| 1. | | 1984 v. Brave New World (lettersofnote.com) |
| 449 points by moritzfelipe on Oct 23, 2014 [ext] | 195 comments [ext] |
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| 2. | | Old Masters: After 80, some people donβt retire. They reign (nytimes.com) |
| 411 points by wallflower on Oct 23, 2014 [ext] | 104 comments [ext] |
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| 3. | | Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems (newsweek.com) |
| 362 points by rcamera on Oct 23, 2014 [ext] | 193 comments [ext] |
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Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com) |
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370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
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| 4. | | Ask HN: My 56-year-old father is a developer having a tough time finding a job [ext] |
| 318 points by luisivan on Oct 23, 2014 [ext] | 216 comments [ext] |
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| 5. | | Verizon Wireless injecting tracking UIDs into HTTP requests [ext] |
| 299 points by pillfill on Oct 23, 2014 [ext] | 146 comments [ext] |
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| 6. | | AWS Frankfurt, Germany Region (amazon.com) |
| 293 points by ostrowski on Oct 23, 2014 [ext] | 107 comments [ext] |
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A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com) |
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488 points by gon322 114 days ago | hide | 68 comments
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| 7. | | Vatican Library Puts 4,000 Ancient Manuscripts Available Online for Free (messagetoeagle.com) |
| 280 points by Shivetya on Oct 23, 2014 [ext] | 134 comments [ext] |
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| 8. | | Y Combinator, a Two-Year-Old, and a Pregnant Wife (tiempoapp.com) |
| 288 points by tadmilbourn on Oct 23, 2014 [ext] | 147 comments [ext] |
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| 9. | | Ten years of Ubuntu (arstechnica.com) |
| 246 points by hpaavola on Oct 23, 2014 [ext] | 170 comments [ext] |
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Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com) |
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244 points by auz7944 479 days ago | hide | 22 comments
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| 10. | | Mono for Unreal Engine (tirania.org) |
| 221 points by jstedfast on Oct 23, 2014 [ext] | 90 comments [ext] |
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| 11. | | Fingerprints Are Usernames, Not Passwords (2013) (dustinkirkland.com) |
| 219 points by sc90 on Oct 23, 2014 [ext] | 102 comments [ext] |
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| 12. | | EFF Relaunches Surveillance Self-Defense Guide (eff.org) |
| 203 points by schoen on Oct 23, 2014 [ext] | 46 comments [ext] |
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Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence () |
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215 points by fik8005 57 days ago | hide | 155 comments
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| 13. | | Migrating from AWS to AWS (instagram-engineering.tumblr.com) |
| 206 points by mikeyk on Oct 23, 2014 [ext] | 15 comments [ext] |
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| 14. | | Are we at Peak Google? (stratechery.com) |
| 193 points by nagarjun on Oct 23, 2014 [ext] | 142 comments [ext] |
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| 15. | | Diary of a Corporate Sellout (medium.com/message) |
| 189 points by rtpg on Oct 23, 2014 [ext] | 35 comments [ext] |
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How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press) |
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117 points by lrx6827 200 days ago | hide | 18 comments
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| 16. | | An Imaginary Town Becomes Real, Then Not (npr.org) |
| 174 points by dalek2point3 on Oct 23, 2014 [ext] | 39 comments [ext] |
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| 17. | | More Cities Are Making It Illegal to Hand Out Food to the Homeless (npr.org) |
| 166 points by jcater on Oct 23, 2014 [ext] | 189 comments [ext] |
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| 18. | | Bitcoin over Tor isn't a good idea (arxiv.org) |
| 162 points by Anon84 on Oct 23, 2014 [ext] | 36 comments [ext] |
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A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu) |
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129 points by bsk2489 211 days ago | hide | 32 comments
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| 19. | | Facebook Rooms (rooms.me) |
| 164 points by jamesjyu on Oct 23, 2014 [ext] | 110 comments [ext] |
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| 20. | | Building a Forex Trading Platform Using Kafka, Storm and Cassandra (insightdataengineering.com) |
| 139 points by jecs321 on Oct 23, 2014 [ext] | 39 comments [ext] |
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| 21. | | A Natural A/B Test of Harassment (kongregate.com) |
| 123 points by benologist on Oct 23, 2014 [ext] | 128 comments [ext] |
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The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com) |
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376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
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| 22. | | Mapillary in the OpenStreetMap iD Editor (mapillary.com) |
| 142 points by petern on Oct 23, 2014 [ext] | 24 comments [ext] |
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| 23. | | China no longer has a stranglehold on the world's supply of rare earth metals (vox.com) |
| 114 points by nkurz on Oct 23, 2014 [ext] | 66 comments [ext] |
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| 24. | | Who am I? (news.ycombinator.com) |
| 111 points by networked on Oct 23, 2014 [ext] | 24 comments [ext] |
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Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com) |
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43 points by jan967 252 days ago | hide | 128 comments
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| 25. | | Comparing OCaml and Standard ML (chlipala.net) |
| 103 points by carloscm on Oct 23, 2014 [ext] | 68 comments [ext] |
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| 26. | | The laborers of content moderation on Facebook (wired.com) |
| 101 points by InternetGiant on Oct 23, 2014 [ext] | 19 comments [ext] |
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| 27. | | Apple Maps Connect (mapsconnect.apple.com) |
| 100 points by Aqua_Geek on Oct 23, 2014 [ext] | 43 comments [ext] |
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The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com) |
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216 points by iam5056 263 days ago | hide | 183 comments
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| 28. | | Microsoft Cloud Strength and Hardware Progress Drive Record Q1 Revenue (microsoft.com) |
| 98 points by theatraine on Oct 23, 2014 [ext] | 24 comments [ext] |
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| 29. | | Bay Area tech company caught paying imported workers $1.21 per hour (engadget.com) |
| 103 points by akerl_ on Oct 23, 2014 [ext] | 88 comments [ext] |
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| 30. | | CSS-only plotting (github.com/asciimoo) |
| 102 points by teddet on Oct 23, 2014 [ext] | 31 comments [ext] |
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Why you care for your dog better than yourself β and the fix (web.archive.org) |
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