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1. PostgreSQL Outperforms MongoDB in New Round of Tests (enterprisedb.com)
338 points by wslh on Sept 27, 2014 | 160 comments
2. iPhone 6 and 6 Plus not as bendy as believed (consumerreports.org)
229 points by eglover on Sept 27, 2014 | 175 comments
3. Quantum mechanics as a generalization of probability (2007) (scottaaronson.com)
209 points by ascertain on Sept 27, 2014 | 79 comments
4. Twitter image bots stuck in an automated loop (twitter.com/a_quilt_bot)
167 points by zvanness on Sept 27, 2014 | 24 comments
5. Shell Shock Exploitation Vectors (dfranke.us)
142 points by dfranke on Sept 27, 2014 | 55 comments
6. Counting bytes fast (fastcompression.blogspot.com)
128 points by walrus on Sept 27, 2014 | 47 comments
7. An open source platform for emulating the fruit fly brain (neurokernel.github.io)
125 points by mlla on Sept 27, 2014 | 17 comments
8. Bash bug: apply the unofficial patch now (CVE-2014-6277) (lcamtuf.blogspot.com)
124 points by stakent on Sept 27, 2014 | 45 comments
9. M/S Estonia accident radio transcript (windytan.com)
121 points by _delirium on Sept 27, 2014 | 40 comments
10. Why Clay Shirky just banned technology use in class (washingtonpost.com)
112 points by juanplusjuan on Sept 27, 2014 | 75 comments
11. Looking at Productivity as a State of Mind (nytimes.com)
102 points by dctoedt on Sept 27, 2014 | 21 comments
12. The Last Question by Isaac Asimov (1956) (multivax.com)
98 points by deepakjc on Sept 27, 2014 | 15 comments
13. Academia or industry? (lemire.me)
94 points by ot on Sept 27, 2014 | 27 comments
14. Don't Use an RDBMS for Messaging (functionwhatwhat.com)
92 points by DrJokepu on Sept 27, 2014 | 86 comments
15. C++11 use in Chromium (chromium-cpp.appspot.com)
86 points by pdknsk on Sept 27, 2014 | 32 comments
16. Go generate: A proposal for a Go preprocessor (docs.google.com)
76 points by cpeterso on Sept 27, 2014 | 71 comments
17. Signaling Post-Snowden Era, New iPhone Locks Out N.S.A (nytimes.com)
84 points by resdirector on Sept 27, 2014 | 77 comments
18. Developing Software in a Hostile Environment (openbsd.org)
79 points by throwaway2048 on Sept 27, 2014 | 7 comments
19. The surprising and continuing influence of Swami Vivekananda (2012) (wsj.com)
81 points by signa11 on Sept 27, 2014 | 19 comments
20. Beyond Objective-C, Beyond Swift (jaredsinclair.com)
72 points by mpweiher on Sept 27, 2014 | 55 comments
21. Cloud Server Reboots (rackspace.com)
68 points by zorpner on Sept 27, 2014 | 39 comments
22. Bruges Will Cut Traffic with an Underground Beer Pipeline (wired.com)
63 points by lxm on Sept 27, 2014 | 35 comments
23. How to see your iOS8 health data (aprilzero.com)
65 points by aprilzero on Sept 27, 2014 | 49 comments
24. Americans throw out more food than plastic, paper, metal, and glass (washingtonpost.com)
63 points by akbarnama on Sept 27, 2014 | 60 comments
25. Hacking with DNS (docs.google.com)
62 points by mathias on Sept 27, 2014 | 9 comments
26. Greeks captivated by Alexander-era tomb at Amphipolis (bbc.com)
64 points by benbreen on Sept 27, 2014 | 10 comments
27. An Experiment That Changed How We Think About Reality (wired.com)
58 points by aatish on Sept 27, 2014 | 13 comments
28. Qmail is a vector for bash shellshock (marc.info)
57 points by kag on Sept 27, 2014 | 31 comments
29. Write your own Virtual CPU in C++ (megalomaniacbore.blogspot.com)
61 points by AlexeyBrin on Sept 27, 2014 | 13 comments
30. Celebrating CloudFlare's 4th Birthday (cloudflare.com)
58 points by jgrahamc on Sept 27, 2014 | 39 comments

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