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1.		Nintendo visionary Hiroshi Yamauchi dies aged 85 (bbc.co.uk)
		433 points by T-zex on Sept 19, 2013 \| 63 comments
2.		Command-line tools for data science (jeroenjanssens.com)
		346 points by robdoherty2 on Sept 19, 2013 \| 78 comments
		moot on Sept 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| on: Moot: Full House I saw this and said "Why the fuck is this on Hacker News?" out loud.
4.		Go Pro on a soaring eagle [video] (kottke.org)
		335 points by pccampbell on Sept 19, 2013 \| 79 comments
5.		Joe Armstrong on Programmer Productivity (groups.google.com)
		259 points by mdevilliers on Sept 19, 2013 \| 89 comments
6.		Artillery is building a hardcore RTS with HTML5 and WebGL (artillery.com)
		263 points by statico on Sept 19, 2013 \| 146 comments
7.		Moot: Full House (4chan.org)
		254 points by ivarious on Sept 19, 2013 \| 142 comments
8.		Edward C++Hands (bartoszmilewski.com)
		251 points by T-zex on Sept 19, 2013 \| 228 comments
9.		Open plan offices attract highest levels of worker dissatisfaction (theconversation.com)
		242 points by amerika_blog on Sept 19, 2013 \| 194 comments
		potatolicious on Sept 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| on: I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anythi... Hipster-hate strikes me as just another thinly veiled form of bullying, and it's interesting to see how readily internet nerds - the people who are disproportionately to have been bullied in the past - engage in it. Look! He's different! Let's make assumptions about his motivations and get him! It's also interesting to see how many times Reddit (and other communities) fly into a rage-fest because of lack of context, only to make an about-face when the full picture comes out. It's also interesting how no matter how many times this exact situation happens, there is no stopping the next rage-fest. Above all other things, internet communities is what makes me cynical about humanity.
11.		Sloppy UI – A collection of sloppy iOS7 UIs (sloppyui.tumblr.com)
		241 points by romain_dardour on Sept 19, 2013 \| 175 comments
12.		DivX Now Installs Malware (divx.com)
		232 points by TechRemarker on Sept 19, 2013 \| 164 comments
13.		Apple iOS 7 surprises as first with new multipath TCP connections (networkworld.com)
		222 points by koenigdavidmj on Sept 19, 2013 \| 86 comments
14.		Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day (variety.com)
		191 points by adventured on Sept 19, 2013 \| 172 comments
		I love iOS7
		178 points \| parent
16.		If You're Programming a Cell Phone Like a Server, You're Doing it Wrong (highscalability.com)
		178 points by consciousness on Sept 19, 2013 \| 75 comments
		anon1385 on Sept 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| on: DivX Now Installs Malware It's worth noting that PG has defended this practice when YC Companies do it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092711 The apps that get installed are "crapware." This one seems a matter of opinion. A lot of the world's most popular apps and sites seem like junk to us. But the users are choosing to install these things. If you want to stop this kind of thing you need to get angry at the people who fund it and make money from it. That includes Paul Graham and Y Combinator. More about the YC funded InstallMonetizer: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5059806 Y Combinator is funding the future of spam in Windows (467 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5086043 InstallMonetizer quietly starts editing website, privacy policy http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5059454 Y Combinator-Backed InstallMonetizer Is A Selective Ad Network For Desktop
18.		How China brainwashed American POWs using a classic sales technique (atroche.org)
		162 points by atroche on Sept 19, 2013 \| 162 comments
19.		Former Amazon star exec killed in bike accident (cnn.com)
		159 points by jborden13 on Sept 19, 2013 \| 147 comments
20.		A Rally Against Mass Surveillance in Washington, DC (stopwatching.us)
		179 points by sinak on Sept 19, 2013 \| 44 comments
21.		What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered? (2011) (stackoverflow.com)
		157 points by yammesicka on Sept 19, 2013 \| 95 comments
22.		QML support for Golang (plus.google.com)
		150 points by jcastro on Sept 19, 2013 \| 35 comments
23.		NASA’s Plutonium Problem Could End Deep-Space Exploration (wired.com)
		143 points by hereonbusiness on Sept 19, 2013 \| 47 comments
		corresation on Sept 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| on: I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anythi... Reddit is visited by tens of millions of people of virtually every demographic. Corralling them as "internet nerds" seems a bit like you're trying for some bullying yourself. In any case, talk about much ado about absolutely nothing. A bunch of people said silly things, largely under the assumption that it was no consequence (that no one was hurt, etc): In many ways the comments on there are performance art. It is the most astonishingly meaningless thing going, and really the purpose of this entry that we're discussing is the chap talking a moment to extend that fifteen minutes. Above all other things, internet communities is what makes me cynical about humanity. People declaring their cynicism about humanity (or trite variations like "faith restored") make me cynical about humanity.
25.		I was kicked out from TEDx event for saying water-fuelled car is a scam (svedic.org)
		124 points by ZeljkoS on Sept 19, 2013 \| 21 comments
26.		Rethinking the guest operating system (lwn.net)
		120 points by justincormack on Sept 19, 2013 \| 48 comments
27.		NES Programming Tutorials (nintendoage.com)
		118 points by rsigrest on Sept 19, 2013 \| 21 comments
		nostromo on Sept 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| on: Moot: Full House Did you notice who wrote that comment?
29.		A Case Against Cucumber (8thlight.com)
		113 points by gigasquid on Sept 19, 2013 \| 110 comments
30.		My Startup Job Interview (galler.io)
		112 points by sgustard on Sept 19, 2013 \| 102 comments
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