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1.		Core Secrets: NSA Saboteurs in China and Germany (firstlook.org)
		272 points by patrickgokey on Oct 11, 2014 \| 118 comments
2.		Sci-Fi Novels You Should Read (howtosplitanatom.com)
		187 points by smoyer on Oct 11, 2014 \| 175 comments
3.		The Microsoft Empire Reboots (vanityfair.com)
		191 points by aseem on Oct 11, 2014 \| 167 comments
4.		Aptly: Owning Your Debian Distribution (aptly.info)
		172 points by smira on Oct 11, 2014 \| 49 comments
5.		The Story of the PING Program (1997) (arl.mil)
		171 points by julien421 on Oct 11, 2014 \| 28 comments
6.		A veteran teacher turned coach shadows two students for two days (grantwiggins.wordpress.com)
		154 points by MrMrtn on Oct 11, 2014 \| 47 comments
7.		What makes for a stable marriage? (randalolson.com)
		152 points by rhiever on Oct 11, 2014 \| 135 comments
8.		Edward Snowden’s Privacy Tips: “Get Rid of Dropbox,” Avoid Facebook and Google (techcrunch.com)
		141 points by malditojavi on Oct 11, 2014 \| 115 comments
9.		A Promising Pill, Not So Hard to Swallow (nytimes.com)
		125 points by dnetesn on Oct 11, 2014 \| 66 comments
10.		Alfred Anaya Put Secret Compartments in Cars. The DEA Put Him in Prison (2013) (wired.com)
		122 points by hippich on Oct 11, 2014 \| 108 comments
11.		Dropbox confirms that a bug within Selective Sync may have caused data loss (githubusercontent.com)
		128 points by ghuntley on Oct 11, 2014 \| 60 comments
12.		'Citizenfour' Reveals Existence of Second NSA Whistleblower (hollywoodreporter.com)
		118 points by eplanit on Oct 11, 2014 \| 16 comments
13.		The Internet of Someone Else’s Things (techcrunch.com)
		107 points by BIackSwan on Oct 11, 2014 \| 73 comments
14.		What I Saw as an NFL Ball Boy (nytimes.com)
		106 points by jhonovich on Oct 11, 2014 \| 55 comments
15.		Toxo, the cysts in our brains from cats, can improve self-control (2013) (theatlantic.com)
		103 points by DLay on Oct 11, 2014 \| 62 comments
16.		End the U.S. Embargo on Cuba (nytimes.com)
		103 points by rodrigocoelho on Oct 11, 2014 \| 32 comments
17.		Remains of Alexander the Great's Father Confirmed Found (discovery.com)
		94 points by megafounder on Oct 11, 2014 \| 43 comments
18.		Bicycle helmets do almost nothing to prevent concussions (bicycling.com)
		82 points by acsillag on Oct 11, 2014 \| 90 comments
19.		Kaya: Declarative Reactive (vimeo.com)
		76 points by david927 on Oct 11, 2014 \| 33 comments
20.		Decrypting Android Snapchat images (github.com/programa-stic)
		79 points by fla on Oct 11, 2014 \| 57 comments
21.		The man who built the online attendance system for India’s government officials (qz.com)
		72 points by aptwebapps on Oct 11, 2014 \| 28 comments
22.		Second Graders Treated to a Seven-Course $220 Tasting Meal [video] (nytimes.com)
		70 points by sarchertech on Oct 11, 2014 \| 16 comments
23.		Lua metacompiler (loup-vaillant.fr)
		71 points by walterbell on Oct 11, 2014 \| 6 comments
24.		The Internet has made defensive writers of us all (pchiusano.github.io)
		67 points by gourlaysama on Oct 11, 2014 \| 38 comments
25.		Pro-Democracy Websites in Hong Kong Targeted with and Serving Malware (volexity.com)
		61 points by bindrpc on Oct 11, 2014 \| 2 comments
26.		Pdf-tools: Emacs support library for PDF files (github.com/politza)
		68 points by akakievich on Oct 11, 2014 \| 5 comments
27.		Killer Queen: A 10-Person Console Game (nytimes.com)
		62 points by dnetesn on Oct 11, 2014 \| 18 comments
28.		Rare images document the centuries-long history of Africans in India (scroll.in)
		67 points by benbreen on Oct 11, 2014 \| 9 comments
29.		Show HN: One Adaptive API for Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive (cloud-rail.com)
		71 points by cloudrail on Oct 11, 2014 \| 43 comments
30.		Startup School Silicon Valley 2014 Live Stream (ycomstream.com)
		67 points by kevin on Oct 11, 2014 \| 37 comments
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