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1.		EFF Asks Judge to Rule NSA Internet Backbone Spying Techniques Unconstitutional (eff.org)
		292 points by rosser on July 26, 2014 \| 104 comments
2.		“Learning to Read” excerpt from The Autobiography of Malcolm X (smccd.net)
		282 points by kcovia on July 26, 2014 \| 154 comments
3.		How I ended up conducting successful tech interviews with just 1 question (nicolasbize.com)
		261 points by bubblicious on July 26, 2014 \| 133 comments
4.		A Traditional City Primer (andrewalexanderprice.com)
		244 points by nopinsight on July 26, 2014 \| 154 comments
5.		Ten Thousand Years (99percentinvisible.org)
		226 points by ZeljkoS on July 26, 2014 \| 130 comments
6.		Elvish – An experimental Unix shell in Go (github.com/xiaq)
		221 points by networked on July 26, 2014 \| 75 comments
7.		GCC 4.9 is doing “some seriously crazy shit” according to Linus Torvalds (lkml.org)
		213 points by jdoliner on July 26, 2014 \| 238 comments
8.		Diary of an atomic bomb technician (lrb.co.uk)
		181 points by timdierks on July 26, 2014 \| 68 comments
9.		Mystery in the Perseus Cluster (nasa.gov)
		173 points by uladzislau on July 26, 2014 \| 68 comments
10.		Don't Trust Google (2002) (idlewords.com)
		152 points by kryptiskt on July 26, 2014 \| 83 comments
11.		History of Lossless Data Compression Algorithms (ieeeghn.org)
		146 points by _nullandnull_ on July 26, 2014 \| 44 comments
12.		How PGP Works Under the Hood (marcomanzoni.me)
		129 points by marcomanzoni on July 26, 2014 \| 39 comments
13.		Nigeria 'on red alert' over Ebola death in Lagos (bbc.co.uk)
		125 points by richardwigley on July 26, 2014 \| 58 comments
14.		[flagged] Poll: How religious is hacker news?
		110 points by smallegan on July 26, 2014 \| 151 comments
15.		LocalForage – An asynchronous data store with a simple, localStorage-like API (mozilla.github.io)
		91 points by AndrewDucker on July 26, 2014 \| 19 comments
16.		The App I Used to Break Into My Neighbor’s Home (wired.com)
		86 points by rmason on July 26, 2014 \| 60 comments
17.		Notes from YC Startup School Europe (theinflexion.com)
		84 points by nqureshi on July 26, 2014 \| 27 comments
18.		The Mediocrity Principle (edge.org)
		88 points by luu on July 26, 2014 \| 42 comments
19.		NASA e-Book Features (nasa.gov)
		82 points by journeeman on July 26, 2014 \| 12 comments
20.		Professionalism for Software Engineers (2000) (greenspun.com)
		79 points by cottonseed on July 26, 2014 \| 56 comments
21.		Exploring Swift Memory Layout (mikeash.com)
		75 points by josephlord on July 26, 2014 \| 5 comments
22.		Turn Your Old Cell Phones into Listening Devices to Stop Illegal Logging (makezine.com)
		86 points by RainforestCx on July 26, 2014 \| 16 comments
23.		Basil.js – Smart persistence layer (github.com/wisembly)
		77 points by guillaumepotier on July 26, 2014 \| 23 comments
24.		An Idiot's Guide to Inequality (nytimes.com)
		71 points by lvevjo on July 26, 2014 \| 40 comments
25.		Is the Solar System Stable? (2011) (ias.edu)
		68 points by jsnell on July 26, 2014 \| 27 comments
26.		Startup School Europe 2014 Live Stream (ycombinator.com)
		56 points by justin on July 26, 2014 \| 10 comments
27.		Day One with the Oculus Rift DK2 (roadtovr.com)
		61 points by bane on July 26, 2014 \| 15 comments
28.		GitHub and BitBucket's SSL Provider's Cert has expired (github.com)
		72 points by hiroprot on July 26, 2014 \| 43 comments
29.		Show HN: MTailor – Get measured by your iPhone's camera for a custom shirt (mtailor.com)
		70 points by mpenn on July 26, 2014 \| 81 comments
30.		How retiring segmentation in AMD64 long mode broke VMware (2006) (pagetable.com)
		53 points by userbinator on July 26, 2014 \| 11 comments
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