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1.The myth of NASA's expensive space pens (kottke.org)
452 points by jwdunne on Oct 10, 2013 [ext] | 133 comments [ext]
2.Should we stop believing Malcolm Gladwell? (ksj.mit.edu)
370 points by r0h1n on Oct 10, 2013 [ext] | 222 comments [ext]
3.“I wrote FAT on an airplane, for heaven's sake” (msdn.com)
306 points by Hrundi on Oct 10, 2013 [ext] | 115 comments [ext]
4. Assad's fall strands Moscow's warm-water ambitions at sea (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 491 days ago | hide | 26 comments
4.This Bird Can Stay in Flight for Six Months Straight (smithsonianmag.com)
271 points by danso on Oct 10, 2013 [ext] | 74 comments [ext]
5.Facebook Removing Option To Be Unsearchable By Name (techcrunch.com)
248 points by austenallred on Oct 10, 2013 [ext] | 176 comments [ext]
6.IKEA or Death-Metal (ikeaordeath.com)
217 points by klaustopher on Oct 10, 2013 [ext] | 82 comments [ext]
7. Why self-play crushed two-week-old agents 95% of the time (blog.samaltman.com)
487 points by htx5127 611 days ago | hide | 15 comments
7.We paid $634 million for the Obamacare sites and all we got was this lousy 404 (digitaltrends.com)
208 points by Yoms on Oct 10, 2013 [ext] | 219 comments [ext]
8.Report: 110 people own 35% of Russia's wealth (ap.org)
192 points by ddeck on Oct 10, 2013 [ext] | 165 comments [ext]
9.Don’t email me (haxx.se)
167 points by jonaslejon on Oct 10, 2013 [ext] | 90 comments [ext]
10. How Three Laws Quietly Killed the Programmable Web (continuations.com)
215 points by doz2675 595 days ago | hide | 76 comments
10.IE seems right, Chrome seems wrong (jessepollak.me)
166 points by jessepollak on Oct 10, 2013 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
11.A strange lonely planet found without a star (phys.org)
154 points by evo_9 on Oct 10, 2013 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
12.Microsoft pays $100K bounty to hacker (financialpost.com)
140 points by Maven911 on Oct 10, 2013 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
13. Why Uber-for-X Failed While Amazon Built an Impenetrable Moat ()
257 points by pen4647 498 days ago | hide | 50 comments
13.JSIL - .NET bytecode to JS compiler (jsil.org)
119 points by cobrausn on Oct 10, 2013 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
14.DropzoneJs – drag-and-drop file uploads with image previews (dropzonejs.com)
119 points by dhruvbhatia on Oct 10, 2013 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
15.Weary of ‘Fruit Fly’ Consumer Startups, Andreessen Horowitz Raises Series A Bar (wsj.com)
116 points by _pius on Oct 10, 2013 [ext] | 95 comments [ext]
16. Economic arbitrage of your own career before the intelligence revolution strikes (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 3 days ago | hide | 127 comments
16.Foxconn using forced student labor to build Sony’s PS4 (gamesinasia.com)
107 points by Impossible on Oct 10, 2013 [ext] | 102 comments [ext]
17.I asked for a t-shirt, I got a job (unfiniti.com)
117 points by mahmoudimus on Oct 10, 2013 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
18.Making full table scan 10x faster in InnoDB (yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com)
98 points by aritraghosh007 on Oct 10, 2013 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
19. Stop Slaving Over Slides: A Technical Expert’s Framework for Memorable Presentations (m.youtube.com)
81 points by pom4591 231 days ago | hide | 180 comments
19.Free tools we used to build our startup (shyahi.com)
99 points by sdiw on Oct 10, 2013 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
20.Aerospace Company Develops Drone That Can Fly Continuously For 5 Years (cbslocal.com)
99 points by sshykes on Oct 10, 2013 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
21.How Do you Motivate Yourself and Stay Focused? (bothsidesofthetable.com)
99 points by peterkchen on Oct 10, 2013 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
22. What 14 Years at Google Taught Me About Everything Except Code (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 106 days ago | hide | 48 comments
22.Scott Carpenter, Mercury Astronaut Who Orbited Earth, Dies at 88 (nytimes.com)
96 points by jmadsen on Oct 10, 2013 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
23.The Secrets of Bezos: How Amazon Became the Everything Store (businessweek.com)
93 points by kineticfocus on Oct 10, 2013 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
24.Valve Confirms Official AMD-Powered Steam Machines For 2014 (forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho)
91 points by conductor on Oct 10, 2013 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
25. How a Polymarket Wallet Outearned Google Predicting Gemini 3's Launch (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 59 days ago | hide | 13 comments
25.GoDaddy Pulls Lavabit's Security Creds Because the FBI Got Its Encryption Keys (forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill)
95 points by bcn on Oct 10, 2013 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
26.Microsoft: The Best Xbox One Gaming Experience Will Be Over IPv6 (internetsociety.org)
86 points by danyork on Oct 10, 2013 [ext] | 81 comments [ext]
27.Show HN: NSString + Ruby (github.com/zdavison)
87 points by thingsdoer on Oct 10, 2013 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
28. Generative AI may finally crack physical design's impenetrable vendor lock-in (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 594 days ago | hide | 193 comments
28.I wrote a book called Winning Isn't Normal (jasonshen.com)
84 points by jasonshen on Oct 10, 2013 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
29.Why I Will Never Return to the USA (dasmag.nl)
82 points by w1ntermute on Oct 10, 2013 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
30.AWS Activate (amazon.com)
84 points by yarapavan on Oct 10, 2013 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
31. One Year, Sixty Scientists, and a Contrarian Verdict on Academia (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 603 days ago | hide | 193 comments

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