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1.
The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998 (microsoft.com)
385 points by shrikant on Nov 4, 2013 | 235 comments
2.
Get Shit Done: The Worst Startup Culture (whatspinksthinks.com)
382 points by hunckler on Nov 4, 2013 | 199 comments
3.
In CSS, “px” is not an angular measurement and it is not non-linear (omnicognate.wordpress.com)
345 points by jipumarino on Nov 4, 2013 | 89 comments
4.
Use a Google Spreadsheet as your JSON backend (coderwall.com)
219 points by bitsweet on Nov 4, 2013 | 67 comments
5.
Show HN: Real-time file sharing site (volafile.io)
218 points by chmod775 on Nov 4, 2013 | 97 comments
6.
Avoiding Heart Disease (harjtaggar.com)
215 points by kul on Nov 4, 2013 | 141 comments
7.
All around the world, labour is losing out to capital (economist.com)
207 points by rndmize on Nov 4, 2013 | 280 comments
8.
Lavabit's Dark Mail Initiative (kickstarter.com)
210 points by p4bl0 on Nov 4, 2013 | 87 comments
9.
Wayback machine gets a facelift, new features (archive.org)
206 points by anigbrowl on Nov 4, 2013 | 77 comments
10.
Chuck Moore's Creations (msdn.com)
200 points by samsaga2 on Nov 4, 2013 | 72 comments
11.
My First Job: Fired and Rehired on Day 1 (linkedin.com)
199 points by lydiahan on Nov 4, 2013 | 113 comments
12.
Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable (arxiv.org)
200 points by arh68 on Nov 4, 2013 | 86 comments
13.
Hawala (wikipedia.org)
200 points by robbiet480 on Nov 4, 2013 | 55 comments
14.
Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms (smithsonianmag.com)
167 points by wozniacki on Nov 4, 2013 | 49 comments
15.
Massachusetts man uses 3-D printer to make prosthetic hand for his son (msn.com)
165 points by cityzen on Nov 4, 2013 | 47 comments
16.
How we test fake sites on live traffic (42floors.com)
165 points by jaf12duke on Nov 4, 2013 | 39 comments
17.
Show HN: RinohType – A modern LaTeX in 6500 lines of Python (mos6581.org)
153 points by brechtm on Nov 4, 2013 | 99 comments
18.
Writing a FUSE filesystem in Python (stavros.io)
142 points by stavros on Nov 4, 2013 | 48 comments
19.
Valgrind Release 3.9.0 (valgrind.org)
142 points by conductor on Nov 4, 2013 | 34 comments
20.
XPath is actually pretty useful once it stops being confusing (rapgenius.com)
142 points by sugnid on Nov 4, 2013 | 75 comments
21.
Scoop – A command-line installer for Windows (scoop.sh)
125 points by wubbfindel on Nov 4, 2013 | 55 comments
22.
Xkcd: Encryptic (xkcd.com)
120 points by ohazi on Nov 4, 2013 | 62 comments
23.
Hackpad (avc.com)
123 points by kunle on Nov 4, 2013 | 46 comments
24.
Doctors participated in torture of suspects after 9/11, taskforce finds (theguardian.com)
111 points by gruseom on Nov 4, 2013 | 63 comments
25.
Snapchat is Intrinsically Worthless (roymurdock.com)
108 points by roymurdock on Nov 4, 2013 | 117 comments
26.
6TB helium-filled hard drives bump capacity, decrease power use (computerworld.com)
107 points by Shivetya on Nov 4, 2013 | 82 comments
27.
Actualvim – Sublime Text 3 input mode powered by Vim itself (github.com/lunixbochs)
107 points by jkarni on Nov 4, 2013 | 111 comments
28.
The 3.12 kernel is out (lwn.net)
106 points by jeltz on Nov 4, 2013 | 39 comments
29.
Firefox Developer Tools, Part 2: Scratchpad and Style Editor (hacks.mozilla.org)
109 points by rnyman on Nov 4, 2013 | 28 comments
30.
Google Search Now Includes Etymology (google.com)
100 points by charlieirish on Nov 4, 2013 | 65 comments

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