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1.		Visualising data structures and algorithms through animation (nus.edu.sg)
		317 points by pushedx on Aug 18, 2014 \| 23 comments
2.		Java 9 features announced (jaxenter.com)
		298 points by xngzng on Aug 18, 2014 \| 220 comments
3.		Mitch Hedberg and GIS (njgeo.org)
		265 points by rtpg on Aug 18, 2014 \| 55 comments
4.		The Anti-Facebook (theverge.com)
		258 points by fourstar on Aug 18, 2014 \| 164 comments
5.		Show HN: Satellizer – Authentication for AngularJS (github.com/sahat)
		221 points by sahat on Aug 18, 2014 \| 34 comments
6.		Why Do We Say “Big Red Barn,” But “Red Big Barn” Sounds Wrong? (slate.com)
		188 points by tokenadult on Aug 18, 2014 \| 117 comments
7.		Introducing Rec Room (hacks.mozilla.org)
		200 points by rnyman on Aug 18, 2014 \| 62 comments
8.		Show HN: Scraperjs – A versatile web scraper (github.com/ruipgil)
		192 points by ruipgil on Aug 18, 2014 \| 36 comments
9.		UPower (YC S14) Is Building Nuclear Batteries (techcrunch.com)
		188 points by sama on Aug 18, 2014 \| 121 comments
10.		TripIt insecurely broadcasts sensitive travel details in calendar feeds (httpshaming.tumblr.com)
		184 points by jyujin on Aug 18, 2014 \| 68 comments
11.		The Great Chinese Exodus (wsj.com)
		164 points by lxm on Aug 18, 2014 \| 119 comments
12.		The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Adam Carolla’s Settlement with Podcasting Troll (eff.org)
		150 points by uptown on Aug 18, 2014 \| 60 comments
13.		The Spy Who Loved Me: An undercover surveillance operation that went too far (newyorker.com)
		140 points by danso on Aug 18, 2014 \| 68 comments
14.		KDE Plasma 5 (arstechnica.com)
		144 points by pavlov on Aug 18, 2014 \| 74 comments
15.		A Unified Mathematical Language for Physics and Engineering (1996) [pdf] (cam.ac.uk)
		138 points by signa11 on Aug 18, 2014 \| 29 comments
16.		For ‘Big Data’ Scientists, Hurdle to Insights Is ‘Janitor Work’ (nytimes.com)
		141 points by rgejman on Aug 18, 2014 \| 60 comments
17.		Lorem Ipsum: Of Good and Evil, Google and China (krebsonsecurity.com)
		142 points by panarky on Aug 18, 2014 \| 28 comments
18.		Deconstructing Finnish (borealexpat.blogspot.com)
		129 points by dirtyaura on Aug 18, 2014 \| 69 comments
19.		A surge of p-values between 0.040 and 0.049 in recent decades [pdf] (peerj.com)
		127 points by ggreer on Aug 18, 2014 \| 21 comments
20.		New Minecraft Mod Teaches You Code as You Play (wired.com)
		123 points by coderfish on Aug 18, 2014 \| 49 comments
21.		Why does Numbers hide a huge PNG file in exported Excel sheets? (apple.stackexchange.com)
		118 points by rogual on Aug 18, 2014 \| 25 comments
22.		AAAS Blocking Access to the Scientific Literature When They Say It Is “Free” (phylogenomics.blogspot.com)
		122 points by pavel_lishin on Aug 18, 2014 \| 48 comments
23.		In Silicon Valley, Mergers Must Meet the Toothbrush Test (nytimes.com)
		114 points by jhonovich on Aug 18, 2014 \| 11 comments
24.		Defcon Badge Walkthrough (potatohatsecurity.tumblr.com)
		120 points by aaronsnoswell on Aug 18, 2014 \| 23 comments
25.		The new land of opportunity for immigrants is Germany (washingtonpost.com)
		116 points by felixbraun on Aug 18, 2014 \| 87 comments
26.		Tomahawk – A meta source music player (tomahawk-player.org)
		111 points by bane on Aug 18, 2014 \| 45 comments
27.		Who Made That Paintball? (nytimes.com)
		99 points by fuzzythinker on Aug 18, 2014 \| 56 comments
28.		Monk: The High Priest of Jazz (1964) (longform.org)
		91 points by brie22 on Aug 18, 2014 \| 14 comments
29.		PDP-11 Booting (trmm.net)
		96 points by rmason on Aug 18, 2014 \| 20 comments
30.		How to Define New Intrinsics in SBCL (pvk.ca)
		92 points by chiachun on Aug 18, 2014 \| 20 comments
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