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1.Welcome, Freshmen. You Don't Deserve to Be Here (chronicle.com)
373 points by onedev on Oct 15, 2013 [ext] | 199 comments [ext]
2.The Russia Left Behind (nytimes.com)
363 points by mxfh on Oct 15, 2013 [ext] | 214 comments [ext]
3.GoDaddy, Media Temple, and the Horrible World of Web Hosting (marco.org)
354 points by mh_ on Oct 15, 2013 [ext] | 161 comments [ext]
4. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 84 days ago | hide | 14 comments
4.Hacker News is a social echo chamber (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
339 points by BCM43 on Oct 15, 2013 [ext] | 194 comments [ext]
5.Manager.io – Free accounting software for small businesses (manager.io)
290 points by Heliosmaster on Oct 15, 2013 [ext] | 135 comments [ext]
6.MathGifs (mathgifs.blogspot.co.uk)
269 points by co_pl_te on Oct 15, 2013 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
7. When Peak AI Capability Arrives at Impractical Prices, Deployment Lags (tobyord.com)
290 points by oox1230 1 day ago | hide | 120 comments
7.Free Font: Norwester (jamiewilson.io)
252 points by benoitg on Oct 15, 2013 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
8.Baidu now accepts Bitcoin (bitcointalk.org)
208 points by ferdo on Oct 15, 2013 [ext] | 104 comments [ext]
9.Things I learned at YC (aelag.com)
204 points by aelaguiz on Oct 15, 2013 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
10. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 10 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
10.Glenn Greenwald is leaving The Guardian (ggsidedocs.blogspot.com.br)
201 points by duck on Oct 15, 2013 [ext] | 104 comments [ext]
11.VirtualBox 4.3 released (virtualbox.org)
155 points by conductor on Oct 15, 2013 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
12.A quick look at the Redis source code (heychinaski.com)
149 points by HeyChinaski on Oct 15, 2013 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
13. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
13.A Court Order is an Insider Attack (freedom-to-tinker.com)
146 points by Amadou on Oct 15, 2013 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
14.Stack Exchange's monitoring system is now open source (github.com/opserver)
147 points by waffle_ss on Oct 15, 2013 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
15.Introducing Rubinius X (rubini.us)
153 points by yannski on Oct 15, 2013 [ext] | 215 comments [ext]
16. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 114 days ago | hide | 193 comments
16.LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs (reidhoffman.org)
152 points by Ecio78 on Oct 15, 2013 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
17.GoDaddy Buys Media Temple (techcrunch.com)
141 points by recusancy on Oct 15, 2013 [ext] | 167 comments [ext]
18.India to launch its first mission to Mars [video] (venturebeat.com)
136 points by gagan2020 on Oct 15, 2013 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
19. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
19.Pixar's Universal Scene Description (pixar.com)
126 points by gdubs on Oct 15, 2013 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
20.Aaron Swartz’s last gift to journalism and online privacy finds a new home (washingtonpost.com)
126 points by trauco on Oct 15, 2013 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
21.In iOS 7, the final straw for Newsstand (markokarppinen.com)
128 points by jamesmoss on Oct 15, 2013 [ext] | 89 comments [ext]
22. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 251 days ago | hide | 170 comments
22.Nginx Inc. raises $10M in Series B round (nginx.com)
126 points by shad42 on Oct 15, 2013 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
23.Brazilian government to ditch Microsoft in favour of bespoke email system (zdnet.com)
117 points by singold on Oct 15, 2013 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
24.“The 'use asm' pragma is not necessary to opt into optimizations in V8” (code.google.com)
116 points by elisee on Oct 15, 2013 [ext] | 112 comments [ext]
25. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 210 days ago | hide | 32 comments
25.Incremental Garbage Collector in PyPy (morepypy.blogspot.com)
114 points by fijal on Oct 15, 2013 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
26.Why is the number 1,729 hidden in Futurama episodes? (bbc.co.uk)
101 points by programsvalues on Oct 15, 2013 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
27.Lavabit gets new crypto key, gives users 72 hours to recover e-mails (arstechnica.com)
103 points by shawndumas on Oct 15, 2013 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
28. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
28.Explaining an astonishing slinky (danielwalsh.tumblr.com)
95 points by scott_s on Oct 15, 2013 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
29.Zookal starts "world first" delivery-by-drone service in Sydney (pandodaily.com)
93 points by tomhoward on Oct 15, 2013 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
30.How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses (wired.com)
93 points by 0cool on Oct 15, 2013 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
31. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 262 days ago | hide | 183 comments

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