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1. Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance (ocallahan.org)
651 points by francois2 on Oct 28, 2014 | 333 comments
2. Meteor hits 1.0 (meteor.com)
573 points by debergalis on Oct 28, 2014 | 241 comments
3. Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes after liftoff (nasa.gov)
504 points by politician on Oct 28, 2014 | 247 comments
4. FTC Says AT&T Has Misled Millions of Consumers with ‘Unlimited’ Data Promises (ftc.gov)
489 points by tshtf on Oct 28, 2014 | 203 comments
5. Joker – Torrents to streamable video (joker.org)
401 points by bmaeser on Oct 28, 2014 | 158 comments
6. Smuggling Snowden Secrets (firstlook.org)
368 points by jbegley on Oct 28, 2014 | 64 comments
7. Mobile is Eating the World (a16z.com)
311 points by tomazstolfa on Oct 28, 2014 | 151 comments
8. We Make Mistakes (blog.ycombinator.com)
310 points by katm on Oct 28, 2014 | 194 comments
9. Google is developing cancer and heart attack detector (bbc.com)
298 points by sxp on Oct 28, 2014 | 145 comments
10. We Are All Confident Idiots (psmag.com)
285 points by r0h1n on Oct 28, 2014 | 158 comments
11. DuckDuckHack: Help us make the web a better place (duckduckhack.com)
272 points by ForHackernews on Oct 28, 2014 | 35 comments
12. W3C declares HTML5 standard complete (techcrunch.com)
232 points by darklrd on Oct 28, 2014 | 79 comments
13. React v0.12 (facebook.github.io)
226 points by sophiebits on Oct 28, 2014 | 77 comments
14. Show HN: Create generative background images from a string in Go (github.com/pravj)
188 points by pravj on Oct 28, 2014 | 22 comments
15. Calculus with pics and gifs (0a.io)
188 points by archibaldJ on Oct 28, 2014 | 37 comments
16. OneRNG – Open Hardware Random Number Generator (onerng.info)
171 points by kim_rutherford on Oct 28, 2014 | 86 comments
17. Terminals Are Weird (catern.com)
145 points by of on Oct 28, 2014 | 46 comments
18. Why Your Cat Thinks You’re a Huge, Unpredictable Ape (wired.com)
146 points by tchalla on Oct 28, 2014 | 116 comments
19. Report Reveals Wider Tracking of Mail in U.S (nytimes.com)
141 points by ghosh on Oct 28, 2014 | 49 comments
20. Rebuilding the Shopify Admin: Deleting 28k lines of JavaScript (shopify.com)
140 points by jashkenas on Oct 28, 2014 | 47 comments
21. Google Fit: An effortless, comprehensive view of your fitness (officialandroid.blogspot.com)
143 points by lmedinas on Oct 28, 2014 | 85 comments
22. DigitalOcean partners with Mesosphere (techcrunch.com)
140 points by neom on Oct 28, 2014 | 33 comments
23. 0x5f3759df and the fast inverse square root (2012) (p5r.org)
125 points by carljoseph on Oct 28, 2014 | 25 comments
24. How Much Caffeine Is Too Much? (wsj.com)
124 points by 2510c39011c5 on Oct 28, 2014 | 96 comments
25. MLB, Homeland Security, and the Undercover Underwear Sting (vice.com)
115 points by shill on Oct 28, 2014 | 42 comments
26. Four Banks, Including JPMorgan, Fined in Europe Over ‘Cartel’ Behavior (nytimes.com)
104 points by xlr8r on Oct 28, 2014 | 66 comments
27. Dreadnought hoax (wikipedia.org)
98 points by playhard on Oct 28, 2014 | 41 comments
28. Game day exercises at Stripe (stripe.com)
92 points by gdb on Oct 28, 2014 | 32 comments
29. The Great Paper Caper (gq.com)
85 points by pepys on Oct 28, 2014 | 2 comments
30. Reading /proc/pid/cmdline can hang forever (rachelbythebay.com)
87 points by omnibrain on Oct 28, 2014 | 40 comments

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