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1. Tessel: The end of web development as we know it (slideshare.net)
611 points by Frijol on Sept 30, 2013 | 406 comments
2. Lavabit needs your help to fight for the right to keep emails private (rally.org)
505 points by rebelidealist on Sept 30, 2013 | 118 comments
3. Programming is a Terrible Job (pastebin.com)
479 points by ibadeyes on Sept 30, 2013 | 285 comments
4. A friend died nearly 2 years ago. I had no idea (medium.com/lessons-learned)
360 points by alexcaps on Sept 30, 2013 | 194 comments
5. French Gendarmerie: "Open source desktop lowers TCO by 40%" (europa.eu)
331 points by Tsiolkovsky on Sept 30, 2013 | 131 comments
6. BitTorrent Chat - Private instant messaging via secure, distributed technology (bittorrent.com)
246 points by lolololololo on Sept 30, 2013 | 104 comments
7. How to get bias into a Wikipedia article (wikipedia.org)
230 points by dgam on Sept 30, 2013 | 111 comments
8. A negative captcha (github.com/subwindow)
210 points by capex on Sept 30, 2013 | 100 comments
9. Joblint: test tech jobs for sexism, culture, expectations, and recruiter fails (github.com/rowanmanning)
212 points by rowanmanning on Sept 30, 2013 | 147 comments
10. Codebreaker found in bag attended US security conference before death (2012) (wired.co.uk)
212 points by ck2 on Sept 30, 2013 | 78 comments
11. NSA stores metadata of millions of web users for up to a year, secret files show (theguardian.com)
211 points by simonbrown on Sept 30, 2013 | 46 comments
12. App Store Pricing: Worth Less than a Cup of Coffee (floriankugler.com)
189 points by floriankugler on Sept 30, 2013 | 187 comments
13. RyuJIT: The next-generation JIT compiler for .NET (msdn.com)
172 points by darrenkopp on Sept 30, 2013 | 80 comments
14. Where do Github users live? WebGL visualization (aasen.in)
164 points by hawkharris on Sept 30, 2013 | 88 comments
15. Procrastination should be solved by lighting fires, not filling buckets (visakanv.com)
156 points by visakanv on Sept 30, 2013 | 110 comments
16. The Best Part of Grand Theft Auto V is the Stock-Trading Platform (nymag.com)
152 points by golfstrom on Sept 30, 2013 | 105 comments
17. Researchers Develop Method for Getting High-Quality Photos from Crappy Lenses (petapixel.com)
148 points by Xcelerate on Sept 30, 2013 | 55 comments
18. It's Behind You: The making of the game R-Type on the ZX Spectrum (bizzley.com)
132 points by ilitirit on Sept 30, 2013 | 46 comments
19. The Indian and his insatiable appetite for the college degree (medium.com/design-startups)
124 points by stephenhacking on Sept 30, 2013 | 83 comments
20. Clojure's core.typed vs Haskell (adambard.com)
120 points by llambda on Sept 30, 2013 | 62 comments
21. Ask HN: How many "self-taught" programmers and how did you do it?
102 points by BWStearns on Sept 30, 2013 | 124 comments
22. Dual N-Back Meta-analysis (gwern.net)
99 points by gwern on Sept 30, 2013 | 14 comments
23. The Serious and the Smirk: The Smile in Portraiture (publicdomainreview.org)
99 points by larrys on Sept 30, 2013 | 24 comments
24. Processing 6 billion records in 4 seconds on a home PC (github.com/antonmks)
96 points by rck on Sept 30, 2013 | 25 comments
25. RethinkDB 1.10: multi-indexing (rethinkdb.com)
97 points by coffeemug on Sept 30, 2013 | 34 comments
26. What I Wish I Knew Before Studying Computer Security in College (matthewdfuller.com)
92 points by cddotdotslash on Sept 30, 2013 | 56 comments
27. So you're thinking of tracking your JS errors (meldium.com)
85 points by william_hc on Sept 30, 2013 | 37 comments
28. The Link between Clojure-in-Clojure and Typed Clojure (frenchy64.github.io)
79 points by sethev on Sept 30, 2013 | 5 comments
29. Why have SVG images not yet replaced PNG on the web? (sekera.cz)
76 points by seky on Sept 30, 2013 | 111 comments
30. Using Haskell at SQream Technologies (sqreamtech.com)
70 points by Toshio on Sept 30, 2013 | 18 comments

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