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1.Meteor hits 1.0 (meteor.com)
573 points by debergalis on Oct 28, 2014 | 241 comments
2.Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes after liftoff (nasa.gov)
504 points by politician on Oct 28, 2014 | 247 comments
3.FTC Says AT&T Has Misled Millions of Consumers with ‘Unlimited’ Data Promises (ftc.gov)
489 points by tshtf on Oct 28, 2014 | 203 comments
4.Joker – Torrents to streamable video (joker.org)
401 points by bmaeser on Oct 28, 2014 | 158 comments
5.Smuggling Snowden Secrets (firstlook.org)
368 points by jbegley on Oct 28, 2014 | 64 comments
6.Mobile is Eating the World (a16z.com)
311 points by tomazstolfa on Oct 28, 2014 | 151 comments
7.We Make Mistakes (blog.ycombinator.com)
310 points by katm on Oct 28, 2014 | 194 comments
8.Google is developing cancer and heart attack detector (bbc.com)
298 points by sxp on Oct 28, 2014 | 145 comments
9.We Are All Confident Idiots (psmag.com)
285 points by r0h1n on Oct 28, 2014 | 158 comments
10.DuckDuckHack: Help us make the web a better place (duckduckhack.com)
272 points by ForHackernews on Oct 28, 2014 | 35 comments
11.W3C declares HTML5 standard complete (techcrunch.com)
232 points by darklrd on Oct 28, 2014 | 79 comments
12.React v0.12 (facebook.github.io)
226 points by sophiebits on Oct 28, 2014 | 77 comments
13.Show HN: Create generative background images from a string in Go (github.com/pravj)
188 points by pravj on Oct 28, 2014 | 22 comments
14.Calculus with pics and gifs (0a.io)
188 points by archibaldJ on Oct 28, 2014 | 37 comments
15.OneRNG – Open Hardware Random Number Generator (onerng.info)
171 points by kim_rutherford on Oct 28, 2014 | 86 comments
16.Terminals Are Weird (catern.com)
145 points by of on Oct 28, 2014 | 46 comments
17.Why Your Cat Thinks You’re a Huge, Unpredictable Ape (wired.com)
146 points by tchalla on Oct 28, 2014 | 116 comments
18.Report Reveals Wider Tracking of Mail in U.S (nytimes.com)
141 points by ghosh on Oct 28, 2014 | 49 comments
19.Rebuilding the Shopify Admin: Deleting 28k lines of JavaScript (shopify.com)
140 points by jashkenas on Oct 28, 2014 | 47 comments
20.Google Fit: An effortless, comprehensive view of your fitness (officialandroid.blogspot.com)
143 points by lmedinas on Oct 28, 2014 | 85 comments
21.DigitalOcean partners with Mesosphere (techcrunch.com)
140 points by neom on Oct 28, 2014 | 33 comments

I have been very impressed by Firefox lately. Kudos to the whole team at Mozilla.

Just about 5 years ago, it was looking to me like it was the end of Firefox. It was Chrome all the way. New features were coming out one after another. Faster rendering. Safe process isolation for each tab. Looked better.

But I just switched back last month. It happened kind of randomly. Saw an announcement of a new release ( 33, I think ), downloaded, re-imported my bookmarks from Chrome and just kind of kept using it instead of Chrome since then.

I like how the tabs look also I think it feels lighter and snappier on my (now old-ish) laptop.

23.0x5f3759df and the fast inverse square root (2012) (p5r.org)
125 points by carljoseph on Oct 28, 2014 | 25 comments
24.How Much Caffeine Is Too Much? (wsj.com)
124 points by 2510c39011c5 on Oct 28, 2014 | 96 comments
25.MLB, Homeland Security, and the Undercover Underwear Sting (vice.com)
115 points by shill on Oct 28, 2014 | 42 comments
26.Four Banks, Including JPMorgan, Fined in Europe Over ‘Cartel’ Behavior (nytimes.com)
104 points by xlr8r on Oct 28, 2014 | 66 comments
27.Dreadnought hoax (wikipedia.org)
98 points by playhard on Oct 28, 2014 | 41 comments
28.Game day exercises at Stripe (stripe.com)
92 points by gdb on Oct 28, 2014 | 32 comments
29.The Great Paper Caper (gq.com)
85 points by pepys on Oct 28, 2014 | 2 comments
30.Reading /proc/pid/cmdline can hang forever (rachelbythebay.com)
87 points by omnibrain on Oct 28, 2014 | 40 comments

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