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1.How Apple’s Siri Became One Autistic Boy's B.F.F (nytimes.com)
377 points by basisword on Oct 17, 2014 [ext] | 81 comments [ext]
2.A Raw Deal in Michigan (teslamotors.com)
347 points by lalwanivikas on Oct 17, 2014 [ext] | 194 comments [ext]
3.Ask HN: How do you use Docker in production? [ext]
309 points by valevk on Oct 17, 2014 [ext] | 151 comments [ext]
4. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 59 days ago | hide | 65 comments
4.Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People (tobyrush.com)
255 points by Tomte on Oct 17, 2014 [ext] | 120 comments [ext]
5.Vitesse Data: Postgres + LLVM (vitessedata.com)
257 points by yangyang on Oct 17, 2014 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
6.Disable sharing of Spotlight searches with Apple (fix-macosx.com)
244 points by teacup50 on Oct 17, 2014 [ext] | 134 comments [ext]
7. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
7.Arcadia: Unity 3D Development in Clojure (arcadia-unity.tumblr.com)
229 points by ramseynasser on Oct 17, 2014 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
8.The FBI Is Wrong: Apple’s Encryption Is in the Public Interest (wired.com)
218 points by tchalla on Oct 17, 2014 [ext] | 101 comments [ext]
9.What Is Google Chrome Helper, and Why Is It Hogging My CPU Cycles? (wired.com)
197 points by dsr12 on Oct 17, 2014 [ext] | 78 comments [ext]
10. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
10.Twitpic blocking archive team from backing up pictures (twitter.com/textfiles)
189 points by Argorak on Oct 17, 2014 [ext] | 152 comments [ext]
11.The Uncle Who Works for Nintendo (correlatedcontents.com)
172 points by mikeleeorg on Oct 17, 2014 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
12.Emacs 24.4 RC 1 (lists.gnu.org)
153 points by Xyzodiac on Oct 17, 2014 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
13. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 84 days ago | hide | 177 comments
13.Show HN: Sublime Text Book (sublimetextbook.com)
163 points by wesbos on Oct 17, 2014 [ext] | 100 comments [ext]
14.Privacy Router Anonabox Gets $600K in Crowdfunding and Huge Backlash (wired.com)
152 points by ghosh on Oct 17, 2014 [ext] | 88 comments [ext]
15.How Big is Email? (medium.com/raindrift)
134 points by raindrift on Oct 17, 2014 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
16. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 367 days ago | hide | 7 comments
16.Coanda Effect: Understanding Why Wings Work (karmak.org)
128 points by razzaj on Oct 17, 2014 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
17.Material Design Icons (github.com/google)
127 points by ytzvan on Oct 17, 2014 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
18.Some thoughts on asking for a raise (heidiroizen.tumblr.com)
115 points by whbk on Oct 17, 2014 [ext] | 90 comments [ext]
19. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
19.Rental America: Why the poor pay $4,150 for a $1,500 sofa (washingtonpost.com)
108 points by footpath on Oct 17, 2014 [ext] | 203 comments [ext]
20.Interview: Thomas Voß of Mir (linuxvoice.com)
105 points by mksaunders on Oct 17, 2014 [ext] | 85 comments [ext]
21.Kickstarter Freezes Anonabox Privacy Router Project for Misleading Funders (wired.com)
100 points by byoogle on Oct 17, 2014 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
22. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
22.BBC to publish 'right to be forgotten' removals list (bbc.com)
100 points by mineshaftgap on Oct 17, 2014 [ext] | 121 comments [ext]
23.Is This the Future of Robotic Legs? (smithsonianmag.com)
106 points by bane on Oct 17, 2014 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
24.About My Yosemite Review (hypercritical.co)
90 points by zdw on Oct 17, 2014 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
25. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
25.NASA, SpaceX Share Data on Supersonic Retropropulsion (aviationweek.com)
91 points by elektropionir on Oct 17, 2014 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
26.Bilingual brains: Variety makes you mentally fit (economist.com)
98 points by anishkothari on Oct 17, 2014 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
27.The Search for MH 370 (Inmarsat) (cambridge.org)
86 points by wglb on Oct 17, 2014 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
28. Why Most Marketplace Network Effects Are Surprisingly Easy to Replicate ()
257 points by pen4647 496 days ago | hide | 50 comments
28.My Last Day at PivotDesk (ktinboulder.com)
90 points by paulgerhardt on Oct 17, 2014 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
29.Argentina launches its first home-built satellite (businessweek.com)
87 points by patomolina on Oct 17, 2014 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
30.Hope – A Python JIT for astrophysical computations (github.com/cosmo-ethz)
84 points by catkin on Oct 17, 2014 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
31. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 251 days ago | hide | 170 comments

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