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1.		Show HN: I'm working on an open-source Gmail replacement (khamidou.github.io)
		387 points by vorador on Nov 6, 2013 \| 180 comments
2.		Fourier Transforms – The Math Trick Behind MP3s, JPEGs, and Homer Simpson’s Face (nautil.us)
		356 points by aatish on Nov 6, 2013 \| 100 comments
3.		Kofi Annan: Stop 'war on drugs' (cnn.com)
		357 points by weedow on Nov 6, 2013 \| 183 comments
4.		Django 1.6 released (djangoproject.com)
		354 points by philippbosch on Nov 6, 2013 \| 102 comments
5.		Fourier Toy (toxicdump.org)
		348 points by alxndr on Nov 6, 2013 \| 70 comments
6.		Presto: Interacting with petabytes of data at Facebook (facebook.com)
		336 points by ternaryoperator on Nov 6, 2013 \| 97 comments
7.		Silk Road 2.0 Launches (forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg)
		322 points by teawithcarl on Nov 6, 2013 \| 225 comments
8.		Diary of a programmer with no clue about marketing (neat.io)
		307 points by basil on Nov 6, 2013 \| 144 comments
9.		Lifestyle programming (successfulsoftware.net)
		288 points by FollowSteph3 on Nov 6, 2013 \| 51 comments
10.		After traffic stop, man forced to have x-ray, enema, anal probes and colonoscopy (kob.com)
		285 points by yapcguy on Nov 6, 2013 \| 243 comments
11.		Google Apps drop support for IE9 (googlesystem.blogspot.com)
		251 points by ritchiea on Nov 6, 2013 \| 179 comments
12.		What Long Hours Really Mean (wearemammoth.com)
		220 points by johnjlocke on Nov 6, 2013 \| 219 comments
13.		USPS: ZIP Codes are “proprietary business information” (weblaws.org)
		188 points by joelgrus on Nov 6, 2013 \| 138 comments
14.		Swiss forensic report on Arafat's death (aljazeera.com)
		183 points by jdmitch on Nov 6, 2013 \| 139 comments
15.		Google SEO Starter Guide [pdf] (googleusercontent.com)
		169 points by matant on Nov 6, 2013 \| 59 comments
16.		Float Label Pattern (bradfrostweb.com)
		162 points by ryanjodonnell on Nov 6, 2013 \| 33 comments
17.		Mozilla, OTOY, Autodesk Work to Deliver High Performance Games and Apps on Web (blog.mozilla.org)
		157 points by praxxis on Nov 6, 2013 \| 77 comments
18.		The Monster Truck Madness 2 website has been taken down (microsoft.com)
		156 points by fuzzix on Nov 6, 2013 \| 114 comments
19.		Help Us Help Molly Holzschlag (gofundme.com)
		146 points by cheeaun on Nov 6, 2013 \| 75 comments
20.		Ways That Startup Lawyers Overcharge (medium.com/entrepreneur-advice)
		146 points by audreymelnik on Nov 6, 2013 \| 63 comments
21.		There's No Myth, Only Years Of Hard Work (lessaccounting.com)
		143 points by thibaut_barrere on Nov 6, 2013 \| 44 comments
22.		Microsoft Earns $2 Billion Per Year From Android Patent Royalties? (businessinsider.com)
		138 points by jonathansizz on Nov 6, 2013 \| 82 comments
23.		Abandoning segmented stacks in Rust (mail.mozilla.org)
		134 points by dbaupp on Nov 6, 2013 \| 32 comments
24.		Firefox Developer Tools: Break on DOM Events, Edit as HTML, Codemirror (hacks.mozilla.org)
		138 points by rnyman on Nov 6, 2013 \| 28 comments
25.		Tesla lost $38M in third quarter, stock tumbles over 12 percent (arstechnica.com)
		130 points by jusben1369 on Nov 6, 2013 \| 96 comments
26.		Using Snap.svg to animate SVG icons (tympanus.net)
		109 points by bpierre on Nov 6, 2013 \| 19 comments
27.		Want: The airbag scarf that replaces a bulky bicycle helmet, inflates in 100ms (garrytan.com)
		98 points by sethbannon on Nov 6, 2013 \| 120 comments
28.		Why Telling a Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brains (lifehacker.com)
		94 points by sethbannon on Nov 6, 2013 \| 26 comments
29.		How the Terrible, Insufferable Six-Day Water Fast Made Me a New Man (gq.com)
		91 points by cliveowen on Nov 6, 2013 \| 66 comments
30.		1000 Days on Hacker News – My Experience So Far (pandoralive.info)
		89 points by ekianjo on Nov 6, 2013 \| 41 comments
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