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1.		C4 – C in 4 functions (github.com/rswier)
		517 points by petercooper on Nov 4, 2014 \| 138 comments
2.		Principles of Rich Web Applications (rauchg.com)
		534 points by rafaelc on Nov 4, 2014 \| 148 comments
3.		The hammer-feather drop in the world’s biggest vacuum chamber [video] (thekidshouldseethis.com)
		443 points by ColinWright on Nov 4, 2014 \| 118 comments
4.		The Art of Not Working at Work (theatlantic.com)
		414 points by jamessun on Nov 4, 2014 \| 125 comments
5.		Dropbox is in your Office (dropbox.com)
		348 points by ben336 on Nov 4, 2014 \| 195 comments
6.		Google Launches Managed Service for Running Docker Apps on Its Platform (googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)
		264 points by ferrantim on Nov 4, 2014 \| 60 comments
7.		New NSA Documents Shine More Light into Black Box of Executive Order 12333 (aclu.org)
		255 points by mo on Nov 4, 2014 \| 44 comments
8.		Please grow your buffers exponentially (blog.mozilla.org)
		231 points by AndrewDucker on Nov 4, 2014 \| 156 comments
9.		How I made the print and eBook versions of my web book (stuffwithstuff.com)
		228 points by munificent on Nov 4, 2014 \| 66 comments
10.		Woz’s take on the Apple 1’s noisy -5 volt supply (willegal.net)
		223 points by fogus on Nov 4, 2014 \| 61 comments
11.		Let's Talk About Beacons (nfarina.com)
		219 points by nfarina on Nov 4, 2014 \| 93 comments
12.		Have We Been Interpreting Quantum Mechanics Wrong This Whole Time? (wired.com)
		212 points by brg on Nov 4, 2014 \| 91 comments
13.		Too Many Kids Quit Science Because They Don't Think They're Smart (theatlantic.com)
		205 points by tokenadult on Nov 4, 2014 \| 140 comments
14.		Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence (2013) (hut8labs.com)
		204 points by sidcool on Nov 4, 2014 \| 64 comments
15.		Amazon Prime Members’ Newest Benefit Is Free, Unlimited Photo Storage (techcrunch.com)
		197 points by nikunjk on Nov 4, 2014 \| 217 comments
16.		How I created two images with the same MD5 hash (natmchugh.blogspot.com)
		193 points by sebg on Nov 4, 2014 \| 47 comments
17.		Former NSA lawyer: the cyberwar is between tech firms and the US government (theguardian.com)
		183 points by jgrahamc on Nov 4, 2014 \| 74 comments
18.		Mayday.us (stripe.com)
		186 points by avibryant on Nov 4, 2014 \| 31 comments
19.		2015 Tesla Model S P85D First Test (motortrend.com)
		187 points by mountaineer on Nov 4, 2014 \| 125 comments
20.		Facebook's Top Open Data Problems (facebook.com)
		180 points by huangwei_chang on Nov 4, 2014 \| 61 comments
21.		The new hypervisor LXD (ubuntu.com)
		178 points by tkubacki on Nov 4, 2014 \| 77 comments
22.		NTFS now supported in ReactOS LiveCD (reboot.pro)
		158 points by jeditobe on Nov 4, 2014 \| 46 comments
23.		Secure Messaging Scorecard (eff.org)
		175 points by sinak on Nov 4, 2014 \| 57 comments
24.		Show HN: Balls – Game I’ve made while I was learning Swift (gameofballs.co)
		163 points by ivanpashenko on Nov 4, 2014 \| 64 comments
25.		Adobe Brackets hits 1.0 (github.com/adobe)
		150 points by g13n on Nov 4, 2014 \| 37 comments
26.		A Large Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in GitHub [pdf] (ucdavis.edu)
		132 points by oskarth on Nov 4, 2014 \| 40 comments
27.		Sean Rad Out as Tinder CEO (forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni)
		128 points by dreamweapon on Nov 4, 2014 \| 50 comments
28.		LokiJS – Lightweight JavaScript in-memory database (lokijs.org)
		130 points by joeminichino on Nov 4, 2014 \| 37 comments
29.		$300k for Cracking Telegram Encryption (telegram.org)
		126 points by techquery on Nov 4, 2014 \| 90 comments
30.		Face++: API for face detection – also detects gender, age, pose (faceplusplus.com)
		127 points by gagzilla on Nov 4, 2014 \| 50 comments
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