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1.
Lavabit SSL Cert Revoked (lavabit.com)
420 points by _ouxp on Oct 8, 2013 | 304 comments
2.
Frequency-shaped background noise generators (mynoise.net)
344 points by ivank on Oct 8, 2013 | 109 comments
3.
Introducing Login and Pay with Amazon (amazon.com)
353 points by werner on Oct 8, 2013 | 125 comments
4.
The Sierpinski triangle page to end most Sierpinski triangle pages (oftenpaper.net)
333 points by pr_fancycorn on Oct 8, 2013 | 55 comments
5.
Whatever happened to due process? (easydns.org)
323 points by peteforde on Oct 8, 2013 | 55 comments
6.
Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Englert and Higgs (nobelprize.org)
329 points by mattheww on Oct 8, 2013 | 83 comments
7.
Bertrand Russell: In Praise of Idleness (1932) (zpub.com)
300 points by kamaal on Oct 8, 2013 | 120 comments
8.
How Lavabit Melted Down (newyorker.com)
287 points by jeanbebe on Oct 8, 2013 | 172 comments
9.
Aren't you glad you didn't cite this webpage? (ssnat.com)
255 points by hdevalence on Oct 8, 2013 | 93 comments
10.
Piercing Through WhatsApp’s Encryption (thijsalkema.de)
230 points by xnyhps on Oct 8, 2013 | 81 comments
11.
HP Chromebook 11 (google.com)
211 points by stuartmemo on Oct 8, 2013 | 256 comments
12.
G.K. Chesterton: The fallacy of success (1909) (mustapha.svbtle.com)
206 points by mustapha on Oct 8, 2013 | 96 comments
13.
The cold emails which got me meetings at Twitter, LinkedIn and GitHub (startupmoon.com)
189 points by rubygnome on Oct 8, 2013 | 53 comments
14.
Unix: When pipes get names (itworld.com)
179 points by conductor on Oct 8, 2013 | 66 comments
15.
Cash Flow and Destiny (bhorowitz.com)
167 points by mh_ on Oct 8, 2013 | 28 comments
16.
My embarrassing picture went viral (salon.com)
165 points by venti on Oct 8, 2013 | 234 comments
17.
StackEdit: A free, open-source Markdown editor based on PageDown (benweet.github.io)
160 points by wqfeng on Oct 8, 2013 | 57 comments
18.
Heroku WebSockets Now in Public Beta (heroku.com)
159 points by coloneltcb on Oct 8, 2013 | 51 comments
19.
Firefox Developer Tools and Firebug
147 points by rnyman on Oct 8, 2013 | 66 comments
20.
What is the Higgs? (nytimes.com)
142 points by subsystem on Oct 8, 2013 | 18 comments
21.
Optimizing Linux Memory Management for Low-latency, High-throughput Databases (linkedin.com)
142 points by dhruvbird on Oct 8, 2013 | 27 comments
22.
Google App Engine PHP Runtime now available to everyone (googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)
131 points by zafirk on Oct 8, 2013 | 82 comments
23.
There's a .00006% Chance of Building a Billion Dollar Company (firstround.com)
132 points by ca98am79 on Oct 8, 2013 | 130 comments
24.
Show HN: I made a site that lets you bet against Bitcoin Hash Rate Volatility (futureblock.com)
128 points by locksley on Oct 8, 2013 | 83 comments
25.
Think piracy is killing the music industry? This chart suggests otherwise (washingtonpost.com)
124 points by Libertatea on Oct 8, 2013 | 112 comments
26.
Foursquare dataset free to download and analyze (umn.edu)
113 points by rsobers on Oct 8, 2013 | 35 comments
27.
Making a Living Collecting Cans (priceonomics.com)
111 points by nthitz on Oct 8, 2013 | 97 comments
28.
Cursive Clojure: A Clojure IntelliJ plugin (cursiveclojure.com)
111 points by trptcolin on Oct 8, 2013 | 60 comments
29.
Visualizing 40,000 student code submissions (stanford.edu)
106 points by rsobers on Oct 8, 2013 | 19 comments
30.
My Internship Experience as a 13-Year-Old (shalinshah.me)
88 points by shainvs on Oct 8, 2013 | 87 comments

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