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1.		Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL (amazon.com)
		593 points by teoruiz on Nov 14, 2013 \| 239 comments
2.		Google wins book-scanning case: judge finds “fair use,” cites many benefits (gigaom.com)
		500 points by japaget on Nov 14, 2013 \| 147 comments
3.		TPP Leak Confirms the Worst: US Still Trying to Trade Away Internet Freedoms (eff.org)
		463 points by jim-greer on Nov 14, 2013 \| 71 comments
4.		What happened when my co-founder quit the night before our YC interview (brandonb.cc)
		381 points by brandonb on Nov 14, 2013 \| 92 comments
5.		Coin: A step in the wrong direction (techendo.co)
		342 points by lowglow on Nov 14, 2013 \| 187 comments
6.		Vi Hart: cramming G+ into YouTube has made comments even worse, I'm leaving (boingboing.net)
		315 points by wyclif on Nov 14, 2013 \| 235 comments
7.		Never Heard of It (alistapart.com)
		262 points by Ashuu on Nov 14, 2013 \| 81 comments
8.		Stop Secret Copyright Treaties (eff.org)
		258 points by moo on Nov 14, 2013 \| 13 comments
9.		Should Quadrotors All Look Like This? (ieee.org)
		228 points by eguizzo on Nov 14, 2013 \| 113 comments
10.		How GitHub No Longer Works (zachholman.com)
		223 points by bado on Nov 14, 2013 \| 132 comments
11.		How I Got a 2x Speedup With One Line of Code (naftaliharris.com)
		216 points by naftaliharris on Nov 14, 2013 \| 56 comments
12.		Dart 1.0 Is Out (dartlang.org)
		222 points by rdtsc on Nov 14, 2013 \| 159 comments
13.		Deep Learning 101 (markus.com)
		210 points by mbeissinger on Nov 14, 2013 \| 44 comments
14.		Do-it-yourself EEG, EKG, and EMG (erkutlu.blogspot.com)
		200 points by davidsmith8900 on Nov 14, 2013 \| 41 comments
15.		A collaborative spreadsheet in less than 45 lines of JS, one library used (jsfiddle.net)
		199 points by kav-ya on Nov 14, 2013 \| 67 comments
16.		Europe approves use of in-flight electronics during take-off and landing (theguardian.com)
		189 points by poissonpie on Nov 14, 2013 \| 91 comments
17.		Elon Musk on First Principles (microlancer.com)
		189 points by npostolovski on Nov 14, 2013 \| 99 comments
18.		Meet Coin (YC W13), a startup creating a universal credit card (gigaom.com)
		190 points by sohailprasad on Nov 14, 2013 \| 175 comments
19.		Ph.D. 2.0: Rethinking the Ph.D. Application (jeffhuang.com)
		187 points by masterofmasters on Nov 14, 2013 \| 142 comments
20.		New antibiotic kills off persistent infections (nationalgeographic.com)
		187 points by oyvindeh on Nov 14, 2013 \| 84 comments
21.		Car Mechanic Dreams Up a Tool to Ease Births (nytimes.com)
		177 points by danso on Nov 14, 2013 \| 108 comments
22.		The Open Book Sale of My $600K eCommerce Store, With Financials (ecommercefuel.com)
		177 points by spiredigital on Nov 14, 2013 \| 72 comments
23.		Protean Echo – Fuse All Your Cards into One (getprotean.com)
		161 points by X4 on Nov 14, 2013 \| 81 comments
24.		We just open sourced Flanker, our Python email address and Mime parsing library (mailgun.com)
		160 points by twakefield on Nov 14, 2013 \| 26 comments
25.		Searchable catalog of Udacity, edX, Coursera, etc. (coursebuffet.com)
		152 points by shliachtx on Nov 14, 2013 \| 46 comments
26.		Renault ships a brickable car with battery DRM that you're not allowed to own (boingboing.net)
		146 points by edoloughlin on Nov 14, 2013 \| 129 comments
27.		Launching our Data Science and Big Data Track (udacity.com)
		138 points by Alex3917 on Nov 14, 2013 \| 37 comments
28.		Why I switched from Ruby to Go (codegangsta.io)
		132 points by poissonpie on Nov 14, 2013 \| 129 comments
29.		GoConvey: Go testing in the browser (smartystreets.github.io)
		129 points by mholt on Nov 14, 2013 \| 24 comments
30.		Americans’ Personal Data Shared with CIA, IRS, Others in Security Probe (mcclatchydc.com)
		125 points by wikiburner on Nov 14, 2013 \| 53 comments
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