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1.The Quest to Build a Truly Free Version of Android (wired.com)
250 points by Tsiolkovsky on Nov 3, 2013 | 128 comments
2.How much money are you earning from your software products?
199 points by ericthegoodking on Nov 3, 2013 | 190 comments
3.Why does HTML think “chucknorris” is a color? (2011) (stackoverflow.com)
188 points by Techasura on Nov 3, 2013 | 43 comments
4.Few successful entrepreneurs blog (twitter.com/rabois)
187 points by asanwal on Nov 3, 2013 | 126 comments
5.Fake femme fatale dupes IT guys at US government agency (sophos.com)
180 points by timw6n on Nov 3, 2013 | 92 comments
6.Why It's So Hard to Get From Brooklyn to Queens (theatlanticcities.com)
166 points by merraksh on Nov 3, 2013 | 109 comments
7.Inkpad: Vector illustration app for the iPad, now open source (github.com/sprang)
164 points by shawndumas on Nov 3, 2013 | 43 comments
8.Seattle Mayor: I have Comcast, and I would like better service (washingtonpost.com)
151 points by Libertatea on Nov 3, 2013 | 44 comments

What's funny about this is that every comment here is calling this useless, yet it's something that's very much in the hacker spirit.

Utility is not the end goal of everything.

10.If there's no 16-bit layer in 64-bit Windows, how come 16-bit installers run? (msdn.com)
138 points by luu on Nov 3, 2013 | 79 comments
11.Ask HN: Where do you find interesting papers to read?
123 points by frigg on Nov 3, 2013 | 56 comments
12.Thorax: An opinionated, battle-tested, Backbone and Handlebars framework (thoraxjs.org)
119 points by shawndumas on Nov 3, 2013 | 32 comments
13.Google Taking Aim at Device Modders in Android 4.4 KitKat (xda-developers.com)
115 points by anon1385 on Nov 3, 2013 | 66 comments
14.Guido van Rossum, John Resig, DHH, and Pamela Fox are Judges on CreateHS (createhs.com)
114 points by eeirinberg on Nov 3, 2013 | 33 comments
15.Why having an MBA is a negative hiring signal for startups (2012) (daltoncaldwell.com)
111 points by jkw on Nov 3, 2013 | 112 comments
16.My experience hiring a developer on Elance to build my first iPhone app (thenextweb.com)
112 points by naren87 on Nov 3, 2013 | 131 comments
17.Your user agent (duckduckgo.com)
107 points by eksith on Nov 3, 2013 | 71 comments
18.iPad from T-Mobile with free monthly 200MB data for life (t-mobile.com)
109 points by cygwin98 on Nov 3, 2013 | 81 comments
19.Painless Decorators in Python (hackflow.com)
97 points by Suor on Nov 3, 2013 | 26 comments
20.In Latvia, young people discover new passions in bad economic times (washingtonpost.com)
100 points by jmacd on Nov 3, 2013 | 39 comments
21.Easy Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison (ec2instances.info)
90 points by benhomie on Nov 3, 2013 | 43 comments
22.Play Fantasy Even If You Hate Football (jere.in)
89 points by jere on Nov 3, 2013 | 65 comments
23.The Parable of Mustache.js (jan.io)
89 points by hk__2 on Nov 3, 2013 | 14 comments
24.Ask HN: Why is PGP not used widely?
89 points by dilithiumhe3 on Nov 3, 2013 | 72 comments
25.Font Combiner – improvements to free web fonts (fontcombiner.com)
85 points by emily_b on Nov 3, 2013 | 44 comments
26. [dupe] Ask HN: Your best passive income sources?
85 points by buf on Nov 3, 2013 | 33 comments
27.A Vital Measure: Your Surgeon’s Skill (nytimes.com)
84 points by tokenadult on Nov 3, 2013 | 48 comments
28.Here's The Evidence That The Tech Sector Is In A Massive Bubble (businessinsider.com)
81 points by jnazario on Nov 3, 2013 | 77 comments

Hiya! I'm the creator of this. I did not expect this to be here (nor did I especially want it to...). If it isn't painfully obvious, this is a joke, so please don't take it too seriously. Thanks!
30.Thanks HN: That time you saved a bunch of lives (amitgupta.com)
84 points by superamit on Nov 3, 2013 | 16 comments

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