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Stories from October 21, 2013
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1.Poll: Where are you currently living?
1132 points by Systemic33 on Oct 21, 2013 | 309 comments
2.Dear Startups: stop asking me math puzzles to figure out if I can code (countaleph.wordpress.com)
872 points by brryant on Oct 21, 2013 | 342 comments
Western Europe (excl. UK)
748 points | parent
UK
516 points | parent
5.How to get rid of old stuff, sell it for more, and use Amazon as cheap storage (benguild.com)
512 points by benguild on Oct 21, 2013 | 139 comments
Canada
401 points | parent
7.Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary (arstechnica.com)
414 points by coloneltcb on Oct 21, 2013 | 225 comments
8.Why Does Windows Have Terrible Battery Life? (codinghorror.com)
389 points by chrisdinn on Oct 21, 2013 | 319 comments
Australia and New Zealand (apparently called Australasia)
368 points | parent
10.Startup School 2013 Doodles (startupnotes.org)
350 points by simonebrunozzi on Oct 21, 2013 | 74 comments
11.Learn Haskell Fast and Hard (yannesposito.com)
311 points by psibi on Oct 21, 2013 | 126 comments
India
300 points | parent
13.Experian Sold Consumer Data to ID Theft Service (krebsonsecurity.com)
310 points by cylo on Oct 21, 2013 | 79 comments
Scandinavia (incl. Finland and Iceland)
291 points | parent
Eastern Europe
262 points | parent
16.Wikipedia editors, locked in battle with PR firm, delete 250 accounts (arstechnica.com)
238 points by Jtsummers on Oct 21, 2013 | 110 comments
17.How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand? (ieet.org)
208 points by broodbucket on Oct 21, 2013 | 69 comments
18.CryptoSeal (YC S11) Shutting Down Private VPN (cryptoseal.com)
205 points by Udo on Oct 21, 2013 | 119 comments
19.The First App Store (makegameswith.us)
186 points by jvrossb on Oct 21, 2013 | 45 comments
20.Visualise the structure of a spreadsheet (slateforexcel.com)
182 points by crrashby on Oct 21, 2013 | 71 comments
21.Show HN: Unirest (unirest.io)
174 points by sinzone on Oct 21, 2013 | 67 comments
22.ZeroVM: Smaller, Lighter, Faster (rackspace.com)
163 points by bretpiatt on Oct 21, 2013 | 79 comments
23.The Melancholy of Subculture Society (gwern.net)
153 points by gwern on Oct 21, 2013 | 54 comments
Not in the US
149 points | parent
25.Project Shield (withgoogle.com)
159 points by ashishbharthi on Oct 21, 2013 | 86 comments
Southern Europe / Mediterranean Europe
144 points | parent
27.NYTimes's Pogue going to Yahoo (pogueman.tumblr.com)
150 points by nirvanatikku on Oct 21, 2013 | 70 comments
28.France summons U.S. ambassador over spying report (reuters.com)
148 points by stfu on Oct 21, 2013 | 61 comments
29.Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols (github.com/fcambus)
145 points by fcambus on Oct 21, 2013 | 48 comments
30.Kids Were Terrified of Getting MRIs. Then One Man Figured Out a Better Way (slate.com)
145 points by rfreytag on Oct 21, 2013 | 82 comments

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