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1.
SpaceshipTwo crashes shortly after Mojave test flight (nbcnews.com)
598 points by llamataboot on Oct 31, 2014 | 300 comments
2.
OS X 10.10 – Source Code (opensource.apple.com)
495 points by beltex on Oct 31, 2014 | 144 comments
3.
Hungary Internet tax cancelled after mass protests (bbc.co.uk)
358 points by dan1234 on Oct 31, 2014 | 67 comments
4.
Walkway.js (connoratherton.com)
351 points by connoratherton on Oct 31, 2014 | 50 comments
5.
Even with 2FA, Google accounts can be hacked with just a phone number (ello.co)
274 points by philipn on Oct 31, 2014 | 123 comments
6.
Show HN: “Install on DigitalOcean” button for open source apps (github.com/seven1m)
279 points by timmorgan on Oct 31, 2014 | 54 comments
7.
Making Connections to Facebook More Secure (facebook.com)
258 points by jboynyc on Oct 31, 2014 | 116 comments
8.
Andy Rubin Leaving Google (wsj.com)
230 points by atupem on Oct 31, 2014 | 64 comments
9.
Eleven countries studied, one inescapable conclusion – the drug laws don’t work (theguardian.com)
224 points by evo_9 on Oct 31, 2014 | 111 comments
10.
The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation (2012) (nasa.gov)
214 points by bane on Oct 31, 2014 | 157 comments
11.
Japanese zoning (urbankchoze.blogspot.com)
196 points by nkurz on Oct 31, 2014 | 68 comments
12.
Slack raises $120M Led by Google Ventures and KPCB at $1.12B Valuation (techcrunch.com)
212 points by BIackSwan on Oct 31, 2014 | 170 comments
13.
Communication between brain networks in people given psilocybin (wired.com)
189 points by eksith on Oct 31, 2014 | 97 comments
14.
Fetching.io: Search the full text of every web page you visit (fetching.io)
190 points by tekacs on Oct 31, 2014 | 52 comments
15.
Immutable.js – Immutable Data Collections (facebook.github.io)
182 points by swah on Oct 31, 2014 | 85 comments
16.
Friends Don't Let Friends Clap on One and Three: A Backbeat Clapping Study (slideshare.net)
158 points by Munksgaard on Oct 31, 2014 | 73 comments
17.
The Hypercard Legacy (medium.com/blprnt)
134 points by CapitalistCartr on Oct 31, 2014 | 91 comments
18.
How long do GUIDs really need to be? (eager.io)
140 points by adamschwartz on Oct 31, 2014 | 100 comments
19.
Stability as a Deliverable (rust-lang.org)
148 points by EduardoBautista on Oct 31, 2014 | 41 comments
20.
Making PostgreSQL Scale Hadoop-style: Benchmark Numbers (citusdata.com)
134 points by ranvir on Oct 31, 2014 | 31 comments
21.
A Programming Language for Games: Demo [video] (youtube.com)
141 points by GuiA on Oct 31, 2014 | 72 comments
22.
Mathematical “urban legends” (mathoverflow.net)
122 points by mikevm on Oct 31, 2014 | 52 comments
23.
Why talent agents for engineers don’t exist (alinelerner.com)
121 points by leeny on Oct 31, 2014 | 94 comments
24.
Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi (bothsidesofthetable.com)
108 points by Sam_Odio on Oct 31, 2014 | 68 comments
25.
At Penn, students can get credit for ‘Wasting Time on the Internet’ (washingtonpost.com)
103 points by jkopelman on Oct 31, 2014 | 25 comments
26.
Reversing D-Link’s WPS Pin Algorithm (devttys0.com)
96 points by PaulSec on Oct 31, 2014 | 24 comments
27.
How L1 and L2 CPU caches work, and why they’re an essential part of modern chips (extremetech.com)
108 points by nkurz on Oct 31, 2014 | 32 comments
28.
No Offense: The New Threats to Free Speech (wsj.com)
83 points by nostromo on Oct 31, 2014 | 40 comments
29.
Stack unwinding in Rust (pocoo.org)
91 points by the_mitsuhiko on Oct 31, 2014 | 28 comments
30.
LwIP on BareMetal: Lightweight TCP/IP stack running on ultra-lightweight kernel (github.com/returninfinity)
89 points by nkurz on Oct 31, 2014 | 23 comments

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