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1.		[dupe] Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (ocallahan.org)
		390 points by walterbell on Aug 16, 2014 \| 309 comments
2.		The Python I Would Like To See (pocoo.org)
		327 points by rachbelaid on Aug 16, 2014 \| 82 comments
3.		George Orwell's review of Mein Kampf (1940) (docs.google.com)
		305 points by adamnemecek on Aug 16, 2014 \| 240 comments
4.		Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista? (2012) (msdn.com)
		230 points by pzaich on Aug 16, 2014 \| 67 comments
5.		Georgia Teens Develop App to Document Police Abuse (forharriet.com)
		229 points by logn on Aug 16, 2014 \| 50 comments
6.		The secret life of SIM cards (2013) (simhacks.github.io)
		225 points by cthackers on Aug 16, 2014 \| 43 comments
7.		Cell Phone Guide For US Protesters, Updated 2014 Edition (eff.org)
		170 points by panarky on Aug 16, 2014 \| 61 comments
8.		VimR – Refined Vim Experience for OS X (vimr.org)
		164 points by jasonrdsouza on Aug 16, 2014 \| 63 comments
9.		A Leica T Review (minimallyminimal.com)
		122 points by constantinum on Aug 16, 2014 \| 102 comments
10.		Yubari, Japan: a city learns how to die (theguardian.com)
		109 points by oska on Aug 16, 2014 \| 53 comments
11.		3D Printed Sugar (the-sugar-lab.com)
		105 points by nikhilpandit on Aug 16, 2014 \| 35 comments
12.		U.S. firm helped the spyware industry build a digital weapon for sale overseas (washingtonpost.com)
		110 points by rpupkin on Aug 16, 2014 \| 18 comments
13.		Photos of the Commodore production line in Hong Kong (dustlayer.com)
		96 points by yankcrime on Aug 16, 2014 \| 9 comments
14.		Python-ftfy: Given Unicode text, make its representation possibly less broken (github.com/luminosoinsight)
		101 points by rspeer on Aug 16, 2014 \| 40 comments
15.		A Chinese Man, a $50 Billion Plan and a Canal to Reshape Nicaragua (npr.org)
		97 points by victoro on Aug 16, 2014 \| 56 comments
16.		Senator Wyden: Your data’s yours no matter on whose server it lives (washingtonpost.com)
		96 points by Libertatea on Aug 16, 2014 \| 22 comments
17.		Ask HN: Experienced dev having career lull
		85 points by throwawaydotcpp on Aug 16, 2014 \| 72 comments
18.		Option Monads in Rust
		83 points by mmastrac on Aug 16, 2014 \| 57 comments
19.		Ask HN: Ways to increase mental sharpness or intelligence?
		78 points by hotshot on Aug 16, 2014 \| 55 comments
20.		Codeworld: An open-source educational programming environment using Haskell (github.com/google)
		73 points by cnbuff410 on Aug 16, 2014 \| 9 comments
21.		Faster Python calls in Cython 0.21 (behnel.de)
		75 points by andreif on Aug 16, 2014 \| 7 comments
22.		NSA Observer (nsa-observer.net)
		65 points by getdavidhiggins on Aug 16, 2014 \| 12 comments
23.		Firejail – Simple Linux sandbox with seccomp (l3net.wordpress.com)
		62 points by antocv on Aug 16, 2014 \| 10 comments
24.		Half of a Coin: Negative Probabilities [pdf] (wilmott.com)
		60 points by jmount on Aug 16, 2014 \| 38 comments
25.		DataRobot raises $21M Series A (wsj.com)
		81 points by benhamner on Aug 16, 2014 \| 8 comments
26.		Octo: CHIP-8 retro game programming in the browser (johnearnest.github.io)
		61 points by mr_golyadkin on Aug 16, 2014 \| 4 comments
27.		ColorRun – Simple browser game about colors (colorrun.pl)
		56 points by lukaszmtw on Aug 16, 2014 \| 33 comments
28.		How my startup got to #1 on both Product Hunt and Hacker News (levels.io)
		59 points by pieterhg on Aug 16, 2014 \| 23 comments
29.		Inside The Making Of The New “Dungeons and Dragons” (fastcodesign.com)
		56 points by santaclaus on Aug 16, 2014 \| 23 comments
30.		Show HN: EmailPK – Instant encrypted email (diafygi.github.io)
		53 points by diafygi on Aug 16, 2014 \| 37 comments
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