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1.		Nintendo visionary Hiroshi Yamauchi dies aged 85 (bbc.co.uk)
		433 points by T-zex on Sept 19, 2013 \| 63 comments
2.		Command-line tools for data science (jeroenjanssens.com)
		346 points by robdoherty2 on Sept 19, 2013 \| 78 comments
3.		Go Pro on a soaring eagle [video] (kottke.org)
		335 points by pccampbell on Sept 19, 2013 \| 79 comments
4.		Joe Armstrong on Programmer Productivity (groups.google.com)
		259 points by mdevilliers on Sept 19, 2013 \| 89 comments
5.		Artillery is building a hardcore RTS with HTML5 and WebGL (artillery.com)
		263 points by statico on Sept 19, 2013 \| 146 comments
6.		Moot: Full House (4chan.org)
		254 points by ivarious on Sept 19, 2013 \| 142 comments
7.		Edward C++Hands (bartoszmilewski.com)
		251 points by T-zex on Sept 19, 2013 \| 228 comments
8.		Open plan offices attract highest levels of worker dissatisfaction (theconversation.com)
		242 points by amerika_blog on Sept 19, 2013 \| 194 comments
9.		Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs (sloppyui.tumblr.com)
		241 points by romain_dardour on Sept 19, 2013 \| 175 comments
10.		DivX Now Installs Malware (divx.com)
		232 points by TechRemarker on Sept 19, 2013 \| 164 comments
11.		Apple iOS 7 surprises as first with new multipath TCP connections (networkworld.com)
		222 points by koenigdavidmj on Sept 19, 2013 \| 86 comments
12.		Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day (variety.com)
		191 points by adventured on Sept 19, 2013 \| 172 comments
13.		If You're Programming a Cell Phone Like a Server, You're Doing it Wrong (highscalability.com)
		178 points by consciousness on Sept 19, 2013 \| 75 comments
14.		How China brainwashed American POWs using a classic sales technique (atroche.org)
		162 points by atroche on Sept 19, 2013 \| 162 comments
15.		Former Amazon star exec killed in bike accident (cnn.com)
		159 points by jborden13 on Sept 19, 2013 \| 147 comments
16.		A Rally Against Mass Surveillance in Washington, DC (stopwatching.us)
		179 points by sinak on Sept 19, 2013 \| 44 comments
17.		What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered? (2011) (stackoverflow.com)
		157 points by yammesicka on Sept 19, 2013 \| 95 comments
18.		QML support for Golang (plus.google.com)
		150 points by jcastro on Sept 19, 2013 \| 35 comments
19.		NASA’s Plutonium Problem Could End Deep-Space Exploration (wired.com)
		143 points by hereonbusiness on Sept 19, 2013 \| 47 comments
20.		I was kicked out from TEDx event for saying water-fuelled car is a scam (svedic.org)
		124 points by ZeljkoS on Sept 19, 2013 \| 21 comments
21.		Rethinking the guest operating system (lwn.net)
		120 points by justincormack on Sept 19, 2013 \| 48 comments
22.		NES Programming Tutorials (nintendoage.com)
		118 points by rsigrest on Sept 19, 2013 \| 21 comments
23.		A Case Against Cucumber (8thlight.com)
		113 points by gigasquid on Sept 19, 2013 \| 110 comments
24.		My Startup Job Interview (galler.io)
		112 points by sgustard on Sept 19, 2013 \| 102 comments
25.		Google makes Quickoffice for Android and iOS free for all (thenextweb.com)
		109 points by NewsFlash on Sept 19, 2013 \| 42 comments
26.		Robot Turtles Kickstarter midmortem at $250k (danshapiro.com)
		102 points by danshapiro on Sept 19, 2013 \| 54 comments
27.		Pinterest to get ads (pinterest.com)
		100 points by samspenc on Sept 19, 2013 \| 62 comments
28.		TrueVault – HIPAA compliant data storage (truevault.com)
		99 points by skram on Sept 19, 2013 \| 69 comments
29.		Docker Now Part Of Red Hat OpenShift (techcrunch.com)
		106 points by KenCochrane on Sept 19, 2013 \| 63 comments
30.		How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought you Think (2003) (speakeasy.org)
		90 points by aharrison on Sept 19, 2013 \| 38 comments
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