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1. Announcing The Dark Mail Alliance – Founded by Silent Circle and Lavabit (silentcircle.wordpress.com)
565 points by cylo on Oct 30, 2013 | 209 comments
2. Does life end after 35? (kzhu.net)
530 points by hakkasan on Oct 30, 2013 | 220 comments
3. Cisco to release BSD-licensed H.264 stack (brendaneich.com)
327 points by padenot on Oct 30, 2013 | 175 comments
4. Users complain their Dell 6430u laptops smell like cat piss (dell.com)
307 points by kmfrk on Oct 30, 2013 | 159 comments
5. Java Virtual Machine in pure Node.js (github.com/yaroslavgaponov)
286 points by binarymax on Oct 30, 2013 | 138 comments
6. Let’s Build a Compiler (1995) (iecc.com)
247 points by _virtu on Oct 30, 2013 | 56 comments
7. Why Meteor will kill Ruby on Rails (differential.io)
247 points by joshowens on Oct 30, 2013 | 323 comments
8. The Battle for Power on the Internet (schneier.com)
238 points by hatchan on Oct 30, 2013 | 30 comments
9. Mozilla will add H.264 to Firefox as Cisco makes push for WebRTC’s future (gigaom.com)
218 points by gz5 on Oct 30, 2013 | 62 comments
10. George Orwell: Politics and the English Language (1946) (alexgolec.github.io)
206 points by yk on Oct 30, 2013 | 62 comments
11. The Impossible Music of Black MIDI (rhizome.org)
183 points by wodow on Oct 30, 2013 | 175 comments
12. Mac Pros, Ara, and Modularity (jjcm.org)
179 points by jjcm on Oct 30, 2013 | 112 comments
13. Comments on Cisco, Mozilla, and H.264 (xiphmont.livejournal.com)
182 points by 0x006A on Oct 30, 2013 | 19 comments
14. California woman ticketed for wearing Google Glass while driving (plus.google.com)
180 points by tga on Oct 30, 2013 | 295 comments
15. Hacker News was down
172 points by daraosn on Oct 30, 2013 | 94 comments
16. Insect-inspired flying robot handles collisions, goes where other robots can’t (robohub.org)
165 points by robotgal on Oct 30, 2013 | 41 comments
17. Microsoft Research uses Kinect to translate between spoken and sign languages (thenextweb.com)
156 points by hackhackhack on Oct 30, 2013 | 25 comments
18. Stalin's Rope Roads (theatlantic.com)
152 points by v4us on Oct 30, 2013 | 32 comments
19. Startup Idea: Solve Personal Analytics (kirigin.com)
155 points by socmoth on Oct 30, 2013 | 97 comments
20. Principal Component Analysis for Dummies (georgemdallas.wordpress.com)
147 points by jackkinsella on Oct 30, 2013 | 31 comments
21. Show HN: Popcorn Messaging – Anonymously chat with people within 1 mile (appsto.re)
126 points by drum on Oct 30, 2013 | 130 comments
22. iPad Air Review (anandtech.com)
122 points by wittyphrasehere on Oct 30, 2013 | 100 comments
23. HealthCare.gov deferred final security check, could leak personal data (arstechnica.com)
118 points by Cbasedlifeform on Oct 30, 2013 | 101 comments
24. Pakistani family of drone strike victim gives harrowing testimony to Congress (theguardian.com)
112 points by labinder on Oct 30, 2013 | 84 comments
25. Andrew Kim: Minimal to the max (microsoft.com)
103 points by sheikhimran01 on Oct 30, 2013 | 58 comments
26. CircleCI security incident (circleci.com)
108 points by markhelo on Oct 30, 2013 | 45 comments
27. You can build cool stuff with WebRTC in five minutes (simplewebrtc.com)
104 points by ajslater on Oct 30, 2013 | 14 comments
28. Chromium: "MathML is not something that we want at this time" (code.google.com)
91 points by dak1 on Oct 30, 2013 | 103 comments
29. Evidence that dendrites actively process information in the brain (kurzweilai.net)
88 points by atpaino on Oct 30, 2013 | 31 comments
30. How to Build a Subscription Service on Rails: A Noob's Guide (joelhooks.com)
79 points by joelhooks on Oct 30, 2013 | 13 comments

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