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1. In Almost Every European Country, Bikes Are Outselling New Cars (npr.org)
358 points by antr on Oct 25, 2013 | 298 comments
2. Is Google building a hulking floating data center in SF Bay? (cnet.com)
341 points by chasef on Oct 25, 2013 | 242 comments
3. EFF Has Lavabit’s Back in Contempt of Court Appeal (eff.org)
240 points by DiabloD3 on Oct 25, 2013 | 60 comments
4. Seagate just reinvented the disk interface using Ethernet (speakingofclouds.com)
235 points by slyall on Oct 25, 2013 | 117 comments
5. Why women lose the dating game (smh.com.au)
214 points by jseliger on Oct 25, 2013 | 356 comments
6. Mozilla Lightbeam – Relationships between third parties and the sites you visit (addons.mozilla.org)
211 points by casca on Oct 25, 2013 | 24 comments
7. uTorrent tricking users into changing default browser settings? (utorrent.com)
209 points by gantengx on Oct 25, 2013 | 147 comments
8. Meet the Private Companies Helping Cops Spy on Protesters (rollingstone.com)
198 points by devx on Oct 25, 2013 | 52 comments
9. An unofficial alternative to the HN interface (hckrnews.com)
171 points by fuhrer1996 on Oct 25, 2013 | 85 comments
10. The Architecture of Open Source Applications (aosabook.org)
168 points by xcyu on Oct 25, 2013 | 15 comments
11. A 140-Acre Forest Is About to Materialize in the Middle of Detroit (theatlanticcities.com)
163 points by kdazzle on Oct 25, 2013 | 86 comments
12. Most people won't (bryce.vc)
161 points by _hv99 on Oct 25, 2013 | 77 comments
13. Knockout v3.0.0 released (knockoutjs.com)
158 points by johnny_reilly on Oct 25, 2013 | 74 comments
14. Show HN: Make your app handle going offline (hubspot.com)
151 points by adamschwartz on Oct 25, 2013 | 29 comments
15. The Decline of Wikipedia: As More People Rely on It, Fewer People Create It (technologyreview.com)
126 points by uladzislau on Oct 25, 2013 | 138 comments
16. “I Quit Academia,” an Important, Growing Subgenre of American Essays (slate.com)
124 points by tokenadult on Oct 25, 2013 | 117 comments
17. WhiteDB – Lightweight NoSQL database written in C, operating in main memory (whitedb.org)
126 points by majidazimi on Oct 25, 2013 | 78 comments
18. Technology Change: .Net to Scala (randonom.com)
116 points by SanderMak on Oct 25, 2013 | 145 comments
19. Self-driving cars projected to reduce injuries by 90%, save $450B annually (techspot.com)
103 points by alok-g on Oct 25, 2013 | 141 comments
20. Django 1.4.9 and 1.5.5 released (djangoproject.com)
99 points by hackhackhack on Oct 25, 2013 | 23 comments
21. 15 years ago, Congress kept Mickey Mouse copyrighted. Will they do it again? (washingtonpost.com)
99 points by brey on Oct 25, 2013 | 135 comments
22. Tsunami advisory in northern Japan after 7.1 magnitude earthquake off coast (cir.ca)
97 points by teawithcarl on Oct 25, 2013 | 56 comments
23. iWork, Pages 5: An unmitigated disaster (betalogue.com)
84 points by uniqueid on Oct 25, 2013 | 69 comments
24. How Obama's BlackBerry got secured (electrospaces.blogspot.com)
83 points by trauco on Oct 25, 2013 | 32 comments
25. Facebook Is No Longer the Most Popular Social Network for Teens (slate.com)
84 points by cjdrake on Oct 25, 2013 | 75 comments
26. Choosing the perfect typeface (cucumbertown.com)
76 points by alagu on Oct 25, 2013 | 39 comments
27. PouchDB, the In-Browser Database That Replicates (cloudant.com)
79 points by mbroberg on Oct 25, 2013 | 35 comments
28. Scratch for Arduino (s4a.cat)
72 points by nickmain on Oct 25, 2013 | 11 comments
29. This Obamacare contractor doesn’t take security seriously (washingtonpost.com)
70 points by RougeFemme on Oct 25, 2013 | 81 comments
30. UK police mistakenly believed they found 3D printed gun in raid (newscientist.com)
68 points by kisamoto on Oct 25, 2013 | 68 comments

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