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1.		Urbit: a personal cloud computer (urbit.org)
		460 points by aberatiu on Nov 8, 2014 \| 265 comments
2.		Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was Based on Fact (newyorker.com)
		375 points by ux-app on Nov 8, 2014 \| 160 comments
3.		Bat bomb (wikipedia.org)
		252 points by The_Fox on Nov 8, 2014 \| 40 comments
4.		Ask HN: Founders whose startups have failed, where did life take you afterwards?
		235 points by windowshopping on Nov 8, 2014 \| 172 comments
5.		Julia: A fresh approach to numerical computing (arxiv.org)
		215 points by sveme on Nov 8, 2014 \| 138 comments
6.		The 5K Retina iMac’s screen runs at 60Hz at 5K resolution (arstechnica.com)
		193 points by lelf on Nov 8, 2014 \| 54 comments
7.		Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin (github.com/bmatzelle)
		175 points by pmoriarty on Nov 8, 2014 \| 113 comments
8.		OpenBazaar is a decentralized Dark Net market that's 'untouchable' by police (dailydot.com)
		187 points by dil8 on Nov 8, 2014 \| 107 comments
9.		Building a CustoMac: Buyer's Guide (tonymacx86.com)
		157 points by lelf on Nov 8, 2014 \| 97 comments
10.		Why I find IEEE 754 frustrating (p5r.org)
		140 points by plesner on Nov 8, 2014 \| 58 comments
11.		The Man Who Disobeyed His Boss and Opened the Berlin Wall (npr.org)
		120 points by adamnemecek on Nov 8, 2014 \| 42 comments
12.		CC500: a tiny self-hosting C compiler (ntlworld.com)
		102 points by userbinator on Nov 8, 2014 \| 22 comments
13.		Interplanetary Transport Network (wikipedia.org)
		98 points by ColinWright on Nov 8, 2014 \| 18 comments
14.		Google Blacklist – Words That Google Instant Doesn't Like (2010) (2600.com)
		110 points by christianbryant on Nov 8, 2014 \| 36 comments
15.		Our Own Private Germany (medium.com/matter)
		94 points by zvanness on Nov 8, 2014 \| 14 comments
16.		The Unbelievable Skepticism of the Amazing Randi (nytimes.com)
		87 points by elemeno on Nov 8, 2014 \| 45 comments
17.		Big things to expect from Emacs 25 (endlessparentheses.com)
		87 points by signa11 on Nov 8, 2014 \| 76 comments
18.		Texas Man Arrested for $4.5M Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme (forbes.com/sites/jordanmaglich)
		85 points by davidst on Nov 8, 2014 \| 36 comments
19.		ARM64 Open Laptop Concept (vero-apparatus.com)
		84 points by edward on Nov 8, 2014 \| 46 comments
20.		Ask HN: Maybe found huge security problem, unsure what to do
		80 points by sah88 on Nov 8, 2014 \| 46 comments
21.		Good Consultants vs. Bad Consultants (jacquesmattheij.com)
		81 points by jacquesm on Nov 8, 2014 \| 74 comments
22.		Listeners of 'Serial' Turn into Detectives, With Troubling Results (theguardian.com)
		77 points by Thevet on Nov 8, 2014 \| 25 comments
23.		The 2014 Mac Mini reviewed (arstechnica.com)
		67 points by bane on Nov 8, 2014 \| 68 comments
24.		A Bitcoin mine went up in flames, affecting the entire network (qz.com)
		67 points by wxs on Nov 8, 2014 \| 20 comments
25.		[flagged] “I can be tricked by anyone who looks like Mark Zuckerberg” (paulgraham.com)
		57 points by gautambay on Nov 8, 2014 \| 31 comments
26.		Portrait of the Hilbert Curve (2010) (corte.si)
		64 points by jgrodziski on Nov 8, 2014 \| 3 comments
27.		The Rise and Fall of the Full Stack Developer (techcrunch.com)
		60 points by funkyy on Nov 8, 2014 \| 29 comments
28.		Geoffrey Hinton: Dark Knowledge [video] (youtube.com)
		63 points by etiam on Nov 8, 2014 \| 8 comments
29.		Google Web Fonts Typographic Project (femmebot.github.io)
		64 points by amjd on Nov 8, 2014 \| 10 comments
30.		Don't Fly Drones Here (mapbox.com)
		61 points by posthumangr on Nov 8, 2014 \| 31 comments
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