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1. Don't run 'strings' on untrusted files (lcamtuf.blogspot.com)
392 points by robinhouston on Oct 25, 2014 | 214 comments
2. Pro Git, 2nd Edition (git-scm.com)
411 points by petercooper on Oct 25, 2014 | 79 comments
3. Angular 2 Core (docs.google.com)
363 points by tilt on Oct 25, 2014 | 272 comments
4. Teacher spends two days as a student and is shocked at what she learns (washingtonpost.com)
306 points by bane on Oct 25, 2014 | 177 comments
5. Law Lets I.R.S. Seize Accounts on Suspicion, No Crime Required
236 points by 001sky on Oct 25, 2014 | 130 comments
6. Wikipedia needs an IDE, not a WYSIWYG editor (medium.com/mrjamesfisher)
196 points by jamesfisher on Oct 25, 2014 | 71 comments
7. We Just Thought, 'This Is How You Start a Company in America' (forbes.com/sites/groupthink)
223 points by staunch on Oct 25, 2014 | 86 comments
8. Will It Optimize? (2010) (ridiculousfish.com)
177 points by jeffreyrogers on Oct 25, 2014 | 26 comments
9. Show HN: Paperman – LaTeX editor with a Markdown feel (patricklorio.com)
120 points by patricklorio on Oct 25, 2014 | 46 comments
10. The Problem with Positive Thinking (nytimes.com)
103 points by donmcc on Oct 25, 2014 | 20 comments
11. Why Google wants to replace Gmail (computerworld.com)
99 points by nkurz on Oct 25, 2014 | 69 comments
12. How statically linked programs run on Linux (2012) (thegreenplace.net)
107 points by arunc on Oct 25, 2014 | 7 comments
13. Google Warns: bit.ly Links Are Unsafe (google.com)
110 points by antoniotajuelo on Oct 25, 2014 | 63 comments
14. An Introduction to Semiconductor Economics (adapteva.com)
97 points by mpoloton on Oct 25, 2014 | 2 comments
15. Ice Cream and Distributed Systems (brooker.co.za)
90 points by mjb on Oct 25, 2014 | 5 comments
16. Ask HN: Making money with ebooks and video courses vs. writing apps?
89 points by facepalm on Oct 25, 2014 | 39 comments
17. Binary Search Eliminates Branch Mispredictions (2012) (pvk.ca)
89 points by luu on Oct 25, 2014 | 18 comments
18. Living with Schizophrenia: Coffee and Friends (nytimes.com)
87 points by basisword on Oct 25, 2014 | 9 comments
19. Indian Air Force Issues Security Warning; Xiaomi Clears the Air (ibtimes.co.in)
89 points by chdir on Oct 25, 2014 | 29 comments
20. Recreating the spectrogram face (danielrapp.github.io)
79 points by DanielRapp on Oct 25, 2014 | 19 comments
21. Flatbuffers by Google – CapnProto alternative (github.com/google)
83 points by halayli on Oct 25, 2014 | 31 comments
22. Retailers are disabling NFC readers to shut out Apple Pay (theverge.com)
73 points by gws on Oct 25, 2014 | 66 comments
23. Windows 93 (windows93.net)
91 points by MrBra on Oct 25, 2014 | 25 comments
24. Show HN: Startup Utility – Collection of Startup Resources (startuputility.com)
90 points by bigcatns16 on Oct 25, 2014 | 31 comments
25. Why Meteor (meteorpedia.com)
81 points by sgdesign on Oct 25, 2014 | 76 comments
26. Hand Coded Assembly Beats Intrinsics in Speed and Simplicity (danluu.com)
76 points by nkurz on Oct 25, 2014 | 28 comments
27. Researcher finds Tor exit node adding malware to binaries (threatpost.com)
73 points by anigbrowl on Oct 25, 2014 | 24 comments
28. Stealthy startup Soft Machines launches virtual CPU cores (pcworld.com)
72 points by kjhughes on Oct 25, 2014 | 30 comments
29. William Gibson Writes the Future (gq.com)
70 points by Thevet on Oct 25, 2014 | 40 comments
30. Show HN: “Did You Mean?” for Python (github.com/dutc)
66 points by jamesdutc on Oct 25, 2014 | 10 comments

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