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1.Gmail blows up e-mail marketing by caching all images on Google servers (arstechnica.com)
601 points by shawndumas on Dec 12, 2013 | 311 comments
2.The microhydro plant (ludens.cl)
557 points by makmonty on Dec 12, 2013 | 116 comments
3.Backpacker stripped of tech gear at Auckland Airport (nzherald.co.nz)
526 points by _mgr on Dec 12, 2013 | 254 comments
4.News is bad for you (theguardian.com)
486 points by vvsanil on Dec 12, 2013 | 232 comments
5.How I introduced a 27-year-old computer to the web (keacher.com)
407 points by teuobk on Dec 12, 2013 | 90 comments
6.Pirate Bay founder is being held in solitary confinement without a warrant (theinquirer.net)
343 points by hseldon15 on Dec 12, 2013 | 55 comments
7.Scientists discover second code hiding in DNA (washington.edu)
279 points by bananacurve on Dec 12, 2013 | 99 comments
8.Caltech Announces Open Access Policy (caltech.edu)
267 points by kercker on Dec 12, 2013 | 31 comments
9.Prototype ergonomic mechanical keyboards (fsck.com)
227 points by obrajesse on Dec 12, 2013 | 142 comments
10.Hacker news for data scientists (datatau.com)
222 points by agibsonccc on Dec 12, 2013 | 66 comments
11.Yogaglo Patent Issued (yogainternational.com)
199 points by Jgrubb on Dec 12, 2013 | 108 comments
12.Coinbase Raises $25 Million From Andreessen Horowitz (coinbase.com)
193 points by espeed on Dec 12, 2013 | 140 comments
13.Shopify Raises $100 Million (shopify.com)
198 points by allsop8184 on Dec 12, 2013 | 49 comments
14.Cisco's Open Source H.264 Codec (github.com/cisco)
182 points by pcl on Dec 12, 2013 | 82 comments
15.Free Games: Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics (gog.com)
178 points by wwilson on Dec 12, 2013 | 66 comments
16.PostgreSQL Exercises (pgexercises.com)
167 points by aghillo on Dec 12, 2013 | 44 comments
17.First 3D Commercial Web Game Powered By asm.js (blog.mozilla.org)
163 points by blueveek on Dec 12, 2013 | 88 comments
18.CertiVox confirms it withdrew PrivateSky after GCHQ issued warrant (itsecurityguru.org)
163 points by atlantic on Dec 12, 2013 | 75 comments
19.Paul Graham Shares Number of Y Combinator Companies Sold or Valued at Over $40M (mattermark.com)
143 points by dmor on Dec 12, 2013 | 87 comments
20.Your own mini-Heroku for $5/month (rajivm.com)
130 points by rajivm on Dec 12, 2013 | 31 comments
21.What it feels like being an iPad on a stick on wheels (spotify.com)
123 points by henrik_w on Dec 12, 2013 | 25 comments
22.How Americans Were Deceived About Cell Phone Location Data (theatlantic.com)
125 points by rosser on Dec 12, 2013 | 40 comments
23.Google employee ports Amiga emulator to Chrome (cnet.com)
113 points by bane on Dec 12, 2013 | 53 comments
24.Introducing Instagram Direct (blog.instagram.com)
111 points by seaghost on Dec 12, 2013 | 96 comments
25.Images Now Showing in Gmail (gmailblog.blogspot.com)
107 points by rorhug on Dec 12, 2013 | 130 comments
26.Metaprogramming Python For Big Data (tuulos.github.io)
104 points by fixxer on Dec 12, 2013 | 27 comments
27.US drone strike kills 15 civilians in Yemen by mistake (reuters.com)
100 points by dkasper on Dec 12, 2013 | 62 comments
28.Techies Are the New Puritans (newrepublic.com)
91 points by mathattack on Dec 12, 2013 | 147 comments
29.First water plume seen firing from Jupiter moon Europa (newscientist.com)
91 points by Fletch137 on Dec 12, 2013 | 50 comments
30.How to bet against the bitcoin megabubble (cnn.com)
88 points by _nodg on Dec 12, 2013 | 69 comments

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