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1.		Microsoft Band (microsoft.com)
		858 points by N0RMAN on Oct 30, 2014 \| 514 comments
2.		How My Employer Put the “FML” in FMLA (the-toast.net)
		404 points by vkb on Oct 30, 2014 \| 327 comments
3.		I Hope Twitter Goes Away (alexgaynor.net)
		395 points by mwcampbell on Oct 30, 2014 \| 238 comments
4.		PgOSQuery: Expose the operating system as a Postgres database (github.com/shish)
		297 points by Shish2k on Oct 30, 2014 \| 42 comments
5.		Controversial Patriot Act power now overwhelmingly used in drug investigations (washingtonpost.com)
		303 points by 001sky on Oct 30, 2014 \| 47 comments
6.		How do you get to write so well in HN?
		276 points by nevergetenglish on Oct 30, 2014 \| 105 comments
7.		Detailed report shows how U.S. Internet access monopolies punish rivals (medium.com/backchannel)
		219 points by evanh2002 on Oct 30, 2014 \| 28 comments
8.		Introducing SIMD.js (hacks.mozilla.org)
		210 points by rnyman on Oct 30, 2014 \| 75 comments
9.		Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Warg faces lengthy jail term (bbc.com)
		182 points by pmalynin on Oct 30, 2014 \| 82 comments
10.		Redis latency spikes and the 99th percentile (antirez.com)
		168 points by r4um on Oct 30, 2014 \| 51 comments
11.		Go 1.4 Beta 1 is released (groups.google.com)
		146 points by pjmlp on Oct 30, 2014 \| 40 comments
12.		LG G Watch R (lg.com)
		146 points by jbernardo95 on Oct 30, 2014 \| 114 comments
13.		A fast HTTP request/response parser for Common Lisp (github.com/fukamachi)
		131 points by fukamachi on Oct 30, 2014 \| 73 comments
14.		Walk through a 3D model of Y Combinator (matterport.com)
		126 points by wildpeaks on Oct 30, 2014 \| 50 comments
15.		Both geniuses and madmen pay attention to what others ignore (nautil.us)
		136 points by dnetesn on Oct 30, 2014 \| 73 comments
16.		Lost Civilizations of the Andes (davidpratt.info)
		124 points by iamben on Oct 30, 2014 \| 38 comments
17.		Chicken Scheme Websockets (call-cc.org)
		115 points by thecombjelly on Oct 30, 2014 \| 20 comments
18.		Lecture 12: Building for the Enterprise (samaltman.com)
		109 points by kqr2 on Oct 30, 2014 \| 19 comments
19.		Startup Fuck-ups: How we lost 25% of our monthly revenue overnight (medium.com/insync)
		114 points by noellep on Oct 30, 2014 \| 56 comments
20.		Replacing Dropbox with BitTorrent Sync (noxon.cc)
		104 points by ingve on Oct 30, 2014 \| 52 comments
21.		Apple: Don’t do math in iOS 8’s Notification Center (sixcolors.com)
		96 points by walterbell on Oct 30, 2014 \| 66 comments
22.		Google’s New Bookmarking Service, Previously Called Stars, Has Gone Live (techcrunch.com)
		101 points by applecore on Oct 30, 2014 \| 92 comments
23.		Removing SSLv3 in Chrome (groups.google.com)
		97 points by silenteh on Oct 30, 2014 \| 35 comments
24.		Jisp – A programmable language that compiles to JavaScript (jisp.io)
		88 points by dkyc on Oct 30, 2014 \| 44 comments
25.		Unexpected ways to wake up your brain (bbc.com)
		91 points by anishkothari on Oct 30, 2014 \| 66 comments
26.		Ask HN: Dealing with Failed Interview at Google and AWS?
		91 points by annythesillicat on Oct 30, 2014 \| 76 comments
27.		Excuse Me Sir, Would You Like to Buy a Kilo of Isopropyl Bromide? (1977) [pdf] (sciencemadness.org)
		89 points by keenerd on Oct 30, 2014 \| 6 comments
28.		Ask HN: ”Coffee date” etiquette
		75 points by cpach on Oct 30, 2014 \| 68 comments
29.		Hacker News metrics (first rough approach) (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
		88 points by edwintorok on Oct 30, 2014 \| 68 comments
30.		Will a Breakthrough Solar Technology See the Light of Day? (technologyreview.com)
		77 points by codexjourneys on Oct 30, 2014 \| 44 comments
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