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1.
What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (wozniak.ca)
372 points by numo16 on Aug 4, 2014 | 234 comments
2.
Hotel fines $500 for every bad review posted online (pagesix.com)
344 points by mcenedella on Aug 4, 2014 | 234 comments
3.
Sunfish: A simple but strong chess engine in 111 lines of Python (github.com/thomasahle)
291 points by ff_ on Aug 4, 2014 | 95 comments
4.
Is Every Speed Limit Too Low? (priceonomics.com)
293 points by malchow on Aug 4, 2014 | 207 comments
5.
Friendship Paradox (wikipedia.org)
288 points by Xcelerate on Aug 4, 2014 | 69 comments
6.
GNU datamash (gnu.org)
236 points by jonbaer on Aug 4, 2014 | 19 comments
7.
Getting rid of burnout permanently (kentnguyen.com)
226 points by kentnguyen on Aug 4, 2014 | 138 comments
8.
Moving away from Puppet: SaltStack or Ansible? (ryandlane.com)
218 points by mikebike on Aug 4, 2014 | 179 comments
9.
Show HN: A small virtual machine written in C (github.com/tekknolagi)
212 points by tekknolagi on Aug 4, 2014 | 91 comments
10.
Look at the humongous type that Hindley-Milner infers for this tiny program (spacemanaki.com)
171 points by luu on Aug 4, 2014 | 56 comments
11.
YC Hacks Winner: Athelas – Blood imaging and analysis from your smartphone (challengepost.com)
170 points by joshmlewis on Aug 4, 2014 | 81 comments
12.
I'm getting screwed with my stock options
152 points by concernedmitch on Aug 4, 2014 | 85 comments
13.
In secret cyberwar game, reservist techies pummel miltary cyberwarriors (navytimes.com)
151 points by dctoedt on Aug 4, 2014 | 100 comments
14.
Python web scraping resources (jakeaustwick.me)
158 points by dchuk on Aug 4, 2014 | 33 comments
15.
I'm a woman CEO and it doesn't change anything (wsj.com)
157 points by mathouc on Aug 4, 2014 | 117 comments
16.
Nemex – A tiny app that helps you to track and curate ideas and projects (nemex.io)
138 points by rootinier on Aug 4, 2014 | 59 comments
17.
Homeless Fonts (homelessfonts.org)
129 points by ryanwhitney on Aug 4, 2014 | 48 comments
18.
The Mobile Web should just work for everyone (msdn.com)
124 points by wfjackson on Aug 4, 2014 | 123 comments
19.
Game of Hacks (gameofhacks.com)
139 points by lelf on Aug 4, 2014 | 53 comments
20.
Affordable Housing Draws Middle Class to Inland Cities (nytimes.com)
104 points by jgunaratne on Aug 4, 2014 | 112 comments
21.
Reverse Engineering a NAND Flash Device Management Algorithm (joshuawise.com)
101 points by jwise0 on Aug 4, 2014 | 29 comments
22.
The Abandoned Facebook Tech That Now Helps Power Apple (wired.com)
106 points by ycombi42 on Aug 4, 2014 | 33 comments
23.
Adam Carolla won’t let Personal Audio drop podcast patent infringement lawsuit (slate.com)
101 points by bennesvig on Aug 4, 2014 | 39 comments
24.
Tumblr: Hashing Your Way to Handling 23,000 Blog Requests per Second (highscalability.com)
102 points by aespinoza on Aug 4, 2014 | 23 comments
25.
Design culture is a frozen shithole (colepeters.com)
93 points by jonphillips06 on Aug 4, 2014 | 41 comments
26.
Xamarin Acquires Petzold (xamarin.com)
90 points by ot on Aug 4, 2014 | 67 comments
27.
Robotic suit gives shipyard workers super strength (newscientist.com)
97 points by ultimatedelman on Aug 4, 2014 | 49 comments
28.
Show HN: San Francisco MUNI Transit Delays, Visualized (bdon.org)
86 points by bdon on Aug 4, 2014 | 32 comments
29.
Show HN: QuoDB – Movie quote search engine based on subtitles (quodb.com)
96 points by lusob on Aug 4, 2014 | 30 comments
30.
‘White Label’ Money Laundering Services (krebsonsecurity.com)
94 points by panarky on Aug 4, 2014 | 39 comments

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