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1.		This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and Pakistan (pri.org)
		557 points by selmnoo on Nov 19, 2013 \| 271 comments
2.		Why I Will Never Go Back to the United States (alternet.org)
		400 points by jaimebuelta on Nov 19, 2013 \| 360 comments
3.		The first Bitcoin post on HN (news.ycombinator.com)
		395 points by neotrinity on Nov 19, 2013 \| 289 comments
4.		Booting to Rust (theincredibleholk.org)
		369 points by dbaupp on Nov 19, 2013 \| 40 comments
5.		The Mission of Tesla (teslamotors.com)
		348 points by GraffitiTim on Nov 19, 2013 \| 191 comments
6.		LG Smart TVs log USB filenames and viewing info to LG servers (doctorbeet.blogspot.com)
		297 points by Amadou on Nov 19, 2013 \| 178 comments
7.		English Has a New Preposition, Because Internet (theatlantic.com)
		300 points by sinak on Nov 19, 2013 \| 149 comments
8.		Recursive raytracer in 35 lines of JavaScript (jsfiddle.net)
		281 points by ggambetta on Nov 19, 2013 \| 101 comments
9.		JavaScript particle simulator (cake23.de)
		271 points by filipedeschamps on Nov 19, 2013 \| 90 comments
10.		"Like A Rolling Stone" – Interactive Video (bobdylan.com)
		239 points by jmduke on Nov 19, 2013 \| 50 comments
11.		DigitalOcean Sucks. Use DigitalOcean (raymii.org)
		208 points by mdewinter on Nov 19, 2013 \| 186 comments
12.		The Mature Optimization Handbook (facebook.com)
		203 points by webmaven on Nov 19, 2013 \| 20 comments
13.		Show HN: MMORPG in 55KB of Javascript (aberoth.com)
		178 points by simple1 on Nov 19, 2013 \| 51 comments
14.		The Right Way to Grant Equity to Your Employees (firstround.com)
		188 points by ca98am79 on Nov 19, 2013 \| 84 comments
15.		Drone Imagery for OpenStreetMap (mapbox.com)
		171 points by bsudekum on Nov 19, 2013 \| 48 comments
16.		The United States is isolated in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations (washingtonpost.com)
		151 points by Amadou on Nov 19, 2013 \| 47 comments
17.		How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management (hbr.org)
		147 points by toby on Nov 19, 2013 \| 45 comments
18.		Whoosh – Fast, full-text indexing and searching library in Python (bitbucket.org/mchaput)
		146 points by albertzeyer on Nov 19, 2013 \| 44 comments
19.		Nginx security advisory (CVE-2013-4547) (nginx.org)
		134 points by zzzcpan on Nov 19, 2013 \| 55 comments
20.		LXC Networking introduction (containerops.org)
		136 points by gyre007 on Nov 19, 2013 \| 42 comments
21.		From a Frat Social Network to a GPU Compiler for Hadoop (medium.com/game-changing-ideas)
		118 points by tonydiv on Nov 19, 2013 \| 75 comments
22.		How to Sell a Blog for $36,200 (amandatinney.com)
		108 points by askaaronlee on Nov 19, 2013 \| 90 comments
23.		Kano: A computer anyone can make (kickstarter.com)
		106 points by tmslnz on Nov 19, 2013 \| 51 comments
24.		Visual Studio 2013 (visualstudio.com)
		105 points by norkans7 on Nov 19, 2013 \| 127 comments
25.		The Median Isn't the Message, by Stephen Jay Gould (edwardtufte.com)
		102 points by danso on Nov 19, 2013 \| 11 comments
26.		Chernobyl Fungus Feeds On Radiation (2007) (scienceagogo.com)
		99 points by skennedy on Nov 19, 2013 \| 53 comments
27.		Wikimedia Foundation sends cease and desist letter to WikiPR (wikimedia.org)
		97 points by patomolina on Nov 19, 2013 \| 39 comments
28.		Why We Chose API First Development at Our Startup (pop.co)
		97 points by jqueryin on Nov 19, 2013 \| 73 comments
29.		Launching developer Q&A on Stack Overflow (hacks.mozilla.org)
		99 points by rnyman on Nov 19, 2013 \| 53 comments
30.		Is Google signing your chat messages? (thijsalkema.de)
		90 points by xnyhps on Nov 19, 2013 \| 39 comments
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