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1. 1984 v. Brave New World (lettersofnote.com)
449 points by moritzfelipe on Oct 23, 2014 | 195 comments
2. Old Masters: After 80, some people don’t retire. They reign (nytimes.com)
411 points by wallflower on Oct 23, 2014 | 104 comments
3. Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems (newsweek.com)
362 points by rcamera on Oct 23, 2014 | 193 comments
4. Ask HN: My 56-year-old father is a developer having a tough time finding a job
318 points by luisivan on Oct 23, 2014 | 216 comments
5. Verizon Wireless injecting tracking UIDs into HTTP requests
299 points by pillfill on Oct 23, 2014 | 146 comments
6. AWS Frankfurt, Germany Region (amazon.com)
293 points by ostrowski on Oct 23, 2014 | 107 comments
7. Vatican Library Puts 4,000 Ancient Manuscripts Available Online for Free (messagetoeagle.com)
280 points by Shivetya on Oct 23, 2014 | 134 comments
8. Y Combinator, a Two-Year-Old, and a Pregnant Wife (tiempoapp.com)
288 points by tadmilbourn on Oct 23, 2014 | 147 comments
9. Ten years of Ubuntu (arstechnica.com)
246 points by hpaavola on Oct 23, 2014 | 170 comments
10. Mono for Unreal Engine (tirania.org)
221 points by jstedfast on Oct 23, 2014 | 90 comments
11. Fingerprints Are Usernames, Not Passwords (2013) (dustinkirkland.com)
219 points by sc90 on Oct 23, 2014 | 102 comments
12. EFF Relaunches Surveillance Self-Defense Guide (eff.org)
203 points by schoen on Oct 23, 2014 | 46 comments
13. Migrating from AWS to AWS (instagram-engineering.tumblr.com)
206 points by mikeyk on Oct 23, 2014 | 15 comments
14. Are we at Peak Google? (stratechery.com)
193 points by nagarjun on Oct 23, 2014 | 142 comments
15. Diary of a Corporate Sellout (medium.com/message)
189 points by rtpg on Oct 23, 2014 | 35 comments
16. An Imaginary Town Becomes Real, Then Not (npr.org)
174 points by dalek2point3 on Oct 23, 2014 | 39 comments
17. More Cities Are Making It Illegal to Hand Out Food to the Homeless (npr.org)
166 points by jcater on Oct 23, 2014 | 189 comments
18. Bitcoin over Tor isn't a good idea (arxiv.org)
162 points by Anon84 on Oct 23, 2014 | 36 comments
19. Facebook Rooms (rooms.me)
164 points by jamesjyu on Oct 23, 2014 | 110 comments
20. Building a Forex Trading Platform Using Kafka, Storm and Cassandra (insightdataengineering.com)
139 points by jecs321 on Oct 23, 2014 | 39 comments
21. A Natural A/B Test of Harassment (kongregate.com)
123 points by benologist on Oct 23, 2014 | 128 comments
22. Mapillary in the OpenStreetMap iD Editor (mapillary.com)
142 points by petern on Oct 23, 2014 | 24 comments
23. China no longer has a stranglehold on the world's supply of rare earth metals (vox.com)
114 points by nkurz on Oct 23, 2014 | 66 comments
24. Who am I? (news.ycombinator.com)
111 points by networked on Oct 23, 2014 | 24 comments
25. Comparing OCaml and Standard ML (chlipala.net)
103 points by carloscm on Oct 23, 2014 | 68 comments
26. The laborers of content moderation on Facebook (wired.com)
101 points by InternetGiant on Oct 23, 2014 | 19 comments
27. Apple Maps Connect (mapsconnect.apple.com)
100 points by Aqua_Geek on Oct 23, 2014 | 43 comments
28. Microsoft Cloud Strength and Hardware Progress Drive Record Q1 Revenue (microsoft.com)
98 points by theatraine on Oct 23, 2014 | 24 comments
29. Bay Area tech company caught paying imported workers $1.21 per hour (engadget.com)
103 points by akerl_ on Oct 23, 2014 | 88 comments
30. CSS-only plotting (github.com/asciimoo)
102 points by teddet on Oct 23, 2014 | 31 comments

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