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1.Pro Git, 2nd Edition (git-scm.com)
411 points by petercooper on Oct 25, 2014 [ext] | 79 comments [ext]
2.Angular 2 Core (docs.google.com)
363 points by tilt on Oct 25, 2014 [ext] | 272 comments [ext]
3.Teacher spends two days as a student and is shocked at what she learns (washingtonpost.com)
306 points by bane on Oct 25, 2014 [ext] | 177 comments [ext]
4. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 333 days ago | hide | 88 comments
4.Law Lets I.R.S. Seize Accounts on Suspicion, No Crime Required
236 points by 001sky on Oct 25, 2014 [ext] | 130 comments [ext]
5.Wikipedia needs an IDE, not a WYSIWYG editor (medium.com/mrjamesfisher)
196 points by jamesfisher on Oct 25, 2014 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
6.We Just Thought, 'This Is How You Start a Company in America' (forbes.com/sites/groupthink)
223 points by staunch on Oct 25, 2014 [ext] | 86 comments [ext]
7. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 170 days ago | hide | 48 comments
7.Will It Optimize? (2010) (ridiculousfish.com)
177 points by jeffreyrogers on Oct 25, 2014 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
8.Show HN: Paperman – LaTeX editor with a Markdown feel (patricklorio.com)
120 points by patricklorio on Oct 25, 2014 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
9.The Problem with Positive Thinking (nytimes.com)
103 points by donmcc on Oct 25, 2014 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
10. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
10.Why Google wants to replace Gmail (computerworld.com)
99 points by nkurz on Oct 25, 2014 [ext] | 69 comments [ext]
11.How statically linked programs run on Linux (2012) (thegreenplace.net)
107 points by arunc on Oct 25, 2014 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
12.Google Warns: bit.ly Links Are Unsafe (google.com)
110 points by antoniotajuelo on Oct 25, 2014 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
13. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
13.An Introduction to Semiconductor Economics (adapteva.com)
97 points by mpoloton on Oct 25, 2014 [ext] | 2 comments [ext]
14.Ice Cream and Distributed Systems (brooker.co.za)
90 points by mjb on Oct 25, 2014 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
15.Ask HN: Making money with ebooks and video courses vs. writing apps? [ext]
89 points by facepalm on Oct 25, 2014 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
16. From Shortlist to Shipped: A Tournament Method for Picking Life's Work (guzey.com)
110 points by coz850 602 days ago | hide | 97 comments
16.Binary Search Eliminates Branch Mispredictions (2012) (pvk.ca)
89 points by luu on Oct 25, 2014 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
17.Living with Schizophrenia: Coffee and Friends (nytimes.com)
87 points by basisword on Oct 25, 2014 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
18.Indian Air Force Issues Security Warning; Xiaomi Clears the Air (ibtimes.co.in)
89 points by chdir on Oct 25, 2014 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
19. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
19.Recreating the spectrogram face (danielrapp.github.io)
79 points by DanielRapp on Oct 25, 2014 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
20.Flatbuffers by Google – CapnProto alternative (github.com/google)
83 points by halayli on Oct 25, 2014 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
21.Retailers are disabling NFC readers to shut out Apple Pay (theverge.com)
73 points by gws on Oct 25, 2014 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
22. How a PVC rig in a Dallas garage became a $500M chemicals company (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 600 days ago | hide | 170 comments
22.Windows 93 (windows93.net)
91 points by MrBra on Oct 25, 2014 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
23.Show HN: Startup Utility – Collection of Startup Resources (startuputility.com)
90 points by bigcatns16 on Oct 25, 2014 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
24.Why Meteor (meteorpedia.com)
81 points by sgdesign on Oct 25, 2014 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
25. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 92 days ago | hide | 70 comments
25.Hand Coded Assembly Beats Intrinsics in Speed and Simplicity (danluu.com)
76 points by nkurz on Oct 25, 2014 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
26.Researcher finds Tor exit node adding malware to binaries (threatpost.com)
73 points by anigbrowl on Oct 25, 2014 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
27.Stealthy startup Soft Machines launches virtual CPU cores (pcworld.com)
72 points by kjhughes on Oct 25, 2014 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
28. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 120 days ago | hide | 105 comments
28.William Gibson Writes the Future (gq.com)
70 points by Thevet on Oct 25, 2014 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
29.Show HN: “Did You Mean?” for Python (github.com/dutc)
66 points by jamesdutc on Oct 25, 2014 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
30.The Curious Case of Human Hibernation (inhumanexperiment.blogspot.com)
71 points by edward on Oct 25, 2014 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
31. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 263 days ago | hide | 11 comments

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