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1.		How I thought I wanted to become a digital nomad (alexp.github.io)
		270 points by bartekurbanski on Sept 15, 2013 \| 200 comments
2.		A Course in Machine Learning (ciml.info)
		229 points by sebg on Sept 15, 2013 \| 39 comments
3.		How To Deconstruct Almost Anything (1993) (fudco.com)
		220 points by didgeoridoo on Sept 15, 2013 \| 133 comments
4.		Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems' (theguardian.com)
		167 points by sethbannon on Sept 15, 2013 \| 32 comments
5.		Why Is Zambia So Poor? (psmag.com)
		160 points by timw6n on Sept 15, 2013 \| 149 comments
6.		Data Mining and Analysis: Fundamental Concepts and Algorithms [pdf] (dcc.ufmg.br)
		158 points by rawfael on Sept 15, 2013 \| 12 comments
7.		Software Development Estimates: Where Do I Start? (diegobasch.com)
		143 points by clarkm on Sept 15, 2013 \| 98 comments
8.		The problem isn’t piracy – it’s competition (rocknerd.co.uk)
		143 points by nkurz on Sept 15, 2013 \| 128 comments
9.		Where my mouth is (jao.io)
		134 points by momo-reina on Sept 15, 2013 \| 80 comments
10.		Z3: A high-performance theorem prover from Microsoft Research (codeplex.com)
		129 points by tchajed on Sept 15, 2013 \| 48 comments
11.		Technical Interviews Make Me Cry (pamelafox.org)
		127 points by ctoth on Sept 15, 2013 \| 112 comments
12.		A Sneak Peek at Eric Schlosser's New Book on Nuclear Weapons (motherjones.com)
		123 points by edw519 on Sept 15, 2013 \| 101 comments
13.		Django Security Release - 1.5.4 (djangoproject.com)
		125 points by gandalfar on Sept 15, 2013 \| 24 comments
14.		Wikipedia links to HN (wikipedia.org)
		125 points by lelf on Sept 15, 2013 \| 25 comments
15.		Tomorrow is the shortest day of the year: 23 hours, 59 minutes, 38.7 secs (wikipedia.org)
		119 points by ColinWright on Sept 15, 2013 \| 40 comments
16.		Microsoft Throws its Weight Behind Ghost (medium.com/design-startups)
		107 points by krisroadruck on Sept 15, 2013 \| 94 comments
17.		How the US government inadvertently created Wikileaks (pandodaily.com)
		104 points by stfu on Sept 15, 2013 \| 20 comments
18.		Windows 8.1’s user-hostile backup story (edandersen.com)
		94 points by edandersen on Sept 15, 2013 \| 137 comments
19.		Ask HN: Is it time for a public GPG audit?
		94 points by anotherhue on Sept 15, 2013 \| 38 comments
20.		More on Lithium Batteries (shkrobius.livejournal.com)
		90 points by jayhoon on Sept 15, 2013 \| 33 comments
21.		The CEO of Panera Bread attempts to live off food stamps for a week (linkedin.com)
		88 points by weu on Sept 15, 2013 \| 128 comments
22.		How Tumblr uses \0 in the output of meta tags (dudewheresmybackslash0.tumblr.com)
		88 points by Mithorium on Sept 15, 2013 \| 18 comments
23.		Immigrants lacking papers work legally – as their own bosses (latimes.com)
		86 points by radley on Sept 15, 2013 \| 82 comments
24.		Little Brother (craphound.com)
		81 points by jlees on Sept 15, 2013 \| 26 comments
25.		Masscan: The entire internet in 3 minutes (erratasec.com)
		80 points by yammesicka on Sept 15, 2013 \| 12 comments
26.		177 Days of GitHub (ryanseys.com)
		77 points by ryanseys on Sept 15, 2013 \| 40 comments
27.		How a Relationship Dies on Facebook (newyorker.com)
		72 points by danso on Sept 15, 2013 \| 59 comments
28.		Poor developer estimates, a.k.a. guesstimation (alexefish.com)
		52 points by renderrobot on Sept 15, 2013 \| 71 comments
29.		Show HN: Web-controlled Christmas Lights with Node.js, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi (gnewt.at)
		51 points by Gnewt on Sept 15, 2013 \| 7 comments
30.		How to Get a Job With a Philosophy Degree (nytimes.com)
		50 points by wallflower on Sept 15, 2013 \| 52 comments
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