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1. "Open Source is awful in many ways, and people should be aware of this" (plus.google.com)
605 points by basil on Oct 6, 2014 | 465 comments
2. Become Estonia’s e-resident (e-estonia.com)
447 points by jkaljundi on Oct 6, 2014 | 122 comments
3. Show HN: Nightmare – Simple browser automation (nightmarejs.org)
429 points by pkrein on Oct 6, 2014 | 70 comments
4. Reddit CEO Calls Out Former Reddit Employee on Reddit (reddit.com)
366 points by brbcoding on Oct 6, 2014 | 294 comments
5. [dupe] Lennart Poettering on the state of open source communities (plus.google.com)
211 points by omnibrain on Oct 6, 2014 | 169 comments
6. Unfinished game – learn by practice (github.com/rezoner)
214 points by rezoner on Oct 6, 2014 | 20 comments
7. In the medical response to Ebola, Cuba is punching above its weight (washingtonpost.com)
200 points by megalodon on Oct 6, 2014 | 134 comments
8. The force vectors on a skateboard during an Ollie (wired.com)
194 points by aatish on Oct 6, 2014 | 52 comments
9. History of Apache Storm and Lessons Learned (nathanmarz.com)
174 points by plinkplonk on Oct 6, 2014 | 21 comments
10. Stamplay: IFTTT for developers (techcrunch.com)
198 points by NicoJuicy on Oct 6, 2014 | 70 comments
11. A look at the Apple ‘Skankphone’, built before the original iPhone release (thenextweb.com)
170 points by striking on Oct 6, 2014 | 65 comments
12. Monit's DMCA takedown notice for Inspeqtor (github.com/github)
164 points by jbrowning on Oct 6, 2014 | 70 comments
13. Ask HN: Big company approached our stealth startup – what to do?
159 points by throwaway__x on Oct 6, 2014 | 81 comments
14. Stop Australia's Data Retention Bill (stopthespies.org)
163 points by pserwylo on Oct 6, 2014 | 32 comments
15. The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (nobelprize.org)
155 points by tchalla on Oct 6, 2014 | 16 comments
16. There Is No Maker Movement in China (ello.co)
146 points by paulgerhardt on Oct 6, 2014 | 102 comments
17. YouTube's joke of a fair-use appeal process (jwz.org)
129 points by shawndumas on Oct 6, 2014 | 41 comments
18. Square Raises $150M at a $6B Valuation (nytimes.com)
127 points by minimaxir on Oct 6, 2014 | 108 comments
19. The Empire of Edge (newyorker.com)
139 points by fragmented on Oct 6, 2014 | 42 comments
20. LambdaNative – A cross-platform development environment written in Scheme (github.com/part-cw)
129 points by mike_ivanov on Oct 6, 2014 | 18 comments
21. Overstock.com Assembles Coders to Create a Bitcoin-Like Stock Market (wired.com)
129 points by PhantomPhreak on Oct 6, 2014 | 74 comments
22. Life of an HTTP request, as seen by my toy web server (tia.mat.br)
117 points by caiobegotti on Oct 6, 2014 | 12 comments
23. AngularJS Tutorial: A Comprehensive 10,000 Word Guide (airpair.com)
173 points by toddmotto on Oct 6, 2014 | 22 comments
24. The Bacon Boom Was Not an Accident (businessweek.com)
118 points by agwa on Oct 6, 2014 | 110 comments
25. Microsoft’s ‘RoomAlive’ transforms any room into a giant Xbox game (theverge.com)
102 points by kenrick95 on Oct 6, 2014 | 27 comments
26. Shdr – Online GLSL shader editor and validator with live preview (bkcore.com)
98 points by chrismdp on Oct 6, 2014 | 16 comments
27. Latest Ebola Statistics (ebolastats.info)
100 points by natural219 on Oct 6, 2014 | 41 comments
28. Ask HN: How do I write good documentation?
87 points by superice on Oct 6, 2014 | 56 comments
29. Hundreds of Devices Hidden Inside New York City Phone Booths (buzzfeed.com)
93 points by jboynyc on Oct 6, 2014 | 58 comments
30. State of the Lua Ecosystem (2013) (speakerdeck.com)
87 points by fuzzythinker on Oct 6, 2014 | 58 comments

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