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1.		Leading Anti-Marijuana Academics Are Paid by Painkiller Drug Companies (vice.com)
		293 points by Multics on Aug 29, 2014 \| 90 comments
2.		Submarine Cable Map 2014 (telegeography.com)
		220 points by bhaumik on Aug 29, 2014 \| 110 comments
3.		Intel Unleashes Its First 8-Core Desktop Processor (intel.com)
		197 points by joaojeronimo on Aug 29, 2014 \| 145 comments
4.		Conrod – A Rust GUI Library (piston.rs)
		201 points by mitchmindtree on Aug 29, 2014 \| 70 comments
5.		Chartist – Simple responsive charts (gionkunz.github.io)
		194 points by jcklnruns on Aug 29, 2014 \| 49 comments
6.		At Multiverse Impasse, a New Theory of Scale (simonsfoundation.org)
		176 points by akrymski on Aug 29, 2014 \| 140 comments
7.		From the startup who allegedly stole software and raised $2M with it
		157 points by jparkside on Aug 29, 2014 \| 109 comments
8.		Show HN: Chan – pure C implementation of Go channels (github.com/tylertreat)
		150 points by tylertreat on Aug 29, 2014 \| 44 comments
9.		The Art of Profitability (codingvc.com)
		146 points by lpolovets on Aug 29, 2014 \| 18 comments
10.		Roadmap to Alpha Centauri (nautil.us)
		147 points by dnetesn on Aug 29, 2014 \| 63 comments
11.		Quantum Gravity Expert Says "Philosophical Superficiality" Has Harmed Physics (scientificamerican.com)
		147 points by tomhoward on Aug 29, 2014 \| 70 comments
12.		Coinbase Insured (coinbase.com)
		137 points by markmassie on Aug 29, 2014 \| 41 comments
13.		Building Clojure services at scale (josephwilk.net)
		137 points by erkose on Aug 29, 2014 \| 21 comments
14.		Inside One of the World's Largest Bitcoin Mines (thecoinsman.com)
		123 points by mlevy on Aug 29, 2014 \| 103 comments
15.		Bhyve – BSD Hypervisor (bhyve.org)
		122 points by lelf on Aug 29, 2014 \| 61 comments
16.		Pump and Dump: How To Rig the IPO Market with $20M (wolfstreet.com)
		130 points by dualogy on Aug 29, 2014 \| 63 comments
17.		How to choose? (aeon.co)
		120 points by gonehome on Aug 29, 2014 \| 94 comments
18.		Fix the versioning (github.com/jashkenas)
		115 points by abritishguy on Aug 29, 2014 \| 78 comments
19.		What People Cured of Blindness See (newyorker.com)
		105 points by adamnemecek on Aug 29, 2014 \| 31 comments
20.		If You Want to See Inequality in the U.S. at Its Worst, Visit an Impound Lot (time.com)
		102 points by dsl on Aug 29, 2014 \| 121 comments
21.		Y Combinator to recruit more black entrepreneurs (usatoday.com)
		100 points by edw519 on Aug 29, 2014 \| 74 comments
22.		Evidence Grows That Online Social Networks Have Negative Effects (technologyreview.com)
		95 points by ca98am79 on Aug 29, 2014 \| 43 comments
23.		Invertible Bloom Lookup Tables (2011) (arxiv.org)
		92 points by mhlakhani on Aug 29, 2014 \| 24 comments
24.		Perf.fail – Do, learn, fail forward (perf.fail)
		93 points by tilt on Aug 29, 2014 \| 12 comments
25.		India Opens 15M Bank Accounts in Modi’s Inclusion Drive (bloomberg.com)
		86 points by fashok on Aug 29, 2014 \| 37 comments
26.		Is De-Skilling Killing Arts Education? (huffingtonpost.com)
		77 points by luu on Aug 29, 2014 \| 68 comments
27.		How We Work on Queries at GitHub (samlambert.com)
		82 points by samlambert on Aug 29, 2014 \| 29 comments
28.		Keurig competitors crack company's DRM code (consumeraffairs.com)
		74 points by thisisblurry on Aug 29, 2014 \| 88 comments
29.		Go interfaces make test stubbing easy (cloudflare.com)
		78 points by jgrahamc on Aug 29, 2014 \| 29 comments
30.		Roche Biochemical Pathways charts – navigable and annotated (roche.com)
		72 points by mfringel on Aug 29, 2014 \| 17 comments
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