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1. Attacking Tor: How the NSA targets users' online anonymity (theguardian.com)
654 points by brkcmd on Oct 4, 2013 | 176 comments
2. Model S Fire (teslamotors.com)
594 points by shakes on Oct 4, 2013 | 238 comments
3. Melatonin (gwern.net)
385 points by gwern on Oct 4, 2013 | 219 comments
4. And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be an iPhone’ (nytimes.com)
370 points by apress on Oct 4, 2013 | 144 comments
5. You Must Try, and then You Must Ask (akamai.com)
366 points by mfringel on Oct 4, 2013 | 48 comments
6. 'Tor Stinks' presentation – read the full document (theguardian.com)
292 points by RMacy on Oct 4, 2013 | 107 comments
7. Show HN: govuptime.com (govuptime.com)
267 points by thatrailsguy on Oct 4, 2013 | 168 comments
8. MongoDB Raises $150 Million at $1.2 Billion Valuation (bloomberg.com)
259 points by sethbannon on Oct 4, 2013 | 223 comments
9. Show HN: Introducing Harp – A static web server with built in preprocessing (sintaxi.com)
233 points by sintaxi on Oct 4, 2013 | 75 comments
10. Nvidia Removed Linux Driver Feature Due to Windows (tomshardware.com)
227 points by simula67 on Oct 4, 2013 | 89 comments
11. How Snowden's Email Provider Tried To Foil The FBI Using Tiny Font (npr.org)
212 points by bernardom on Oct 4, 2013 | 55 comments
12. [dupe] MIT inventor creates cube robots with no external moving parts (kurzweilai.net)
170 points by Libertatea on Oct 4, 2013 | 44 comments
13. Privacy not Prism – UK legal challenge (privacynotprism.org.uk)
143 points by jmaskell on Oct 4, 2013 | 62 comments
14. Surprisingly simple scheme for self-assembling robots (web.mit.edu)
134 points by grinnick on Oct 4, 2013 | 47 comments
15. Did Shutting Down Silk Road Make the World a More Dangerous Place? (theatlantic.com)
134 points by dchs on Oct 4, 2013 | 157 comments
16. GitBucket: A Github/BitBucket clone in Scala (github.com/takezoe)
123 points by hrjet on Oct 4, 2013 | 107 comments
17. OS X Mavericks GM Seed available to Developers (developer.apple.com)
120 points by zdw on Oct 4, 2013 | 113 comments
18. Show HN: Bit of News (bitofnews.com)
108 points by sinzone on Oct 4, 2013 | 47 comments
19. Docker + Red Hat OpenShift = The Tipping Point for Open PaaS? (themiddlewareman.org)
110 points by tenfourty on Oct 4, 2013 | 57 comments
20. Post Scarcity Economics (lareviewofbooks.org)
91 points by tosh on Oct 4, 2013 | 111 comments
21. Source Code for the book “Machine Learning Systems with Python” (github.com/luispedro)
94 points by derpapst on Oct 4, 2013 | 13 comments
22. Bluebird – A full-featured, fast promises library for JavaScript (github.com/petkaantonov)
90 points by esailija on Oct 4, 2013 | 42 comments
23. The Time I “Interviewed” At Apple (hunterwalk.com)
90 points by nikunjk on Oct 4, 2013 | 86 comments
24. GCHQ report on 'Mullenize' program to 'stain' anonymous electronic traffic (washingtonpost.com)
89 points by ethanhunt_ on Oct 4, 2013 | 17 comments
25. How To Lose Your Best Employees (fastcompany.com)
87 points by 0cool on Oct 4, 2013 | 75 comments
26. Twitter CEO's Unexpected Advice on Preserving Startup Culture in Your Company (idonethis.com)
87 points by smalter on Oct 4, 2013 | 42 comments
27. A Retro, Not Steampunk, Media Center (hackaday.com)
80 points by gedrap on Oct 4, 2013 | 19 comments
28. Unfurlough.us – Freelance gigs for furloughed employees (unfurlough.us)
77 points by dotmike on Oct 4, 2013 | 38 comments
29. WP Engine CEO Jason Cohen replaced by COO Heather Brunner (wpengine.com)
75 points by alwaysunday on Oct 4, 2013 | 10 comments
30. Startup Cheat Codes (ecquire.com)
76 points by flashblu on Oct 4, 2013 | 32 comments

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