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1.		Questions about Nasa's space drive answered (wired.co.uk)
		285 points by ColinWright on Aug 7, 2014 \| 196 comments
2.		Go 1.4+ Garbage Collection Plan and Roadmap (golang.org)
		281 points by crawshaw on Aug 7, 2014 \| 178 comments
3.		New Site Recovers Files Locked by Cryptolocker Ransomware (krebsonsecurity.com)
		278 points by Albuca on Aug 7, 2014 \| 41 comments
4.		Oak Island Money Pit: Unsolved Mystery (oakislandmoneypit.com)
		243 points by trevin on Aug 7, 2014 \| 116 comments
5.		Introducing Heroku Button (heroku.com)
		247 points by ovechtrick on Aug 7, 2014 \| 44 comments
6.		A Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire (ahlfeldt.se)
		203 points by adamcarson on Aug 7, 2014 \| 28 comments
7.		Russia extends Snowden residency by three years (bbc.co.uk)
		207 points by graeham on Aug 7, 2014 \| 184 comments
8.		The Worst API Ever Made? (mollyrocket.com)
		195 points by AndyKelley on Aug 7, 2014 \| 80 comments
9.		The US Intelligence Community has a Third Leaker (schneier.com)
		204 points by ademarre on Aug 7, 2014 \| 63 comments
10.		HTTPS as a ranking signal (googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)
		197 points by cleverjake on Aug 7, 2014 \| 206 comments
11.		Rich Kid, Poor Kid: For 30 Years, Baltimore Study Tracked Who Gets Ahead (npr.org)
		190 points by acalmon on Aug 7, 2014 \| 181 comments
12.		Bikanta’s (YC S14) Tiny Diamonds Find Cancer Before It Spreads (techcrunch.com)
		179 points by paul on Aug 7, 2014 \| 66 comments
13.		Hacker Redirects Traffic From 19 Internet Providers to Steal Bitcoins (wired.com)
		171 points by muneeb on Aug 7, 2014 \| 64 comments
14.		GCC and LLVM collaboration (uiuc.edu)
		172 points by valarauca1 on Aug 7, 2014 \| 4 comments
15.		IBM Chip Processes Data Similar to the Way Your Brain Does (technologyreview.com)
		169 points by finisterre on Aug 7, 2014 \| 57 comments
16.		An Updated Performance Comparison of Virtual Machines and Linux Containers [pdf] (ibm.com)
		163 points by nreece on Aug 7, 2014 \| 18 comments
17.		CloudFlare enabling free SSL by mid-October (cloudflare.com)
		154 points by moonboots on Aug 7, 2014 \| 61 comments
18.		Japanese Retrofuturism and Chrono Trigger (theappendix.net)
		131 points by benbreen on Aug 7, 2014 \| 70 comments
19.		Draft spec for records and pattern-matching in C# (codeplex.com)
		122 points by colinramsay on Aug 7, 2014 \| 38 comments
20.		Building the Firefox browser for Firefox OS (hacks.mozilla.org)
		143 points by rnyman on Aug 7, 2014 \| 47 comments
21.		If I ever design a first course in compilers, I'll do it backwards (pozorvlak.dreamwidth.org)
		116 points by luu on Aug 7, 2014 \| 39 comments
22.		A game engine for building online adaptations of board and card games (dice.com)
		112 points by SunTzu55 on Aug 7, 2014 \| 33 comments
23.		Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice (2011) (kalzumeus.com)
		102 points by ColinWright on Aug 7, 2014 \| 44 comments
24.		Making of April Zero: Part 2 (aprilzero.com)
		111 points by aprilzero on Aug 7, 2014 \| 19 comments
25.		One mystery less, or how to get the “undumpable” ROM content dumped
		102 points by mmastrac on Aug 7, 2014 \| 12 comments
26.		How Design Thinking Transformed Airbnb Into a Billion Dollar Business (firstround.com)
		104 points by ASquare on Aug 7, 2014 \| 45 comments
27.		My history with Forth and stack machines (2010) (yosefk.com)
		99 points by mbrubeck on Aug 7, 2014 \| 17 comments
28.		The future of MIT education looks more global, modular, and flexible (newsoffice.mit.edu)
		88 points by ilamont on Aug 7, 2014 \| 22 comments
29.		How I won a domain at auction and now it's been stolen back from me (medium.com/jm)
		87 points by jeremymcanally on Aug 7, 2014 \| 31 comments
30.		McSema: A native code to LLVM IR translation framework (trailofbits.com)
		85 points by wyc on Aug 7, 2014 \| 12 comments
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