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1.		Show HN: Airtable, a real-time spreadsheet-database hybrid (airtable.com)
		361 points by howsta on Sept 26, 2014 \| 125 comments
2.		The Secret Goldman Sachs Tapes (bloombergview.com)
		256 points by pdknsk on Sept 26, 2014 \| 65 comments
3.		Use Python in Excel without add-ins (xlwings.org)
		251 points by gauriage on Sept 26, 2014 \| 70 comments
4.		Breaking the Silk Road's Captcha (github.com/mieko)
		238 points by DavidChouinard on Sept 26, 2014 \| 19 comments
5.		HFT in my backyard – II (sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com)
		197 points by liotier on Sept 26, 2014 \| 65 comments
6.		Juno: A free environment for the Julia language (junolab.org)
		186 points by yarapavan on Sept 26, 2014 \| 30 comments
7.		The economics of a web-based book (practicaltypography.com)
		177 points by _dps on Sept 26, 2014 \| 73 comments
8.		Clojure Distilled (yogthos.github.io)
		168 points by nickmain on Sept 26, 2014 \| 51 comments
9.		My $300 Home Cloud Server (acm.org)
		155 points by theonewolf on Sept 26, 2014 \| 121 comments
10.		Meeting strangers in the street (lauramichet.com)
		149 points by CmdrKrool on Sept 26, 2014 \| 78 comments
11.		Why the Z-80's data pins are scrambled (righto.com)
		137 points by zdw on Sept 26, 2014 \| 37 comments
12.		Docker is the Heroku Killer (brightball.com)
		139 points by joeyespo on Sept 26, 2014 \| 68 comments
13.		The Invention Machine: Cleveland Duo Churns Out Ideas Worth Billions (forbes.com/sites/danalexander)
		126 points by lxm on Sept 26, 2014 \| 32 comments
14.		Quit Covering Up Your Toxic Hellstew with Docker (neutrondrive.com)
		124 points by cyberpanther on Sept 26, 2014 \| 51 comments
15.		Marc Andreessen Sounds Warning on Startups Burning Cash (nytimes.com)
		117 points by stevenj on Sept 26, 2014 \| 90 comments
16.		FPGAs for Dummies [pdf] (altera.com)
		111 points by vonmoltke on Sept 26, 2014 \| 20 comments
17.		Re: CVE-2014-6271 – remote code execution through bash (seclists.org)
		108 points by eddydkim on Sept 26, 2014 \| 51 comments
18.		3rd Shellshock Vulnerability Found (seclists.org)
		101 points by propercoil on Sept 26, 2014 \| 42 comments
19.		Systemd: The Biggest Fallacies (judecnelson.blogspot.com)
		95 points by zdw on Sept 26, 2014 \| 50 comments
20.		Spec-me-maybe: Introduces the “maybe” syntax to RSpec (github.com/davidcelis)
		99 points by speric on Sept 26, 2014 \| 37 comments
21.		India's Mars mission: Picture that spoke 1,000 words (bbc.com)
		95 points by kamaal on Sept 26, 2014 \| 5 comments
22.		Captain Crunch needs your help (qikfunder.com)
		86 points by substa on Sept 26, 2014 \| 27 comments
23.		Entrepreneur is a silly word, and you sound silly when you call yourself one (unsolicited.consulting)
		79 points by 5trokerac3 on Sept 26, 2014 \| 67 comments
24.		Shellshock BASH Vulnerability Tester (shellshocker.net)
		82 points by ericclemmons on Sept 26, 2014 \| 54 comments
25.		Easy, realtime, system-wide Shellshock monitoring (draios.com)
		91 points by kristopolous on Sept 26, 2014 \| 32 comments
26.		iPhone 6: Comparing InvenSense and Bosch Accelerometers (eetimes.com)
		68 points by vishalchandra on Sept 26, 2014 \| 12 comments
27.		Amazon Takes a Big Step Toward Making Its Own Deliveries (wired.com)
		70 points by tchalla on Sept 26, 2014 \| 61 comments
28.		Pebilepsy – Pebble app for seizure tracking and measurement (neutun.com)
		113 points by yatoomy on Sept 26, 2014 \| 34 comments
29.		Cognitive Artificial Intelligence: The MicroPsi Project (micropsi.com)
		72 points by jonbaer on Sept 26, 2014 \| 8 comments
30.		How to Start a Startup Lecture 2: Full Transcript (genius.com)
		66 points by cjbarber on Sept 26, 2014 \| 10 comments
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