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1.		Zen Buddhism and Alan Watts (aeon.co)
		268 points by jonbaer on Oct 5, 2014 \| 146 comments
2.		Google to Make Security Guards Employees, Rather Than Contractors (wsj.com)
		257 points by adidash on Oct 5, 2014 \| 144 comments
3.		Hewlett-Packard Plans to Break in Two (wsj.com)
		162 points by dctoedt on Oct 5, 2014 \| 112 comments
4.		How does a computer chip work? (quora.com)
		158 points by pinkyand on Oct 5, 2014 \| 27 comments
5.		How the Z80's registers are implemented (righto.com)
		142 points by zdw on Oct 5, 2014 \| 24 comments
6.		Why Apple's iPhone encryption won't stop NSA (siliconexposed.blogspot.com)
		143 points by todd8 on Oct 5, 2014 \| 68 comments
7.		Firechat and nearby communication (breizh-entropy.org)
		128 points by firehosed on Oct 5, 2014 \| 28 comments
8.		1041uuu Pixel Art (1041uuu.tumblr.com)
		116 points by opusdie on Oct 5, 2014 \| 11 comments
9.		Autothysis SSD drives impede unauthorised access (securedrives.co.uk)
		119 points by _ks3e on Oct 5, 2014 \| 54 comments
10.		On the Computational Complexity of MapReduce (jeremykun.com)
		116 points by panarky on Oct 5, 2014 \| 7 comments
11.		Naive Bayes and Text Classification I – Introduction and Theory (sebastianraschka.com)
		115 points by rasbt on Oct 5, 2014 \| 24 comments
12.		Our Understanding of Giraffes Does Not Measure Up (nytimes.com)
		117 points by dnetesn on Oct 5, 2014 \| 40 comments
13.		Why haven't quadcopters been scaled up yet? (aviation.stackexchange.com)
		111 points by vitoc on Oct 5, 2014 \| 54 comments
14.		The Most Ambitious Environmental Lawsuit Ever (nytimes.com)
		106 points by metermaid on Oct 5, 2014 \| 26 comments
15.		Cheap Beer and the Psychology of PlayStation Now Pricing (psychologyofgames.com)
		106 points by adidash on Oct 5, 2014 \| 31 comments
16.		Bitcoin falls below $300, lowest in 11 months (bitcoinwisdom.com)
		117 points by sillysaurus3 on Oct 5, 2014 \| 104 comments
17.		OpenBSD 5.6: What will be there (openbsd.org)
		104 points by lelf on Oct 5, 2014 \| 81 comments
18.		What is probabilistic programming? (pl-enthusiast.net)
		95 points by tianyicui on Oct 5, 2014 \| 9 comments
19.		Glut of postdoc researchers stirs quiet crisis in science (bostonglobe.com)
		99 points by jmnicholson on Oct 5, 2014 \| 70 comments
20.		Why do roots of polynomials tend to have absolute value 1? (mathoverflow.net)
		89 points by enthdegree on Oct 5, 2014 \| 17 comments
21.		Building a testable Go web app (sourcegraph.com)
		93 points by rgarcia on Oct 5, 2014 \| 14 comments
22.		Show HN: Generate interactive heatmaps from your Google Location History data (theopolisme.github.io)
		67 points by grepper on Oct 5, 2014 \| 17 comments
23.		HexLogic – Logic gates in a hexagon grid (anubiann00b.github.io)
		64 points by anubiann00b on Oct 5, 2014 \| 21 comments
24.		Kurt Vonnegut, the Art of Fiction No. 64 (1977) (theparisreview.org)
		64 points by dnetesn on Oct 5, 2014 \| 5 comments
25.		Dubai detectives to get Google Glass (reuters.com)
		57 points by matthijs_ on Oct 5, 2014 \| 52 comments
26.		English Proficiency Index (ef.com)
		58 points by happyscrappy on Oct 5, 2014 \| 22 comments
27.		A new type of software helps researchers decide what they should be looking for (economist.com)
		60 points by nopinsight on Oct 5, 2014 \| 3 comments
28.		Ask HN: Have you rejected an offer to work on a project because of self-doubt?
		47 points by joeclef on Oct 5, 2014 \| 25 comments
29.		The Power of Interoperability: Why Objects Are Inevitable (2013) [pdf] (cmu.edu)
		51 points by brianhempel on Oct 5, 2014 \| 43 comments
30.		Breaking the Waves (newyorker.com)
		44 points by todayiamme on Oct 5, 2014 \| 1 comment
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