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1.		Dear Startups: stop asking me math puzzles to figure out if I can code (countaleph.wordpress.com)
		872 points by brryant on Oct 21, 2013 \| 342 comments
2.		How to get rid of old stuff, sell it for more, and use Amazon as cheap storage (benguild.com)
		512 points by benguild on Oct 21, 2013 \| 139 comments
3.		Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary (arstechnica.com)
		414 points by coloneltcb on Oct 21, 2013 \| 225 comments
4.		Why Does Windows Have Terrible Battery Life? (codinghorror.com)
		389 points by chrisdinn on Oct 21, 2013 \| 319 comments
5.		Startup School 2013 Doodles (startupnotes.org)
		350 points by simonebrunozzi on Oct 21, 2013 \| 74 comments
6.		Learn Haskell Fast and Hard (yannesposito.com)
		311 points by psibi on Oct 21, 2013 \| 126 comments
7.		Experian Sold Consumer Data to ID Theft Service (krebsonsecurity.com)
		310 points by cylo on Oct 21, 2013 \| 79 comments
8.		Wikipedia editors, locked in battle with PR firm, delete 250 accounts (arstechnica.com)
		238 points by Jtsummers on Oct 21, 2013 \| 110 comments
9.		How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand? (ieet.org)
		208 points by broodbucket on Oct 21, 2013 \| 69 comments
10.		CryptoSeal (YC S11) Shutting Down Private VPN (cryptoseal.com)
		205 points by Udo on Oct 21, 2013 \| 119 comments
11.		The First App Store (makegameswith.us)
		186 points by jvrossb on Oct 21, 2013 \| 45 comments
12.		Visualise the structure of a spreadsheet (slateforexcel.com)
		182 points by crrashby on Oct 21, 2013 \| 71 comments
13.		Show HN: Unirest (unirest.io)
		174 points by sinzone on Oct 21, 2013 \| 67 comments
14.		ZeroVM: Smaller, Lighter, Faster (rackspace.com)
		163 points by bretpiatt on Oct 21, 2013 \| 79 comments
15.		The Melancholy of Subculture Society (gwern.net)
		153 points by gwern on Oct 21, 2013 \| 54 comments
16.		Project Shield (withgoogle.com)
		159 points by ashishbharthi on Oct 21, 2013 \| 86 comments
17.		NYTimes's Pogue going to Yahoo (pogueman.tumblr.com)
		150 points by nirvanatikku on Oct 21, 2013 \| 70 comments
18.		France summons U.S. ambassador over spying report (reuters.com)
		148 points by stfu on Oct 21, 2013 \| 61 comments
19.		Kids Were Terrified of Getting MRIs. Then One Man Figured Out a Better Way (slate.com)
		145 points by rfreytag on Oct 21, 2013 \| 82 comments
20.		Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols (github.com/fcambus)
		145 points by fcambus on Oct 21, 2013 \| 48 comments
21.		On Hacking (stallman.org)
		137 points by nonrecursive on Oct 21, 2013 \| 44 comments
22.		Post-mortem of a Dead-on-Arrival SaaS Product (petekeen.net)
		141 points by zrail on Oct 21, 2013 \| 84 comments
23.		The inside story of Bombardier’s $4-billion gamble on a super quiet jet (canadianbusiness.com)
		121 points by uladzislau on Oct 21, 2013 \| 54 comments
24.		The End of Stanford? (newyorker.com)
		116 points by mjfern on Oct 21, 2013 \| 103 comments
25.		Soylent Closes $1.5M In Seed Funding From Lerer, Andreessen Horowitz (techcrunch.com)
		101 points by MattRogish on Oct 21, 2013 \| 176 comments
26.		The letter Q was illegal in Turkey from 1928 until last month (lrb.co.uk)
		92 points by rickyconnolly on Oct 21, 2013 \| 55 comments
27.		Windows 8.1: Not Using Secure Boot? Don't Worry We'll Let You Know (tom-pryor.co.uk)
		86 points by Tomdarkness on Oct 21, 2013 \| 76 comments
28.		Google Cloud Datastore (cloud.google.com)
		80 points by valhallarecords on Oct 21, 2013 \| 41 comments
29.		Contractors See Weeks of Work on Health Site (nytimes.com)
		76 points by noahlt on Oct 21, 2013 \| 108 comments
30.		Apple Patent on Touch Typing, Multitouch Upheld; Allows Ban on Most Androids (dailytech.com)
		73 points by anielsen on Oct 21, 2013 \| 97 comments
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