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1.
Amazon’s Twitch Acquisition Is Official (techcrunch.com)
475 points by lalwanivikas on Aug 25, 2014 | 249 comments
2.
Unknown orange-red glow over Pacific Ocean (pbase.com)
366 points by 3rd3 on Aug 25, 2014 | 115 comments
3.
The Surveillance Engine: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google (firstlook.org)
356 points by aburan28 on Aug 25, 2014 | 88 comments
4.
Earthquake early-warning system gave 10-second alert before Napa quake felt (latimes.com)
257 points by damian2000 on Aug 25, 2014 | 107 comments
5.
Notch programming a Doom-like in Dart (hitbox.tv)
229 points by cranium on Aug 25, 2014 | 143 comments
6.
Why Working at Google Is Not My Dream Job Anymore (42gems.com)
216 points by chi42 on Aug 25, 2014 | 184 comments
7.
Judge Sentenced to 28 Years for Selling Kids to the Prison System (2013) (blacknews.com)
184 points by emhart on Aug 25, 2014 | 102 comments
8.
Applications for YC W15 are open (blog.ycombinator.com)
191 points by lalwanivikas on Aug 25, 2014 | 89 comments
9.
How the Napa Earthquake Affected Bay Area Sleepers (jawbone.com)
188 points by ismavis on Aug 25, 2014 | 108 comments
10.
Dylan: the harsh realities of the market (logicaltypes.blogspot.com)
172 points by kryptiskt on Aug 25, 2014 | 118 comments
11.
Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C (illinois.edu)
162 points by maplant on Aug 25, 2014 | 47 comments
12.
Three Congressmen Are Using Red Tape to Bind SpaceX to Earth (slate.com)
154 points by rpm4321 on Aug 25, 2014 | 70 comments
13.
Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (2012) (research.microsoft.com)
149 points by luu on Aug 25, 2014 | 73 comments
14.
On the foolishness of “natural language programming” (utexas.edu)
132 points by LiveTheDream on Aug 25, 2014 | 152 comments
15.
Are Courses Outdated? MIT Considers Offering ‘Modules’ Instead (chronicle.com)
150 points by cardamomo on Aug 25, 2014 | 52 comments
16.
Show HN: I lose things constantly, so I built this service (goreturnme.com)
145 points by madchops1 on Aug 25, 2014 | 88 comments
17.
Chaos Computer Club Supports Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden (ccc.de)
135 points by hukl on Aug 25, 2014 | 51 comments
18.
News Feed FYI: Click-baiting (fb.com)
130 points by btimil on Aug 25, 2014 | 50 comments
19.
What Should a 4 Year Old Know? (2010) (magicalchildhood.wordpress.com)
130 points by Tomte on Aug 25, 2014 | 130 comments
20.
What's new in Git 2.1 (atlassian.com)
126 points by kannonboy on Aug 25, 2014 | 31 comments
21.
Sony PlayStation Network and other game services attacked (bbc.com)
108 points by srikar on Aug 25, 2014 | 35 comments
22.
Catch: A modern, C++-native, header-only, framework for unit tests (github.com/philsquared)
95 points by powerbook5300CS on Aug 25, 2014 | 30 comments
23.
What Tesla owners are doing while you sleep (opower.com)
94 points by ahmadss on Aug 25, 2014 | 78 comments
24.
Docker and VMWare (docker.com)
90 points by julien421 on Aug 25, 2014 | 73 comments
25.
The Secret World of Fast Fashion (psmag.com)
82 points by imjk on Aug 25, 2014 | 32 comments
26.
The Case for Buying Technical Books (jayfields.com)
77 points by jaycfields on Aug 25, 2014 | 52 comments
27.
US to Stop Using Soyuz Spacecraft, Invest in Domestic Private Space Industry (space-travel.com)
82 points by sz4kerto on Aug 25, 2014 | 31 comments
28.
Show HN: Find longtail keywords with low SEO competition (kwfinder.com)
79 points by itrinity on Aug 25, 2014 | 46 comments
29.
The Loss of Skill in the Industrial Revolution (growthecon.wordpress.com)
76 points by stang on Aug 25, 2014 | 22 comments
30.
Turn Node Applications into Executables (jxcore.com)
87 points by robry on Aug 25, 2014 | 9 comments

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