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1.		CVE-2014-6271: Remote code execution through bash (seclists.org)
		905 points by vault_ on Sept 24, 2014 \| 416 comments
2.		The biggest thing with small patches (2004) (lkml.org)
		392 points by ohmygeek on Sept 24, 2014 \| 37 comments
3.		Why India's Mars mission is so cheap – and thrilling (bbc.com)
		392 points by leephillips on Sept 24, 2014 \| 180 comments
4.		IBM Watson API (ibm.com)
		311 points by miket on Sept 24, 2014 \| 84 comments
5.		AWS issues unavoidable reboot schedules with short notice on many EC2 instances (amazon.com)
		269 points by eknkc on Sept 24, 2014 \| 152 comments
6.		Datamining a Flat in Munich (funnybretzel.svbtle.com)
		239 points by ilovefood on Sept 24, 2014 \| 147 comments
7.		Rethinking the origins of the universe (unc.edu)
		202 points by cyang08 on Sept 24, 2014 \| 133 comments
8.		Relativistic hash tables (lwn.net)
		187 points by yiransheng on Sept 24, 2014 \| 46 comments
9.		San Diego Researcher Crowdfunding Patent-Free Cancer Drug (timesofsandiego.com)
		198 points by udibai on Sept 24, 2014 \| 90 comments
10.		SlackTextViewController: A new growing text input for iOS (github.com/slackhq)
		200 points by bradya on Sept 24, 2014 \| 34 comments
11.		How to tell when a robot has written you a letter (medium.com/message)
		187 points by Thevet on Sept 24, 2014 \| 100 comments
12.		Cling: an interactive C++ interpreter, built on top of Clang and LLVM (github.com/vgvassilev)
		179 points by ColinWright on Sept 24, 2014 \| 41 comments
13.		Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits (wired.com)
		140 points by privong on Sept 24, 2014 \| 116 comments
14.		Libsodium 1.0.0 released (libsodium.org)
		149 points by jedisct1 on Sept 24, 2014 \| 41 comments
15.		Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, Up, Up, Up, Up (netflix.com)
		145 points by edward on Sept 24, 2014 \| 35 comments
16.		iOS 8.0.1 released, broken on iPhone 6 models, withdrawn (sixcolors.com)
		123 points by OberstKrueger on Sept 24, 2014 \| 75 comments
17.		Introducing Elm Reactor (elm-lang.org)
		148 points by michaelbjames on Sept 24, 2014 \| 11 comments
18.		Mobile Web App Checklist (luster.io)
		138 points by coderzach on Sept 24, 2014 \| 34 comments
19.		Daala: Painting Images for Fun (and Profit?) (xiph.org)
		117 points by walrus on Sept 24, 2014 \| 25 comments
20.		How to Start a Startup Lecture 1: Full Transcript (genius.com)
		117 points by nightpool on Sept 24, 2014 \| 11 comments
21.		How to Squeeze a Huge Ship Down a Tiny River (wired.com)
		112 points by sveme on Sept 24, 2014 \| 38 comments
22.		Bash 'shellshock' scan of the Internet (erratasec.com)
		109 points by agwa on Sept 24, 2014 \| 38 comments
23.		The Surprising Path to a Faster NYTimes.com (speakerdeck.com)
		107 points by danso on Sept 24, 2014 \| 33 comments
24.		What “technical” concerns do I have with systemd? (lusis.org)
		107 points by rossj on Sept 24, 2014 \| 98 comments
25.		Was jquery.com compromised? (jquery.com)
		115 points by getdavidhiggins on Sept 24, 2014 \| 55 comments
26.		Docker Hub Official Repos: Announcing Language Stacks (docker.com)
		114 points by zrail on Sept 24, 2014 \| 26 comments
27.		NGA releases high-resolution elevation data to public (nga.mil)
		95 points by liotier on Sept 24, 2014 \| 27 comments
28.		Following Sony, Samsung has stopped sales of its laptops in Europe (pcadvisor.co.uk)
		86 points by benologist on Sept 24, 2014 \| 87 comments
29.		When It Comes to Facebook Scale, You Can Throw Out the Rulebook (techcrunch.com)
		90 points by coreymgilmore on Sept 24, 2014 \| 32 comments
30.		Man receives constant pain signals from his brain (montgomerynews.com)
		81 points by mmonihan on Sept 24, 2014 \| 59 comments
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