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1.
Citymapper is what happens when you understand user experience (medium.com/zmh)
355 points by ryanwhitney on Aug 28, 2014 | 168 comments
2.
Hal Finney being cryopreserved now (extropy.org)
300 points by mlinksva on Aug 28, 2014 | 269 comments
3.
Readings in Databases (rxin.github.io)
278 points by luu on Aug 28, 2014 | 45 comments
4.
Myths About Working as an Engineer at a Startup (karllhughes.com)
259 points by karlhughes on Aug 28, 2014 | 137 comments
5.
Google's end-to-end key distribution proposal (code.google.com)
261 points by abdullahkhalids on Aug 28, 2014 | 92 comments
6.
Inside Google’s Drone-Delivery Program (theatlantic.com)
239 points by jackgavigan on Aug 28, 2014 | 112 comments
7.
The executive order that led to mass spying, as told by NSA alumni (arstechnica.com)
218 points by ra on Aug 28, 2014 | 89 comments
8.
With $30M More in Hand, IFTTT Looks to the Internet of Things (nytimes.com)
203 points by novum on Aug 28, 2014 | 90 comments
9.
Live map of Russia advancing into Ukraine (liveuamap.com)
192 points by vincvinc on Aug 28, 2014 | 171 comments
10.
Hal Finney: Bitcoin and me (2013) (bitcointalk.org)
169 points by aburan28 on Aug 28, 2014 | 17 comments
11.
Minting Money with Monero and CPU Vector Intrinsics (da-data.blogspot.com)
154 points by dgacmu on Aug 28, 2014 | 19 comments
12.
Who's in the Office? The American Workday in One Graph (npr.org)
152 points by nikhilpandit on Aug 28, 2014 | 36 comments
13.
Brazil dismantles 'biggest destroyer' of Amazon rainforest (bbc.com)
151 points by rblion on Aug 28, 2014 | 23 comments
14.
User Experience Design Learning Path (mysliderule.com)
137 points by gautambay on Aug 28, 2014 | 37 comments
15.
Draft chapters of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 3rd Edition (railstutorial.org)
136 points by mhartl on Aug 28, 2014 | 46 comments
16.
Hidden treasure in the D standard library (nomad.so)
127 points by nkurz on Aug 28, 2014 | 29 comments
17.
How the 'Kung Fu Fighting' Melody Came to Represent Asia (npr.org)
112 points by user_235711 on Aug 28, 2014 | 31 comments
18.
Google removes authorship from search results (plus.google.com)
116 points by iamben on Aug 28, 2014 | 75 comments
19.
ZeroTier: Network Virtualization Everywhere (zerotier.com)
107 points by luu on Aug 28, 2014 | 50 comments
20.
Wire Recorder Project: Recovering old family recordings made on steel wire (gentweb.co.uk)
98 points by dirktheman on Aug 28, 2014 | 28 comments
21.
Show HN: LuaJIT FFI binding to libuv with coroutines (github.com/pguillory)
101 points by pguillory on Aug 28, 2014 | 35 comments
22.
Computers Aren’t Fast Anymore (2013) (evincarofautumn.blogspot.com)
97 points by buremba on Aug 28, 2014 | 110 comments
23.
Little Free Library (littlefreelibrary.org)
84 points by hanifvirani on Aug 28, 2014 | 32 comments
24.
Symbolics Lisp Machine UI Examples (lispm.de)
87 points by sabalaba on Aug 28, 2014 | 26 comments
25.
Rudder: An etcd backed overlay network for containers (coreos.com)
84 points by pquerna on Aug 28, 2014 | 15 comments
26.
SeatGeek Raises $35M (seatgeek.com)
95 points by hye on Aug 28, 2014 | 22 comments
27.
Show HN: Impulse – Dynamic JS Animations for the Mobile Web (luster.io)
93 points by coderzach on Aug 28, 2014 | 31 comments
28.
High-achieving men and women are described differently in reviews (fortune.com)
77 points by rayiner on Aug 28, 2014 | 83 comments
29.
An Overview of the Dylan Type System (dylanfoundry.org)
71 points by BruceM on Aug 28, 2014 | 8 comments
30.
Ask HN: What are some Bay Area startups that don't use an open office plan?
71 points by magsafe on Aug 28, 2014 | 73 comments

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