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1.Trouble at the Koolaid Point (seriouspony.com)
723 points by mpweiher on Oct 8, 2014 [ext] | 266 comments [ext]
2.Adobe Spyware Reveals Again the Price of DRM: Your Privacy and Security (eff.org)
504 points by sinak on Oct 8, 2014 [ext] | 166 comments [ext]
3.Final – A credit card built for the 21st century (getfinal.com)
517 points by arfrank on Oct 8, 2014 [ext] | 358 comments [ext]
4. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
4.Move Fast and Break Nothing (zachholman.com)
459 points by bpierre on Oct 8, 2014 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
5.Watson Services (ibm.com)
362 points by harscoat on Oct 8, 2014 [ext] | 104 comments [ext]
6.Fixing a 37-year-old bug by merging a 22-year-old fix (openbsd.org)
268 points by tscherno on Oct 8, 2014 [ext] | 72 comments [ext]
7. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 114 days ago | hide | 193 comments
7.Wanna know what product your competitor is working on? Try Slack (tanay.co.in)
273 points by tangoalpha on Oct 8, 2014 [ext] | 140 comments [ext]
8.Show HN: HTML5 online animation editor that exports to SVG and SMIL (animatron.com)
239 points by VasyaPupkin on Oct 8, 2014 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
9.Microsoft Xim (getxim.com)
229 points by emadelwany on Oct 8, 2014 [ext] | 112 comments [ext]
10. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 260 days ago | hide | 150 comments
10.Poll: How long could you survive without income? [ext]
218 points by jacquesm on Oct 8, 2014 [ext] | 144 comments [ext]
11.Show HN: Sail boat simulation – try to sail into the wind (imakesnowflakes.com)
229 points by imakesnowflakes on Oct 8, 2014 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
12.Show HN: A curated list of Chrome DevTools tips and tricks (devtoolstips.com)
212 points by jefkoslowski on Oct 8, 2014 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
13. The Three Ingredients Behind Jitse Groen's Takeaway.com Conquest Of Europe (linkedin.com)
154 points by krz3514 373 days ago | hide | 13 comments
13.Venezuelans turn to Bitcoins to bypass currency controls (reuters.com)
174 points by rafaelm on Oct 8, 2014 [ext] | 95 comments [ext]
14.Firestone Stopped Ebola in Its Tracks (npr.org)
183 points by mdturnerphys on Oct 8, 2014 [ext] | 96 comments [ext]
15.San Francisco Legalizes, Regulates Airbnb with 7-4 Vote, Lots of Amendments (techcrunch.com)
159 points by enra on Oct 8, 2014 [ext] | 111 comments [ext]
16. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
16.Peter Thiel Is Wrong About the Future (bloombergview.com)
136 points by T-A on Oct 8, 2014 [ext] | 139 comments [ext]
17.A native code to C/C++ decompiler (derevenets.com)
137 points by fla on Oct 8, 2014 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
18.Segment (YC S11) Raises $15 Million Series A (segment.com)
141 points by pkrein on Oct 8, 2014 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
19. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 251 days ago | hide | 128 comments
19.Running GUI apps with Docker (fabiorehm.com)
123 points by SlipperySlope on Oct 8, 2014 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
20.The Curse of Increasing Marginal Work Utility, or Why I Work So Much (togelius.blogspot.com)
111 points by nkurz on Oct 8, 2014 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
21.The Kitchen Network: America’s Underground Chinese Restaurant Workers (newyorker.com)
115 points by throwaway344 on Oct 8, 2014 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
22. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 592 days ago | hide | 193 comments
22.Qubes – Secure Desktop OS Using Security by Compartmentalization (qubes-os.org)
101 points by tete on Oct 8, 2014 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
23.DEA impersonates real person on Facebook (techdirt.com)
90 points by k4jh on Oct 8, 2014 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
24.“Shellshock” (dwheeler.com)
92 points by bronson on Oct 8, 2014 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
25. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 251 days ago | hide | 170 comments
25.The Quality, Popularity, and Negativity of 5.6M Hacker News Comments (minimaxir.com)
82 points by sinak on Oct 8, 2014 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
26.In Spain, Politics via Reddit (newyorker.com)
95 points by loomio on Oct 8, 2014 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
27.WePay (YC S09) Launches WePay Clear, a Stripe Competitor with Fraud Protection (techcrunch.com)
92 points by transburgh on Oct 8, 2014 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
28. Structure Over Style: How Knowledge and Practice Beat Natural Speaking Talent (m.youtube.com)
81 points by pom4591 229 days ago | hide | 180 comments
28.Analyze Your HN Posts with Watson User Modeling (mybluemix.net)
75 points by Jonovono on Oct 8, 2014 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
29.A Massively Parallel Computing Solution (micron.com)
77 points by mariusz79 on Oct 8, 2014 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
30.UW fusion reactor concept could be cheaper than coal (washington.edu)
72 points by mrfusion on Oct 8, 2014 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
31. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 262 days ago | hide | 11 comments

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