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1.		Choose hotels by the quality of their WiFi (hotelwifitest.com)
		671 points by gozmike on July 24, 2014 \| 237 comments
2.		Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M (wsj.com)
		590 points by moritzplassnig on July 24, 2014 \| 162 comments
3.		Math Intuition Cheatsheet (betterexplained.com)
		478 points by jgrodziski on July 24, 2014 \| 64 comments
4.		Why blurring sensitive information is a bad idea (2007) (dheera.net)
		265 points by Schiphol on July 24, 2014 \| 124 comments
5.		A Conference Stole My Identity (futurestack.com)
		237 points by jballanc on July 24, 2014 \| 142 comments
6.		Google’s $1B purchase of Twitch confirmed (venturebeat.com)
		237 points by owenwil on July 24, 2014 \| 96 comments
7.		Near Miss: The Solar Superstorm of July 2012 (nasa.gov)
		234 points by jamessun on July 24, 2014 \| 157 comments
8.		Show HN: Streisand – Silence censorship, automate the effect (github.com/jlund)
		234 points by jlund on July 24, 2014 \| 52 comments
9.		Gog.com Now Supports Linux (gog.com)
		225 points by oal on July 24, 2014 \| 58 comments
10.		Trello, Inc (joelonsoftware.com)
		197 points by kissgyorgy on July 24, 2014 \| 25 comments
11.		Washington, Minnesota officially endorse a “safer, faster” traffic merge (arstechnica.com)
		179 points by smacktoward on July 24, 2014 \| 200 comments
12.		Ray, the self-driving forklift that is parking cars at a German airport (washingtonpost.com)
		179 points by digisth on July 24, 2014 \| 75 comments
13.		CSS One-Liners (alistapart.com)
		162 points by Brajeshwar on July 24, 2014 \| 54 comments
14.		How to move a 200-ton spectrometer across Europe (fogonazos.es)
		157 points by lelf on July 24, 2014 \| 49 comments
15.		The new Cloud9 development environment (c9.io)
		190 points by ivarpruijn on July 24, 2014 \| 73 comments
16.		A Face Recognition Algorithm That Finally Outperforms Humans (medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog)
		147 points by Mz on July 24, 2014 \| 31 comments
17.		ISPs are spending less on their networks as they make more money off them (washingtonpost.com)
		156 points by markmassie on July 24, 2014 \| 71 comments
18.		Master Emacs in one year (github.com/redguardtoo)
		145 points by dgellow on July 24, 2014 \| 116 comments
19.		HN Hiring mapped (gaganpreet.github.io)
		132 points by rullopat on July 24, 2014 \| 26 comments
20.		Emails reveal close Google relationship with NSA (aljazeera.com)
		127 points by chmars on July 24, 2014 \| 32 comments
21.		“You're not allowed science any more” (nature.com)
		127 points by thisjepisje on July 24, 2014 \| 158 comments
22.		Open sourcing our email signature parsing library (mailgun.com)
		130 points by orliesaurus on July 24, 2014 \| 20 comments
23.		European Court Says CIA Ran Secret Jail in a Polish Forest (nytimes.com)
		124 points by reirob on July 24, 2014 \| 48 comments
24.		India’s Answer to Google Glass: The Smartshoe (wsj.com)
		138 points by skbohra123 on July 24, 2014 \| 64 comments
25.		A Closer Look at Transit (swannodette.github.io)
		122 points by _halgari on July 24, 2014 \| 36 comments
26.		Ask HN: Do bootstrapped billion-dollar companies exist?
		107 points by mdunn on July 24, 2014 \| 134 comments
27.		Our Startup Would Probably Die If We Were In San Francisco (needwant.com)
		103 points by marshallhaas on July 24, 2014 \| 69 comments
28.		Notorious Airbnb squatter may be the dev behind two flailing Kickstarter games (polygon.com)
		95 points by smacktoward on July 24, 2014 \| 90 comments
29.		Joel Spolsky's business operating system (pixelmonkey.org)
		93 points by pixelmonkey on July 24, 2014 \| 17 comments
30.		Burger King's CEO Is 33 (businessweek.com)
		90 points by AVTizzle on July 24, 2014 \| 74 comments
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