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1.The NSA and Me (firstlook.org)
463 points by evo_9 on Oct 2, 2014 | 101 comments
2.Hacker's Guide to Setting Up Your Mac (lapwinglabs.com)
474 points by matthewmueller on Oct 2, 2014 | 253 comments
3.How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math (nautil.us)
458 points by nautilus on Oct 2, 2014 | 144 comments
4.India, U.S. Agree to Joint Exploration of Mars (wsj.com)
414 points by ForHackernews on Oct 2, 2014 | 92 comments
5.We Got Accepted into Techstars and Turned Them Down (talkroute.com)
320 points by paulhoweyjr on Oct 2, 2014 | 152 comments
6.Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display (github.com/swordfish90)
246 points by tasoeur on Oct 2, 2014 | 85 comments
7.The Physical Web (github.com/google)
250 points by gelliott on Oct 2, 2014 | 82 comments
8.Why no one wants to host the 2022 olympics (yahoo.com)
220 points by tormeh on Oct 2, 2014 | 93 comments
9.Show HN: GoldenLayout – JavaScript Layout Manager (golden-layout.com)
211 points by wolframhempel on Oct 2, 2014 | 66 comments
10.Unpatchable Malware That Infects USBs (wired.com)
198 points by joosters on Oct 2, 2014 | 135 comments
11.JPMorgan Says Data Breach Affected 76M Households (bloomberg.com)
196 points by anigbrowl on Oct 2, 2014 | 97 comments
12.How Exercise May Protect Against Depression (nytimes.com)
191 points by ScottBurson on Oct 2, 2014 | 87 comments
13.Lecture 4: Building Product, Talking to Users, and Growing (samaltman.com)
194 points by bjenik on Oct 2, 2014 | 19 comments
14.An Australian researcher has worked out how to store 1000TB on a CD (sciencealert.com.au)
179 points by notdarkyet on Oct 2, 2014 | 128 comments
15.Ericsson open-sources OpenWebRTC, rival to Google’s WebRTC implementation (gigaom.com)
167 points by openmaze on Oct 2, 2014 | 50 comments
16.CUPS 2.0 (cups.org)
158 points by tomkwok on Oct 2, 2014 | 60 comments
17.Contact Lost with Planes One by One as FAA Fire Spread (bloomberg.com)
138 points by forrest_t on Oct 2, 2014 | 51 comments
18.HFT in my backyard – III (sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com)
142 points by rubenv on Oct 2, 2014 | 12 comments

This "cool hacker settings for your Mac" script turns off your laptop's power saving features (sleep, display dimming, hibernation even though sleep was off(?)), removes at least three kinds of backups for data loss (MobileTimeMachine, Resume, hibernation file), and changes AppKit settings in a way your customers will never be using (by turning off Automatic Termination, which is pretty harmless).

Please don't run scripts like this, unless you promise not to post about how your untested configuration is so unstable and has such bad battery life after an OS X update.

20.Why I took on building a better way to frame any poster, print or photo (medium.com/jhubball)
133 points by jhubball on Oct 2, 2014 | 85 comments
21.Apple allows hot code push for JS downloaded and run by WebKit (meteor.com)
139 points by yaliceme on Oct 2, 2014 | 71 comments
22.Re: MemSQL the “world's fastest database”? (2012) (postgresql.org)
138 points by Cieplak on Oct 2, 2014 | 45 comments
23.Study suggests that memory loss in Alzheimer's patients may be reversed (neurosciencenews.com)
114 points by pmiller2 on Oct 2, 2014 | 40 comments
24.Making Fast-Paced Multiplayer Networked Games Is Hard (gamasutra.com)
109 points by Impossible on Oct 2, 2014 | 53 comments
25.CVE-2014-7284: Lack of randomness in Linux kernel network secrets (secondlookforensics.com)
99 points by mukyu on Oct 2, 2014 | 19 comments
26.Three months at Y Combinator: what it’s like and how to get in (frontapp.com)
102 points by l_perrin on Oct 2, 2014 | 48 comments
27.Route leak incident on October 2, 2014 (cloudflare.com)
93 points by jgrahamc on Oct 2, 2014 | 46 comments
28.Looking for help improving performance of GNU Make (lists.gnu.org)
94 points by motiejus on Oct 2, 2014 | 29 comments
29.Three Years on Rikers Without Trial (newyorker.com)
87 points by whiddershins on Oct 2, 2014 | 25 comments
30.GitHub.com momentarily blacklisted in Russia
96 points by gtrubetskoy on Oct 2, 2014 | 50 comments

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