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1.		Why Your Startup Can’t Find Developers (fastcolabs.com)
		415 points by lowglow on Sept 26, 2013 \| 349 comments
2.		The new Galaxy Note 3 is region-locked (gigaom.com)
		361 points by pjmlp on Sept 26, 2013 \| 225 comments
3.		PayPal Acquires Braintree for $800M (techcrunch.com)
		326 points by paraschopra on Sept 26, 2013 \| 175 comments
4.		Mars water surprise in Curiosity rover soil samples (bbc.co.uk)
		301 points by doublerebel on Sept 26, 2013 \| 44 comments
5.		Reveal.js (hakim.se)
		286 points by shandip on Sept 26, 2013 \| 50 comments
6.		Dolphin Emulator and OpenGL drivers - Hall of Fame/Shame (dolphin-emu.org)
		273 points by delroth on Sept 26, 2013 \| 59 comments
7.		Call me maybe: Cassandra (aphyr.com)
		268 points by lucian1900 on Sept 26, 2013 \| 51 comments
8.		Troll-Killing Patent Reform One Step Closer (eff.org)
		259 points by DiabloD3 on Sept 26, 2013 \| 45 comments
9.		At 16, Ganesh got a job in Qatar. Two months later he was dead (theguardian.com)
		248 points by anu_gupta on Sept 26, 2013 \| 160 comments
10.		Git concepts simplified (gitolite.com)
		244 points by whiteshadow on Sept 26, 2013 \| 141 comments
11.		FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera (fastmail.fm)
		238 points by robmueller on Sept 26, 2013 \| 118 comments
12.		Giant Concrete Arrows Across the American Landscape (core77.com)
		228 points by tyskis on Sept 26, 2013 \| 46 comments
13.		Google Hangouts/GTalk glitch sends chats to wrong recipients (zdnet.com)
		230 points by CWIZO on Sept 26, 2013 \| 146 comments
14.		Google Recently Made A Silent Shift To A New Search Algorithm, “Hummingbird” (techcrunch.com)
		197 points by mumbi on Sept 26, 2013 \| 146 comments
15.		What Everyone Should Know About How Talent is Bought and Sold (firstround.com)
		172 points by ca98am79 on Sept 26, 2013 \| 50 comments
16.		We're creating a culture of distraction (joekraus.com)
		166 points by 0x10c0fe11ce on Sept 26, 2013 \| 172 comments
17.		Intel proves once and for all that PCs are not coming back (semiaccurate.com)
		157 points by angersock on Sept 26, 2013 \| 186 comments
18.		20% of Yelp reviews are fake (marketwatch.com)
		147 points by bobf on Sept 26, 2013 \| 104 comments
19.		Going to work from home today – our office is too loud (42floors.com)
		142 points by darrennix on Sept 26, 2013 \| 157 comments
20.		Happy Petrov day (wikipedia.org)
		138 points by omegant on Sept 26, 2013 \| 30 comments
21.		419-million-year-old fish fossil resolves 'missing link' in evolution (abc.net.au)
		135 points by pg on Sept 26, 2013 \| 121 comments
22.		FarmBot: Open-source automated farming machine (farmbot.it)
		120 points by gustoffen on Sept 26, 2013 \| 43 comments
23.		Quantitative Economic Modeling in Python (quant-econ.net)
		110 points by bfe on Sept 26, 2013 \| 10 comments
24.		Google in 1998 (google.com)
		110 points by dana0550 on Sept 26, 2013 \| 67 comments
25.		FlameStower - USB charger powered by fire (kickstarter.com)
		109 points by pisarzp on Sept 26, 2013 \| 82 comments
26.		What I would have written (dcurt.is)
		107 points by bradgessler on Sept 26, 2013 \| 73 comments
27.		I Am Stereoblind, But The Oculus Rift Is My Corrective Lens (vognetwork.com)
		103 points by jayeshsalvi on Sept 26, 2013 \| 41 comments
28.		How many people are in space right now? (howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com)
		105 points by hjc89 on Sept 26, 2013 \| 58 comments
29.		Teaching a Computer to Read: NLP Hacking in Python (scripted.com)
		104 points by msalahi on Sept 26, 2013 \| 24 comments
30.		AngularJS is amazing, and hard as hell (coderwall.com)
		97 points by bitsweet on Sept 26, 2013 \| 116 comments
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