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1.		Game Mechanic Explorer – examples for game mechanics, algorithms, and effects (gamemechanicexplorer.com)
		404 points by davidbarker on April 21, 2014 \| 42 comments
2.		Build Tools – Make, no more (hadihariri.com)
		344 points by _superposition_ on April 21, 2014 \| 140 comments
3.		Farewell GitHub, Hello Immersive Computing (preston-werner.com)
		348 points by Dorian-Marie on April 21, 2014 \| 88 comments
4.		The ticking time-bomb at the bottom of the Baltic Sea (economist.com)
		312 points by neverminder on April 21, 2014 \| 92 comments
5.		Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard (1992) (pinyin.info)
		270 points by SoftwarePatent on April 21, 2014 \| 294 comments
6.		Microsoft OneDrive for Business modifies files as it syncs (myce.com)
		229 points by ingve on April 21, 2014 \| 119 comments
7.		Is the Toilet Free? (madebymany.com)
		229 points by virmundi on April 21, 2014 \| 122 comments
8.		Flynn: first preview release (flynn.io)
		216 points by bencevans on April 21, 2014 \| 77 comments
9.		The most expensive lottery ticket in the world (reuters.com)
		202 points by barretts on April 21, 2014 \| 94 comments
10.		How to Convert a Digital Watch to a Negative Display (watchuseek.com)
		188 points by zenburn on April 21, 2014 \| 49 comments
11.		LibGDX 1.0 released (badlogicgames.com)
		171 points by octopus on April 21, 2014 \| 34 comments
12.		Everyone Deserves Great Design (everyonedeservesgreatdesign.com)
		160 points by ztratar on April 21, 2014 \| 48 comments
13.		What every founder fears (medium.com/p)
		160 points by mef on April 21, 2014 \| 81 comments
14.		Capital Man: Thomas Piketty is economics’ biggest sensation and fiercest critic (chronicle.com)
		157 points by dang on April 21, 2014 \| 193 comments
15.		Iodine – tunneling IP over DNS (github.com/yarrick)
		152 points by kudu on April 21, 2014 \| 36 comments
16.		Scala 2.11.0 Release Notes (scala-lang.org)
		140 points by philippelh on April 21, 2014 \| 72 comments
17.		Supreme Court to hear arguments on Aereo this week (washingtonpost.com)
		129 points by xhrpost on April 21, 2014 \| 80 comments
18.		Elixir v0.13.0 released, hex.pm and ElixirConf announced (elixir-lang.org)
		130 points by devinus on April 21, 2014 \| 54 comments
19.		Show HN: To-learn list and course reminders (accredible.com)
		121 points by dannyking on April 21, 2014 \| 36 comments
20.		Home entertainment implementations are pretty appalling (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
		120 points by jdub on April 21, 2014 \| 61 comments
21.		Pied Piper (piedpiper.com)
		113 points by kqdreger on April 21, 2014 \| 65 comments
22.		Invitation for DNC reception with Obama at YC (scribd.com)
		115 points by negrit on April 21, 2014 \| 110 comments
23.		AT&T's 'Expansion' of 1 Gbps to 100 Cities is a Big, Fat Bluff (dslreports.com)
		108 points by lelf on April 21, 2014 \| 43 comments
24.		Let the Type System do the Work (javadocmd.com)
		105 points by Garbage on April 21, 2014 \| 99 comments
25.		Vegetative patient says 'I'm not in pain' (bbc.com)
		101 points by kposehn on April 21, 2014 \| 66 comments
26.		Most of the Amazon SES IP blacklisted by SpamCannibal (amazon.com)
		101 points by abhisekumar on April 21, 2014 \| 168 comments
27.		UPSERTisms in Postgres (johtopg.blogspot.se)
		100 points by JoelJacobson on April 21, 2014 \| 17 comments
28.		Cubans trace roots to remote Sierra Leone village (bbc.com)
		95 points by ghosh on April 21, 2014 \| 2 comments
29.		Uproar over plan to dispose of Syrian chemical weapons in the Mediterranean (washingtonpost.com)
		84 points by stagas on April 21, 2014 \| 18 comments
30.		Accepted projects – Google Summer of Code 2014 (google-melange.com)
		86 points by bratao on April 21, 2014 \| 29 comments
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