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1.
The Developer's Dystopian Future (the-pastry-box-project.net)
475 points by bjxrn on July 6, 2014 | 201 comments
2.
Consciousness on-off switch discovered deep in brain (newscientist.com)
319 points by chanux on July 6, 2014 | 111 comments
3.
Dijkstra’s algorithm and the Fibonacci heap (maryrosecook.com)
244 points by tosh on July 6, 2014 | 95 comments
4.
Dropping Loot (stuffwithstuff.com)
236 points by alphabetam on July 6, 2014 | 81 comments
5.
Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989) (utexas.edu)
237 points by torb on July 6, 2014 | 96 comments
6.
Why composition is often better than inheritance (joostdevblog.blogspot.com)
192 points by exch on July 6, 2014 | 90 comments
7.
CIA employee’s quest to release information ‘destroyed my entire career’ (washingtonpost.com)
182 points by gluxon on July 6, 2014 | 45 comments
8.
Living in a Fool’s Paradise (boomcalifornia.com)
186 points by Mz on July 6, 2014 | 148 comments
9.
In NSA-intercepted data, those not targeted far outnumber the foreigners who are (washingtonpost.com)
181 points by bcn on July 6, 2014 | 26 comments
10.
Plain text wrapping in Gmail (mathiasbynens.be)
171 points by daw___ on July 6, 2014 | 90 comments
11.
Jamming XKeyScore (erratasec.com)
163 points by id on July 6, 2014 | 41 comments
12.
A curated list of Go frameworks, libraries and software (github.com/avelino)
158 points by avelino on July 6, 2014 | 43 comments
13.
Homemade Speakers (chrisfenton.com)
154 points by luu on July 6, 2014 | 70 comments
14.
First they came for the Whistleblowers, and I did not speak out (ibd.com)
158 points by rberger on July 6, 2014 | 64 comments
15.
A list of search results omitted due to the “Right to be forgotten” (hiddenfromgoogle.com)
158 points by afaqurk on July 6, 2014 | 83 comments
16.
So I Finally Took Time to Make a Game (pandoralive.info)
128 points by ekianjo on July 6, 2014 | 16 comments
17.
Show HN: Virtual File System in PHP (github.com/adlawson)
112 points by adlawson on July 6, 2014 | 27 comments
18.
Show HN: Kaffee Bitte, specialty coffee delivery for Germany (kaffeebitte.de)
105 points by hannes2000 on July 6, 2014 | 81 comments
19.
Microservices - 72 resources (arkency.com)
105 points by calineczka on July 6, 2014 | 44 comments
20.
The trip to federal prison from court to your new bed (2004) (prisontalk.com)
108 points by omnibrain on July 6, 2014 | 43 comments
21.
How to Read Proofs Faster: A Summary of Useful Advice (calnewport.com)
98 points by dlo on July 6, 2014 | 25 comments
22.
XKCD: Research Ethics (xkcd.com)
89 points by codelucas on July 6, 2014 | 29 comments
23.
New Study Contradicts Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000 Rule (businessinsider.com)
92 points by jamesbritt on July 6, 2014 | 98 comments
24.
The Art of Assembly Language [pdf] (ic.unicamp.br)
88 points by tambourine_man on July 6, 2014 | 27 comments
25.
True Color support in various terminals and applications (gist.github.com)
75 points by xvilka on July 6, 2014 | 19 comments
26.
From Google to Amazon: EU goes to war against power of US digital giants (theguardian.com)
77 points by rpm4321 on July 6, 2014 | 74 comments
27.
An archive of all-fiction pulpwood magazines from 1896 - 1946 (pulpmags.org)
72 points by thisjepisje on July 6, 2014 | 4 comments
28.
Redesigning The World Cup 2014 Brazil (medium.com/guusterbeek)
65 points by aorshan on July 6, 2014 | 65 comments
29.
Automated brute-force attack against the EFI PIN (2013) (orvtech.com)
67 points by brie22 on July 6, 2014 | 14 comments
30.
TSA: Some on US-bound flights must turn on phones (ap.org)
67 points by juliann on July 6, 2014 | 51 comments

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