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1.		FBI and Secret Service Files: Aaron Swartz (theblackvault.com)
		268 points by signa11 on Sept 20, 2014 \| 127 comments
2.		Tim Berners Lee slams Internet fast lanes: ‘It’s bribery.’ (washingtonpost.com)
		237 points by esolyt on Sept 20, 2014 \| 86 comments
3.		sshrc – make your ssh sessions feel like home (github.com/russell91)
		235 points by Russell91 on Sept 20, 2014 \| 44 comments
4.		Rust lifetimes: Getting away with things that would be reckless in C++ (randomhacks.net)
		231 points by dbaupp on Sept 20, 2014 \| 90 comments
5.		Entrepreneurs anonymous (economist.com)
		183 points by elmyraduff on Sept 20, 2014 \| 103 comments
6.		JavaScript is a trademark owned by Oracle (uspto.gov)
		157 points by yiransheng on Sept 20, 2014 \| 82 comments
7.		The Log: An Epic Software Engineering Article (bryanpendleton.blogspot.com)
		152 points by tosh on Sept 20, 2014 \| 12 comments
8.		Ads work by cultural imprinting, not emotional inception (meltingasphalt.com)
		142 points by philh on Sept 20, 2014 \| 98 comments
9.		OhLife is shutting down (ohlife.com)
		131 points by billzhuang on Sept 20, 2014 \| 150 comments
10.		Oculus Rift Development Kit 1 (github.com/oculusvr)
		124 points by wildpeaks on Sept 20, 2014 \| 26 comments
11.		Implementing XKCD #688 (github.com/scottsievert)
		122 points by yiransheng on Sept 20, 2014 \| 7 comments
12.		Oculus Connect 2014 (oculus.com)
		115 points by ABS on Sept 20, 2014 \| 60 comments
13.		Sonic Pi – A Music Live Coding Environment for Schools (sonic-pi.net)
		117 points by samaaron on Sept 20, 2014 \| 28 comments
14.		Google Stops Forcing You to Join Google+ When Opening a New Account (seb.st)
		107 points by sebst on Sept 20, 2014 \| 45 comments
15.		The Larch Environment (larchenvironment.com)
		91 points by coherentpony on Sept 20, 2014 \| 62 comments
16.		Racket mode for GNU Emacs (github.com/greghendershott)
		99 points by kogir on Sept 20, 2014 \| 11 comments
17.		RuJIT – Trace-based JIT Compiler for Ruby (github.com/imasahiro)
		88 points by ksec on Sept 20, 2014 \| 14 comments
18.		Ask HN: What's the best company to buy an SSL certificate from?
		95 points by petecooper on Sept 20, 2014 \| 86 comments
19.		BashBooster – simple provisioning, bash only, requires nothing (bashbooster.net)
		86 points by kmmbvnr_ on Sept 20, 2014 \| 32 comments
20.		Drowning in Light (nautil.us)
		80 points by dnetesn on Sept 20, 2014 \| 30 comments
21.		A Raytracer Implemented in LOLCODE (github.com/logankelly)
		83 points by davvid on Sept 20, 2014 \| 18 comments
22.		New York City's Most Accessible Ruins (atlasobscura.com)
		80 points by Mz on Sept 20, 2014 \| 16 comments
23.		Biggest Mistakes in Web Design 1995-2015 (webpagesthatsuck.com)
		78 points by user_235711 on Sept 20, 2014 \| 55 comments
24.		Need Postgresql HTTP API Extension (postgresql.org)
		80 points by xmulti on Sept 20, 2014 \| 63 comments
25.		Thank you Apple for rejecting my app (nbodyphysics.com)
		62 points by musgravepeter on Sept 20, 2014 \| 56 comments
26.		Ex-Employees Say Home Depot Left Data Vulnerable (nytimes.com)
		72 points by jrochkind1 on Sept 20, 2014 \| 46 comments
27.		The Case for Delayed Adulthood (nytimes.com)
		61 points by danso on Sept 20, 2014 \| 21 comments
28.		Why Is Our Sci-Fi So Glum About A.I.? (nytimes.com)
		67 points by todayiamme on Sept 20, 2014 \| 83 comments
29.		Andrew Ng predicts half of web searches will soon be speech and images (venturebeat.com)
		60 points by thousandx on Sept 20, 2014 \| 46 comments
30.		‘Stop-and-Frisk’ Is All but Gone from New York (nytimes.com)
		53 points by Bud on Sept 20, 2014 \| 23 comments
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