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1. Thoughts on Startup School (daemonology.net)
318 points by cperciva on Oct 18, 2014 | 120 comments
2. What we give away when we log on to a public Wi-Fi network (decorrespondent.nl)
262 points by ricksta on Oct 18, 2014 | 110 comments
3. Building the Largest Ship in the World (alastairphilipwiper.com)
241 points by taytus on Oct 18, 2014 | 68 comments
4. BeeFree email editor (beefree.io)
211 points by massiarri on Oct 18, 2014 | 52 comments
5. Doctors Tell All, and It’s Bad (theatlantic.com)
216 points by ivank on Oct 18, 2014 | 123 comments
6. An Author Confronts Her Number One Online Critic (theguardian.com)
150 points by pepys on Oct 18, 2014 | 45 comments
7. Functional Programming in JavaScript: A Collection of Hands-on Exercises (jhusain.github.io)
144 points by AllThingsSmitty on Oct 18, 2014 | 45 comments
8. The Gentleman Who Made Google Scholar (medium.com/backchannel)
119 points by soundsop on Oct 18, 2014 | 12 comments
9. Your language sucks (damore.org)
109 points by zdw on Oct 18, 2014 | 127 comments
10. A difficult lock to pick [video] (youtube.com)
110 points by bane on Oct 18, 2014 | 25 comments
11. That’s me in the picture: Kevin Berthia on the Golden Gate bridge (theguardian.com)
110 points by sssilver on Oct 18, 2014 | 4 comments
12. Sorry but not sorry (aeon.co)
106 points by bsbechtel on Oct 18, 2014 | 10 comments
13. SSLsplit – Transparent and scalable SSL/TLS interception (roe.ch)
103 points by shayanbahal on Oct 18, 2014 | 34 comments
14. [dupe] Google Material Design Icons (github.com/google)
105 points by jonaslejon on Oct 18, 2014 | 22 comments
15. For a Better Brain, Learn Another Language (theatlantic.com)
105 points by diodorus on Oct 18, 2014 | 52 comments
16. Cops Need a Warrant to Grab Your Cell Tower Data, Florida Court Rules (wired.com)
98 points by diafygi on Oct 18, 2014 | 13 comments
17. Towards Reliable Storage of 56-bit Secrets in Human Memory [pdf] (usenix.org)
101 points by gwern on Oct 18, 2014 | 39 comments
18. How to Build and Use a Multi GPU System for Deep Learning (timdettmers.wordpress.com)
79 points by rbanffy on Oct 18, 2014 | 6 comments
19. Everything You Need to Know About Cooking with Blood (good.is)
84 points by juanplusjuan on Oct 18, 2014 | 36 comments
20. A Conversation with Arthur Whitney (2009) (acm.org)
78 points by radicalbyte on Oct 18, 2014 | 16 comments
21. Gnome developer creates new animated image format (mecheye.net)
88 points by tbrock on Oct 18, 2014 | 36 comments
22. Thinking Functionally with Haskell – Richard Bird's New Book (amazon.com)
73 points by lisptime on Oct 18, 2014 | 14 comments
23. NSA reviewing deal between official, ex-spy agency head (reuters.com)
76 points by r0h1n on Oct 18, 2014 | 32 comments
24. Prospector: Python Static Analysis for Humans (landscape.io)
72 points by doismellburning on Oct 18, 2014 | 21 comments
25. Your Hacker News history visualized (gnod.com)
67 points by mg on Oct 18, 2014 | 16 comments
26. Webmail and Open Source (whiteout.io)
67 points by bpierre on Oct 18, 2014 | 26 comments
27. Military Professional Reading Lists (militaryprofessionalreadinglists.com)
65 points by tcopeland on Oct 18, 2014 | 23 comments
28. The octave – history of a discovery (neuroscience-of-music.se)
59 points by monort on Oct 18, 2014 | 13 comments
29. Marc Andreessen on big data, Bitcoin and upending the world of finance (washingtonpost.com)
53 points by aet on Oct 18, 2014 | 72 comments
30. What's new in the Linux network stack? [pdf] (slyon.de)
63 points by tbrock on Oct 18, 2014 | 3 comments

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