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1.		Welcome, Freshmen. You Don't Deserve to Be Here (chronicle.com)
		373 points by onedev on Oct 15, 2013 \| 199 comments
2.		The Russia Left Behind (nytimes.com)
		363 points by mxfh on Oct 15, 2013 \| 214 comments
3.		GoDaddy, Media Temple, and the Horrible World of Web Hosting (marco.org)
		354 points by mh_ on Oct 15, 2013 \| 161 comments
4.		Hacker News is a social echo chamber (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
		339 points by BCM43 on Oct 15, 2013 \| 194 comments
5.		Manager.io – Free accounting software for small businesses (manager.io)
		290 points by Heliosmaster on Oct 15, 2013 \| 135 comments
6.		MathGifs (mathgifs.blogspot.co.uk)
		269 points by co_pl_te on Oct 15, 2013 \| 31 comments
7.		Free Font: Norwester (jamiewilson.io)
		252 points by benoitg on Oct 15, 2013 \| 59 comments
8.		Baidu now accepts Bitcoin (bitcointalk.org)
		208 points by ferdo on Oct 15, 2013 \| 104 comments
9.		Things I learned at YC (aelag.com)
		204 points by aelaguiz on Oct 15, 2013 \| 61 comments
10.		Glenn Greenwald is leaving The Guardian (ggsidedocs.blogspot.com.br)
		201 points by duck on Oct 15, 2013 \| 104 comments
11.		VirtualBox 4.3 released (virtualbox.org)
		155 points by conductor on Oct 15, 2013 \| 54 comments
12.		A quick look at the Redis source code (heychinaski.com)
		149 points by HeyChinaski on Oct 15, 2013 \| 32 comments
13.		A Court Order is an Insider Attack (freedom-to-tinker.com)
		146 points by Amadou on Oct 15, 2013 \| 47 comments
14.		Stack Exchange's monitoring system is now open source (github.com/opserver)
		147 points by waffle_ss on Oct 15, 2013 \| 56 comments
15.		Introducing Rubinius X (rubini.us)
		153 points by yannski on Oct 15, 2013 \| 215 comments
16.		LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs (reidhoffman.org)
		152 points by Ecio78 on Oct 15, 2013 \| 22 comments
17.		GoDaddy Buys Media Temple (techcrunch.com)
		141 points by recusancy on Oct 15, 2013 \| 167 comments
18.		India to launch its first mission to Mars [video] (venturebeat.com)
		136 points by gagan2020 on Oct 15, 2013 \| 53 comments
19.		Pixar's Universal Scene Description (pixar.com)
		126 points by gdubs on Oct 15, 2013 \| 31 comments
20.		Aaron Swartz’s last gift to journalism and online privacy finds a new home (washingtonpost.com)
		126 points by trauco on Oct 15, 2013 \| 25 comments
21.		In iOS 7, the final straw for Newsstand (markokarppinen.com)
		128 points by jamesmoss on Oct 15, 2013 \| 89 comments
22.		Nginx Inc. raises $10M in Series B round (nginx.com)
		126 points by shad42 on Oct 15, 2013 \| 45 comments
23.		Brazilian government to ditch Microsoft in favour of bespoke email system (zdnet.com)
		117 points by singold on Oct 15, 2013 \| 51 comments
24.		“The 'use asm' pragma is not necessary to opt into optimizations in V8” (code.google.com)
		116 points by elisee on Oct 15, 2013 \| 112 comments
25.		Incremental Garbage Collector in PyPy (morepypy.blogspot.com)
		114 points by fijal on Oct 15, 2013 \| 7 comments
26.		Why is the number 1,729 hidden in Futurama episodes? (bbc.co.uk)
		101 points by programsvalues on Oct 15, 2013 \| 22 comments
27.		Lavabit gets new crypto key, gives users 72 hours to recover e-mails (arstechnica.com)
		103 points by shawndumas on Oct 15, 2013 \| 56 comments
28.		Explaining an astonishing slinky (danielwalsh.tumblr.com)
		95 points by scott_s on Oct 15, 2013 \| 42 comments
29.		Zookal starts "world first" delivery-by-drone service in Sydney (pandodaily.com)
		93 points by tomhoward on Oct 15, 2013 \| 67 comments
30.		How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses (wired.com)
		93 points by 0cool on Oct 15, 2013 \| 76 comments
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