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1. Welcome, Freshmen. You Don't Deserve to Be Here (chronicle.com)
373 points by onedev on Oct 15, 2013 | 199 comments
2. The Russia Left Behind (nytimes.com)
363 points by mxfh on Oct 15, 2013 | 214 comments
3. GoDaddy, Media Temple, and the Horrible World of Web Hosting (marco.org)
354 points by mh_ on Oct 15, 2013 | 161 comments
4. Hacker News is a social echo chamber (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
339 points by BCM43 on Oct 15, 2013 | 194 comments
5. Manager.io – Free accounting software for small businesses (manager.io)
290 points by Heliosmaster on Oct 15, 2013 | 135 comments
6. MathGifs (mathgifs.blogspot.co.uk)
269 points by co_pl_te on Oct 15, 2013 | 31 comments
7. Free Font: Norwester (jamiewilson.io)
252 points by benoitg on Oct 15, 2013 | 59 comments
8. Baidu now accepts Bitcoin (bitcointalk.org)
208 points by ferdo on Oct 15, 2013 | 104 comments
9. Things I learned at YC (aelag.com)
204 points by aelaguiz on Oct 15, 2013 | 61 comments
10. Glenn Greenwald is leaving The Guardian (ggsidedocs.blogspot.com.br)
201 points by duck on Oct 15, 2013 | 104 comments
11. VirtualBox 4.3 released (virtualbox.org)
155 points by conductor on Oct 15, 2013 | 54 comments
12. A quick look at the Redis source code (heychinaski.com)
149 points by HeyChinaski on Oct 15, 2013 | 32 comments
13. A Court Order is an Insider Attack (freedom-to-tinker.com)
146 points by Amadou on Oct 15, 2013 | 47 comments
14. Stack Exchange's monitoring system is now open source (github.com/opserver)
147 points by waffle_ss on Oct 15, 2013 | 56 comments
15. Introducing Rubinius X (rubini.us)
153 points by yannski on Oct 15, 2013 | 215 comments
16. LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs (reidhoffman.org)
152 points by Ecio78 on Oct 15, 2013 | 22 comments
17. GoDaddy Buys Media Temple (techcrunch.com)
141 points by recusancy on Oct 15, 2013 | 167 comments
18. India to launch its first mission to Mars [video] (venturebeat.com)
136 points by gagan2020 on Oct 15, 2013 | 53 comments
19. Pixar's Universal Scene Description (pixar.com)
126 points by gdubs on Oct 15, 2013 | 31 comments
20. Aaron Swartz’s last gift to journalism and online privacy finds a new home (washingtonpost.com)
126 points by trauco on Oct 15, 2013 | 25 comments
21. In iOS 7, the final straw for Newsstand (markokarppinen.com)
128 points by jamesmoss on Oct 15, 2013 | 89 comments
22. Nginx Inc. raises $10M in Series B round (nginx.com)
126 points by shad42 on Oct 15, 2013 | 45 comments
23. Brazilian government to ditch Microsoft in favour of bespoke email system (zdnet.com)
117 points by singold on Oct 15, 2013 | 51 comments
24. “The 'use asm' pragma is not necessary to opt into optimizations in V8” (code.google.com)
116 points by elisee on Oct 15, 2013 | 112 comments
25. Incremental Garbage Collector in PyPy (morepypy.blogspot.com)
114 points by fijal on Oct 15, 2013 | 7 comments
26. Why is the number 1,729 hidden in Futurama episodes? (bbc.co.uk)
101 points by programsvalues on Oct 15, 2013 | 22 comments
27. Lavabit gets new crypto key, gives users 72 hours to recover e-mails (arstechnica.com)
103 points by shawndumas on Oct 15, 2013 | 56 comments
28. Explaining an astonishing slinky (danielwalsh.tumblr.com)
95 points by scott_s on Oct 15, 2013 | 42 comments
29. How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses (wired.com)
93 points by 0cool on Oct 15, 2013 | 76 comments
30. Zookal starts "world first" delivery-by-drone service in Sydney (pandodaily.com)
93 points by tomhoward on Oct 15, 2013 | 67 comments

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