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1.		The Lowdown on Lidar (docs.google.com)
		667 points by timdierks on July 31, 2014 \| 271 comments
2.		Introducing EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month (eff.org)
		462 points by scrollaway on July 31, 2014 \| 110 comments
3.		NASA presents evidence that microwave thrusters seem to work (wired.co.uk)
		406 points by jchesters on July 31, 2014 \| 198 comments
4.		Seven habits of highly fraudulent users (siftscience.com)
		390 points by necubi on July 31, 2014 \| 139 comments
5.		A Buddhist monk confronts Japan’s suicide culture (2013) (newyorker.com)
		354 points by ahris on July 31, 2014 \| 176 comments
6.		The Kids Who Beat Autism (nytimes.com)
		327 points by danso on July 31, 2014 \| 138 comments
7.		Panasonic and Tesla Sign Agreement for the Gigafactory (teslamotors.com)
		264 points by houseofshards on July 31, 2014 \| 101 comments
8.		Mitro Releases a New Free and Open Source Password Manager (eff.org)
		248 points by gbarboza on July 31, 2014 \| 129 comments
9.		Affinity Designer – Illustrator alternative (serif.com)
		153 points by oulipian on July 31, 2014 \| 95 comments
10.		Algebraic Data Types (esper.com)
		157 points by ALee on July 31, 2014 \| 58 comments
11.		C.I.A. Admits Penetrating Senate Intelligence Computers (nytimes.com)
		135 points by aaronbrethorst on July 31, 2014 \| 46 comments
12.		LinkedIn Neutered Rapportive Today (ahamlett.com)
		144 points by welder on July 31, 2014 \| 34 comments
13.		Critiquing Facebook's new PHP spec (circleci.com)
		142 points by pbiggar on July 31, 2014 \| 65 comments
14.		S.&P. Says Argentina Has Defaulted (nytimes.com)
		134 points by Ashan on July 31, 2014 \| 188 comments
15.		Show HN: I'm renting a truck to make buying and selling furniture easier (thedealtruck.com)
		132 points by ed on July 31, 2014 \| 86 comments
16.		Paypal has not been sending payment notifications to merchants (tindie.com)
		132 points by emilepetrone on July 31, 2014 \| 71 comments
17.		Snowden's temporary asylum status expires in Russia (bbc.com)
		123 points by martin_ on July 31, 2014 \| 22 comments
18.		Domain Name Registration and Geo DNS for Route 53 (amazon.com)
		130 points by jeffbarr on July 31, 2014 \| 46 comments
19.		Build hybrid apps with the Ionic Creator (ionicframework.com)
		126 points by mkremer90 on July 31, 2014 \| 31 comments
20.		Consulting Medieval Manuscripts Online (utm.edu)
		102 points by yarapavan on July 31, 2014 \| 26 comments
21.		Text and Ride in India (nytimes.com)
		114 points by keerthiko on July 31, 2014 \| 29 comments
22.		Introducing the Internet.org App (fb.com)
		99 points by djug on July 31, 2014 \| 84 comments
23.		“TurboFan” – Experimental new optimizing compiler for Google's V8 JS engine (groups.google.com)
		101 points by jonrimmer on July 31, 2014 \| 17 comments
24.		20 cool Clojure functions (daveyarwood.github.io)
		101 points by pps on July 31, 2014 \| 40 comments
25.		Martha Stewart: Why I Love My Drone (time.com)
		98 points by yurisagalov on July 31, 2014 \| 28 comments
26.		Introducing Stellar: a decentralized protocol for sending and receiving money (stellar.org)
		100 points by polymathist on July 31, 2014 \| 35 comments
27.		Show HN: Hacker News CLI, written in Go (github.com/andrewstuart)
		98 points by andrewstuart2 on July 31, 2014 \| 23 comments
28.		Why the Security of USB Is Fundamentally Broken (wired.com)
		95 points by justinpaulson on July 31, 2014 \| 74 comments
29.		Software Pipelining on the Mill CPU [video] (millcomputing.com)
		80 points by signa11 on July 31, 2014 \| 51 comments
30.		Cloudy With a Chance of War (nautil.us)
		81 points by lingben on July 31, 2014 \| 20 comments
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