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1.		Stephen King tells everything you need to know about writing in 10 minutes (greatwriting.co.uk)
		39 points by aycangulez 3 hours ago \| 9 comments
2.		Just fucking figure it out (scriptmag.com)
		114 points by endlessvoid94 7 hours ago \| 57 comments
3.		Intuition has no transfer encoding (yes-no-cancel.co.uk)
		42 points by martinkl 4 hours ago \| 6 comments
4.		How the pantheon has lasted 2000 years without steel in its concrete (romanconcrete.com)
		24 points by akkartik 2 hours ago \| 4 comments
5.		Why Twitter’s C.E.O. Demoted Himself (nytimes.com)
		48 points by pkaler 6 hours ago \| 10 comments
6.		Google closed 40 Acquistions this year, 37 of which under $17M on average (allthingsd.com)
		4 points by rexreed 32 minutes ago \| discuss
7.		My dalliance with smart drugs - and the lesson I learned (johannhari.com)
		176 points by caustic 13 hours ago \| 104 comments
8.		Overclocking SSL (imperialviolet.org)
		42 points by n-named 6 hours ago \| 7 comments
9.		Amtrak Goes Electric, Drops $466 Million on Siemens Electric Locomotives (earthandindustry.com)
		5 points by sprinkle 59 minutes ago \| 2 comments
10.		"Dead Drops" is an anonymous, offline, p2p file-sharing network in public space (datenform.de)
		103 points by yan 10 hours ago \| 43 comments
11.		The Time Is Right For Functional Design Patterns (uni.edu)
		7 points by bgray 2 hours ago \| discuss
12.		U.S. Says Genes Should Not Be Eligible for Patents (nytimes.com)
		128 points by HardyLeung 18 hours ago \| 28 comments
13.		The quest for freedom and safety: Why I donated $100,000 to YesOn19 (paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
		288 points by paul 1 day ago \| 217 comments
14.		For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance (theatlantic.com)
		241 points by timf 1 day ago \| 216 comments
15.		Land Of Lisp chapter 7 - Using SBCL (ciaranbradley.com)
		5 points by ciaranbradley 3 hours ago \| 7 comments
16.		Three Mobile-Software Rules (tbray.org)
		33 points by wglb 11 hours ago \| 12 comments
17.		Star Trek cited by Texas Supreme Court (wired.com)
		24 points by yayitswei 7 hours ago \| 11 comments
18.		GNU/Linux distro timeline (svg) (wikimedia.org)
		70 points by kqr2 18 hours ago \| 15 comments
19.		Facebook Acquires Drop.io (drop.io)
		141 points by whyleym 1 day ago \| 47 comments
20.		What just happened? (zackisamazing.tumblr.com)
		15 points by kingsidharth 9 hours ago \| 9 comments
21.		New Orleans Mayor Wants to Scrap Surveillance Cameras (schneier.com)
		20 points by wglb 11 hours ago \| 2 comments
22.		IPad Opens World to a Disabled Boy (nytimes.com)
		40 points by credo 17 hours ago \| 14 comments
23.		More complicated than you think (economist.com)
		16 points by maalyex 11 hours ago \| discuss
24.		How to Identify a Programmer's Personality by Just Watching Their Keyboard Moves (sbastn.com)
		8 points by collistaeed 2 hours ago \| 4 comments
25.		Ask HN: Your Non-Glorious Startup Success
		32 points by johnsto19 3 hours ago \| 5 comments
26.		Hacking an ATM: How to Make an ATM Spew out Money (technologyreview.com)
		10 points by tgriesser 3 hours ago \| 10 comments
27.		Google-funded startup builds search engine + API for predicting the future (technologyreview.com)
		18 points by dstorrs 5 hours ago \| 10 comments
28.		Deadweight Loss (marginalrevolution.com)
		19 points by lionhearted 5 hours ago \| 10 comments
29.		Schneier on Security: Cargo Security (schneier.com)
		41 points by stakent 9 hours ago \| 7 comments
30.		What I’ve Learned From Traveling Around the World for Three Years (fourhourworkweek.com)
		17 points by da5e 6 hours ago \| 6 comments
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