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1.
The myth of NASA's expensive space pens (kottke.org)
452 points by jwdunne on Oct 10, 2013 | 133 comments
2.
Should we stop believing Malcolm Gladwell? (ksj.mit.edu)
370 points by r0h1n on Oct 10, 2013 | 222 comments
3.
“I wrote FAT on an airplane, for heaven's sake” (msdn.com)
306 points by Hrundi on Oct 10, 2013 | 115 comments
4.
This Bird Can Stay in Flight for Six Months Straight (smithsonianmag.com)
271 points by danso on Oct 10, 2013 | 74 comments
5.
Facebook Removing Option To Be Unsearchable By Name (techcrunch.com)
248 points by austenallred on Oct 10, 2013 | 176 comments
6.
IKEA or Death-Metal (ikeaordeath.com)
217 points by klaustopher on Oct 10, 2013 | 82 comments
7.
We paid $634 million for the Obamacare sites and all we got was this lousy 404 (digitaltrends.com)
208 points by Yoms on Oct 10, 2013 | 219 comments
8.
Report: 110 people own 35% of Russia's wealth (ap.org)
192 points by ddeck on Oct 10, 2013 | 165 comments
9.
Don’t email me (haxx.se)
167 points by jonaslejon on Oct 10, 2013 | 90 comments
10.
IE seems right, Chrome seems wrong (jessepollak.me)
166 points by jessepollak on Oct 10, 2013 | 63 comments
11.
A strange lonely planet found without a star (phys.org)
154 points by evo_9 on Oct 10, 2013 | 70 comments
12.
Microsoft pays $100K bounty to hacker (financialpost.com)
140 points by Maven911 on Oct 10, 2013 | 58 comments
13.
JSIL - .NET bytecode to JS compiler (jsil.org)
119 points by cobrausn on Oct 10, 2013 | 25 comments
14.
DropzoneJs – drag-and-drop file uploads with image previews (dropzonejs.com)
119 points by dhruvbhatia on Oct 10, 2013 | 30 comments
15.
Weary of ‘Fruit Fly’ Consumer Startups, Andreessen Horowitz Raises Series A Bar (wsj.com)
116 points by _pius on Oct 10, 2013 | 95 comments
16.
Foxconn using forced student labor to build Sony’s PS4 (gamesinasia.com)
107 points by Impossible on Oct 10, 2013 | 102 comments
17.
I asked for a t-shirt, I got a job (unfiniti.com)
117 points by mahmoudimus on Oct 10, 2013 | 29 comments
18.
Making full table scan 10x faster in InnoDB (yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com)
98 points by aritraghosh007 on Oct 10, 2013 | 20 comments
19.
Free tools we used to build our startup (shyahi.com)
99 points by sdiw on Oct 10, 2013 | 52 comments
20.
Aerospace Company Develops Drone That Can Fly Continuously For 5 Years (cbslocal.com)
99 points by sshykes on Oct 10, 2013 | 36 comments
21.
How Do you Motivate Yourself and Stay Focused? (bothsidesofthetable.com)
99 points by peterkchen on Oct 10, 2013 | 67 comments
22.
Scott Carpenter, Mercury Astronaut Who Orbited Earth, Dies at 88 (nytimes.com)
96 points by jmadsen on Oct 10, 2013 | 18 comments
23.
The Secrets of Bezos: How Amazon Became the Everything Store (businessweek.com)
93 points by kineticfocus on Oct 10, 2013 | 31 comments
24.
Valve Confirms Official AMD-Powered Steam Machines For 2014 (forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho)
91 points by conductor on Oct 10, 2013 | 42 comments
25.
GoDaddy Pulls Lavabit's Security Creds Because the FBI Got Its Encryption Keys (forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill)
95 points by bcn on Oct 10, 2013 | 49 comments
26.
Microsoft: The Best Xbox One Gaming Experience Will Be Over IPv6 (internetsociety.org)
86 points by danyork on Oct 10, 2013 | 81 comments
27.
Show HN: NSString + Ruby (github.com/zdavison)
87 points by thingsdoer on Oct 10, 2013 | 52 comments
28.
I wrote a book called Winning Isn't Normal (jasonshen.com)
84 points by jasonshen on Oct 10, 2013 | 48 comments
29.
Why I Will Never Return to the USA (dasmag.nl)
82 points by w1ntermute on Oct 10, 2013 | 14 comments
30.
AWS Activate (amazon.com)
84 points by yarapavan on Oct 10, 2013 | 34 comments

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