| 1. |  | Snapchat Phone Number Database Leaked (snapchatdb.info) | 
|  | 398 points by lightcontact on Jan 1, 2014  | 213 comments | 
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| 2. |  | The Lost Art of C Structure Packing (catb.org) | 
|  | 335 points by Tsiolkovsky on Jan 1, 2014  | 143 comments | 
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| 3. |  | Show HN: Use any text as a domain name (github.com/amoffat) | 
|  | 261 points by daenz on Jan 1, 2014  | 141 comments | 
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| 4. |  | Court Rules No Suspicion Needed for Laptop Searches at Border (aclu.org) | 
|  | 258 points by frostmatthew on Jan 1, 2014  | 178 comments | 
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| 5. |  | What Snowden really revealed (aljazeera.com) | 
|  | 239 points by kostyk on Jan 1, 2014  | 54 comments | 
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| 6. |  | Isaac Asimov Predicts in 1964 What the World Will Look Like in 2014 (openculture.com) | 
|  | 237 points by beshrkayali on Jan 1, 2014  | 116 comments | 
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| 7. |  | Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2014) | 
|  | 241 points by whoishiring on Jan 1, 2014  | 287 comments | 
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| 8. |  | Javascript patterns (shichuan.github.io) | 
|  | 210 points by ekpyrotic on Jan 1, 2014  | 45 comments | 
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| 9. |  | React: Another Level of Indirection (lispcast.com) | 
|  | 213 points by mercer on Jan 1, 2014  | 82 comments | 
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| 10. |  | Optimal Characters Per Line (mikeyanderson.com) | 
|  | 189 points by mikeyanderson on Jan 1, 2014  | 104 comments | 
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| 11. |  | Burn the Fucking System to the Ground (popehat.com) | 
|  | 187 points by MaysonL on Jan 1, 2014  | 115 comments | 
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| 12. |  | Dual_EC_DRBG backdoor: a proof of concept (blog.0xbadc0de.be) | 
|  | 175 points by infinity on Jan 1, 2014  | 27 comments | 
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| 13. |  | Colorado Stores Throw Open Their Doors to Pot Buyers (nytimes.com) | 
|  | 159 points by danso on Jan 1, 2014  | 185 comments | 
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| 14. |  | Show HN: Our little bootstrapped startup is powering CNN's ticker for NYE | 
|  | 154 points by randall on Jan 1, 2014  | 43 comments | 
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| 15. |  | All Things Digital shutting down (allthingsd.com) | 
|  | 147 points by ivank on Jan 1, 2014  | 36 comments | 
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| 16. |  | 1.85% of Steam users run Linux (itsmdaily.com) | 
|  | 141 points by ineov on Jan 1, 2014  | 119 comments | 
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| 17. |  | Fixing E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 (neocomputer.org) | 
|  | 138 points by tujv on Jan 1, 2014  | 12 comments | 
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| 18. |  | “The Robot and the Baby” by John McCarthy (stanford.edu) | 
|  | 104 points by ColinWright on Jan 1, 2014  | 28 comments | 
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| 19. |  | Etoile: a GNUStep-based Linux GUI written in Objective-C (etoileos.com) | 
|  | 101 points by adamnemecek on Jan 1, 2014  | 43 comments | 
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| 20. |  | Clojure 2013 Year in Review (stuartsierra.com) | 
|  | 108 points by llambda on Jan 1, 2014  | 19 comments | 
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| 21. |  | The Other 'F Word': Brewer Responds To Starbucks Over Beer Name (npr.org) | 
|  | 99 points by mydpy on Jan 1, 2014  | 53 comments | 
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| 22. |  | What Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode (2003) (joelonsoftware.com) | 
|  | 96 points by jervisfm on Jan 1, 2014  | 33 comments | 
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| 23. |  | The Problems With Debit And Credit Cards Are Deeper Than We Thought (readwrite.com) | 
|  | 94 points by Cbasedlifeform on Jan 1, 2014  | 91 comments | 
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| 24. |  | Apartment, completely unused since 1942, discovered in Paris (belloblog.com) | 
|  | 90 points by shawndumas on Jan 1, 2014  | 21 comments | 
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| 25. |  | Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2014) | 
|  | 100 points by whoishiring on Jan 1, 2014  | 151 comments | 
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| 26. |  | Proof Market: Submit Coq proof, get paid with Bitcoin (proofmarket.org) | 
|  | 92 points by waffle_ss on Jan 1, 2014  | 30 comments | 
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| 27. |  | Skype blog hacked (skype.com) | 
|  | 86 points by tazer on Jan 1, 2014  | 58 comments | 
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| 28. |  | Latvia becomes 18th state to join the eurozone (bbc.co.uk) | 
|  | 81 points by lelf on Jan 1, 2014  | 103 comments | 
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| 29. |  | Ruby’s GIL and transactional memory (mikeperham.com) | 
|  | 82 points by ricny046 on Jan 1, 2014  | 20 comments | 
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| 30. |  | I Decided to Delete All My Facebook Activity (slate.com) | 
|  | 79 points by jamesbritt on Jan 1, 2014  | 67 comments | 
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