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1.		ITerm2 2.0 (iterm2.com)
		584 points by gnachman on July 15, 2014 \| 230 comments
2.		Tech Blogger Tries To Cancel Comcast Service, Hilarity Ensues (techcrunch.com)
		501 points by testrun on July 15, 2014 \| 339 comments
3.		Google+ now lets you use any name you want (plus.google.com)
		407 points by srathi on July 15, 2014 \| 250 comments
4.		An FBI Counterterrorism Agent Tracked Me Down Because I Took a Picture of This (aclu.org)
		382 points by jonphillips06 on July 15, 2014 \| 144 comments
5.		Announcing Project Zero (googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)
		360 points by newscasta on July 15, 2014 \| 81 comments
6.		Software used to count Australian Senate votes is a “trade secret” (mjec.net)
		341 points by mlandauer on July 15, 2014 \| 99 comments
7.		Apple Teams Up With IBM for Enterprise Push (techcrunch.com)
		323 points by benstein on July 15, 2014 \| 180 comments
8.		Mozilla Advances JPEG Encoding with Mozjpeg 2.0 (blog.mozilla.org)
		309 points by dochtman on July 15, 2014 \| 113 comments
9.		Why does Outlook map Ctrl+F to Forward instead of Find? (msdn.com)
		296 points by shdon on July 15, 2014 \| 201 comments
10.		PDFy – Instant PDF Host (pdf.yt)
		244 points by ridgewell on July 15, 2014 \| 98 comments
11.		Floppy Bird: A Flappy Bird clone in 16-bit x86 assembly (github.com/icebreaker)
		234 points by iamnader on July 15, 2014 \| 70 comments
12.		Patent trolls now account for 67 percent of all new patent lawsuits (washingtonpost.com)
		220 points by Libertatea on July 15, 2014 \| 69 comments
13.		The FCC is so swamped with net neutrality comments, it’s extending the deadline (washingtonpost.com)
		198 points by nazgul on July 15, 2014 \| 57 comments
14.		Show HN: Realm (YC S11), a mobile database (realm.io)
		188 points by bjchrist on July 15, 2014 \| 96 comments
15.		Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack (darrinhenein.com)
		177 points by dhenein on July 15, 2014 \| 103 comments
16.		Inverter (gorried.github.io)
		179 points by dgorrie on July 15, 2014 \| 53 comments
17.		The Tao of Programming (mit.edu)
		153 points by galapago on July 15, 2014 \| 43 comments
18.		Zinc – Rust’s safety features applied to embedded development (zinc.rs)
		147 points by sanxiyn on July 15, 2014 \| 40 comments
19.		Meet ‘Project Zero,’ Google’s Secret Team of Bug-Hunting Hackers (wired.com)
		152 points by Libertatea on July 15, 2014 \| 41 comments
20.		Farnborough Airshow: The Scorpion in search of a customer (bbc.co.uk)
		127 points by rollthehard6 on July 15, 2014 \| 95 comments
21.		PHP 5.7 now nearly twice as fast as PHP 5.6 (ckon.wordpress.com)
		127 points by colinramsay on July 15, 2014 \| 37 comments
22.		Thread is a mesh network to connect products around the home (threadgroup.org)
		129 points by e15ctr0n on July 15, 2014 \| 95 comments
23.		Why Probabilistic Programming Matters (plus.google.com)
		119 points by shankysingh on July 15, 2014 \| 51 comments
24.		Kotlin: Statically typed programming language targeting the JVM and JS (kotlinlang.org)
		121 points by tilt on July 15, 2014 \| 85 comments
25.		Earth's Magnetic Field Flip Could Happen Sooner Than Expected (scientificamerican.com)
		119 points by sytelus on July 15, 2014 \| 63 comments
26.		Google Shopping Express (google.com)
		114 points by mariusz79 on July 15, 2014 \| 64 comments
27.		World’s First Thorium Reactor Designed (itheo.org)
		115 points by sasoon on July 15, 2014 \| 54 comments
28.		10 Tricks to Appear Smart During Meetings (medium.com/comedy-corner)
		105 points by prasoon2211 on July 15, 2014 \| 33 comments
29.		Germany is pressuring Neocities to censor a disclosure of their censorship (neocities.org)
		118 points by kyledrake on July 15, 2014 \| 61 comments
30.		Steven Colbert On Vessyl Digital Cup [video] (cc.com)
		98 points by rickdale on July 15, 2014 \| 79 comments
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