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1.		Yes, we’re being bought by Microsoft (mojang.com)
		941 points by jordanmessina on Sept 15, 2014 \| 515 comments
2.		The Road to Rust 1.0 (rust-lang.org)
		570 points by steveklabnik on Sept 15, 2014 \| 238 comments
3.		Major Android Bug Is a Privacy Disaster (CVE-2014-6041) (rapid7.com)
		543 points by mike-cardwell on Sept 15, 2014 \| 224 comments
4.		KaTeX: Math typesetting for the web (khan.github.io)
		481 points by xymostech on Sept 15, 2014 \| 98 comments
5.		Copies of malware used by intelligence agencies to spy on journalists (wikileaks.org)
		383 points by gasull on Sept 15, 2014 \| 75 comments
6.		What every computer programmer should know about floating point, part 1 (reverberate.org)
		323 points by haberman on Sept 15, 2014 \| 72 comments
7.		Cloud images that are recognized as human faces by a face-detection algorithm (ssbkyh.com)
		276 points by jsvine on Sept 15, 2014 \| 40 comments
8.		LIVE NOW: Glenn Greenwald, Assange, and Kim Dot Com in NZ (kim.com)
		271 points by vonklaus on Sept 15, 2014 \| 146 comments
9.		Upgrading GitHub to Rails 3 with Zero Downtime (shayfrendt.com)
		252 points by dewski on Sept 15, 2014 \| 62 comments
10.		Volt: A Ruby web framework where your Ruby runs on both server and client (github.com/voltrb)
		279 points by senorgusto on Sept 15, 2014 \| 60 comments
11.		WebTorrent now works in the browser, end-to-end (twitter.com/feross)
		263 points by MzHN on Sept 15, 2014 \| 83 comments
12.		Tramadol Is Not a Natural Product After All (corante.com)
		217 points by crygin on Sept 15, 2014 \| 117 comments
13.		Chapter Two of Peter Thiel's New Book
		220 points by sama on Sept 15, 2014 \| 68 comments
14.		Launching Today: Mathematica Online (wolfram.com)
		203 points by lelf on Sept 15, 2014 \| 50 comments
15.		Canon printer hacked to run Doom (bbc.co.uk)
		186 points by dpina on Sept 15, 2014 \| 54 comments
16.		[dupe] Microsoft buys Minecraft for 2.5B (microsoft.com)
		169 points by ropiku on Sept 15, 2014 \| 56 comments
17.		Applying to YC (samaltman.com)
		178 points by hglaser on Sept 15, 2014 \| 112 comments
18.		Android One (officialandroid.blogspot.com)
		173 points by adidash on Sept 15, 2014 \| 169 comments
19.		Bash.org is back (bash.org)
		160 points by slifty on Sept 15, 2014 \| 45 comments
20.		TSA's X-Ray Nude Body Scanners Output 50% More Radiation Than Admitted to by TSA (tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com)
		160 points by tsaoutourpants on Sept 15, 2014 \| 73 comments
21.		“Giganews is an FBI Operation” (cryptome.org)
		150 points by bhaumik on Sept 15, 2014 \| 67 comments
22.		Apple releases U2 album removal tool (bbc.com)
		146 points by schrofer on Sept 15, 2014 \| 109 comments
23.		Schizophrenia not a single disease but multiple genetically distinct disorders (wustl.edu)
		140 points by MBCook on Sept 15, 2014 \| 70 comments
24.		Black Triangles
		131 points by mmastrac on Sept 15, 2014 \| 28 comments
25.		MIT Cheetah Robot Bounds Off Tether, Outdoors (ieee.org)
		131 points by spectruman on Sept 15, 2014 \| 41 comments
26.		500px Co-Founder and Former CEO Ousted from the Startup (techcrunch.com)
		131 points by kenrose on Sept 15, 2014 \| 48 comments
27.		The “community manager” role is a fraud and a farce (plus.google.com)
		131 points by Tsiolkovsky on Sept 15, 2014 \| 45 comments
28.		SIMD Vectorization in Julia (intel.com)
		126 points by mlubin on Sept 15, 2014 \| 11 comments
29.		The Bézier Game (method.ac)
		117 points by uptown on Sept 15, 2014 \| 37 comments
30.		All About Batteries (adafruit.com)
		117 points by MichaelAO on Sept 15, 2014 \| 22 comments
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