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1.		The Quest to Build a Truly Free Version of Android (wired.com)
		250 points by Tsiolkovsky on Nov 3, 2013 \| 128 comments
2.		How much money are you earning from your software products?
		199 points by ericthegoodking on Nov 3, 2013 \| 190 comments
3.		Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color? (2011) (stackoverflow.com)
		188 points by Techasura on Nov 3, 2013 \| 43 comments
4.		Few successful entrepreneurs blog (twitter.com/rabois)
		187 points by asanwal on Nov 3, 2013 \| 126 comments
5.		Fake femme fatale dupes IT guys at US government agency (sophos.com)
		180 points by timw6n on Nov 3, 2013 \| 92 comments
6.		Why It's So Hard to Get From Brooklyn to Queens (theatlanticcities.com)
		166 points by merraksh on Nov 3, 2013 \| 109 comments
7.		Inkpad: Vector illustration app for the iPad, now open source (github.com/sprang)
		164 points by shawndumas on Nov 3, 2013 \| 43 comments
8.		Seattle Mayor: I have Comcast, and I would like better service (washingtonpost.com)
		151 points by Libertatea on Nov 3, 2013 \| 44 comments
9.		If there's no 16-bit layer in 64-bit Windows, how come 16-bit installers run? (msdn.com)
		138 points by luu on Nov 3, 2013 \| 79 comments
10.		Ask HN: Where do you find interesting papers to read?
		123 points by frigg on Nov 3, 2013 \| 56 comments
11.		Thorax: An opinionated, battle-tested, Backbone and Handlebars framework (thoraxjs.org)
		119 points by shawndumas on Nov 3, 2013 \| 32 comments
12.		Google Taking Aim at Device Modders in Android 4.4 KitKat (xda-developers.com)
		115 points by anon1385 on Nov 3, 2013 \| 66 comments
13.		Guido van Rossum, John Resig, DHH, and Pamela Fox are Judges on CreateHS (createhs.com)
		114 points by eeirinberg on Nov 3, 2013 \| 33 comments
14.		Why having an MBA is a negative hiring signal for startups (2012) (daltoncaldwell.com)
		111 points by jkw on Nov 3, 2013 \| 112 comments
15.		My experience hiring a developer on Elance to build my first iPhone app (thenextweb.com)
		112 points by naren87 on Nov 3, 2013 \| 131 comments
16.		Your user agent (duckduckgo.com)
		107 points by eksith on Nov 3, 2013 \| 71 comments
17.		iPad from T-Mobile with free monthly 200MB data for life (t-mobile.com)
		109 points by cygwin98 on Nov 3, 2013 \| 81 comments
18.		Painless Decorators in Python (hackflow.com)
		97 points by Suor on Nov 3, 2013 \| 26 comments
19.		In Latvia, young people discover new passions in bad economic times (washingtonpost.com)
		100 points by jmacd on Nov 3, 2013 \| 39 comments
20.		Easy Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison (ec2instances.info)
		90 points by benhomie on Nov 3, 2013 \| 43 comments
21.		Play Fantasy Even If You Hate Football (jere.in)
		89 points by jere on Nov 3, 2013 \| 65 comments
22.		The Parable of Mustache.js (jan.io)
		89 points by hk__2 on Nov 3, 2013 \| 14 comments
23.		Ask HN: Why is PGP not used widely?
		89 points by dilithiumhe3 on Nov 3, 2013 \| 72 comments
24.		Font Combiner – improvements to free web fonts (fontcombiner.com)
		85 points by emily_b on Nov 3, 2013 \| 44 comments
25.		[dupe] Ask HN: Your best passive income sources?
		85 points by buf on Nov 3, 2013 \| 33 comments
26.		A Vital Measure: Your Surgeon’s Skill (nytimes.com)
		84 points by tokenadult on Nov 3, 2013 \| 48 comments
27.		Here's The Evidence That The Tech Sector Is In A Massive Bubble (businessinsider.com)
		81 points by jnazario on Nov 3, 2013 \| 77 comments
28.		Thanks HN: That time you saved a bunch of lives (amitgupta.com)
		84 points by superamit on Nov 3, 2013 \| 16 comments
29.		Daylight Saving Time Is Terrible: Here's a Simple Plan to Fix It (theatlantic.com)
		79 points by chaz on Nov 3, 2013 \| 79 comments
30.		Wisp: Small-but-featureful embeddable Lisp interpreter written in Haskell (github.com/walpurgisriot)
		73 points by luu on Nov 3, 2013 \| 25 comments
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