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1. Walmart Node.js Memory Leak (joyent.com)
466 points by btmills on Nov 23, 2013 | 75 comments
2. The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath (smithsonianmag.com)
227 points by tjaerv on Nov 23, 2013 | 140 comments
3. What does "HREF" stand for? (2008) (tomayko.com)
219 points by sebkomianos on Nov 23, 2013 | 49 comments
4. How to launder Bitcoins (oleganza.com)
175 points by oleganza on Nov 23, 2013 | 78 comments
5. Study Suggests Link Between Dread Pirate Roberts and Satoshi Nakamoto (nytimes.com)
172 points by coolswan on Nov 23, 2013 | 120 comments
6. Here’s who probably did that $150 million Bitcoin transaction (washingtonpost.com)
167 points by rkudeshi on Nov 23, 2013 | 111 comments
7. Life of solitude: A loneliness crisis is looming (theglobeandmail.com)
164 points by uladzislau on Nov 23, 2013 | 161 comments
8. Namecoin, A Replacement For SSL (mediocregopher.com)
159 points by mediocregopher on Nov 23, 2013 | 93 comments
9. NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious software (nrc.nl)
155 points by posthumangr on Nov 23, 2013 | 93 comments
10. Store owner installs surveillance cameras to spy on police (cnet.com)
153 points by fraqed on Nov 23, 2013 | 67 comments
11. GitLab 6.3 released: open-source software to collaborate on code (blog.gitlab.org)
147 points by randx on Nov 23, 2013 | 53 comments
12. 16 years after a mass suicide, the webpage is still up (heavensgate.com)
140 points by standeven on Nov 23, 2013 | 103 comments
13. Aluminium: The metal that just keeps on giving (bbc.co.uk)
131 points by Nux on Nov 23, 2013 | 70 comments
14. Aldous Huxley: the prophet of our brave new digital dystopia (theguardian.com)
120 points by happyman on Nov 23, 2013 | 44 comments
15. MySQL 5.7: over 1M queries/sec on a single machine (dimitrik.free.fr)
115 points by continuations on Nov 23, 2013 | 50 comments
16. The Story of Marion Stokes, Who Single-Handedly Taped 35 Years Of TV News (fastcompany.com)
104 points by JoshGlazebrook on Nov 23, 2013 | 15 comments
17. I made a distributed, anonymous network for online discussion
102 points by rolleiflex on Nov 23, 2013 | 45 comments
18. Photographer wins $1.2M from companies that took pics off Twitter (reuters.com)
97 points by cwan on Nov 23, 2013 | 65 comments
19. Sex over distance using affordable consumer teledildonic robots (vice.com)
99 points by frixionme on Nov 23, 2013 | 95 comments
20. Bitcoin Surpasses PayPal in Transaction Volume? (coinowl.com)
91 points by lelf on Nov 23, 2013 | 50 comments
21. N.S.A. Report Outlined Goals for More Power (nytimes.com)
87 points by r0h1n on Nov 23, 2013 | 28 comments
22. Ancient Abandoned Websites That Still Work (mentalfloss.com)
80 points by jamesbritt on Nov 23, 2013 | 37 comments
23. Addressing Questions about the Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon (developerforce.com)
79 points by minimaxir on Nov 23, 2013 | 37 comments
24. Chrome Extension Programming: Illustrating a Basic Survival Skill (karpathy.ca)
76 points by djent on Nov 23, 2013 | 23 comments
25. [dupe] PayPal releases Kraken, Node.js framework (krakenjs.com)
76 points by bluepnume on Nov 23, 2013 | 24 comments
26. Kraken.js: Enterprise-grade Node.js web application framework (krakenjs.com)
66 points by mduvall on Nov 23, 2013 | 20 comments
27. Google Can Bring an End to Censorship in 10 Days (greatfire.org)
71 points by nkurz on Nov 23, 2013 | 73 comments
28. America's underground market for adopted children (reuters.com)
68 points by sir_kitty on Nov 23, 2013 | 36 comments
29. Ison: The comet of the century (bbc.co.uk)
61 points by Libertatea on Nov 23, 2013 | 16 comments
30. US police force pay Bitcoin ransom in Cryptolocker malware scam (theguardian.com)
65 points by cellis on Nov 23, 2013 | 31 comments

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