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1.		I Bought An Apartment To Rent Out On Airbnb (needwant.com)
		583 points by j0ncc on Nov 1, 2013 \| 373 comments
2.		My really successful, unfundable, piece of shit startup I hate to love (twicsy.tumblr.com)
		413 points by dumbfounder on Nov 1, 2013 \| 163 comments
3.		My Hardest Bug Ever (gamasutra.com)
		345 points by danso on Nov 1, 2013 \| 79 comments
		pg on Nov 1, 2013 \| parent \| context \| on: Patent war goes nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-owned “R... It's a little early to say for sure, but I predict this will do more to hurt Apple's reputation in the tech community than anything they've done before. And that is not a good community to alienate. I would not be surprised if they look back on this move one day and feel that they ended up net worse off as a result. Apple used to be careful not to alienate hackers. And Microsoft has been gradually digging itself out of a hole in that respect for several years. Now in my mind they are both the enemy.
5.		NSA Files Decoded: What the revelations mean for you (theguardian.com)
		288 points by msantos on Nov 1, 2013 \| 69 comments
6.		Martin Gräßlin, KDE: "Good Bye, Ubuntu" (plus.google.com)
		274 points by Tsiolkovsky on Nov 1, 2013 \| 179 comments
7.		Don't Pipe to your Shell (existentialize.com)
		271 points by bqe on Nov 1, 2013 \| 121 comments
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		A Linux Distro
		260 points \| parent
10.		University of Waterloo: Silicon Valley's Canadian Feeder School (businessweek.com)
		259 points by gdilla on Nov 1, 2013 \| 153 comments
11.		Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2013)
		240 points by whoishiring on Nov 1, 2013 \| 389 comments
12.		Riot.js – A 1kb client-side MVP framework (moot.it)
		210 points by tipiirai on Nov 1, 2013 \| 136 comments
13.		Rails 4.0.1 has been released (rubyonrails.org)
		175 points by abimaelmartell on Nov 1, 2013 \| 42 comments
14.		25 years ago this week, the Morris Worm brought the Internet to its knees (washingtonpost.com)
		159 points by binarybits on Nov 1, 2013 \| 54 comments
15.		OpenBSD 5.4 Released (openbsd.org)
		156 points by sramov on Nov 1, 2013 \| 102 comments
16.		Introducing ART – A new Android runtime being introduced experimentally in 4.4 (android.com)
		152 points by alsutton010203 on Nov 1, 2013 \| 66 comments
17.		Linkedin's Response to My "Phishing with Intro" Post (jordan-wright.github.io)
		144 points by jwcrux on Nov 1, 2013 \| 46 comments
18.		Show HN: Game where you write Python robots to fight other players (robotgame.org)
		142 points by _g2lm on Nov 1, 2013 \| 98 comments
19.		Don't use autofill in your browser (yoast.com)
		129 points by DavidWanjiru on Nov 1, 2013 \| 68 comments
20.		Show HN: Review healthcare.gov plan prices in 1 click rather than 16 (thehealthsherpa.com)
		126 points by mwasser on Nov 1, 2013 \| 59 comments
21.		Ask PG: Is HN experiencing server problems?
		123 points by mck- on Nov 1, 2013 \| 68 comments
22.		Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2013)
		118 points by whoishiring on Nov 1, 2013 \| 175 comments
		rayiner on Nov 1, 2013 \| parent \| context \| on: I Bought An Apartment To Rent Out On Airbnb "But, computers!" is the difference.
24.		Show HN: I open-sourced my travel planning startup, Wanderlust (mywanderlust.co)
		117 points by danecjensen on Nov 1, 2013 \| 59 comments
25.		How to build an Anti Aircraft Missile: Bayes’ Theorem and the Kalman Filter (georgemdallas.wordpress.com)
		109 points by pizza on Nov 1, 2013 \| 15 comments
26.		Responsive HTML Emails: a Different Strategy (fogcreek.com)
		107 points by kevingessner on Nov 1, 2013 \| 43 comments
27.		Webdesign tool Macaw raises $275k on Kickstarter, $200k more than original goal (kickstarter.com)
		104 points by adamnemecek on Nov 1, 2013 \| 62 comments
		SandersAK on Nov 1, 2013 \| parent \| context \| on: My really successful, unfundable, piece of shit st... I get that people are trying to be helpful, and think that's great. But this blog post was awesome, raw, and captured something that so few of us can really relate to. Dude grinds for 10 years, keeps grinding, doesn't know where to go but will probably keep grinding. "Twicsy, you son of a bitch. You frustrate me so. I love you, but oh how I hate to love you." Shine on, buddy. Best of luck!
29.		Codecademy (YC S11) on Colbert Report (colbertnation.com)
		101 points by mp3jeep01 on Nov 1, 2013 \| 34 comments
30.		The BadBIOS Analysis is Wrong (rootwyrm.com)
		92 points by llimllib on Nov 1, 2013 \| 69 comments
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