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Top of Month - Oct 2013

1. NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide
   (30 Oct 2013 | 1604 points | Comments)

2. FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests owner
   (2 Oct 2013 | 1101 points | Comments)

3. Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM
   (4 Oct 2013 | 904 points | Comments)

4. Dear Startups: stop asking me math puzzles to figure out if I can code
   (21 Oct 2013 | 872 points | Comments)

5. Here's how I deal with users who steal
   (28 Oct 2013 | 774 points | Comments)

6. Show HN: My x86 emulator written in JavaScript
   (17 Oct 2013 | 765 points | Comments)

7. Ask HN: Why the Microsoft hate?
   (23 Oct 2013 | 763 points | Comments)

8. Square Cash
   (16 Oct 2013 | 710 points | Comments)

9. Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached “The End of Antibiotics, Period”
   (23 Oct 2013 | 692 points | Comments)

10. Scott Adams: How to Be Successful
    (14 Oct 2013 | 690 points | Comments)

11. Attacking Tor: How the NSA targets users' online anonymity
    (4 Oct 2013 | 654 points | Comments)

12. Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult
    (5 Oct 2013 | 638 points | Comments)

13. After 180 Websites, I’m Ready to Start the Rest of My Life as a Coder
    (3 Oct 2013 | 624 points | Comments)

14. What I've been up to for the past year
    (9 Oct 2013 | 616 points | Comments)

15. How to lose $172,222 a second for 45 minutes
    (22 Oct 2013 | 613 points | Comments)

16. Why You Shouldn't Interrupt a Programmer
    (28 Oct 2013 | 607 points | Comments)

17. f.lux has been updated to a new version
    (16 Oct 2013 | 597 points | Comments)

18. Model S Fire
    (4 Oct 2013 | 594 points | Comments)

19. Lavabit Defied FBI Demands to Turn Over Crypto Keys, Documents Show
    (2 Oct 2013 | 592 points | Comments)

20. Fingerprints are Usernames, not Passwords
    (1 Oct 2013 | 587 points | Comments)

21. The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones
    (24 Oct 2013 | 566 points | Comments)

22. LinkedIn ‘Intro’duces Insecurity
    (24 Oct 2013 | 565 points | Comments)

23. Announcing The Dark Mail Alliance – Founded by Silent Circle and Lavabit
    (30 Oct 2013 | 565 points | Comments)

24. C--
    (27 Oct 2013 | 553 points | Comments)

25. Lime – Experimental Sublime Text clone
    (23 Oct 2013 | 547 points | Comments)

26. Nest introduces their Smoke Detector
    (8 Oct 2013 | 539 points | Comments)

27. Does life end after 35?
    (30 Oct 2013 | 530 points | Comments)

28. April 5, 2007: "Show HN, Dropbox"
    (28 Oct 2013 | 518 points | Comments)

29. W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards
    (3 Oct 2013 | 512 points | Comments)

30. How to get rid of old stuff, sell it for more, and use Amazon as cheap storage
    (21 Oct 2013 | 512 points | Comments)

31. Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to get the word out
    (3 Oct 2013 | 507 points | Comments)

32. NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders
    (24 Oct 2013 | 501 points | Comments)

33. Lou Reed, Velvet Underground Leader and Rock Pioneer, Dead at 71
    (27 Oct 2013 | 498 points | Comments)

34. LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS
    (23 Oct 2013 | 485 points | Comments)

35. Ghost Launches to The Public
    (14 Oct 2013 | 475 points | Comments)

36. Children aren't born smart. They're made smart by conversation
    (2 Oct 2013 | 472 points | Comments)

37. Time to hand over the reins before Capistrano costs me my youth?
    (6 Oct 2013 | 472 points | Comments)

38. Nuclear fusion milestone passed at US lab
    (7 Oct 2013 | 467 points | Comments)

39. Lessons Learned Going from Zero to $30k/Month in a Year
    (17 Oct 2013 | 458 points | Comments)

40. A list of free programming books
    (11 Oct 2013 | 455 points | Comments)

41. The myth of NASA's expensive space pens
    (10 Oct 2013 | 452 points | Comments)

42. Nexus 5
    (31 Oct 2013 | 450 points | Comments)

43. Finally, A Bill To End Patent Trolling
    (24 Oct 2013 | 448 points | Comments)

44. It’s time for Silicon Valley to ask: Is it worth it?
    (31 Oct 2013 | 443 points | Comments)

45. Firefox fixes save gigabytes of memory on image-heavy pages
    (1 Oct 2013 | 440 points | Comments)

46. Why we revert to original titles
    (18 Oct 2013 | 438 points | Comments)

47. Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
    (26 Oct 2013 | 435 points | Comments)

48. Introducing government.github.com
    (15 Oct 2013 | 431 points | Comments)

49. Center of the universe
    (3 Oct 2013 | 424 points | Comments)

50. Interactive Resume
    (18 Oct 2013 | 424 points | Comments)

51. Lavabit SSL Cert Revoked
    (8 Oct 2013 | 420 points | Comments)

52. See Your Folks
    (16 Oct 2013 | 419 points | Comments)

53. Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary
    (21 Oct 2013 | 414 points | Comments)

54. Apple Says New OS X ‘Mavericks’ Will Be Offered for Free
    (22 Oct 2013 | 414 points | Comments)

55. Why Microsoft Word must die
    (12 Oct 2013 | 413 points | Comments)

56. Mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps?
    (31 Oct 2013 | 407 points | Comments)

57. Lavabit founder Ladar Levison's promised big announcement
    (3 Oct 2013 | 405 points | Comments)

58. Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2013)
    (1 Oct 2013 | 399 points | Comments)

59. OS X 10.9 Mavericks: The Ars Technica Review
    (22 Oct 2013 | 398 points | Comments)

60. What I learned from getting my side project acquired
    (9 Oct 2013 | 396 points | Comments)

61. My dad unexpectedly uses my Linux laptop to get real work done
    (26 Oct 2013 | 395 points | Comments)

62. Comcast is donating to defeat mayor who is bringing gigabit fiber to Seattle
    (31 Oct 2013 | 395 points | Comments)

63. Ionicons – Free and beautiful icons, MIT licensed
    (29 Oct 2013 | 394 points | Comments)

64. Because it needs to be said
    (12 Oct 2013 | 393 points | Comments)

65. Why Does Windows Have Terrible Battery Life?
    (21 Oct 2013 | 389 points | Comments)

66. Melatonin
    (4 Oct 2013 | 385 points | Comments)

67. Run Mac OS System 7 in your browser
    (28 Oct 2013 | 385 points | Comments)

68. T-Mobile to offer free unlimited international data, texts
    (9 Oct 2013 | 384 points | Comments)

69. You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay us $300 in Bitcoins
    (17 Oct 2013 | 380 points | Comments)

70. HTML5 Flash Player (Shumway) lands in Mozilla
    (2 Oct 2013 | 373 points | Comments)

71. Welcome, Freshmen. You Don't Deserve to Be Here
    (15 Oct 2013 | 373 points | Comments)

72. And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be an iPhone’
    (4 Oct 2013 | 370 points | Comments)

73. Should we stop believing Malcolm Gladwell?
    (10 Oct 2013 | 370 points | Comments)

74. Gzip + poetry = awesome
    (25 Oct 2013 | 370 points | Comments)

75. Redecentralize: Quietly, some geeks are decentralizing the net again
    (13 Oct 2013 | 368 points | Comments)

76. You Must Try, and then You Must Ask
    (4 Oct 2013 | 366 points | Comments)

77. Facebook is using D in production starting today
    (11 Oct 2013 | 365 points | Comments)

78. Why Android SSL was downgraded from AES256-SHA to RC4-MD5 in late 2010
    (14 Oct 2013 | 365 points | Comments)

79. The Russia Left Behind
    (15 Oct 2013 | 363 points | Comments)

80. Oboe.js: reacting to Ajax/Rest quicker by not waiting for it to finish
    (18 Oct 2013 | 361 points | Comments)

81. So I’m the guy who sent the t-shirt out as a thank you
    (3 Oct 2013 | 359 points | Comments)

82. In Almost Every European Country, Bikes Are Outselling New Cars
    (25 Oct 2013 | 358 points | Comments)

83. Google Fiber now allows servers for non-commercial use
    (14 Oct 2013 | 357 points | Comments)

84. GoDaddy, Media Temple, and the Horrible World of Web Hosting
    (15 Oct 2013 | 354 points | Comments)

85. Introducing Login and Pay with Amazon
    (8 Oct 2013 | 353 points | Comments)

86. Adi Shamir Prevented from Attending Crypto and Cryptology Conferences
    (17 Oct 2013 | 353 points | Comments)

87. Startup School 2013 Doodles
    (21 Oct 2013 | 350 points | Comments)

88. Firefox 25 is released
    (29 Oct 2013 | 347 points | Comments)

89. How I compiled TrueCrypt 7.1a for Win32 and matched the official binaries
    (24 Oct 2013 | 346 points | Comments)

90. Frequency-shaped background noise generators
    (8 Oct 2013 | 344 points | Comments)

91. Air Gaps
    (11 Oct 2013 | 343 points | Comments)

92. You don't need millions of dollars
    (18 Oct 2013 | 341 points | Comments)

93. Is Google building a hulking floating data center in SF Bay?
    (25 Oct 2013 | 341 points | Comments)

94. Hacker News is a social echo chamber
    (15 Oct 2013 | 339 points | Comments)

95. No More Callbacks: 10,000 Actors, 10,000 Threads, 10,000 Spaceships
    (16 Oct 2013 | 339 points | Comments)

96. The genius and folly of MongoDB
    (20 Oct 2013 | 339 points | Comments)

97. Ocean acidification due to carbon emissions is at highest for 300m years
    (3 Oct 2013 | 337 points | Comments)

98. A Big List of D3 Examples
    (7 Oct 2013 | 333 points | Comments)

99. The Sierpinski triangle page to end most Sierpinski triangle pages
    (8 Oct 2013 | 333 points | Comments)

100. Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Englert and Higgs
     (8 Oct 2013 | 329 points | Comments)