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1.		A Billionaire Mathematician’s Life of Ferocious Curiosity (nytimes.com)
		505 points by zeeshanm on July 8, 2014 \| 210 comments
2.		The New Haskell Homepage (haskell.org)
		506 points by markthethomas on July 8, 2014 \| 243 comments
3.		Show HN: Hacker News Redesign (hilapeleg.io)
		380 points by jondot on July 8, 2014 \| 198 comments
4.		Dwarf Fortress 0.40.01 (bay12games.com)
		278 points by Audiophilip on July 8, 2014 \| 61 comments
5.		Maintaining digital certificate security (googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)
		295 points by ayrx on July 8, 2014 \| 122 comments
6.		Personal names around the world (w3.org)
		261 points by gulbrandr on July 8, 2014 \| 114 comments
7.		The Ex-Google Hacker Taking on the World’s Spy Agencies (wired.com)
		247 points by wacvasconcelos on July 8, 2014 \| 35 comments
8.		My Half Workday as a Turker (cmu.edu)
		245 points by alceufc on July 8, 2014 \| 94 comments
9.		Color Emoji in Windows 8.1 – The Future of Color Fonts? (opentype.info)
		205 points by sanqui on July 8, 2014 \| 69 comments
10.		How I Start: Elixir (howistart.org)
		222 points by kungfooguru on July 8, 2014 \| 57 comments
11.		The secretive billionaire who built Silicon Valley (fortune.com)
		175 points by aluciani on July 8, 2014 \| 21 comments
12.		Crow – C++ Microframework for Web, inspired by Python Flask (github.com/ipkn)
		194 points by jeremyjh on July 8, 2014 \| 63 comments
13.		Google's Growing Silence on Saving Open Internet Leaves Fight to Startups (bloomberg.com)
		180 points by doctorshady on July 8, 2014 \| 129 comments
14.		Marketing your startup: What's on your checklist?
		167 points by danielhonigman on July 8, 2014 \| 55 comments
15.		The Original Lucasfilm Games Team Talk About Life at Skywalker Ranch (usgamer.net)
		154 points by jsnell on July 8, 2014 \| 52 comments
16.		Hacking Facebook’s Legacy API, Part 1: Making Calls on Behalf of Any User (stephensclafani.com)
		163 points by ssclafani on July 8, 2014 \| 19 comments
17.		DuckDuckGo Regex Search (duckduckgo.com)
		150 points by lelf on July 8, 2014 \| 33 comments
18.		HAProxy 1.5 (haproxy.org)
		150 points by golan on July 8, 2014 \| 48 comments
19.		PunchClock: Fun With iBeacons (panic.com)
		126 points by macrael on July 8, 2014 \| 47 comments
20.		Chrome Remote Desktop for Linux (productforums.google.com)
		127 points by vfclists on July 8, 2014 \| 46 comments
21.		Find Developers and Designers for Side Projects (meeet.co)
		124 points by NoahBuscher on July 8, 2014 \| 50 comments
22.		No, I’ll tell you the answer (asmartbear.com)
		119 points by aaronbrethorst on July 8, 2014 \| 15 comments
23.		GitLab.com Downtime Postmortem (docs.google.com)
		123 points by jobvandervoort on July 8, 2014 \| 48 comments
24.		7 Reasons our app costs $99.99 (httpwatch.com)
		114 points by ryanmcdonough on July 8, 2014 \| 114 comments
25.		More than half the Thiel Fellows plan on returning to school (techcrunch.com)
		113 points by sarahbuhr on July 8, 2014 \| 88 comments
26.		D-day landings scenes in 1944 and now – interactive (theguardian.com)
		102 points by kapkapkap on July 8, 2014 \| 16 comments
27.		Procedural Content Generation in Games (pcgbook.com)
		102 points by ingve on July 8, 2014 \| 25 comments
28.		Three biggest Internet companies in each country (economist.com)
		109 points by maris on July 8, 2014 \| 83 comments
29.		Introducing Transport Layer Security in pure OCaml (openmirage.org)
		106 points by tizoc on July 8, 2014 \| 43 comments
30.		Sourcegraph: Search code, jump around source, see real usage examples (sourcegraph.com)
		111 points by joe2010xtmf on July 8, 2014 \| 37 comments
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