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1.
Free, Worldwide, Encrypted Phone Calls for iPhone (whispersystems.org)
410 points by david_shaw on July 29, 2014 | 194 comments
2.
Australia bans reporting of multi-nation corruption case (wikileaks.org)
420 points by abritishguy on July 29, 2014 | 132 comments
3.
Which is better, Adblock or Adblock Plus? (palant.de)
336 points by XzetaU8 on July 29, 2014 | 184 comments
4.
My iOS Indie-Game Numbers (jazzychad.net)
325 points by jazzychad on July 29, 2014 | 143 comments
5.
I created my own MMO and lost 100 pounds (polygon.com)
315 points by dshankar on July 29, 2014 | 136 comments
6.
Google Startup Launch (developers.google.com)
273 points by ishener on July 29, 2014 | 41 comments
7.
App Rot (marco.org)
207 points by tedlee on July 29, 2014 | 58 comments
8.
Pinboard 2014 Expenses (docs.google.com)
213 points by _kcn8 on July 29, 2014 | 73 comments
9.
The seL4 microkernel (github.com/sel4)
194 points by gioele on July 29, 2014 | 43 comments
10.
How a bug in Dropbox permanently deleted my 8000 photos (medium.com/jan.curn)
206 points by jancurn on July 29, 2014 | 141 comments
11.
The Business of Fake Hollywood Money (priceonomics.com)
173 points by ryan_j_naughton on July 29, 2014 | 73 comments
12.
Amazon/Hachette Business Interruption (amazon.com)
173 points by jamesmoss on July 29, 2014 | 130 comments
13.
Building an API in 60 seconds, without any server setup (blockspring.com)
185 points by hackerews on July 29, 2014 | 71 comments
14.
Steel worker reveals blocking view of U.S. aircraft on day of atomic bombing (mainichi.jp)
155 points by devchuk on July 29, 2014 | 41 comments
15.
Indian E-Commerce Firm Flipkart Raises Eye-Popping $1B (nytimes.com)
164 points by dandrewsen on July 29, 2014 | 90 comments
16.
Total darkness at night key to success of breast cancer therapy (sciencedaily.com)
151 points by wslh on July 29, 2014 | 82 comments
17.
Deep Learning Image Classifier (toronto.edu)
149 points by adid on July 29, 2014 | 32 comments
18.
The Suburbs Will Die: One Man's Fight to Fix the American Dream (time.com)
138 points by e15ctr0n on July 29, 2014 | 187 comments
19.
Stuff that every programmer should know: Data Visualization (c0de517e.blogspot.com)
141 points by nkurz on July 29, 2014 | 20 comments
20.
The NSA's Cyber-King Goes Corporate (foreignpolicy.com)
123 points by uptown on July 29, 2014 | 69 comments
21.
‘Craft’ Whiskey Is Probably From a Factory Distillery in Indiana (thedailybeast.com)
126 points by ceejayoz on July 29, 2014 | 112 comments
22.
Debian and the PHP license (lwn.net)
122 points by jpswade on July 29, 2014 | 88 comments
23.
Sculpting text with regex, grep, sed, awk, emacs and vim (2012) (might.net)
119 points by aburan28 on July 29, 2014 | 32 comments
24.
Experimenting with Mozjpeg 2.0 (cloudflare.com)
111 points by jgrahamc on July 29, 2014 | 22 comments
25.
Go Concurrency Patterns: Context (golang.org)
117 points by campoy on July 29, 2014 | 17 comments
26.
Nine Nations of North America 30 years Later (nytimes.com)
108 points by iamjdg on July 29, 2014 | 61 comments
27.
A Nuclear Probe to Explore Earth’s Interior (beyondearthlyskies.blogspot.com)
111 points by mike_esspe on July 29, 2014 | 64 comments
28.
Cascaded Displays: Spatiotemporal Superresolution using Offset Pixel Layers (nvidia.com)
105 points by chdir on July 29, 2014 | 37 comments
29.
Ask HN: Why is the 40-comment penalty being applied to Show HNs?
96 points by fivedogit on July 29, 2014 | 19 comments
30.
Show HN: My first iPhone game – after 18 months of work (itunes.apple.com)
102 points by benolds on July 29, 2014 | 33 comments

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