes of HN commenter OGC is completely unaware of. That is, in all seriousness, an incredible sign of sustained humility.
18.		Kim Dotcom's new music streaming service (baboom.com)
		140 points by together_us on Jan 20, 2014 \| 103 comments
19.		A big step towards Firefox generational and compacting GC (blog.mozilla.org)
		139 points by cpeterso on Jan 20, 2014 \| 29 comments
20.		Nissan Sells 100,000 LEAFs, Captures 48% Of Worldwide Electric Vehicle Market (insideevs.com)
		139 points by codex on Jan 20, 2014 \| 94 comments
21.		Git add -p (johnkary.net)
		136 points by robin_reala on Jan 20, 2014 \| 86 comments
22.		Google set to face Intellectual Ventures in landmark patent trial (reuters.com)
		138 points by kjhughes on Jan 20, 2014 \| 51 comments
23.		Apache Spark: The Next Big Data Thing? (mikiobraun.de)
		136 points by thinkberg on Jan 20, 2014 \| 23 comments
24.		NHS patient data to be made available for sale to drug and insurance firms (theguardian.com)
		130 points by sbellity on Jan 20, 2014 \| 61 comments
25.		Jamaican bobsleigh team raises $25k in Dogecoin (theguardian.com)
		132 points by epaga on Jan 20, 2014 \| 48 comments
26.		To the Girls of HackerNews: I am a Female Founder who Codes (susieye.com)
		114 points by sye19 on Jan 20, 2014 \| 232 comments
27.		The effect of today’s technology on tomorrow’s jobs (economist.com)
		107 points by ig1 on Jan 20, 2014 \| 112 comments
		zedpm on Jan 20, 2014 \| parent \| context \| on: Kids, this is story of How I Met... my VPS hacked I'd think twice before declaring victory; I don't see any reason to believe that the server is now "clean". If this had happened to me, I'd spin up a new VPS, configure it appropriately, then install my app and migrate any needed data. What I wouldn't do was continue running on an instance that had been exploited and assume I'd successfully cleaned it up.
29.		FBI files on Richard Feynman (muckrock.com)
		98 points by 001sky on Jan 20, 2014 \| 56 comments
		jpmattia on Jan 20, 2014 \| parent \| context \| on: Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie ab... > Woz: And when Jobs (in the movie, but really a board does this) denied stock to the early garage team (some not even shown) I'm surprised that they chose not to show me giving about $10M of my own stock to them because it was the right thing. And $10M was a lot in that time. I have to say: That speaks volumes. And Woz, if you ever happen to read this: It's still a pile of dough in the year 2014.
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