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1. How I thought I wanted to become a digital nomad (alexp.github.io)
270 points by bartekurbanski on Sept 15, 2013 | 200 comments
2. A Course in Machine Learning (ciml.info)
229 points by sebg on Sept 15, 2013 | 39 comments
3. How To Deconstruct Almost Anything (1993) (fudco.com)
220 points by didgeoridoo on Sept 15, 2013 | 133 comments
4. Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems' (theguardian.com)
167 points by sethbannon on Sept 15, 2013 | 32 comments
5. Why Is Zambia So Poor? (psmag.com)
160 points by timw6n on Sept 15, 2013 | 149 comments
6. Data Mining and Analysis: Fundamental Concepts and Algorithms [pdf] (dcc.ufmg.br)
158 points by rawfael on Sept 15, 2013 | 12 comments
7. Software Development Estimates: Where Do I Start? (diegobasch.com)
143 points by clarkm on Sept 15, 2013 | 98 comments
8. The problem isn’t piracy – it’s competition (rocknerd.co.uk)
143 points by nkurz on Sept 15, 2013 | 128 comments
9. Where my mouth is (jao.io)
134 points by momo-reina on Sept 15, 2013 | 80 comments
10. Z3: A high-performance theorem prover from Microsoft Research (codeplex.com)
129 points by tchajed on Sept 15, 2013 | 48 comments
11. Technical Interviews Make Me Cry (pamelafox.org)
127 points by ctoth on Sept 15, 2013 | 112 comments
12. A Sneak Peek at Eric Schlosser's New Book on Nuclear Weapons (motherjones.com)
123 points by edw519 on Sept 15, 2013 | 101 comments
13. Django Security Release - 1.5.4 (djangoproject.com)
125 points by gandalfar on Sept 15, 2013 | 24 comments
14. Wikipedia links to HN (wikipedia.org)
125 points by lelf on Sept 15, 2013 | 25 comments
15. Tomorrow is the shortest day of the year: 23 hours, 59 minutes, 38.7 secs (wikipedia.org)
119 points by ColinWright on Sept 15, 2013 | 40 comments
16. Microsoft Throws its Weight Behind Ghost (medium.com/design-startups)
107 points by krisroadruck on Sept 15, 2013 | 94 comments
17. How the US government inadvertently created Wikileaks (pandodaily.com)
104 points by stfu on Sept 15, 2013 | 20 comments
18. Windows 8.1’s user-hostile backup story (edandersen.com)
94 points by edandersen on Sept 15, 2013 | 137 comments
19. Ask HN: Is it time for a public GPG audit?
94 points by anotherhue on Sept 15, 2013 | 38 comments
20. More on Lithium Batteries (shkrobius.livejournal.com)
90 points by jayhoon on Sept 15, 2013 | 33 comments
21. The CEO of Panera Bread attempts to live off food stamps for a week (linkedin.com)
88 points by weu on Sept 15, 2013 | 128 comments
22. How Tumblr uses \0 in the output of meta tags (dudewheresmybackslash0.tumblr.com)
88 points by Mithorium on Sept 15, 2013 | 18 comments
23. Immigrants lacking papers work legally – as their own bosses (latimes.com)
86 points by radley on Sept 15, 2013 | 82 comments
24. Little Brother (craphound.com)
81 points by jlees on Sept 15, 2013 | 26 comments
25. Masscan: The entire internet in 3 minutes (erratasec.com)
80 points by yammesicka on Sept 15, 2013 | 12 comments
26. 177 Days of GitHub (ryanseys.com)
77 points by ryanseys on Sept 15, 2013 | 40 comments
27. How a Relationship Dies on Facebook (newyorker.com)
72 points by danso on Sept 15, 2013 | 59 comments
28. Poor developer estimates, a.k.a. guesstimation (alexefish.com)
52 points by renderrobot on Sept 15, 2013 | 71 comments
29. Show HN: Web-controlled Christmas Lights with Node.js, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi (gnewt.at)
51 points by Gnewt on Sept 15, 2013 | 7 comments
30. How to Get a Job With a Philosophy Degree (nytimes.com)
50 points by wallflower on Sept 15, 2013 | 52 comments

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