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1. The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key' (keybase.io)
1025 points by jashkenas on Oct 8, 2014 | 230 comments
2. Trouble at the Koolaid Point (seriouspony.com)
723 points by mpweiher on Oct 8, 2014 | 266 comments
3. Adobe Spyware Reveals Again the Price of DRM: Your Privacy and Security (eff.org)
504 points by sinak on Oct 8, 2014 | 166 comments
4. Final – A credit card built for the 21st century (getfinal.com)
517 points by arfrank on Oct 8, 2014 | 358 comments
5. Move Fast and Break Nothing (zachholman.com)
459 points by bpierre on Oct 8, 2014 | 83 comments
6. Watson Services (ibm.com)
362 points by harscoat on Oct 8, 2014 | 104 comments
7. Fixing a 37-year-old bug by merging a 22-year-old fix (openbsd.org)
268 points by tscherno on Oct 8, 2014 | 72 comments
8. Wanna know what product your competitor is working on? Try Slack (tanay.co.in)
273 points by tangoalpha on Oct 8, 2014 | 140 comments
9. Show HN: HTML5 online animation editor that exports to SVG and SMIL (animatron.com)
239 points by VasyaPupkin on Oct 8, 2014 | 52 comments
10. Microsoft Xim (getxim.com)
229 points by emadelwany on Oct 8, 2014 | 112 comments
11. Poll: How long could you survive without income?
218 points by jacquesm on Oct 8, 2014 | 144 comments
12. Show HN: Sail boat simulation – try to sail into the wind (imakesnowflakes.com)
229 points by imakesnowflakes on Oct 8, 2014 | 83 comments
13. Show HN: A curated list of Chrome DevTools tips and tricks (devtoolstips.com)
212 points by jefkoslowski on Oct 8, 2014 | 24 comments
14. Venezuelans turn to Bitcoins to bypass currency controls (reuters.com)
174 points by rafaelm on Oct 8, 2014 | 95 comments
15. Firestone Stopped Ebola in Its Tracks (npr.org)
183 points by mdturnerphys on Oct 8, 2014 | 96 comments
16. San Francisco Legalizes, Regulates Airbnb with 7-4 Vote, Lots of Amendments (techcrunch.com)
159 points by enra on Oct 8, 2014 | 111 comments
17. Peter Thiel Is Wrong About the Future (bloombergview.com)
136 points by T-A on Oct 8, 2014 | 139 comments
18. A native code to C/C++ decompiler (derevenets.com)
137 points by fla on Oct 8, 2014 | 54 comments
19. Segment (YC S11) Raises $15 Million Series A (segment.com)
141 points by pkrein on Oct 8, 2014 | 47 comments
20. Running GUI apps with Docker (fabiorehm.com)
123 points by SlipperySlope on Oct 8, 2014 | 34 comments
21. The Curse of Increasing Marginal Work Utility, or Why I Work So Much (togelius.blogspot.com)
111 points by nkurz on Oct 8, 2014 | 62 comments
22. The Kitchen Network: America’s Underground Chinese Restaurant Workers (newyorker.com)
115 points by throwaway344 on Oct 8, 2014 | 39 comments
23. Qubes – Secure Desktop OS Using Security by Compartmentalization (qubes-os.org)
101 points by tete on Oct 8, 2014 | 49 comments
24. DEA impersonates real person on Facebook (techdirt.com)
90 points by k4jh on Oct 8, 2014 | 39 comments
25. “Shellshock” (dwheeler.com)
92 points by bronson on Oct 8, 2014 | 22 comments
26. The Quality, Popularity, and Negativity of 5.6M Hacker News Comments (minimaxir.com)
82 points by sinak on Oct 8, 2014 | 20 comments
27. In Spain, Politics via Reddit (newyorker.com)
95 points by loomio on Oct 8, 2014 | 70 comments
28. WePay (YC S09) Launches WePay Clear, a Stripe Competitor with Fraud Protection (techcrunch.com)
92 points by transburgh on Oct 8, 2014 | 25 comments
29. Analyze Your HN Posts with Watson User Modeling (mybluemix.net)
75 points by Jonovono on Oct 8, 2014 | 49 comments
30. A Massively Parallel Computing Solution (micron.com)
77 points by mariusz79 on Oct 8, 2014 | 24 comments

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