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1.		"Open Source is awful in many ways, and people should be aware of this" (plus.google.com)
		605 points by basil on Oct 6, 2014 \| 465 comments
2.		Become Estonia’s e-resident (e-estonia.com)
		447 points by jkaljundi on Oct 6, 2014 \| 122 comments
3.		Show HN: Nightmare – Simple browser automation (nightmarejs.org)
		429 points by pkrein on Oct 6, 2014 \| 70 comments
4.		Reddit CEO Calls Out Former Reddit Employee on Reddit (reddit.com)
		366 points by brbcoding on Oct 6, 2014 \| 294 comments
5.		[dupe] Lennart Poettering on the state of open source communities (plus.google.com)
		211 points by omnibrain on Oct 6, 2014 \| 169 comments
6.		Unfinished game – learn by practice (github.com/rezoner)
		214 points by rezoner on Oct 6, 2014 \| 20 comments
7.		In the medical response to Ebola, Cuba is punching above its weight (washingtonpost.com)
		200 points by megalodon on Oct 6, 2014 \| 134 comments
8.		The force vectors on a skateboard during an Ollie (wired.com)
		194 points by aatish on Oct 6, 2014 \| 52 comments
9.		History of Apache Storm and Lessons Learned (nathanmarz.com)
		174 points by plinkplonk on Oct 6, 2014 \| 21 comments
10.		Stamplay: IFTTT for developers (techcrunch.com)
		198 points by NicoJuicy on Oct 6, 2014 \| 70 comments
11.		A look at the Apple ‘Skankphone’, built before the original iPhone release (thenextweb.com)
		170 points by striking on Oct 6, 2014 \| 65 comments
12.		Monit's DMCA takedown notice for Inspeqtor (github.com/github)
		164 points by jbrowning on Oct 6, 2014 \| 70 comments
13.		Ask HN: Big company approached our stealth startup – what to do?
		159 points by throwaway__x on Oct 6, 2014 \| 81 comments
14.		Stop Australia's Data Retention Bill (stopthespies.org)
		163 points by pserwylo on Oct 6, 2014 \| 32 comments
15.		The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (nobelprize.org)
		155 points by tchalla on Oct 6, 2014 \| 16 comments
16.		There Is No Maker Movement in China (ello.co)
		146 points by paulgerhardt on Oct 6, 2014 \| 102 comments
17.		YouTube's joke of a fair-use appeal process (jwz.org)
		129 points by shawndumas on Oct 6, 2014 \| 41 comments
18.		Square Raises $150M at a $6B Valuation (nytimes.com)
		127 points by minimaxir on Oct 6, 2014 \| 108 comments
19.		The Empire of Edge (newyorker.com)
		139 points by fragmented on Oct 6, 2014 \| 42 comments
20.		LambdaNative – A cross-platform development environment written in Scheme (github.com/part-cw)
		129 points by mike_ivanov on Oct 6, 2014 \| 18 comments
21.		Overstock.com Assembles Coders to Create a Bitcoin-Like Stock Market (wired.com)
		129 points by PhantomPhreak on Oct 6, 2014 \| 74 comments
22.		Life of an HTTP request, as seen by my toy web server (tia.mat.br)
		117 points by caiobegotti on Oct 6, 2014 \| 12 comments
23.		AngularJS Tutorial: A Comprehensive 10,000 Word Guide (airpair.com)
		173 points by toddmotto on Oct 6, 2014 \| 22 comments
24.		The Bacon Boom Was Not an Accident (businessweek.com)
		118 points by agwa on Oct 6, 2014 \| 110 comments
25.		Microsoft’s ‘RoomAlive’ transforms any room into a giant Xbox game (theverge.com)
		102 points by kenrick95 on Oct 6, 2014 \| 27 comments
26.		Shdr – Online GLSL shader editor and validator with live preview (bkcore.com)
		98 points by chrismdp on Oct 6, 2014 \| 16 comments
27.		Latest Ebola Statistics (ebolastats.info)
		100 points by natural219 on Oct 6, 2014 \| 41 comments
28.		Ask HN: How do I write good documentation?
		87 points by superice on Oct 6, 2014 \| 56 comments
29.		Hundreds of Devices Hidden Inside New York City Phone Booths (buzzfeed.com)
		93 points by jboynyc on Oct 6, 2014 \| 58 comments
30.		State of the Lua Ecosystem (2013) (speakerdeck.com)
		87 points by fuzzythinker on Oct 6, 2014 \| 58 comments
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