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1.		Walmart Node.js Memory Leak (joyent.com)
		466 points by btmills on Nov 23, 2013 \| 75 comments
2.		The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath (smithsonianmag.com)
		227 points by tjaerv on Nov 23, 2013 \| 140 comments
3.		What does "HREF" stand for? (2008) (tomayko.com)
		219 points by sebkomianos on Nov 23, 2013 \| 49 comments
4.		How to launder Bitcoins (oleganza.com)
		175 points by oleganza on Nov 23, 2013 \| 78 comments
5.		Study Suggests Link Between Dread Pirate Roberts and Satoshi Nakamoto (nytimes.com)
		172 points by coolswan on Nov 23, 2013 \| 120 comments
6.		Here’s who probably did that $150 million Bitcoin transaction (washingtonpost.com)
		167 points by rkudeshi on Nov 23, 2013 \| 111 comments
7.		Life of solitude: A loneliness crisis is looming (theglobeandmail.com)
		164 points by uladzislau on Nov 23, 2013 \| 161 comments
8.		Namecoin, A Replacement For SSL (mediocregopher.com)
		159 points by mediocregopher on Nov 23, 2013 \| 93 comments
9.		NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious software (nrc.nl)
		155 points by posthumangr on Nov 23, 2013 \| 93 comments
10.		Store owner installs surveillance cameras to spy on police (cnet.com)
		153 points by fraqed on Nov 23, 2013 \| 67 comments
11.		GitLab 6.3 released: open-source software to collaborate on code (blog.gitlab.org)
		147 points by randx on Nov 23, 2013 \| 53 comments
12.		16 years after a mass suicide, the webpage is still up (heavensgate.com)
		140 points by standeven on Nov 23, 2013 \| 103 comments
13.		Aluminium: The metal that just keeps on giving (bbc.co.uk)
		131 points by Nux on Nov 23, 2013 \| 70 comments
14.		Aldous Huxley: the prophet of our brave new digital dystopia (theguardian.com)
		120 points by happyman on Nov 23, 2013 \| 44 comments
15.		MySQL 5.7: over 1M queries/sec on a single machine (dimitrik.free.fr)
		115 points by continuations on Nov 23, 2013 \| 50 comments
16.		The Story of Marion Stokes, Who Single-Handedly Taped 35 Years Of TV News (fastcompany.com)
		104 points by JoshGlazebrook on Nov 23, 2013 \| 15 comments
17.		I made a distributed, anonymous network for online discussion
		102 points by rolleiflex on Nov 23, 2013 \| 45 comments
18.		Photographer wins $1.2M from companies that took pics off Twitter (reuters.com)
		97 points by cwan on Nov 23, 2013 \| 65 comments
19.		Sex over distance using affordable consumer teledildonic robots (vice.com)
		99 points by frixionme on Nov 23, 2013 \| 95 comments
20.		Bitcoin Surpasses PayPal in Transaction Volume? (coinowl.com)
		91 points by lelf on Nov 23, 2013 \| 50 comments
21.		N.S.A. Report Outlined Goals for More Power (nytimes.com)
		87 points by r0h1n on Nov 23, 2013 \| 28 comments
22.		Ancient Abandoned Websites That Still Work (mentalfloss.com)
		80 points by jamesbritt on Nov 23, 2013 \| 37 comments
23.		Addressing Questions about the Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon (developerforce.com)
		79 points by minimaxir on Nov 23, 2013 \| 37 comments
24.		Chrome Extension Programming: Illustrating a Basic Survival Skill (karpathy.ca)
		76 points by djent on Nov 23, 2013 \| 23 comments
25.		[dupe] PayPal releases Kraken, Node.js framework (krakenjs.com)
		76 points by bluepnume on Nov 23, 2013 \| 24 comments
26.		Kraken.js: Enterprise-grade Node.js web application framework (krakenjs.com)
		66 points by mduvall on Nov 23, 2013 \| 20 comments
27.		Google Can Bring an End to Censorship in 10 Days (greatfire.org)
		71 points by nkurz on Nov 23, 2013 \| 73 comments
28.		America's underground market for adopted children (reuters.com)
		68 points by sir_kitty on Nov 23, 2013 \| 36 comments
29.		Ison: The comet of the century (bbc.co.uk)
		61 points by Libertatea on Nov 23, 2013 \| 16 comments
30.		US police force pay Bitcoin ransom in Cryptolocker malware scam (theguardian.com)
		65 points by cellis on Nov 23, 2013 \| 31 comments
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