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1.		Some Dark Patterns Now Illegal in UK (90percentofeverything.com)
		653 points by robin_reala on Aug 26, 2014 \| 260 comments
2.		A Single Div (singlediv.com)
		649 points by brbcoding on Aug 26, 2014 \| 140 comments
3.		Vermont Quits War on Drugs to Treat Heroin Abuse as Health Issue (businessweek.com)
		479 points by benblodgett on Aug 26, 2014 \| 143 comments
4.		Hyperlapse, Instagram's new video stabilization app (wired.com)
		438 points by bpierre on Aug 26, 2014 \| 149 comments
5.		The Relative Cost of Bandwidth Around the World (cloudflare.com)
		366 points by FredericJ on Aug 26, 2014 \| 101 comments
6.		JavaScript: Servo’s only garbage collector (blog.mozilla.org)
		304 points by brson on Aug 26, 2014 \| 16 comments
7.		Mozilla Unveils $33 Intex Cloud FX Smartphone (wsj.com)
		271 points by rhelmer on Aug 26, 2014 \| 124 comments
8.		How Norway has avoided the 'curse of oil' (bbc.com)
		271 points by diminish on Aug 26, 2014 \| 143 comments
9.		The poisoned NUL byte, 2014 edition (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
		231 points by tshtf on Aug 26, 2014 \| 17 comments
10.		Ask HN: Startup stole our software, and raised $2MM with it. What should we do?
		231 points by qeorge on Aug 26, 2014 \| 67 comments
11.		Amazon has sold no more than 35,000 Fire phones, data suggests (theguardian.com)
		212 points by wfjackson on Aug 26, 2014 \| 213 comments
12.		The State of NAT Traversal (zerotier.com)
		189 points by api on Aug 26, 2014 \| 96 comments
13.		This Man Built a $3M Business a Year After Four Years in Prison (forbes.com/sites/hollieslade)
		188 points by rbobby on Aug 26, 2014 \| 46 comments
14.		Late Bloomers: Why do we equate genius with precocity? (2008) (newyorker.com)
		156 points by wslh on Aug 26, 2014 \| 67 comments
15.		Helmhurts: Placing a WiFi router with the Helmholtz equation (jasmcole.com)
		145 points by signa11 on Aug 26, 2014 \| 19 comments
16.		Microservices for the Grumpy Neckbeard (chrisstucchio.com)
		144 points by spindritf on Aug 26, 2014 \| 102 comments
17.		Holographic universe experiment begins (symmetrymagazine.org)
		149 points by saticmotion on Aug 26, 2014 \| 47 comments
18.		RethinkDB 1.14: binary data, seamless migration, and Python 3 support (rethinkdb.com)
		154 points by coffeemug on Aug 26, 2014 \| 48 comments
19.		Introducing Meteor 0.9.0, the Meteor Package Server, and Isobuild (meteor.com)
		153 points by waitingkuo on Aug 26, 2014 \| 62 comments
20.		The fundamental problem of programming language package management (ezyang.com)
		134 points by route66 on Aug 26, 2014 \| 72 comments
21.		Show HN: Weird iOS, a list of the weirdest, most artful or unexpected apps (weirdios.tumblr.com)
		136 points by kennywinker on Aug 26, 2014 \| 20 comments
22.		Show HN: Monitorbook – Easily track anything on the web (monitorbook.com)
		134 points by evenflow on Aug 26, 2014 \| 54 comments
23.		Show HN: Pol.is – a new commenting system powered by machine learning and D3 (pol.is)
		126 points by colinmegill on Aug 26, 2014 \| 41 comments
24.		Sublime Text 3 Updated (sublimetext.com)
		115 points by jimhart3000 on Aug 26, 2014 \| 85 comments
25.		Statistics: Losing Ground to CS, Losing Image Among Students (revolutionanalytics.com)
		104 points by sampo on Aug 26, 2014 \| 70 comments
26.		Slap: Terminal-based text editor (github.com/slap-editor)
		110 points by kolodny on Aug 26, 2014 \| 39 comments
27.		Self Employed CV
		98 points by sudorank on Aug 26, 2014 \| 40 comments
28.		PACER Deleting Old Cases; Time to Fix PACER (techdirt.com)
		96 points by thinkcomp on Aug 26, 2014 \| 26 comments
29.		Tim Hortons agrees to Burger King offer for $94 a share (cbc.ca)
		99 points by oulipian on Aug 26, 2014 \| 117 comments
30.		Why Crunch Mode Doesn't Work (2005) (igda.org)
		97 points by support_ribbons on Aug 26, 2014 \| 57 comments
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