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1.
Please Give Edward Snowden His Medal of Freedom Already (techcrunch.com)
162 points by brmunk on Aug 2, 2014 | 61 comments
2.
Vision-Correcting Displays [video] (youtube.com)
172 points by pioul on Aug 2, 2014 | 48 comments
3.
PostgreSQL/FreeBSD performance and scalability on a 40-core machine [pdf] (kiev.ua)
141 points by adamnemecek on Aug 2, 2014 | 16 comments
4.
Patching the Newton (dadhacker.com)
106 points by zdw on Aug 2, 2014 | 17 comments
5.
Google tips off cops after spotting child abuse images in email (sophos.com)
112 points by skreuzer on Aug 2, 2014 | 126 comments
6.
How I Accumulated 2M Stellar in Less Than 24 Hours (medium.com/everettforth)
104 points by everettForth on Aug 2, 2014 | 62 comments
7.
The Great Colorado Weed Experiment (nytimes.com)
90 points by isaacdl on Aug 2, 2014 | 98 comments
8.
Wikipedia Zero and Net Neutrality: Protecting the Internet as a Public Space (wikimedia.org)
92 points by user_235711 on Aug 2, 2014 | 38 comments
9.
Most Math Problems Do Not Have a Unique Right Answer (devlinsangle.blogspot.com)
94 points by ColinWright on Aug 2, 2014 | 67 comments
10.
Stellar account with more than one million stellars (stellar.org)
86 points by SandroG on Aug 2, 2014 | 57 comments
11.
Shadertoy adds procedural GPU-generated music in the browser (shadertoy.com)
76 points by ykl on Aug 2, 2014 | 18 comments
12.
Xapo – Bitcoin debit card (xapo.com)
76 points by gmazzotti on Aug 2, 2014 | 33 comments
13.
Show HN: Miimic – Let your friends text for you (miimic.me)
85 points by jchoudh on Aug 2, 2014 | 51 comments
14.
Fantasy World OCaml (2013) (chaudhuri.info)
76 points by a0 on Aug 2, 2014 | 33 comments
15.
Clojure Destructuring Tutorial and Cheat Sheet (gist.github.com)
75 points by falava on Aug 2, 2014 | 5 comments
16.
MDN Database Disclosure (blog.mozilla.org)
73 points by diegocr on Aug 2, 2014 | 46 comments
17.
Reddit's Favorite Scientist Just Got Banned for Cheating the Site (vice.com)
73 points by antr on Aug 2, 2014 | 64 comments
18.
Replication Controversy in Psychology (slate.com)
73 points by nkurz on Aug 2, 2014 | 66 comments
19.
Reanimating Bertha, a Mechanical Behemoth Slumbering Under Seattle (nytimes.com)
68 points by aaronbrethorst on Aug 2, 2014 | 33 comments
20.
Outsmarting the smart meter (honeynet.org)
68 points by lelf on Aug 2, 2014 | 32 comments
21.
OpenMusic (ircam.fr)
63 points by jamesbritt on Aug 2, 2014 | 25 comments
22.
Racket v6.1 released. Undefined values from uninitialized variables eliminated (racket-lang.org)
62 points by racketlang on Aug 2, 2014 | 2 comments
23.
The Miraculous Face Transplant of Richard Norris (gq.com)
63 points by Varcht on Aug 2, 2014 | 6 comments
24.
When Workers Own Their Companies, Everyone Wins (newrepublic.com)
65 points by smacktoward on Aug 2, 2014 | 58 comments
25.
Hybrid Logical Clocks (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
62 points by leef on Aug 2, 2014 | 3 comments
26.
 [dupe] Telehash protocol (github.com/telehash)
61 points by Sami_Lehtinen on Aug 2, 2014 | 13 comments
27.
Twitter's User Problem: Fastest Gains Are People That Don't See Ads (wsj.com)
60 points by lxm on Aug 2, 2014 | 49 comments
28.
Key Lime Pi (keylimepi.net)
54 points by markmassie on Aug 2, 2014 | 28 comments
29.
YC Hacks 2014 Live Blog (forbes.com/sites/ehrlichfu)
54 points by tilt on Aug 2, 2014 | 5 comments
30.
Gentrification May Actually Be Boon To Longtime Residents (npr.org)
47 points by luu on Aug 2, 2014 | 58 comments

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