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1.		Lavabit Defied FBI Demands to Turn Over Crypto Keys, Documents Show (wired.com)
		592 points by inglesp on Oct 2, 2013 \| 250 comments
2.		Children aren't born smart. They're made smart by conversation (slate.com)
		472 points by kumarski on Oct 2, 2013 \| 276 comments
3.		HTML5 Flash Player (Shumway) lands in Mozilla (gemal.dk)
		373 points by robin_reala on Oct 2, 2013 \| 176 comments
4.		How to make $100k in Open Source by working hard (mikeperham.com)
		316 points by trustfundbaby on Oct 2, 2013 \| 93 comments
5.		PostgreSQL Studio (postgresqlstudio.org)
		276 points by moreati on Oct 2, 2013 \| 94 comments
6.		Patent Troll Lodsys Settles for Nothing to Avoid Trial (eff.org)
		268 points by alxndr on Oct 2, 2013 \| 73 comments
7.		Criminal Complaint against Ross Ulbricht aka "Dread Pirate Roberts" [pdf] (krebsonsecurity.com)
		268 points by tcoppi on Oct 2, 2013 \| 142 comments
8.		MTurk + Google News API = press (customerdevlabs.com)
		267 points by langoff on Oct 2, 2013 \| 111 comments
9.		Mobile web design: The reign of morons, indeed (jwz.org)
		217 points by protomyth on Oct 2, 2013 \| 115 comments
10.		Tom Clancy has died (businessinsider.com)
		214 points by BruceM on Oct 2, 2013 \| 85 comments
11.		U.S. Opposes Tech Companies’ Requests to Disclose Surveillance (allthingsd.com)
		220 points by inselkampf on Oct 2, 2013 \| 83 comments
12.		SQRL - Replacement for usernames and passwords (grc.com)
		205 points by richardjs on Oct 2, 2013 \| 131 comments
13.		Nexus 5 to be first smartphone with MEMS camera (phonearena.com)
		189 points by codelike on Oct 2, 2013 \| 89 comments
14.		Flutter (YC W12) acquired by Google (flutterapp.com)
		164 points by DesaiAshu on Oct 2, 2013 \| 24 comments
15.		Ask HN: Did your YC (or other incubator) startup fail? What are you doing now?
		151 points by andrewhillman on Oct 2, 2013 \| 56 comments
16.		Richard Stallman on the Painful Birth of GNU (computerworlduk.com)
		137 points by Tsiolkovsky on Oct 2, 2013 \| 41 comments
17.		[dupe] The Bonehead Mistake That Brought Down an Online Drug-Dealing Empire (slate.com)
		138 points by doh on Oct 2, 2013 \| 74 comments
18.		How to Design Great APIs [video] (parse.com)
		134 points by csmajorfive on Oct 2, 2013 \| 16 comments
19.		AMD Posts A Horde Of New 3D GPU Documentation (phoronix.com)
		121 points by samwilliams on Oct 2, 2013 \| 36 comments
20.		XMir postponed in Ubuntu (ubuntu.com)
		117 points by ovis on Oct 2, 2013 \| 110 comments
21.		Microsoft brings 18-year-old game 'Hover' to browser (hover.ie)
		117 points by hypr_geek on Oct 2, 2013 \| 100 comments
22.		Global celebration for the GNU System's 30th anniversary (fsf.org)
		110 points by Tsiolkovsky on Oct 2, 2013 \| 14 comments
23.		Response of US Govt to Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, and LinkedIn [pdf] (uscourts.gov)
		104 points by rajbala on Oct 2, 2013 \| 34 comments
24.		NSA Storing Internet Data, Social Networking Data, on Pretty Much Everybody (schneier.com)
		97 points by frrp on Oct 2, 2013 \| 30 comments
25.		MySQL is to SQL like MongoDB to NoSQL (use-the-index-luke.com)
		97 points by geal on Oct 2, 2013 \| 124 comments
26.		California’s $327 million web site in operation (law.harvard.edu)
		94 points by tjr on Oct 2, 2013 \| 40 comments
27.		RAML - RESTful API modeling language (raml.org)
		94 points by DanI-S on Oct 2, 2013 \| 55 comments
28.		SimplyInsured (YC W13) raises $750K to simplify health insurance (venturebeat.com)
		93 points by vivekajayshah on Oct 2, 2013 \| 50 comments
29.		Getting Meteor to 1.0 (meteor.com)
		93 points by yaliceme on Oct 2, 2013 \| 53 comments
30.		The One in Which I Call Out Hacker News (2009) (bitquabit.com)
		85 points by sebkomianos on Oct 2, 2013 \| 25 comments
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