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1.Why You Shouldn't Interrupt a Programmer (heeris.id.au)
607 points by libovness on Oct 28, 2013 [ext] | 204 comments [ext]
2.April 5, 2007: "Show HN, Dropbox" (news.ycombinator.com)
518 points by epa on Oct 28, 2013 [ext] | 178 comments [ext]
3.Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser (jamesfriend.com.au)
385 points by mambodog on Oct 28, 2013 [ext] | 100 comments [ext]
4. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 60 days ago | hide | 65 comments
4.Run Windows 1.01 in your browser (jsmachines.net)
323 points by chl on Oct 28, 2013 [ext] | 85 comments [ext]
5.Wow, or from the When-Apple-Became-the-Borg Department (lessig.tumblr.com)
312 points by mxfh on Oct 28, 2013 [ext] | 85 comments [ext]
6.Surface Pro 2 (penny-arcade.com)
313 points by kposehn on Oct 28, 2013 [ext] | 196 comments [ext]
7. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 251 days ago | hide | 170 comments
7.Discoveries Ten Years Later in Zelda Speedrun (joellehman.com)
306 points by jal278 on Oct 28, 2013 [ext] | 85 comments [ext]
8.Particle effects in JavaScript (liveweave.com)
270 points by browserspot on Oct 28, 2013 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
9.Winter is coming (42floors.com)
253 points by jaf12duke on Oct 28, 2013 [ext] | 154 comments [ext]
10. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
10.Fish shell 2.1 (fishshell.com)
230 points by siteshwar on Oct 28, 2013 [ext] | 151 comments [ext]
11.Russia: Hidden chips 'launch spam attacks from irons' (bbc.co.uk)
230 points by mikecane on Oct 28, 2013 [ext] | 123 comments [ext]
12.Phishing with Linkedin's Intro (jordan-wright.github.io)
219 points by jwcrux on Oct 28, 2013 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
13. Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 432 days ago | hide | 93 comments
13.Things that suck in AngularJS (lhorie.blogspot.ca)
219 points by sbarre on Oct 28, 2013 [ext] | 148 comments [ext]
14.Turn your iPhone into a high-power digital microscope for around $10 (tuaw.com)
168 points by shard on Oct 28, 2013 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
15.Bloom Filters by example (billmill.org)
167 points by gpsarakis on Oct 28, 2013 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
16. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
16.A Printer That Can Print a 2,500 Square Foot House in 20 Hours (industrytap.com)
160 points by newsmaster on Oct 28, 2013 [ext] | 86 comments [ext]
17.Git Tutorials and Training (atlassian.com)
156 points by eaxitect on Oct 28, 2013 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
18.Is Glenn Greenwald the Future of News? (nytimes.com)
140 points by _bfhp on Oct 28, 2013 [ext] | 71 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.Namecheap now offer .io domains (namecheap.com)
143 points by kintamanimatt on Oct 28, 2013 [ext] | 123 comments [ext]
20.Don't write code first (reemer.com)
141 points by a3voices on Oct 28, 2013 [ext] | 92 comments [ext]
21.Cash to the poor: Giving money directly works surprisingly well (economist.com)
133 points by aarghh on Oct 28, 2013 [ext] | 139 comments [ext]
22. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 211 days ago | hide | 32 comments
22.This Isn't Capitalism, It's Growthism, and It's Bad for Us (hbr.org)
119 points by ArekDymalski on Oct 28, 2013 [ext] | 152 comments [ext]
23.Trial week: Our hiring secret (sequoiacap.com)
122 points by drusenko on Oct 28, 2013 [ext] | 133 comments [ext]
24.The Median-of-Medians Algorithm (austinrochford.com)
115 points by MidsizeBlowfish on Oct 28, 2013 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
25. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
25.Argentina's Currency Black Market (flightfox.com)
104 points by todsul on Oct 28, 2013 [ext] | 111 comments [ext]
26.De-anonymizing Users of French Political Forums [pdf] (hack.lu)
100 points by adulau on Oct 28, 2013 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
27.Mozilla Location Service: Geolocation lookups from public cell tower, WiFi data (thenextweb.com)
98 points by hackhackhack on Oct 28, 2013 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
28. Why you care for your dog better than yourself — and the fix (web.archive.org)
420 points by guz3550 602 days ago | hide | 25 comments
28.How Kentucky Built the Country's Best Obamacare Website (talkingpointsmemo.com)
97 points by scarmig on Oct 28, 2013 [ext] | 82 comments [ext]
29.About Nimrod's features (picheta.me)
92 points by dom96 on Oct 28, 2013 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
30.Sea Otters Are Jerks. So Are Dolphins, Penguins, and Other Adorable Animals (slate.com)
93 points by aaron695 on Oct 28, 2013 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
31. Why Most Marketplace Network Effects Are Surprisingly Easy to Replicate ()
257 points by pen4647 497 days ago | hide | 50 comments

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