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1.What Hard Drive Should I Buy? (backblaze.com)
688 points by nuriaion on Jan 21, 2014 | 266 comments
2.2014 Gates Annual Letter: Myths that block progress for the poor (gatesfoundation.org)
490 points by pyduan on Jan 21, 2014 | 307 comments
3.Your best passive income? (2014)
395 points by kirk21 on Jan 21, 2014 | 420 comments
4.Fake Name Generator (fakenamegenerator.com)
397 points by galapago on Jan 21, 2014 | 159 comments
5.New Year, New CEO for GitHub (github.com/blog)
365 points by goodwillhunting on Jan 21, 2014 | 92 comments
6.Today my startup failed (chrishateswriting.com)
342 points by jc4p on Jan 21, 2014 | 128 comments
7.AMC movie theater calls FBI to arrest a Google Glass user (the-gadgeteer.com)
319 points by sounds on Jan 21, 2014 | 294 comments
8.Why Bitcoin Matters (nytimes.com)
315 points by untilHellbanned on Jan 21, 2014 | 259 comments
9.Show HN: Ridiculously cheap bulk geocoding (geocod.io)
224 points by thecodemonkey on Jan 21, 2014 | 101 comments
10.Announcing the Female Founders Conference (March 1) (blog.ycombinator.com)
216 points by jl on Jan 21, 2014 | 275 comments
11.Economics Simulation (ipython.org)
209 points by ntoshev on Jan 21, 2014 | 121 comments
12.Yesterday, the Internet Solved a 20-year-old Mystery (onthemedia.org)
197 points by brie22 on Jan 21, 2014 | 58 comments
13.OpenBSD receives approximately $100,000 in donations (marc.info)
161 points by skreuzer on Jan 21, 2014 | 35 comments
14.Outbox Is Shutting Down (outboxmail.com)
155 points by mariusz331 on Jan 21, 2014 | 93 comments
15.Snowden-haters are on the wrong side of history (reprog.wordpress.com)
133 points by ColinWright on Jan 21, 2014 | 146 comments
16.With Traction But Out Of Cash, 4chan Founder Kills Off Canvas/DrawQuest (techcrunch.com)
136 points by ssclafani on Jan 21, 2014 | 44 comments
17.Open letter to the Yale Community from Dean (yale.edu)
123 points by shaufler on Jan 21, 2014 | 82 comments
18.Exposing Malicious Tor Exit Relays (kau.se)
121 points by musty on Jan 21, 2014 | 14 comments
19.My Mind: A new web-based mind map editor (github.com/ondras)
122 points by ondras on Jan 21, 2014 | 54 comments
20.Startup failure post-mortems (cbinsights.com)
122 points by asanwal on Jan 21, 2014 | 22 comments
21.Female Founders Conference (femalefoundersconference.org)
117 points by nRike on Jan 21, 2014 | 102 comments
22.Setting OmniGraphSketcher Free (omnigroup.com)
114 points by nickmain on Jan 21, 2014 | 13 comments
23.The New Aaron Swartz Documentary at Sundance (newyorker.com)
110 points by footpath on Jan 21, 2014 | 2 comments
24.U.S. Court: Bloggers Are Journalists, even when they're libeling you (theatlantic.com)
109 points by milesf on Jan 21, 2014 | 19 comments
25.Show HN: Workflow for front end developers to create desktop applications (github.com/anonyfox)
101 points by anonyfox on Jan 21, 2014 | 38 comments
26.CarWoo is shutting down (carwoo.com)
107 points by uptown on Jan 21, 2014 | 110 comments
27.SSL Labs: Stricter security requirements for 2014 (ivanristic.com)
103 points by ivanr on Jan 21, 2014 | 56 comments
28.Antimatter experiment produces first beam of antihydrogen (cern.ch)
99 points by hiby007 on Jan 21, 2014 | 50 comments
29.New EC2 M3 Instance Sizes and Lower Prices for S3 and EBS (amazon.com)
103 points by pentium10 on Jan 21, 2014 | 47 comments
30.Bug #9424: ruby 1.9 & 2.x has insecure SSL/TLS client defaults (ruby-lang.org)
90 points by mikeevans on Jan 21, 2014 | 26 comments

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