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1.		Lou Reed, Velvet Underground Leader and Rock Pioneer, Dead at 71 (rollingstone.com)
		498 points by coloneltcb on Oct 27, 2013 \| 109 comments
2.		Amazon and the "profitless business model" fallacy (eugenewei.com)
		231 points by steveb on Oct 27, 2013 \| 137 comments
3.		Science has lost its way, at a big cost to humanity (latimes.com)
		214 points by smanuel on Oct 27, 2013 \| 132 comments
4.		Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API (vinaysahni.com)
		176 points by ohjeez on Oct 27, 2013 \| 51 comments
5.		CSS3 Features That You Can Finally Start Using (tutorialzine.com)
		167 points by fvrghl on Oct 27, 2013 \| 69 comments
6.		The keys to the keydom (bit-player.org)
		152 points by breadbox on Oct 27, 2013 \| 27 comments
7.		Letter to a young programmer (neopythonic.blogspot.ca)
		157 points by Anon84 on Oct 27, 2013 \| 31 comments
8.		The boss, not the workload, causes workplace depression (sciencenordic.com)
		148 points by Libertatea on Oct 27, 2013 \| 41 comments
9.		Intro to Pandas data structures (gregreda.com)
		128 points by grej on Oct 27, 2013 \| 18 comments
10.		“The real problems are with the back end of the software” (marginalrevolution.com)
		125 points by wwilson on Oct 27, 2013 \| 148 comments
11.		Marie Curie: Why her papers are still radioactive (csmonitor.com)
		115 points by arjn on Oct 27, 2013 \| 35 comments
12.		Statistical Data Mining Tutorials (2005) (autonlab.org)
		113 points by carlosgg on Oct 27, 2013 \| 2 comments
13.		Clojure from the Ground Up, Part 2: Basic Types (aphyr.com)
		114 points by mrbbk on Oct 27, 2013 \| 21 comments
14.		Armed agents seize records of reporter (washingtontimes.com)
		110 points by suprgeek on Oct 27, 2013 \| 21 comments
15.		How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (2002) (mines.edu)
		100 points by sgreen on Oct 27, 2013 \| 47 comments
16.		Custom-printed Moleskine notebooks (fiftythree.com)
		100 points by kirillzubovsky on Oct 27, 2013 \| 93 comments
17.		Baretorrent: minimalist open-source Bittorrent client (baretorrent.org)
		99 points by soundsop on Oct 27, 2013 \| 73 comments
18.		DMCA takedown on GPL-copyrighted code (class.pm)
		81 points by classicpm on Oct 27, 2013 \| 60 comments
19.		Repobuild – Declarative-style build system, like Google Build (github.com/chrisvana)
		75 points by albertzeyer on Oct 27, 2013 \| 30 comments
20.		AWS instance was scheduled for retirement (amazon.com)
		77 points by themonk on Oct 27, 2013 \| 75 comments
21.		Time-Machine-style backup with rsync (github.com/laurent22)
		73 points by plessthanpt05 on Oct 27, 2013 \| 50 comments
22.		Discovering LastPass shared passwords (changedmy.name)
		72 points by zdw on Oct 27, 2013 \| 35 comments
23.		Spyder – Scientific Python Development Environment (code.google.com)
		72 points by rbanffy on Oct 27, 2013 \| 29 comments
24.		The E-Cigarette Industry, Waiting to Exhale (nytimes.com)
		69 points by sschwartz on Oct 27, 2013 \| 160 comments
25.		Saturated Fat is not the major issue (bmj.com)
		66 points by hiroaki on Oct 27, 2013 \| 61 comments
26.		Screen and asset image scaling for games (coderofworlds.com)
		65 points by speeder on Oct 27, 2013 \| 26 comments
27.		How is a system of axioms different from a system of beliefs? (math.stackexchange.com)
		64 points by brudgers on Oct 27, 2013 \| 56 comments
28.		Profitless Prosperity (avc.com)
		62 points by _pius on Oct 27, 2013 \| 48 comments
29.		Barack Obama 'approved tapping Angela Merkel's phone 3 years ago' (telegraph.co.uk)
		67 points by thex86 on Oct 27, 2013 \| 32 comments
30.		First Bitcoin ATM (robocoinkiosk.com)
		63 points by Pro_bity on Oct 27, 2013 \| 41 comments
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