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1.		How Apple’s Siri Became One Autistic Boy's B.F.F (nytimes.com)
		377 points by basisword on Oct 17, 2014 \| 81 comments
2.		A Raw Deal in Michigan (teslamotors.com)
		347 points by lalwanivikas on Oct 17, 2014 \| 194 comments
3.		Ask HN: How do you use Docker in production?
		309 points by valevk on Oct 17, 2014 \| 151 comments
4.		Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People (tobyrush.com)
		255 points by Tomte on Oct 17, 2014 \| 120 comments
5.		Vitesse Data: Postgres + LLVM (vitessedata.com)
		257 points by yangyang on Oct 17, 2014 \| 37 comments
6.		Disable sharing of Spotlight searches with Apple (fix-macosx.com)
		244 points by teacup50 on Oct 17, 2014 \| 134 comments
7.		Arcadia: Unity 3D Development in Clojure (arcadia-unity.tumblr.com)
		229 points by ramseynasser on Oct 17, 2014 \| 32 comments
8.		The FBI Is Wrong: Apple’s Encryption Is in the Public Interest (wired.com)
		218 points by tchalla on Oct 17, 2014 \| 101 comments
9.		What Is Google Chrome Helper, and Why Is It Hogging My CPU Cycles? (wired.com)
		197 points by dsr12 on Oct 17, 2014 \| 78 comments
10.		Twitpic blocking archive team from backing up pictures (twitter.com/textfiles)
		189 points by Argorak on Oct 17, 2014 \| 152 comments
11.		The Uncle Who Works for Nintendo (correlatedcontents.com)
		172 points by mikeleeorg on Oct 17, 2014 \| 55 comments
12.		Emacs 24.4 RC 1 (lists.gnu.org)
		153 points by Xyzodiac on Oct 17, 2014 \| 68 comments
13.		Show HN: Sublime Text Book (sublimetextbook.com)
		163 points by wesbos on Oct 17, 2014 \| 100 comments
14.		Privacy Router Anonabox Gets $600K in Crowdfunding and Huge Backlash (wired.com)
		152 points by ghosh on Oct 17, 2014 \| 88 comments
15.		How Big is Email? (medium.com/raindrift)
		134 points by raindrift on Oct 17, 2014 \| 22 comments
16.		Coanda Effect: Understanding Why Wings Work (karmak.org)
		128 points by razzaj on Oct 17, 2014 \| 57 comments
17.		Material Design Icons (github.com/google)
		127 points by ytzvan on Oct 17, 2014 \| 32 comments
18.		Some thoughts on asking for a raise (heidiroizen.tumblr.com)
		115 points by whbk on Oct 17, 2014 \| 90 comments
19.		Rental America: Why the poor pay $4,150 for a $1,500 sofa (washingtonpost.com)
		108 points by footpath on Oct 17, 2014 \| 203 comments
20.		Interview: Thomas Voß of Mir (linuxvoice.com)
		105 points by mksaunders on Oct 17, 2014 \| 85 comments
21.		Kickstarter Freezes Anonabox Privacy Router Project for Misleading Funders (wired.com)
		100 points by byoogle on Oct 17, 2014 \| 45 comments
22.		BBC to publish 'right to be forgotten' removals list (bbc.com)
		100 points by mineshaftgap on Oct 17, 2014 \| 121 comments
23.		Is This the Future of Robotic Legs? (smithsonianmag.com)
		106 points by bane on Oct 17, 2014 \| 14 comments
24.		About My Yosemite Review (hypercritical.co)
		90 points by zdw on Oct 17, 2014 \| 32 comments
25.		NASA, SpaceX Share Data on Supersonic Retropropulsion (aviationweek.com)
		91 points by elektropionir on Oct 17, 2014 \| 24 comments
26.		Bilingual brains: Variety makes you mentally fit (economist.com)
		98 points by anishkothari on Oct 17, 2014 \| 52 comments
27.		The Search for MH 370 (Inmarsat) (cambridge.org)
		86 points by wglb on Oct 17, 2014 \| 42 comments
28.		My Last Day at PivotDesk (ktinboulder.com)
		90 points by paulgerhardt on Oct 17, 2014 \| 44 comments
29.		Argentina launches its first home-built satellite (businessweek.com)
		87 points by patomolina on Oct 17, 2014 \| 15 comments
30.		Hope – A Python JIT for astrophysical computations (github.com/cosmo-ethz)
		84 points by catkin on Oct 17, 2014 \| 22 comments
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