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1.		Hard Drive Reliability Update – Sep 2014 (backblaze.com)
		385 points by nuriaion on Sept 23, 2014 \| 162 comments
2.		Israel’s N.S.A. Scandal (nytimes.com)
		344 points by not_that_noob on Sept 23, 2014 \| 134 comments
3.		BitPay and PayPal (bitpay.com)
		308 points by seansoutpost on Sept 23, 2014 \| 147 comments
4.		The SSD Endurance Experiment: Only Two Remain After 1.5PB (techreport.com)
		259 points by ferrari8608 on Sept 23, 2014 \| 110 comments
5.		For Cinephiles, Netflix Is Less and Less an Option (kqed.org)
		226 points by jfb on Sept 23, 2014 \| 262 comments
6.		A Site That Teaches You to Code Well Enough to Get a Job (wired.com)
		250 points by cyphersanctus on Sept 23, 2014 \| 196 comments
7.		This email may be worth millions of dollars in sales (josephwalla.com)
		220 points by guiseppecalzone on Sept 23, 2014 \| 72 comments
8.		Station Crew Docks Dragon Capsule to ISS (nasa.gov)
		227 points by mzaccari on Sept 23, 2014 \| 79 comments
9.		Brave New Phone Call (medium.com/stevenlevy)
		210 points by olivercameron on Sept 23, 2014 \| 139 comments
10.		HFT in My Backyard (sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com)
		193 points by cheatdeath on Sept 23, 2014 \| 129 comments
11.		Liberia signs 'transformational' deal to stem deforestation (bbc.com)
		190 points by fillskills on Sept 23, 2014 \| 81 comments
12.		Ways to Minimize Employee Retention (rustyrazorblade.com)
		177 points by rustyrazorblade on Sept 23, 2014 \| 71 comments
13.		Official Go support (stripe.com)
		189 points by gdb on Sept 23, 2014 \| 110 comments
14.		Careful with that Buffer (os2museum.com)
		152 points by Aloha on Sept 23, 2014 \| 13 comments
15.		Logging can be tricky (squareup.com)
		138 points by hariharan_uno on Sept 23, 2014 \| 74 comments
16.		React-cursor: a JavaScript implementation of the Cursor concept first seen in Om (github.com/dustingetz)
		136 points by dustingetz on Sept 23, 2014 \| 68 comments
17.		Show HN: ParseHub – Extract data from dynamic websites (parsehub.com)
		143 points by tsergiu on Sept 23, 2014 \| 69 comments
18.		Chipworks Disassembles Apple's A8 SoC: GX6450, 4MB L3 Cache and More (anandtech.com)
		120 points by zdw on Sept 23, 2014 \| 10 comments
19.		Ask HN: Hackers who cook
		136 points by Cherian on Sept 23, 2014 \| 207 comments
20.		Netflix refuses CRTC demand to hand over subscriber data (cbc.ca)
		124 points by randlet on Sept 23, 2014 \| 92 comments
21.		Tech salary insights from 1.2M foreign worker visas (therotationship.com)
		125 points by kevingao1 on Sept 23, 2014 \| 137 comments
22.		Edit: A Relaxing Mix of Vi and Acme (c9x.me)
		118 points by qznc on Sept 23, 2014 \| 54 comments
23.		Heroku DX: The New Heroku Developer Experience (heroku.com)
		119 points by Spiritus on Sept 23, 2014 \| 56 comments
24.		Russian Smokejumpers (nationalgeographic.com)
		114 points by Mz on Sept 23, 2014 \| 60 comments
25.		The Dropbox terabyte conundrum (sixcolors.com)
		105 points by jaimebuelta on Sept 23, 2014 \| 73 comments
26.		Sebastian Thrun Has Left His Role as Google VP and Fellow (techcrunch.com)
		115 points by BIackSwan on Sept 23, 2014 \| 60 comments
27.		It's called “Ship” not “Shit” (heyimcat.com)
		105 points by pantonepicker on Sept 23, 2014 \| 22 comments
28.		“I want you to watch this movie and think only about staging” (extension765.com)
		100 points by tmflannery on Sept 23, 2014 \| 18 comments
29.		Ebola Cases Could Reach 1.4M in 4 Months, C.D.C. Estimates (nytimes.com)
		103 points by ghshephard on Sept 23, 2014 \| 68 comments
30.		Switch default desktop to Gnome (debian.org)
		91 points by dfc on Sept 23, 2014 \| 80 comments
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