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Stories from September 16, 2013

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1.		Five years ago, Stack Overflow launched (stackoverflow.com)
		519 points by df07 on Sept 16, 2013 \| 177 comments
2.		Gabe Newell: Linux is the future of gaming, new hardware coming soon (arstechnica.com)
		404 points by onosendai on Sept 16, 2013 \| 300 comments
3.		Angry entrepreneur replies to patent troll with racketeering lawsuit (arstechnica.com)
		308 points by Suraj-Sun on Sept 16, 2013 \| 62 comments
4.		Tim O'Reilly: How I Failed (oreilly.com)
		281 points by gruseom on Sept 16, 2013 \| 74 comments
5.		Rich Hickey's Greatest Hits (thechangelog.com)
		270 points by sant0sk1 on Sept 16, 2013 \| 70 comments
6.		Dear USA, my data has left your building (cpbotha.net)
		256 points by cpbotha on Sept 16, 2013 \| 151 comments
7.		Bump (YC S09) has been acquired by Google (bu.mp)
		215 points by olivercameron on Sept 16, 2013 \| 101 comments
8.		Star Wars opening crawl from 1977 in HTML/CSS/JS (codepen.io)
		202 points by TimPietrusky on Sept 16, 2013 \| 64 comments
9.		UAV Provides Colorado Flooding Assistance Until FEMA Freaks Out (ieee.org)
		182 points by eguizzo on Sept 16, 2013 \| 88 comments
10.		Show HN: goworker – a faster, Resque-compatible background worker (goworker.org)
		179 points by benmanns on Sept 16, 2013 \| 58 comments
11.		This 4×6 index card has all the financial advice you’ll ever need (washingtonpost.com)
		155 points by bcn on Sept 16, 2013 \| 249 comments
12.		Golang Object Oriented Design (nathany.com)
		151 points by JanLaussmann on Sept 16, 2013 \| 73 comments
13.		How Detroit went broke (freep.com)
		149 points by jseliger on Sept 16, 2013 \| 216 comments
14.		What Neil and Buzz Left on the Moon (nasa.gov)
		149 points by jacquesm on Sept 16, 2013 \| 76 comments
15.		Hosting backdoors in hardware (oracle.com)
		148 points by dutchbrit on Sept 16, 2013 \| 61 comments
16.		Rat Park Experiment: A New Theory of Addiction (garrytan.com)
		146 points by rfreytag on Sept 16, 2013 \| 42 comments
17.		The DIY Danes planning to launch a man into space (theguardian.com)
		139 points by cromulent on Sept 16, 2013 \| 34 comments
18.		Why I'm Getting a PhD (johnbender.us)
		137 points by johnbender on Sept 16, 2013 \| 124 comments
19.		Sophia – An embeddable key-value database (sphia.org)
		134 points by isaacb on Sept 16, 2013 \| 56 comments
20.		Google and Samsung soar into list of top 10 Linux contributors (arstechnica.com)
		139 points by fdm on Sept 16, 2013 \| 50 comments
21.		Masscan: scan the entire Internet in under 6 minutes, 10 million packets/second (github.com/robertdavidgraham)
		138 points by nvk on Sept 16, 2013 \| 30 comments
22.		The History Of The Fake "Free Public WiFi" You Always See At Airports (techdirt.com)
		121 points by cpeterso on Sept 16, 2013 \| 12 comments
23.		Jacob Appelbaum at European Parliament: Privacy, security, spying issues (vikingvpn.com)
		115 points by wicknicks on Sept 16, 2013 \| 19 comments
24.		How I got into YC S13 (aelag.com)
		120 points by aelaguiz on Sept 16, 2013 \| 33 comments
25.		Open Letter From UK Security Researchers (bristolcrypto.blogspot.co.uk)
		114 points by austengary on Sept 16, 2013 \| 21 comments
26.		Fast and formally verified C implementation of Base64 (galois.com)
		106 points by lelf on Sept 16, 2013 \| 40 comments
27.		A Twisty Maze of Linux Clocks, All Slightly Different (geekwhisperer.blogspot.co.uk)
		105 points by jrepin on Sept 16, 2013 \| 25 comments
28.		LibPhenom, a high-performance C eventing framework from Facebook (facebook.github.io)
		107 points by jamesgpearce on Sept 16, 2013 \| 41 comments
29.		Cognitect: Relevance merges with Metadata Partners (Datomic) (cognitect.com)
		107 points by AndreasFrom on Sept 16, 2013 \| 26 comments
30.		Intel rejection of Ubuntu’s Mir patch forces Canonical to go own way (arstechnica.com)
		105 points by redman25 on Sept 16, 2013 \| 95 comments
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