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1.
It’s time for Silicon Valley to ask: Is it worth it? (pandodaily.com)
443 points by _pius on Oct 31, 2013 | 310 comments
2.
Mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps? (arstechnica.com)
407 points by mercurial on Oct 31, 2013 | 246 comments
3.
Comcast is donating to defeat mayor who is bringing gigabit fiber to Seattle (washingtonpost.com)
395 points by coloneltcb on Oct 31, 2013 | 142 comments
4.
MIT Wristband Could Make Air Conditioning Obsolete (wired.com)
295 points by petercooper on Oct 31, 2013 | 132 comments
5.
Fifth Amendment Prohibits Compelled Decryption, New EFF Brief Argues (eff.org)
284 points by DiabloD3 on Oct 31, 2013 | 123 comments
6.
Android for all and the new Nexus 5 (googleblog.blogspot.com)
262 points by hnalien on Oct 31, 2013 | 222 comments
7.
Introducing Neo900 (neo900.org)
260 points by seba_dos1 on Oct 31, 2013 | 105 comments
8.
Web Framework Benchmarks Round 7 (techempower.com)
227 points by mangeletti on Oct 31, 2013 | 181 comments
9.
How I Got My First 1000 Users in 1 Day (popcornryan.tumblr.com)
213 points by drum on Oct 31, 2013 | 120 comments
10.
Startups Like Berlin Because Visa Rules Are Nothing Like the U.S. (bloomberg.com)
210 points by pg on Oct 31, 2013 | 201 comments
11.
Why does the alarm clock snooze button give you nine extra minutes, not ten? (straightdope.com)
196 points by peteforde on Oct 31, 2013 | 110 comments
12.
New Dell UltraSharp Monitors (dell.com)
193 points by susi22 on Oct 31, 2013 | 172 comments
13.
Unexpected Ways in which Bitcoin Dodged Some Cryptographic Bullets (bitcoinmagazine.com)
196 points by icedicedavid on Oct 31, 2013 | 73 comments
14.
The Logic of “Stupid” Poor People (tressiemc.com)
169 points by michaelochurch on Oct 31, 2013 | 201 comments
15.
NBA Superstar Chris Bosh: Here’s Why You Should Learn to Code (wired.com)
154 points by kmerlini on Oct 31, 2013 | 90 comments
16.
Devops Horror Stories (statuspage.io)
153 points by stevenklein on Oct 31, 2013 | 96 comments
17.
Medium Maker (benjaminhawkyard.co.uk)
138 points by libovness on Oct 31, 2013 | 28 comments
18.
FeelBetterBot wants you to feel better (aaronbeppu.com)
136 points by abeppu on Oct 31, 2013 | 58 comments
19.
New FAA Guidelines Permit More Device Use (techcrunch.com)
118 points by sheri on Oct 31, 2013 | 92 comments
20.
Somali piracy: More sophisticated than you thought (economist.com)
113 points by mblakele on Oct 31, 2013 | 37 comments
21.
This seem legit... (trustico.ch)
107 points by darkbot on Oct 31, 2013 | 57 comments
22.
Fixing Unix Filenames (2012) (dwheeler.com)
107 points by laurent123456 on Oct 31, 2013 | 76 comments
23.
Readings in distributed systems (christophermeiklejohn.com)
111 points by cmeiklejohn on Oct 31, 2013 | 14 comments
24.
Thorium backed as a 'future fuel' (bbc.co.uk)
105 points by ximeng on Oct 31, 2013 | 36 comments
25.
Startup School Notes: The Book – Profits go to Watsi (startupnotes.org)
111 points by gkoberger on Oct 31, 2013 | 25 comments
26.
What's new for developers in Android 4.4 KitKat (android.com)
101 points by 6thSigma on Oct 31, 2013 | 32 comments
27.
Developer Preview of AWS SDK for JavaScript in the Browser (aws.typepad.com)
96 points by jeffbarr on Oct 31, 2013 | 30 comments
28.
Facebook Perl source code from 2005 (gist.github.com)
85 points by philfreo on Oct 31, 2013 | 37 comments
29.
For Halloween, you can tweet an electric shock to one of the Si team (sidigital.co)
90 points by m4tthumphrey on Oct 31, 2013 | 47 comments
30.
Clone Dropbox with a Raspberry Pi and BTSync (reustle.io)
88 points by reustle on Oct 31, 2013 | 60 comments

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