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1.		In Almost Every European Country, Bikes Are Outselling New Cars (npr.org)
		358 points by antr on Oct 25, 2013 \| 298 comments
2.		Is Google building a hulking floating data center in SF Bay? (cnet.com)
		341 points by chasef on Oct 25, 2013 \| 242 comments
3.		EFF Has Lavabit’s Back in Contempt of Court Appeal (eff.org)
		240 points by DiabloD3 on Oct 25, 2013 \| 60 comments
4.		Seagate just reinvented the disk interface using Ethernet (speakingofclouds.com)
		235 points by slyall on Oct 25, 2013 \| 117 comments
5.		Why women lose the dating game (smh.com.au)
		214 points by jseliger on Oct 25, 2013 \| 356 comments
6.		Mozilla Lightbeam – Relationships between third parties and the sites you visit (addons.mozilla.org)
		211 points by casca on Oct 25, 2013 \| 24 comments
7.		uTorrent tricking users into changing default browser settings? (utorrent.com)
		209 points by gantengx on Oct 25, 2013 \| 147 comments
8.		Meet the Private Companies Helping Cops Spy on Protesters (rollingstone.com)
		198 points by devx on Oct 25, 2013 \| 52 comments
9.		An unofficial alternative to the HN interface (hckrnews.com)
		171 points by fuhrer1996 on Oct 25, 2013 \| 85 comments
10.		The Architecture of Open Source Applications (aosabook.org)
		168 points by xcyu on Oct 25, 2013 \| 15 comments
11.		A 140-Acre Forest Is About to Materialize in the Middle of Detroit (theatlanticcities.com)
		163 points by kdazzle on Oct 25, 2013 \| 86 comments
12.		Most people won't (bryce.vc)
		161 points by _hv99 on Oct 25, 2013 \| 77 comments
13.		Knockout v3.0.0 released (knockoutjs.com)
		158 points by johnny_reilly on Oct 25, 2013 \| 74 comments
14.		Show HN: Make your app handle going offline (hubspot.com)
		151 points by adamschwartz on Oct 25, 2013 \| 29 comments
15.		The Decline of Wikipedia: As More People Rely on It, Fewer People Create It (technologyreview.com)
		126 points by uladzislau on Oct 25, 2013 \| 138 comments
16.		“I Quit Academia,” an Important, Growing Subgenre of American Essays (slate.com)
		124 points by tokenadult on Oct 25, 2013 \| 117 comments
17.		WhiteDB – Lightweight NoSQL database written in C, operating in main memory (whitedb.org)
		126 points by majidazimi on Oct 25, 2013 \| 78 comments
18.		Technology Change: .Net to Scala (randonom.com)
		116 points by SanderMak on Oct 25, 2013 \| 145 comments
19.		Self-driving cars projected to reduce injuries by 90%, save $450B annually (techspot.com)
		103 points by alok-g on Oct 25, 2013 \| 141 comments
20.		Django 1.4.9 and 1.5.5 released (djangoproject.com)
		99 points by hackhackhack on Oct 25, 2013 \| 23 comments
21.		15 years ago, Congress kept Mickey Mouse copyrighted. Will they do it again? (washingtonpost.com)
		99 points by brey on Oct 25, 2013 \| 135 comments
22.		Tsunami advisory in northern Japan after 7.1 magnitude earthquake off coast (cir.ca)
		97 points by teawithcarl on Oct 25, 2013 \| 56 comments
23.		iWork, Pages 5: An unmitigated disaster (betalogue.com)
		84 points by uniqueid on Oct 25, 2013 \| 69 comments
24.		How Obama's BlackBerry got secured (electrospaces.blogspot.com)
		83 points by trauco on Oct 25, 2013 \| 32 comments
25.		Facebook Is No Longer the Most Popular Social Network for Teens (slate.com)
		84 points by _htpa on Oct 25, 2013 \| 75 comments
26.		Choosing the perfect typeface (cucumbertown.com)
		76 points by alagu on Oct 25, 2013 \| 39 comments
27.		PouchDB, the In-Browser Database That Replicates (cloudant.com)
		79 points by mbroberg on Oct 25, 2013 \| 35 comments
28.		Scratch for Arduino (s4a.cat)
		72 points by nickmain on Oct 25, 2013 \| 11 comments
29.		This Obamacare contractor doesn’t take security seriously (washingtonpost.com)
		70 points by RougeFemme on Oct 25, 2013 \| 81 comments
30.		UK police mistakenly believed they found 3D printed gun in raid (newscientist.com)
		68 points by kisamoto on Oct 25, 2013 \| 68 comments
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