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1.Core Secrets: NSA Saboteurs in China and Germany (firstlook.org)
272 points by patrickgokey on Oct 11, 2014 | 118 comments
2.Sci-Fi Novels You Should Read (howtosplitanatom.com)
187 points by smoyer on Oct 11, 2014 | 175 comments
3.The Microsoft Empire Reboots (vanityfair.com)
191 points by aseem on Oct 11, 2014 | 167 comments
4.Aptly: Owning Your Debian Distribution (aptly.info)
172 points by smira on Oct 11, 2014 | 49 comments
5.The Story of the PING Program (1997) (arl.mil)
171 points by julien421 on Oct 11, 2014 | 28 comments
6.A veteran teacher turned coach shadows two students for two days (grantwiggins.wordpress.com)
154 points by MrMrtn on Oct 11, 2014 | 47 comments
7.What makes for a stable marriage? (randalolson.com)
152 points by rhiever on Oct 11, 2014 | 135 comments
8.Edward Snowden’s Privacy Tips: “Get Rid of Dropbox,” Avoid Facebook and Google (techcrunch.com)
141 points by malditojavi on Oct 11, 2014 | 115 comments
9.A Promising Pill, Not So Hard to Swallow (nytimes.com)
125 points by dnetesn on Oct 11, 2014 | 66 comments
10.Alfred Anaya Put Secret Compartments in Cars. The DEA Put Him in Prison (2013) (wired.com)
122 points by hippich on Oct 11, 2014 | 108 comments
11.Dropbox confirms that a bug within Selective Sync may have caused data loss (githubusercontent.com)
128 points by ghuntley on Oct 11, 2014 | 60 comments
12.'Citizenfour' Reveals Existence of Second NSA Whistleblower (hollywoodreporter.com)
118 points by eplanit on Oct 11, 2014 | 16 comments
13.The Internet of Someone Else’s Things (techcrunch.com)
107 points by BIackSwan on Oct 11, 2014 | 73 comments
14.What I Saw as an NFL Ball Boy (nytimes.com)
106 points by jhonovich on Oct 11, 2014 | 55 comments
15.Toxo, the cysts in our brains from cats, can improve self-control (2013) (theatlantic.com)
103 points by DLay on Oct 11, 2014 | 62 comments
16.End the U.S. Embargo on Cuba (nytimes.com)
103 points by rodrigocoelho on Oct 11, 2014 | 32 comments
17.Remains of Alexander the Great's Father Confirmed Found (discovery.com)
94 points by megafounder on Oct 11, 2014 | 43 comments
18.Bicycle helmets do almost nothing to prevent concussions (bicycling.com)
82 points by acsillag on Oct 11, 2014 | 90 comments
19.Kaya: Declarative Reactive (vimeo.com)
76 points by david927 on Oct 11, 2014 | 33 comments
20.Decrypting Android Snapchat images (github.com/programa-stic)
79 points by fla on Oct 11, 2014 | 57 comments
21.The man who built the online attendance system for India’s government officials (qz.com)
72 points by aptwebapps on Oct 11, 2014 | 28 comments
22.Second Graders Treated to a Seven-Course $220 Tasting Meal [video] (nytimes.com)
70 points by sarchertech on Oct 11, 2014 | 16 comments
23.Lua metacompiler (loup-vaillant.fr)
71 points by walterbell on Oct 11, 2014 | 6 comments
24.The Internet has made defensive writers of us all (pchiusano.github.io)
67 points by gourlaysama on Oct 11, 2014 | 38 comments
25.Pro-Democracy Websites in Hong Kong Targeted with and Serving Malware (volexity.com)
61 points by bindrpc on Oct 11, 2014 | 2 comments
26.Pdf-tools: Emacs support library for PDF files (github.com/politza)
68 points by akakievich on Oct 11, 2014 | 5 comments
27.Killer Queen: A 10-Person Console Game (nytimes.com)
62 points by dnetesn on Oct 11, 2014 | 18 comments
28.Rare images document the centuries-long history of Africans in India (scroll.in)
67 points by benbreen on Oct 11, 2014 | 9 comments
29.Show HN: One Adaptive API for Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive (cloud-rail.com)
71 points by cloudrail on Oct 11, 2014 | 43 comments
30.Startup School Silicon Valley 2014 Live Stream (ycomstream.com)
67 points by kevin on Oct 11, 2014 | 37 comments

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