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1.		1984 v. Brave New World (lettersofnote.com)
		449 points by moritzfelipe on Oct 23, 2014 \| 195 comments
2.		Old Masters: After 80, some people don’t retire. They reign (nytimes.com)
		411 points by wallflower on Oct 23, 2014 \| 104 comments
3.		Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems (newsweek.com)
		362 points by rcamera on Oct 23, 2014 \| 193 comments
4.		Ask HN: My 56-year-old father is a developer having a tough time finding a job
		318 points by luisivan on Oct 23, 2014 \| 216 comments
5.		Verizon Wireless injecting tracking UIDs into HTTP requests
		299 points by pillfill on Oct 23, 2014 \| 146 comments
6.		AWS Frankfurt, Germany Region (amazon.com)
		293 points by ostrowski on Oct 23, 2014 \| 107 comments
7.		Vatican Library Puts 4,000 Ancient Manuscripts Available Online for Free (messagetoeagle.com)
		280 points by Shivetya on Oct 23, 2014 \| 134 comments
8.		Y Combinator, a Two-Year-Old, and a Pregnant Wife (tiempoapp.com)
		288 points by tadmilbourn on Oct 23, 2014 \| 147 comments
9.		Ten years of Ubuntu (arstechnica.com)
		246 points by hpaavola on Oct 23, 2014 \| 170 comments
10.		Mono for Unreal Engine (tirania.org)
		221 points by jstedfast on Oct 23, 2014 \| 90 comments
11.		Fingerprints Are Usernames, Not Passwords (2013) (dustinkirkland.com)
		219 points by sc90 on Oct 23, 2014 \| 102 comments
12.		EFF Relaunches Surveillance Self-Defense Guide (eff.org)
		203 points by schoen on Oct 23, 2014 \| 46 comments
13.		Migrating from AWS to AWS (instagram-engineering.tumblr.com)
		206 points by mikeyk on Oct 23, 2014 \| 15 comments
14.		Are we at Peak Google? (stratechery.com)
		193 points by nagarjun on Oct 23, 2014 \| 142 comments
15.		Diary of a Corporate Sellout (medium.com/message)
		189 points by rtpg on Oct 23, 2014 \| 35 comments
16.		An Imaginary Town Becomes Real, Then Not (npr.org)
		174 points by dalek2point3 on Oct 23, 2014 \| 39 comments
17.		More Cities Are Making It Illegal to Hand Out Food to the Homeless (npr.org)
		166 points by jcater on Oct 23, 2014 \| 189 comments
18.		Bitcoin over Tor isn't a good idea (arxiv.org)
		162 points by Anon84 on Oct 23, 2014 \| 36 comments
19.		Facebook Rooms (rooms.me)
		164 points by jamesjyu on Oct 23, 2014 \| 110 comments
20.		Building a Forex Trading Platform Using Kafka, Storm and Cassandra (insightdataengineering.com)
		139 points by jecs321 on Oct 23, 2014 \| 39 comments
21.		A Natural A/B Test of Harassment (kongregate.com)
		123 points by benologist on Oct 23, 2014 \| 128 comments
22.		Mapillary in the OpenStreetMap iD Editor (mapillary.com)
		142 points by petern on Oct 23, 2014 \| 24 comments
23.		China no longer has a stranglehold on the world's supply of rare earth metals (vox.com)
		114 points by nkurz on Oct 23, 2014 \| 66 comments
24.		Who am I? (news.ycombinator.com)
		111 points by networked on Oct 23, 2014 \| 24 comments
25.		Comparing OCaml and Standard ML (chlipala.net)
		103 points by carloscm on Oct 23, 2014 \| 68 comments
26.		The laborers of content moderation on Facebook (wired.com)
		101 points by InternetGiant on Oct 23, 2014 \| 19 comments
27.		Apple Maps Connect (mapsconnect.apple.com)
		100 points by Aqua_Geek on Oct 23, 2014 \| 43 comments
28.		Microsoft Cloud Strength and Hardware Progress Drive Record Q1 Revenue (microsoft.com)
		98 points by theatraine on Oct 23, 2014 \| 24 comments
29.		Bay Area tech company caught paying imported workers $1.21 per hour (engadget.com)
		103 points by akerl_ on Oct 23, 2014 \| 88 comments
30.		CSS-only plotting (github.com/asciimoo)
		102 points by teddet on Oct 23, 2014 \| 31 comments
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