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1.		GitHub Student Developer Pack (education.github.com)
		1022 points by dctrwatson on Oct 7, 2014 \| 207 comments
2.		Plastc Card (plastc.com)
		648 points by cktsai on Oct 7, 2014 \| 346 comments
3.		SQLite 3.8.7 is 50% faster than 3.7.17 (gmane.org)
		579 points by anon1385 on Oct 7, 2014 \| 164 comments
4.		Twitter sues U.S. government over ability to disclose surveillance orders (washingtonpost.com)
		470 points by tshtf on Oct 7, 2014 \| 129 comments
5.		Show HN: Speeding up PostgreSQL through vectorized execution (github.com/citusdata)
		332 points by canguler on Oct 7, 2014 \| 36 comments
6.		Rust means never having to close a socket (skylight.io)
		337 points by steveklabnik on Oct 7, 2014 \| 162 comments
7.		Reverse engineering the binary data format for Star Wars: Yoda Stories (zachtronics.com)
		299 points by krispykrem on Oct 7, 2014 \| 66 comments
8.		Travel planning software: The most common bad startup idea (2012) (garrytan.com)
		299 points by netvarun on Oct 7, 2014 \| 180 comments
9.		A replacement for JavaScript's “alert” (github.com/t4t5)
		312 points by thefox on Oct 7, 2014 \| 106 comments
10.		Show HN: ReadMe.io – Beautiful Documentation Made Easy (readme.io)
		266 points by gkoberger on Oct 7, 2014 \| 79 comments
11.		Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich (wired.com)
		250 points by relham on Oct 7, 2014 \| 173 comments
12.		The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics (nobelprize.org)
		241 points by sasvari on Oct 7, 2014 \| 52 comments
13.		Lecture 5, How to Start a Startup: Peter Thiel (samaltman.com)
		226 points by stasy on Oct 7, 2014 \| 79 comments
14.		What we did about expired links on HN (pastebin.com)
		192 points by kevin on Oct 7, 2014 \| 96 comments
15.		Failed Startup Post-Mortems (gitbooks.io)
		202 points by dtlyst on Oct 7, 2014 \| 59 comments
16.		Introducing Carrot (introducingcarrot.com)
		205 points by hitgeek on Oct 7, 2014 \| 80 comments
17.		Yahoo Lays Off 400 Employees In India (techcrunch.com)
		169 points by sandeepeecs on Oct 7, 2014 \| 54 comments
18.		Talking about “types” (cam.ac.uk)
		152 points by jashkenas on Oct 7, 2014 \| 118 comments
19.		Scala – The good, the bad and the very ugly (slideshare.net)
		137 points by bilalhusain on Oct 7, 2014 \| 174 comments
20.		The Limits of Friendship (newyorker.com)
		122 points by applecore on Oct 7, 2014 \| 57 comments
21.		AIs are now re-writing history (robertelliottsmith.com)
		116 points by mooreds on Oct 7, 2014 \| 53 comments
22.		Massive Moniker.com Breach, Valuable Domains Stolen (dotweekly.com)
		100 points by yofie on Oct 7, 2014 \| 12 comments
23.		Object Oriented Programming is an expensive disaster which must end (smashcompany.com)
		103 points by lkrubner on Oct 7, 2014 \| 119 comments
24.		The Placebo Effect Doesn’t Apply Just to Pills (nytimes.com)
		93 points by Libertatea on Oct 7, 2014 \| 85 comments
25.		Show HN: JavaScript Battle – A daily artificial intelligence battle (javascriptbattle.com)
		137 points by forrestbthomas on Oct 7, 2014 \| 42 comments
26.		Flipkart, Amazon of India, has sales of $100M in one day (livemint.com)
		107 points by taurussai on Oct 7, 2014 \| 54 comments
27.		Up All Night: The Science of Sleeplessness (2013) (newyorker.com)
		103 points by benbreen on Oct 7, 2014 \| 20 comments
28.		Samsung Electronics forecasts 60% fall in quarterly profit (bbc.co.uk)
		95 points by davidbarker on Oct 7, 2014 \| 50 comments
29.		Slow is not a dirty word (jamesvandyne.com)
		95 points by jamesvandyne on Oct 7, 2014 \| 26 comments
30.		Show HN: Hacker News implemented using the new API (firebaseapp.com)
		90 points by dstaley on Oct 7, 2014 \| 23 comments
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