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1.		Everything you need to know about the Shellshock Bash bug (troyhunt.com)
		517 points by sjcsjc on Sept 25, 2014 \| 287 comments
2.		Show HN: Javelin Browser (javelinbrowser.com)
		373 points by nubela on Sept 25, 2014 \| 132 comments
3.		Shellshock DHCP Remote Code Execution – Proof of Concept (trustedsec.com)
		355 points by jeffmcjunkin on Sept 25, 2014 \| 155 comments
4.		Lecture 2: How to Start a Startup (samaltman.com)
		362 points by gatsby on Sept 25, 2014 \| 138 comments
5.		Bash 'shellshock' bug is wormable (erratasec.com)
		299 points by jgannonjr on Sept 25, 2014 \| 147 comments
6.		Clasp – A Common Lisp with LLVM back end and interoperation with C++ (drmeister.wordpress.com)
		278 points by drmeister on Sept 25, 2014 \| 74 comments
7.		Terror laws clear Australian Senate, enabling entire web to be monitored (smh.com.au)
		224 points by endgame on Sept 25, 2014 \| 112 comments
8.		From Vim to Emacs (juanjoalvarez.net)
		214 points by javinpaul on Sept 25, 2014 \| 116 comments
9.		Australian Government Scrambles to Authorize Mass Surveillance (eff.org)
		197 points by sinak on Sept 25, 2014 \| 84 comments
10.		The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy (ieee.org)
		207 points by mr_golyadkin on Sept 25, 2014 \| 164 comments
11.		Make in India (makeinindia.com)
		208 points by nns on Sept 25, 2014 \| 43 comments
12.		Americans abroad are giving up their citizenship as banks shut down accounts (theguardian.com)
		173 points by johanbrook on Sept 25, 2014 \| 175 comments
13.		Quick notes about the bash bug, its impact, and the fixes so far (lcamtuf.blogspot.com)
		164 points by robin_reala on Sept 25, 2014 \| 25 comments
14.		ShellShock exploited in the wild: kernel exploit with CnC component (gist.github.com)
		160 points by SchizoDuckie on Sept 25, 2014 \| 71 comments
15.		Earth’s Water Is Older Than the Sun (discovermagazine.com)
		166 points by acak on Sept 25, 2014 \| 82 comments
16.		Top 10% of American adults consume, on average, 74 alcoholic drinks per week (washingtonpost.com)
		149 points by ALee on Sept 25, 2014 \| 169 comments
17.		Art project: Train rats to trade markets (artmarcovici.com)
		138 points by waterlesscloud on Sept 25, 2014 \| 44 comments
18.		RethinkDB 1.15: Geospatial queries (rethinkdb.com)
		141 points by coffeemug on Sept 25, 2014 \| 56 comments
19.		Ask HN: What DB to use for huge time series?
		126 points by BWStearns on Sept 25, 2014 \| 130 comments
20.		Billionaire must let public access Martins Beach, judge rules (sfgate.com)
		111 points by kqr2 on Sept 25, 2014 \| 107 comments
21.		The Uncatchable (bbc.co.uk)
		125 points by AlexMuir on Sept 25, 2014 \| 27 comments
22.		Designing a URL structure for BBC programmes (smethur.st)
		115 points by edward on Sept 25, 2014 \| 28 comments
23.		The anatomy of a door-to-door Taobao delivery (theanthill.org)
		106 points by rahimnathwani on Sept 25, 2014 \| 25 comments
24.		Dear Rupert (googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com)
		109 points by daw___ on Sept 25, 2014 \| 53 comments
25.		FBI blasts Apple, Google for locking police out of phones (washingtonpost.com)
		101 points by ilamont on Sept 25, 2014 \| 120 comments
26.		Generational Garbage Collection in Firefox (hacks.mozilla.org)
		106 points by rnyman on Sept 25, 2014 \| 16 comments
27.		Managing a Nightmare: CIA Reveals How It Watched Over Destruction of Gary Webb (firstlook.org)
		92 points by etiam on Sept 25, 2014 \| 34 comments
28.		[dupe] Micro Python store is now open and taking pre-orders (micropython.org)
		94 points by momentofinertia on Sept 25, 2014 \| 29 comments
29.		Alamofire: HTTP Networking in Swift (github.com/alamofire)
		99 points by matttthompson on Sept 25, 2014 \| 28 comments
30.		Taking advantage of TCP loopback fast path in Windows (java.net)
		90 points by rbanffy on Sept 25, 2014 \| 21 comments
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