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Top of Month - Oct 2014

1. Tim Cook Speaks Up
   (30 Oct 2014 | 3086 points | Comments)

2. Hacker News API
   (7 Oct 2014 | 1714 points | Comments)

3. Google Inbox
   (22 Oct 2014 | 1069 points | Comments)

4. Cursors
   (19 Oct 2014 | 1032 points | Comments)

5. The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key'
   (8 Oct 2014 | 1025 points | Comments)

6. GitHub Student Developer Pack
   (7 Oct 2014 | 1022 points | Comments)

7. Nexus 6
   (15 Oct 2014 | 1005 points | Comments)

8. Firebase is Joining Google
   (21 Oct 2014 | 879 points | Comments)

9. Microsoft Band
   (30 Oct 2014 | 858 points | Comments)

10. Alan Eustace Jumps from Stratosphere, Breaking Felix Baumgartner’s World Record
    (24 Oct 2014 | 816 points | Comments)

11. I’m Terrified of My New TV
    (31 Oct 2014 | 739 points | Comments)

12. Trouble at the Koolaid Point
    (8 Oct 2014 | 723 points | Comments)

13. Yahoo Hacked
    (6 Oct 2014 | 722 points | Comments)

14. Live Coding in VR with Oculus Rift, Firefox WebVR, JavaScript, Three.js [video]
    (5 Oct 2014 | 719 points | Comments)

15. Rolling Shutters
    (12 Oct 2014 | 708 points | Comments)

16. Before the Startup
    (2 Oct 2014 | 703 points | Comments)

17. Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance
    (28 Oct 2014 | 651 points | Comments)

18. #define CTO
    (27 Oct 2014 | 650 points | Comments)

19. Plastc Card
    (7 Oct 2014 | 648 points | Comments)

20. Tilde.Club: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds
    (9 Oct 2014 | 635 points | Comments)

21. Simple CPU
    (19 Oct 2014 | 617 points | Comments)

22. Sprout
    (29 Oct 2014 | 617 points | Comments)

23. iMac with Retina 5K display
    (16 Oct 2014 | 615 points | Comments)

24. "Open Source is awful in many ways, and people should be aware of this"
    (6 Oct 2014 | 605 points | Comments)

25. My Day Interviewing for the Service Economy Startup from Hell
    (21 Oct 2014 | 604 points | Comments)

26. Why Inequality Matters
    (16 Oct 2014 | 603 points | Comments)

27. Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn
    (1 Oct 2014 | 599 points | Comments)

28. SpaceshipTwo crashes shortly after Mojave test flight
    (31 Oct 2014 | 598 points | Comments)

29. SQLite 3.8.7 is 50% faster than 3.7.17
    (7 Oct 2014 | 579 points | Comments)

30. The Great Robocoin Rip-off: How We Lost $25,000 Buying a Robocoin ATM
    (15 Oct 2014 | 575 points | Comments)

31. My Philosophy on Alerting: Observations of a Site Reliability Engineer at Google
    (13 Oct 2014 | 573 points | Comments)

32. Meteor hits 1.0
    (28 Oct 2014 | 573 points | Comments)

33. What Does an Idle CPU Do?
    (29 Oct 2014 | 563 points | Comments)

34. Skunk Works Reveals Compact Fusion Reactor Details
    (15 Oct 2014 | 560 points | Comments)

35. Osquery: Expose the operating system as a relational database
    (29 Oct 2014 | 533 points | Comments)

36. Redis cluster, no longer vaporware
    (9 Oct 2014 | 522 points | Comments)

37. Final – A credit card built for the 21st century
    (8 Oct 2014 | 517 points | Comments)

38. Humble Mozilla Bundle
    (14 Oct 2014 | 517 points | Comments)

39. Paralysed man walks again after cell transplant
    (21 Oct 2014 | 510 points | Comments)

40. Adobe Spyware Reveals Again the Price of DRM: Your Privacy and Security
    (8 Oct 2014 | 504 points | Comments)

41. Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes after liftoff
    (28 Oct 2014 | 504 points | Comments)

42. OS X 10.10 – Source Code
    (31 Oct 2014 | 495 points | Comments)

43. China collecting Apple iCloud data
    (20 Oct 2014 | 491 points | Comments)

44. FTC Says AT&T Has Misled Millions of Consumers with ‘Unlimited’ Data Promises
    (28 Oct 2014 | 489 points | Comments)

45. Nexus 9
    (15 Oct 2014 | 478 points | Comments)

46. Hacker's Guide to Setting Up Your Mac
    (2 Oct 2014 | 474 points | Comments)

47. Twitter sues U.S. government over ability to disclose surveillance orders
    (7 Oct 2014 | 470 points | Comments)

48. The NSA and Me
    (2 Oct 2014 | 463 points | Comments)

49. Move Fast and Break Nothing
    (8 Oct 2014 | 459 points | Comments)

50. How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math
    (2 Oct 2014 | 458 points | Comments)

51. “Did you mean?” Experience in Ruby
    (23 Oct 2014 | 455 points | Comments)

52. 1984 v. Brave New World
    (23 Oct 2014 | 449 points | Comments)

53. Become Estonia’s e-resident
    (6 Oct 2014 | 447 points | Comments)

54. FFS SSL
    (17 Oct 2014 | 447 points | Comments)

55. Marriott Hotels fined $600,000 by FCC for jamming Wi-Fi hotspots [pdf]
    (3 Oct 2014 | 446 points | Comments)

56. Docker and Microsoft partner to drive adoption of distributed applications
    (15 Oct 2014 | 445 points | Comments)

57. Reddit Acquires Alien Blue, the Most Popular Unofficial Reddit App
    (16 Oct 2014 | 439 points | Comments)

58. Making sure crypto remains insecure [pdf]
    (19 Oct 2014 | 439 points | Comments)

59. Show HN: Open-Source, Free, Agile Project Management Tool
    (1 Oct 2014 | 436 points | Comments)

60. I Hate Puzzles: Am I Still a Programmer? (2011)
    (21 Oct 2014 | 436 points | Comments)

61. Show HN: Nightmare – Simple browser automation
    (6 Oct 2014 | 429 points | Comments)

62. The Emails Snowden Sent to First Introduce His NSA Leaks
    (13 Oct 2014 | 427 points | Comments)

63. Lawrence Lessig Interviews Edward Snowden [video]
    (26 Oct 2014 | 427 points | Comments)

64. Intel Underestimates Error Bounds by 1.3 Quintillion
    (9 Oct 2014 | 424 points | Comments)

65. Why I can't have conversations using Twitter
    (29 Oct 2014 | 424 points | Comments)

66. Manyland
    (11 Oct 2014 | 421 points | Comments)

67. Windows 10 will come with a command-line package manager
    (29 Oct 2014 | 417 points | Comments)

68. India, U.S. Agree to Joint Exploration of Mars
    (2 Oct 2014 | 414 points | Comments)

69. Old Masters: After 80, some people don’t retire. They reign
    (23 Oct 2014 | 411 points | Comments)

70. Pro Git, 2nd Edition
    (25 Oct 2014 | 411 points | Comments)

71. The Man Who Smuggles Trader Joe’s into Canada
    (3 Oct 2014 | 405 points | Comments)

72. OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review
    (16 Oct 2014 | 405 points | Comments)

73. How My Employer Put the “FML” in FMLA
    (30 Oct 2014 | 404 points | Comments)

74. Joker – Torrents to streamable video
    (28 Oct 2014 | 401 points | Comments)

75. I Hope Twitter Goes Away
    (30 Oct 2014 | 395 points | Comments)

76. Don't run 'strings' on untrusted files
    (25 Oct 2014 | 392 points | Comments)

77. This POODLE bites: exploiting the SSL 3.0 fallback
    (14 Oct 2014 | 391 points | Comments)

78. How a differential gear works (1937) [video]
    (27 Oct 2014 | 391 points | Comments)

79. My adventures in CNC robotics
    (22 Oct 2014 | 390 points | Comments)

80. One Less Password
    (12 Oct 2014 | 383 points | Comments)

81. Emacs 24.4 released
    (20 Oct 2014 | 381 points | Comments)

82. Dollar a Day
    (1 Oct 2014 | 377 points | Comments)

83. How Apple’s Siri Became One Autistic Boy's B.F.F
    (17 Oct 2014 | 377 points | Comments)

84. Apple Built A SIM Card That Lets You Switch Between AT&T, Sprint, And T-Mobile
    (16 Oct 2014 | 376 points | Comments)

85. Engineering management lessons
    (3 Oct 2014 | 375 points | Comments)

86. Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.
    (10 Oct 2014 | 370 points | Comments)

87. Nexus Player
    (15 Oct 2014 | 369 points | Comments)

88. Smuggling Snowden Secrets
    (28 Oct 2014 | 368 points | Comments)

89. Reddit CEO Calls Out Former Reddit Employee on Reddit
    (6 Oct 2014 | 366 points | Comments)

90. The Fourier Transform, explained in one sentence
    (24 Oct 2014 | 364 points | Comments)

91. Angular 2 Core
    (25 Oct 2014 | 363 points | Comments)

92. Watson Services
    (8 Oct 2014 | 362 points | Comments)

93. My Isometric Voxel Engine: One Year Later
    (10 Oct 2014 | 362 points | Comments)

94. Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems
    (23 Oct 2014 | 362 points | Comments)

95. How Google Works
    (16 Oct 2014 | 358 points | Comments)

96. Hungary Internet tax cancelled after mass protests
    (31 Oct 2014 | 358 points | Comments)

97. Android 5.0 Lollipop
    (15 Oct 2014 | 356 points | Comments)

98. Always bet on text
    (13 Oct 2014 | 355 points | Comments)

99. From Novice to Master, and Back Again
    (12 Oct 2014 | 351 points | Comments)

100. Walkway.js
     (31 Oct 2014 | 351 points | Comments)