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1. Nest introduces their Smoke Detector (nest.com)
539 points by zdean on Oct 8, 2013 | 401 comments
2. Lavabit SSL Cert Revoked (lavabit.com)
420 points by jambo on Oct 8, 2013 | 304 comments
3. Frequency-shaped background noise generators (mynoise.net)
344 points by ivank on Oct 8, 2013 | 109 comments
4. Introducing Login and Pay with Amazon (amazon.com)
353 points by werner on Oct 8, 2013 | 125 comments
5. The Sierpinski triangle page to end most Sierpinski triangle pages (oftenpaper.net)
333 points by pr_fancycorn on Oct 8, 2013 | 55 comments
6. Whatever happened to due process? (easydns.org)
323 points by peteforde on Oct 8, 2013 | 55 comments
7. Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Englert and Higgs (nobelprize.org)
329 points by mattheww on Oct 8, 2013 | 83 comments
8. Bertrand Russell: In Praise of Idleness (1932) (zpub.com)
300 points by kamaal on Oct 8, 2013 | 120 comments
9. How Lavabit Melted Down (newyorker.com)
287 points by jeanbebe on Oct 8, 2013 | 172 comments
10. Aren't you glad you didn't cite this webpage? (ssnat.com)
255 points by hdevalence on Oct 8, 2013 | 93 comments
11. Piercing Through WhatsApp’s Encryption (thijsalkema.de)
230 points by xnyhps on Oct 8, 2013 | 81 comments
12. HP Chromebook 11 (google.com)
211 points by stuartmemo on Oct 8, 2013 | 256 comments
13. G.K. Chesterton: The fallacy of success (1909) (mustapha.svbtle.com)
206 points by mustapha on Oct 8, 2013 | 96 comments
14. The cold emails which got me meetings at Twitter, LinkedIn and GitHub (startupmoon.com)
189 points by rubygnome on Oct 8, 2013 | 53 comments
15. Unix: When pipes get names (itworld.com)
179 points by conductor on Oct 8, 2013 | 66 comments
16. Cash Flow and Destiny (bhorowitz.com)
167 points by mh_ on Oct 8, 2013 | 28 comments
17. My embarrassing picture went viral (salon.com)
165 points by venti on Oct 8, 2013 | 234 comments
18. StackEdit: A free, open-source Markdown editor based on PageDown (benweet.github.io)
160 points by wqfeng on Oct 8, 2013 | 57 comments
19. Heroku WebSockets Now in Public Beta (heroku.com)
159 points by coloneltcb on Oct 8, 2013 | 51 comments
20. Firefox Developer Tools and Firebug
147 points by rnyman on Oct 8, 2013 | 66 comments
21. What is the Higgs? (nytimes.com)
142 points by subsystem on Oct 8, 2013 | 18 comments
22. Optimizing Linux Memory Management for Low-latency, High-throughput Databases (linkedin.com)
142 points by dhruvbird on Oct 8, 2013 | 27 comments
23. Google App Engine PHP Runtime now available to everyone (googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)
131 points by zafirk on Oct 8, 2013 | 82 comments
24. There's a .00006% Chance of Building a Billion Dollar Company (firstround.com)
132 points by ca98am79 on Oct 8, 2013 | 130 comments
25. Show HN: I made a site that lets you bet against Bitcoin Hash Rate Volatility (futureblock.com)
128 points by locksley on Oct 8, 2013 | 83 comments
26. Think piracy is killing the music industry? This chart suggests otherwise (washingtonpost.com)
124 points by Libertatea on Oct 8, 2013 | 112 comments
27. Foursquare dataset free to download and analyze (umn.edu)
113 points by rsobers on Oct 8, 2013 | 35 comments
28. Making a Living Collecting Cans (priceonomics.com)
111 points by nthitz on Oct 8, 2013 | 97 comments
29. Cursive Clojure: A Clojure IntelliJ plugin (cursiveclojure.com)
111 points by trptcolin on Oct 8, 2013 | 60 comments
30. Visualizing 40,000 student code submissions (stanford.edu)
106 points by rsobers on Oct 8, 2013 | 19 comments

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