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Ireland is to close a tax loophole used by Apple (bbc.co.uk)

98 points by gadders on Oct 16, 2013 | 70 comments

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Google Maps Open-Source Challenger MapBox Raises $10M From Foundry Group (blogs.wsj.com)

98 points by paulkroka on Oct 16, 2013 | 44 comments

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Mozilla Location Service: Geolocation lookups from public cell tower, WiFi data (thenextweb.com)

98 points by hackhackhack on Oct 28, 2013 | 39 comments

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Pointers in Rust: a guide (words.steveklabnik.com)

98 points by steveklabnik on Oct 18, 2013 | 32 comments

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Making full table scan 10x faster in InnoDB (yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com)

98 points by aritraghosh007 on Oct 10, 2013 | 20 comments

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MySQL is to SQL like MongoDB to NoSQL (use-the-index-luke.com)

97 points by geal on Oct 2, 2013 | 124 comments

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Natural born programmers (programmingisterrible.com)

97 points by ntlk on Oct 11, 2013 | 105 comments

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MacBook Air Flash Storage Drive Replacement Program (apple.com)

97 points by ValentineC on Oct 18, 2013 | 105 comments

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How Kentucky Built the Country's Best Obamacare Website (talkingpointsmemo.com)

97 points by scarmig on Oct 28, 2013 | 82 comments

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Who exactly is crawling my site? (danbirken.com)

97 points by birken on Oct 18, 2013 | 78 comments

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Search Engine Yandex Launches "Cocaine" To Compete With Google App Engine (techcrunch.com)

97 points by brentm on Oct 17, 2013 | 69 comments

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P2P, Encrypted Email Protocol (flowingmail.com)

97 points by gbrindisi on Oct 9, 2013 | 66 comments

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UN caused deadly cholera in Haiti, covered it up, lawsuit says (investigations.nbcnews.com)

97 points by devx on Oct 9, 2013 | 61 comments

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Tsunami advisory in northern Japan after 7.1 magnitude earthquake off coast (cir.ca)

97 points by teawithcarl on Oct 25, 2013 | 56 comments

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NSA Storing Internet Data, Social Networking Data, on Pretty Much Everybody (schneier.com)

97 points by frrp on Oct 2, 2013 | 30 comments

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Using ElasticSearch and Logstash to Serve Billions of Searchable Events (elasticsearch.org)

97 points by twakefield on Oct 1, 2013 | 28 comments

767.

Misconceptions about evolution (evolution.berkeley.edu)

96 points by stiff on Oct 9, 2013 | 167 comments

768.

The Roots of the Government Shutdown (stratfor.com)

96 points by wallflower on Oct 17, 2013 | 96 comments

769.

Can a drug make you tell the truth? Reporter tries sodium thiopental (bbc.co.uk)

96 points by RobAley on Oct 3, 2013 | 32 comments

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Hylas-Lisp - A JIT-compiled Lisp targeting LLVM (github.com)

96 points by agumonkey on Oct 29, 2013 | 32 comments

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Developer Preview of AWS SDK for JavaScript in the Browser (aws.typepad.com)

96 points by jeffbarr on Oct 31, 2013 | 30 comments

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Scott Carpenter, Mercury Astronaut Who Orbited Earth, Dies at 88 (nytimes.com)

96 points by jmadsen on Oct 10, 2013 | 18 comments

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GoDaddy Pulls Lavabit's Security Creds Because the FBI Got Its Encryption Keys (forbes.com)

95 points by bcn on Oct 10, 2013 | 49 comments

774.

Explaining an astonishing slinky (danielwalsh.tumblr.com)

95 points by scott_s on Oct 15, 2013 | 42 comments

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The Myth of the War of the Worlds Panic (slate.com)

95 points by tcoppi on Oct 29, 2013 | 42 comments

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The Aha Moments That Made Y Combinator Possible (medium.com)

95 points by _halcyon_ on Oct 29, 2013 | 40 comments

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IBM unveils computer fed by 'electronic blood' (bbc.co.uk)

95 points by a_w on Oct 19, 2013 | 35 comments

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Sales Are Colossal, Shares Are Soaring. All Amazon Is Missing Is a Profit (nytimes.com)