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1.		Trouble at the Koolaid Point (seriouspony.com)
		723 points by mpweiher on Oct 8, 2014 \| 266 comments
2.		Adobe Spyware Reveals Again the Price of DRM: Your Privacy and Security (eff.org)
		504 points by sinak on Oct 8, 2014 \| 166 comments
3.		Final – A credit card built for the 21st century (getfinal.com)
		517 points by arfrank on Oct 8, 2014 \| 358 comments
4.		Move Fast and Break Nothing (zachholman.com)
		459 points by bpierre on Oct 8, 2014 \| 83 comments
5.		Watson Services (ibm.com)
		362 points by harscoat on Oct 8, 2014 \| 104 comments
6.		Fixing a 37-year-old bug by merging a 22-year-old fix (openbsd.org)
		268 points by tscherno on Oct 8, 2014 \| 72 comments
7.		Wanna know what product your competitor is working on? Try Slack (tanay.co.in)
		273 points by tangoalpha on Oct 8, 2014 \| 140 comments
8.		Show HN: HTML5 online animation editor that exports to SVG and SMIL (animatron.com)
		239 points by VasyaPupkin on Oct 8, 2014 \| 52 comments
9.		Microsoft Xim (getxim.com)
		229 points by emadelwany on Oct 8, 2014 \| 112 comments
10.		Poll: How long could you survive without income?
		218 points by jacquesm on Oct 8, 2014 \| 144 comments
11.		Show HN: Sail boat simulation – try to sail into the wind (imakesnowflakes.com)
		229 points by imakesnowflakes on Oct 8, 2014 \| 83 comments
12.		Show HN: A curated list of Chrome DevTools tips and tricks (devtoolstips.com)
		212 points by jefkoslowski on Oct 8, 2014 \| 24 comments
13.		Venezuelans turn to Bitcoins to bypass currency controls (reuters.com)
		174 points by rafaelm on Oct 8, 2014 \| 95 comments
14.		Firestone Stopped Ebola in Its Tracks (npr.org)
		183 points by mdturnerphys on Oct 8, 2014 \| 96 comments
15.		San Francisco Legalizes, Regulates Airbnb with 7-4 Vote, Lots of Amendments (techcrunch.com)
		159 points by enra on Oct 8, 2014 \| 111 comments
16.		Peter Thiel Is Wrong About the Future (bloombergview.com)
		136 points by T-A on Oct 8, 2014 \| 139 comments
17.		A native code to C/C++ decompiler (derevenets.com)
		137 points by fla on Oct 8, 2014 \| 54 comments
18.		Segment (YC S11) Raises $15 Million Series A (segment.com)
		141 points by pkrein on Oct 8, 2014 \| 47 comments
19.		Running GUI apps with Docker (fabiorehm.com)
		123 points by SlipperySlope on Oct 8, 2014 \| 34 comments
20.		The Curse of Increasing Marginal Work Utility, or Why I Work So Much (togelius.blogspot.com)
		111 points by nkurz on Oct 8, 2014 \| 62 comments
21.		The Kitchen Network: America’s Underground Chinese Restaurant Workers (newyorker.com)
		115 points by throwaway344 on Oct 8, 2014 \| 39 comments
22.		Qubes – Secure Desktop OS Using Security by Compartmentalization (qubes-os.org)
		101 points by tete on Oct 8, 2014 \| 49 comments
23.		DEA impersonates real person on Facebook (techdirt.com)
		90 points by k4jh on Oct 8, 2014 \| 39 comments
24.		“Shellshock” (dwheeler.com)
		92 points by bronson on Oct 8, 2014 \| 22 comments
25.		The Quality, Popularity, and Negativity of 5.6M Hacker News Comments (minimaxir.com)
		82 points by sinak on Oct 8, 2014 \| 20 comments
26.		In Spain, Politics via Reddit (newyorker.com)
		95 points by loomio on Oct 8, 2014 \| 70 comments
27.		WePay (YC S09) Launches WePay Clear, a Stripe Competitor with Fraud Protection (techcrunch.com)
		92 points by transburgh on Oct 8, 2014 \| 25 comments
28.		Analyze Your HN Posts with Watson User Modeling (mybluemix.net)
		75 points by Jonovono on Oct 8, 2014 \| 49 comments
29.		A Massively Parallel Computing Solution (micron.com)
		77 points by mariusz79 on Oct 8, 2014 \| 24 comments
30.		UW fusion reactor concept could be cheaper than coal (washington.edu)
		72 points by mrfusion on Oct 8, 2014 \| 53 comments
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