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1.		Show HN: Sysadmin Casts – simple bite-sized sysadmin screencasts (sysadmincasts.com)
		443 points by WestCoastJustin on July 9, 2014 \| 80 comments
2.		Retirement of Prof. Andy Tanenbaum (vu.nl)
		372 points by Morgawr on July 9, 2014 \| 127 comments
3.		Tor Project Sued (scribd.com)
		290 points by mike-cardwell on July 9, 2014 \| 151 comments
4.		Anti-Patterns in Python Programming (lignos.org)
		320 points by aburan28 on July 9, 2014 \| 237 comments
5.		The power of lonely: What we do better without other people around (boston.com)
		293 points by visopsys on July 9, 2014 \| 60 comments
6.		Retraction of 60 articles implicated in a peer review and citation ring (sagepub.com)
		226 points by phreeza on July 9, 2014 \| 113 comments
7.		In ‘sexting’ case, police want to photograph teen in sexually explicit manner (washingtonpost.com)
		197 points by Mz on July 9, 2014 \| 93 comments
8.		Alcatel-Lucent sets record of 10 Gbps over traditional copper telephone lines (alcatel-lucent.com)
		279 points by Deinos on July 9, 2014 \| 111 comments
9.		Cinnamon can reverse changes in the brains of mice with Parkinsons (rush.edu)
		215 points by rodedwards on July 9, 2014 \| 82 comments
10.		Double Pendulum in fewer than 100 lines of JavaScript (physicsandbox.com)
		180 points by phybox on July 9, 2014 \| 54 comments
11.		An Experimental New Type Inference Scheme for Rust (smallcultfollowing.com)
		185 points by pohl on July 9, 2014 \| 11 comments
12.		Looks by Dr. Dre (subtraction.com)
		157 points by _pius on July 9, 2014 \| 115 comments
13.		GameCentral talks to the creator of Oddworld, gains insight into games industry (metro.co.uk)
		145 points by hansy on July 9, 2014 \| 96 comments
14.		Google Drive Found Leaking Private Data (collaboristablog.com)
		156 points by srikar on July 9, 2014 \| 73 comments
15.		The Android Screen Fragmentation Myth (rustyshelf.org)
		146 points by chanux on July 9, 2014 \| 72 comments
16.		The Most Shocking Result in World Cup History (fivethirtyeight.com)
		133 points by houseofshards on July 9, 2014 \| 79 comments
17.		Show HN: MechanicalSoup, Python library for automating interaction with websites
		180 points by mattme on July 9, 2014 \| 27 comments
18.		PostgreSQL Performance on Docker (davidmkerr.com)
		157 points by porker on July 9, 2014 \| 46 comments
19.		Snabb Switch – A toolkit for solving novel problems in networking (github.com/snabbco)
		137 points by justincormack on July 9, 2014 \| 62 comments
20.		Company with zero revenue and one employee currently worth 3.8B (google.com)
		111 points by trader on July 9, 2014 \| 48 comments
21.		Military uniforms – Expense and stupidity too big to camouflage (economist.com)
		101 points by couchand on July 9, 2014 \| 80 comments
22.		Show HN: Hyperledger – Open Payments Protocol (hyperledger.com)
		112 points by danoprey on July 9, 2014 \| 43 comments
23.		Cylinders in Spheres (datagenetics.com)
		118 points by stansmith on July 9, 2014 \| 58 comments
24.		[dupe] The Pentagon's $399 Billion Plane to Nowhere (foreignpolicy.com)
		103 points by mcalmels on July 9, 2014 \| 72 comments
25.		Google Co-Founders on Healthcare: “Thanks, But No Thanks” (thehealthcareblog.com)
		135 points by tomhoward on July 9, 2014 \| 140 comments
26.		The Oldest Song in the World: A Sumerian Hymn Written 3,400 Years Ago (openculture.com)
		92 points by pje on July 9, 2014 \| 18 comments
27.		Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On (firstlook.org)
		88 points by bendoernberg on July 9, 2014 \| 32 comments
28.		Abnormal Brain Structure In Youth Who Commit Homicide (nih.gov)
		82 points by signa11 on July 9, 2014 \| 47 comments
29.		Watch London in real time: tweets, tubes, etc. (watchdogs.com)
		96 points by vjvj on July 9, 2014 \| 39 comments
30.		This is what happened when I drove my Mercedes to pick up food stamps (washingtonpost.com)
		82 points by gdilla on July 9, 2014 \| 115 comments
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