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1.
Nobody. Understands. Punctuation. (stilldrinking.org)
418 points by hachiya on June 8, 2014 | 149 comments
2.
Fake Friends with Real Benefits (medium.com/i-data)
310 points by ossama on June 8, 2014 | 107 comments
3.
Call me maybe: RabbitMQ (aphyr.com)
231 points by timf on June 8, 2014 | 42 comments
4.
Valve sponsors Mesa development (lunarg.com)
217 points by Rovanion on June 8, 2014 | 28 comments
5.
Turing Test Success (reading.ac.uk)
216 points by stevejalim on June 8, 2014 | 134 comments
6.
Good and Bad Procrastination (2005) (paulgraham.com)
189 points by jeremylevy on June 8, 2014 | 54 comments
7.
How mistakes can save lives: one man’s mission to revolutionise the NHS (newstatesman.com)
184 points by wormold on June 8, 2014 | 41 comments
8.
Cable Companies Are Astroturfing Fake Consumer Support to End Net Neutrality (vice.com)
182 points by ghosh on June 8, 2014 | 47 comments
9.
Noam Chomsky: A Surveillance State Beyond Imagination Is Being Created (alternet.org)
174 points by 001sky on June 8, 2014 | 78 comments
10.
The Secret Life of an Obsessive Airbnb Host (narrative.ly)
148 points by Calcite on June 8, 2014 | 30 comments
11.
In memory of Rebecca Alison Meyer (meyerweb.com)
141 points by _ugfj on June 8, 2014 | 69 comments
12.
PythonJS now faster than CPython (pythonjs.blogspot.com)
138 points by tyrion on June 8, 2014 | 60 comments
13.
Colleges are full of it: Behind the three-decade scheme to raise tuition (salon.com)
119 points by ph0rque on June 8, 2014 | 101 comments
14.
Code that will only execute once (codegolf.stackexchange.com)
113 points by hawkharris on June 8, 2014 | 26 comments
15.
MIT at center of political power play over campus fusion reactor (bostonglobe.com)
104 points by ilamont on June 8, 2014 | 78 comments
16.
Monarch butterfly decline linked to spread of GM crops (cbc.ca)
105 points by drjohnson on June 8, 2014 | 62 comments
17.
Myths about ElementaryOS (elementaryos.org)
97 points by dgellow on June 8, 2014 | 53 comments
18.
Engineering the Extinction of 40 Species of Mosquitoes (rockstarresearch.com)
89 points by olalonde on June 8, 2014 | 29 comments
19.
Swift impressions (evanmiller.org)
78 points by gmac on June 8, 2014 | 80 comments
20.
The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face (plos.org)
76 points by shahocean on June 8, 2014 | 10 comments
21.
Steady.js – No more scroll jank (lafikl.github.io)
69 points by khalidlafi on June 8, 2014 | 26 comments
22.
Beeplay.js: Write a song in JavaScript (watilde.github.io)
70 points by yror10 on June 8, 2014 | 21 comments
23.
Getting started in data science (treycausey.com)
70 points by treycausey on June 8, 2014 | 32 comments
24.
$300 Billion Broadband Scandal (2009) [pdf] (teletruth.org)
64 points by kushnick on June 8, 2014 | 17 comments
25.
Steve Wozniak is not boring (github.com/dotcloud)
62 points by neilellis on June 8, 2014 | 18 comments
26.
Japan's A-Bomb project (sites.google.com)
65 points by nkurz on June 8, 2014 | 21 comments
27.
Why Canada’s banks have weaker passwords than Twitter or Google (theglobeandmail.com)
58 points by uladzislau on June 8, 2014 | 64 comments
28.
Mathbreakers: Explore mathematics in a 3D game world (kickstarter.com)
57 points by morganq on June 8, 2014 | 29 comments
29.
Taking England back to the Dark Ages (bbc.co.uk)
53 points by chestnut-tree on June 8, 2014 | 23 comments
30.
Swift Language Highlights: An Objective-C Developer’s Perspective (raywenderlich.com)
54 points by davidbarker on June 8, 2014 | 16 comments

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