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1.		The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing (medium.com/message)
		799 points by daddy_drank on Nov 6, 2014 \| 90 comments
2.		The Reddit Front Page Is Not a Meritocracy (toddwschneider.com)
		485 points by lil_tee on Nov 6, 2014 \| 147 comments
3.		SF Engineer Dan Ha Has Been Missing Since 10/31 (techcrunch.com)
		474 points by coloneltcb on Nov 6, 2014 \| 65 comments
4.		Colorado communities secure the right to build their own broadband (washingtonpost.com)
		313 points by Libertatea on Nov 6, 2014 \| 129 comments
5.		Winamp 2 in HTML5 (jordaneldredge.com)
		299 points by jazzychad on Nov 6, 2014 \| 105 comments
6.		Operator of Silk Road 2.0 Website Charged in Manhattan Federal Court (fbi.gov)
		289 points by pc on Nov 6, 2014 \| 251 comments
7.		Independence Day (news.microsoft.com)
		273 points by AndrewGaspar on Nov 6, 2014 \| 69 comments
8.		Microsoft Changes Tack, Making Office Suite Free on Mobile (nytimes.com)
		248 points by shitehawk on Nov 6, 2014 \| 102 comments
9.		Show HN: StackShare – discover and discuss software stacks (stackshare.io)
		218 points by yonasb on Nov 6, 2014 \| 75 comments
10.		GnuPG 2.1.0 “modern” released (gnupg.org)
		197 points by bruo on Nov 6, 2014 \| 66 comments
11.		Making a brain for my model plane (story.glass)
		194 points by evansd on Nov 6, 2014 \| 70 comments
12.		Welcome, Ali (blog.ycombinator.com)
		201 points by sama on Nov 6, 2014 \| 28 comments
13.		How to Survive in SF as a Broke Startup (wlimdo.com)
		168 points by wlimdo on Nov 6, 2014 \| 114 comments
14.		Running a South Pole data center (arstechnica.com)
		162 points by davidw on Nov 6, 2014 \| 58 comments
15.		Apple might be running a web crawler written in Go (moesen.nu)
		169 points by beltex on Nov 6, 2014 \| 83 comments
16.		Hobby kernel and userspace, built mostly from scratch (github.com/klange)
		154 points by carlesfe on Nov 6, 2014 \| 26 comments
17.		Terrorists used false DMCA claims to get personal data of anti-islamic YouTuber (slashdot.org)
		150 points by amalag on Nov 6, 2014 \| 23 comments
18.		Weekly Coding Interview Problems by Email (interviewcake.com)
		208 points by gameguy43 on Nov 6, 2014 \| 61 comments
19.		Show HN: Colores – A simple app I built to find color palettes based on words (manugarri.com)
		157 points by manueslapera on Nov 6, 2014 \| 39 comments
20.		Building a simple VGA-adapter for an 8-bit self made computer (tldr.fi)
		134 points by Arjuna on Nov 6, 2014 \| 17 comments
21.		Improved Error Handling in Rust (pocoo.org)
		132 points by steveklabnik on Nov 6, 2014 \| 28 comments
22.		Database of all H1B petitions by company (visadoor.com)
		130 points by ambrood on Nov 6, 2014 \| 39 comments
23.		How to Start a Startup – Lecture 14: How to Operate (samaltman.com)
		127 points by kqr2 on Nov 6, 2014 \| 33 comments
24.		An easier way of using polyfills (hacks.mozilla.org)
		117 points by rnyman on Nov 6, 2014 \| 76 comments
25.		Why Intel is adding instructions to speed up non-volatile memory (danluu.com)
		118 points by joe_bleau on Nov 6, 2014 \| 43 comments
26.		On Pins and Needles: Stylist Turns Ancient Hairdo Debate on Its Head (2013) (wsj.com)
		104 points by gwern on Nov 6, 2014 \| 39 comments
27.		Confluent, a company for Apache Kafka and realtime data (linkedin.com)
		108 points by sbilstein on Nov 6, 2014 \| 30 comments
28.		[dupe] Ex-Googlers CockroachDB: A Scalable, Geo-Replicated, Transactional Datastore (github.com/cockroachdb)
		98 points by ethanjones on Nov 6, 2014 \| 66 comments
29.		Advertisers scramble as ‘non-human traffic’ eats up online budgets (theglobeandmail.com)
		95 points by pastycrinkles on Nov 6, 2014 \| 94 comments
30.		Secrets of the Magus: Ricky Jay does closeup magic that flouts reality (1993) (newyorker.com)
		88 points by gwern on Nov 6, 2014 \| 38 comments
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