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1.		Penny Arcade – Surface Pro 3 update (penny-arcade.com)
		517 points by vxNsr on June 16, 2014 \| 244 comments
2.		The Pivot (dilbert.com)
		516 points by pdsull on June 16, 2014 \| 117 comments
3.		Starbucks to Provide Free College Education to Thousands of Workers (nytimes.com)
		489 points by e15ctr0n on June 16, 2014 \| 194 comments
4.		11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan (linode.com)
		241 points by ljoshua on June 16, 2014 \| 133 comments
5.		How to Fold a Julia Fractal (acko.net)
		231 points by bpierre on June 16, 2014 \| 47 comments
6.		No Money, No Time (nytimes.com)
		193 points by aturek on June 16, 2014 \| 89 comments
7.		Solar plant has generated “supercritical” steam (csironewsblog.com)
		188 points by roberthahn on June 16, 2014 \| 74 comments
8.		Architecting a Machine Learning System for Risk (airbnb.com)
		173 points by lennysan on June 16, 2014 \| 39 comments
9.		The largest and most effective bicycle registry ever (bikeindex.org)
		172 points by bike_index on June 16, 2014 \| 58 comments
10.		Chinese government reveals Microsoft’s secret list of Android-killer patents (arstechnica.com)
		168 points by conductor on June 16, 2014 \| 89 comments
11.		An even slimmer pdf.js (blog.mozilla.org)
		166 points by AndrewDucker on June 16, 2014 \| 72 comments
12.		Announcing Internet Explorer Developer Channel (msdn.com)
		159 points by robin_reala on June 16, 2014 \| 92 comments
13.		Rust’s documentation is about to drastically improve (steveklabnik.com)
		164 points by steveklabnik on June 16, 2014 \| 47 comments
14.		Brand engagement is plummeting on Facebook (contently.com)
		157 points by rblion on June 16, 2014 \| 98 comments
15.		Rum Deal: America’s booze laws are terrible (slate.com)
		139 points by jseliger on June 16, 2014 \| 192 comments
16.		Headerless Train Announcements (windytan.com)
		127 points by jgrahamc on June 16, 2014 \| 8 comments
17.		FlatBuffers: a memory efficient serialization library (google-opensource.blogspot.com)
		126 points by rw on June 16, 2014 \| 62 comments
18.		Microsoft Supercharges Bing Search With Programmable Chips (wired.com)
		122 points by l31g on June 16, 2014 \| 63 comments
19.		Eris: A Decentralized Autonomous Organization Framework (projectdouglas.org)
		123 points by mischa_u on June 16, 2014 \| 42 comments
20.		KnightOS, a third party OS for TI z80 calculators (github.com/knightos)
		123 points by recursion on June 16, 2014 \| 39 comments
21.		Ki – A lisp for your JavaScript (ki-lang.org)
		119 points by threepointone on June 16, 2014 \| 40 comments
22.		Azure – Machine Learning as a Service (azure.microsoft.com)
		109 points by BIackSwan on June 16, 2014 \| 22 comments
23.		The history of Android: The endless iterations of Google’s mobile OS (arstechnica.com)
		101 points by ismavis on June 16, 2014 \| 50 comments
24.		Bannerman (YC S14) Delivers Bouncers On Demand (techcrunch.com)
		100 points by antoinec on June 16, 2014 \| 41 comments
25.		IsoPlex: Popcorn time alternative maintained by Isohunt (isohunt.to)
		97 points by retejo on June 16, 2014 \| 60 comments
26.		The Disruption Machine (newyorker.com)
		92 points by vellum on June 16, 2014 \| 5 comments
27.		Box Acquiring Streem (YC S12) (box.com)
		98 points by goronbjorn on June 16, 2014 \| 34 comments
28.		Why don't you want to be a full time employee? (vidutis.com)
		90 points by mvid on June 16, 2014 \| 32 comments
29.		GitHub Octicons (octicons.github.com)
		89 points by andrewnez on June 16, 2014 \| 6 comments
30.		The 12 step process to download Microsoft SQL Server Express 2014 (istartedsomething.com)
		88 points by martinml on June 16, 2014 \| 35 comments
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