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1.Emacs 24.4 released (lists.gnu.org)
381 points by auvi on Oct 20, 2014 [ext] | 174 comments [ext]
2.Career planning: Where do old devs go to? (ayende.com)
344 points by matthewwarren on Oct 20, 2014 [ext] | 317 comments [ext]
3. [dupe] Corpus of network communications automatically sent to Apple by Yosemite (github.com/fix-macosx)
331 points by haywardsmyfault on Oct 20, 2014 [ext] | 104 comments [ext]
4. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 60 days ago | hide | 65 comments
4.Hints for writing Unix tools (monkey.org)
294 points by mariusae on Oct 20, 2014 [ext] | 125 comments [ext]
5.Facebook's software architecture (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
295 points by colbyaley on Oct 20, 2014 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
6.Building Good Docker Images (bergknoff.com)
274 points by jaswilder on Oct 20, 2014 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
7. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
7.Isaac Asimov Mulls “How Do People Get New Ideas?” (1959) (technologyreview.com)
269 points by Dnguyen on Oct 20, 2014 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
8.Virginia Police Have Been Stockpiling Private Phone Records (wired.com)
240 points by driverdan on Oct 20, 2014 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
9.Vote all you want. The secret government won’t change (bostonglobe.com)
211 points by GuiA on Oct 20, 2014 [ext] | 96 comments [ext]
10. From Shortlist to Shipped: A Tournament Method for Picking Life's Work (guzey.com)
110 points by coz850 602 days ago | hide | 97 comments
10.Writing C in Cython (honnibal.wordpress.com)
195 points by syllogism on Oct 20, 2014 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
11.Piccolo, a tiny CNC bot (piccolo.cc)
188 points by ghosh on Oct 20, 2014 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
12.The Ebola Wars (newyorker.com)
192 points by cwal37 on Oct 20, 2014 [ext] | 107 comments [ext]
13. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
13.Y U NO commit?? (github.com/esneider)
212 points by esneider on Oct 20, 2014 [ext] | 132 comments [ext]
14.Show HN: Using computer vision to detect birds in parks (flickr.net)
195 points by sawthat on Oct 20, 2014 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
15.Machine-Learning Maestro Michael Jordan on the Delusions of Big Data and Others (ieee.org)
185 points by vkn13 on Oct 20, 2014 [ext] | 56 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.Stripe – Apple Pay (stripe.com)
183 points by Killswitch on Oct 20, 2014 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
17.“You Don't Know JS” Book Series (github.com/getify)
173 points by AllThingsSmitty on Oct 20, 2014 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
18.Lab Notebook: Single Pixel Camera (gperco.com)
167 points by mmastrac on Oct 20, 2014 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
19. Asymmetric leverage how Iran holds twenty percent of global oil supply hostage (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 21 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
19.Amazon’s Monopsony Is Not O.K. (nytimes.com)
146 points by constantinum on Oct 20, 2014 [ext] | 199 comments [ext]
20.PicoBrew – Counter-top home brewing machine (picobrew.com)
142 points by cek on Oct 20, 2014 [ext] | 87 comments [ext]
21.In conversation with Marc Andreessen (nymag.com)
138 points by npalli on Oct 20, 2014 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
22. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
22.Programming by Voice: Staying Productive Without Harming Yourself (extrahop.com)
133 points by tgrosinger on Oct 20, 2014 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
23.The Woman Who Filmed Snowden (vice.com)
122 points by dsr12 on Oct 20, 2014 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
24.Please don't make us use iCloud anymore (mosx.tumblr.com)
131 points by chmars on Oct 20, 2014 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
25. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 333 days ago | hide | 88 comments
25.IBM Plunges as CEO Abandons 2015 Earnings Forecast (bloomberg.com)
118 points by orin_hanner on Oct 20, 2014 [ext] | 100 comments [ext]
26.Sacrificial Architecture (martinfowler.com)
120 points by resca79 on Oct 20, 2014 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
27.Pandas 0.15 has been released (pydata.org)
116 points by jvm on Oct 20, 2014 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
28. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 22 hours ago | hide | 47 comments
28.SmileBASIC for Nintendo 3DS (smilebasic.com)
110 points by niconii on Oct 20, 2014 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
29.Haskell Is Exceptionally Unsafe (2012) (existentialtype.wordpress.com)
107 points by kirkbackus on Oct 20, 2014 [ext] | 122 comments [ext]
30.Payola – A Rails engine for Stripe (petekeen.net)
104 points by zrail on Oct 20, 2014 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
31. 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

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