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1.		Filecoin – Data storage network and crypto-currency based on Bitcoin (filecoin.io)
		281 points by _prometheus on July 18, 2014 \| 137 comments
2.		“A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept” (quora.com)
		245 points by vvijay03 on July 18, 2014 \| 62 comments
3.		GoTenna – Send and receive messages even when you don’t have service (gotenna.com)
		255 points by chrisBob on July 18, 2014 \| 178 comments
4.		Electric life forms that live on energy (newscientist.com)
		253 points by jonbaer on July 18, 2014 \| 54 comments
5.		Programming is not math? (j2kun.svbtle.com)
		248 points by j2kun on July 18, 2014 \| 159 comments
6.		Kindle Unlimited (amazon.com)
		245 points by zeratul on July 18, 2014 \| 191 comments
7.		Anatomy of a system call, part 1 (lwn.net)
		215 points by signa11 on July 18, 2014 \| 19 comments
8.		Leading HIV researchers lost as flight MH17 is downed in Ukraine (telegraph.co.uk)
		199 points by antman on July 18, 2014 \| 78 comments
9.		Google will stop calling games 'free' when they offer in-app purchases (theverge.com)
		207 points by bergie on July 18, 2014 \| 92 comments
10.		Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to Control the Internet (firstlook.org)
		211 points by unclebucknasty on July 18, 2014 \| 98 comments
11.		The Benefits of Failing at French (nytimes.com)
		192 points by danso on July 18, 2014 \| 150 comments
12.		Tell HN: Take vacation
		188 points by hippich on July 18, 2014 \| 117 comments
13.		Mapcode – A short address for any location on Earth (mapcode.com)
		203 points by beseku on July 18, 2014 \| 119 comments
14.		Open Source Madness (eff.org)
		191 points by aroman on July 18, 2014 \| 50 comments
15.		Show HN: Weather Icons – Icon font with 123 weather-themed icons (github.com/erikflowers)
		184 points by eflowers on July 18, 2014 \| 35 comments
16.		Slackware is 21 Years Old (slackblogs.blogspot.com)
		178 points by robobro on July 18, 2014 \| 60 comments
17.		Welcome new YC team members (blog.ycombinator.com)
		196 points by sama on July 18, 2014 \| 48 comments
18.		The time one of my colleagues debugged a line-of-business application (msdn.com)
		162 points by joshyeager on July 18, 2014 \| 14 comments
19.		Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (hpmor.com)
		163 points by lobo_tuerto on July 18, 2014 \| 127 comments
20.		Irmin: Git-like distributed, branchable storage (openmirage.org)
		147 points by amirmc on July 18, 2014 \| 25 comments
21.		Mayhem – A hidden threat for *nix web servers (virusbtn.com)
		153 points by WestCoastJustin on July 18, 2014 \| 54 comments
22.		Devicons, an iconic font made for developers (vorillaz.github.io)
		141 points by MozMorris on July 18, 2014 \| 77 comments
23.		Verizon made an enemy tonight (iamnotaprogrammer.com)
		133 points by sudonim on July 18, 2014 \| 49 comments
24.		Ask HN: Good countries for American expats
		112 points by gregd on July 18, 2014 \| 121 comments
25.		The 10:10 Code (2010) (jgc.org)
		117 points by jgrahamc on July 18, 2014 \| 29 comments
26.		A Gentle Introduction to Monad Transformers – or, Values as Exceptions (github.com/kqr)
		119 points by zik on July 18, 2014 \| 54 comments
27.		Use the unofficial Bash strict mode (redsymbol.net)
		96 points by redsymbol on July 18, 2014 \| 36 comments
28.		Show HN: SwiftHN, a Hacker News reader in Swift (dimillian.github.io)
		103 points by dimillian on July 18, 2014 \| 44 comments
29.		Rhode Island unintentionally decriminalized indoor prostitution in 2003 (vox.com)
		95 points by adventured on July 18, 2014 \| 130 comments
30.		FedEx Charged With Shipping Drugs For Illegal Online Pharmacies (npr.org)
		100 points by sizzle on July 18, 2014 \| 61 comments
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