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1.Show HN: I'm working on an open-source Gmail replacement (khamidou.github.io)
387 points by vorador on Nov 6, 2013 | 180 comments
2.Fourier Transforms – The Math Trick Behind MP3s, JPEGs, and Homer Simpson’s Face (nautil.us)
356 points by aatish on Nov 6, 2013 | 100 comments
3.Kofi Annan: Stop 'war on drugs' (cnn.com)
357 points by weedow on Nov 6, 2013 | 183 comments
4.Django 1.6 released (djangoproject.com)
354 points by philippbosch on Nov 6, 2013 | 102 comments
5.Fourier Toy (toxicdump.org)
348 points by alxndr on Nov 6, 2013 | 70 comments
6.Presto: Interacting with petabytes of data at Facebook (facebook.com)
336 points by ternaryoperator on Nov 6, 2013 | 97 comments
7.Silk Road 2.0 Launches (forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg)
322 points by teawithcarl on Nov 6, 2013 | 225 comments
8.Diary of a programmer with no clue about marketing (neat.io)
307 points by basil on Nov 6, 2013 | 144 comments
9.Lifestyle programming (successfulsoftware.net)
288 points by FollowSteph3 on Nov 6, 2013 | 51 comments
10.After traffic stop, man forced to have x-ray, enema, anal probes and colonoscopy (kob.com)
285 points by yapcguy on Nov 6, 2013 | 243 comments
11.Google Apps drop support for IE9 (googlesystem.blogspot.com)
251 points by ritchiea on Nov 6, 2013 | 179 comments
12.What Long Hours Really Mean (wearemammoth.com)
220 points by johnjlocke on Nov 6, 2013 | 219 comments
13.USPS: ZIP Codes are “proprietary business information” (weblaws.org)
188 points by joelgrus on Nov 6, 2013 | 138 comments
14.Swiss forensic report on Arafat's death (aljazeera.com)
183 points by jdmitch on Nov 6, 2013 | 139 comments
15.Google SEO Starter Guide [pdf] (googleusercontent.com)
169 points by matant on Nov 6, 2013 | 59 comments
16.Float Label Pattern (bradfrostweb.com)
162 points by ryanjodonnell on Nov 6, 2013 | 33 comments
17.Mozilla, OTOY, Autodesk Work to Deliver High Performance Games and Apps on Web (blog.mozilla.org)
157 points by praxxis on Nov 6, 2013 | 77 comments
18.The Monster Truck Madness 2 website has been taken down (microsoft.com)
156 points by fuzzix on Nov 6, 2013 | 114 comments
19.Help Us Help Molly Holzschlag (gofundme.com)
146 points by cheeaun on Nov 6, 2013 | 75 comments
20.Ways That Startup Lawyers Overcharge (medium.com/entrepreneur-advice)
146 points by audreymelnik on Nov 6, 2013 | 63 comments
21.There's No Myth, Only Years Of Hard Work (lessaccounting.com)
143 points by thibaut_barrere on Nov 6, 2013 | 44 comments
22.Microsoft Earns $2 Billion Per Year From Android Patent Royalties? (businessinsider.com)
138 points by jonathansizz on Nov 6, 2013 | 82 comments
23.Abandoning segmented stacks in Rust (mail.mozilla.org)
134 points by dbaupp on Nov 6, 2013 | 32 comments
24.Firefox Developer Tools: Break on DOM Events, Edit as HTML, Codemirror (hacks.mozilla.org)
138 points by rnyman on Nov 6, 2013 | 28 comments
25.Tesla lost $38M in third quarter, stock tumbles over 12 percent (arstechnica.com)
130 points by jusben1369 on Nov 6, 2013 | 96 comments

It's ironic that when the Chinese attack against Google occurred, we thought the Chinese government was the most hostile state actor threat to worry about, but it turned out to be the US and UK government.
27.Using Snap.svg to animate SVG icons (tympanus.net)
109 points by bpierre on Nov 6, 2013 | 19 comments
28.Want: The airbag scarf that replaces a bulky bicycle helmet, inflates in 100ms (garrytan.com)
98 points by sethbannon on Nov 6, 2013 | 120 comments
29.Why Telling a Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brains (lifehacker.com)
94 points by sethbannon on Nov 6, 2013 | 26 comments
30.How the Terrible, Insufferable Six-Day Water Fast Made Me a New Man (gq.com)
91 points by cliveowen on Nov 6, 2013 | 66 comments

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