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1.
A new set of Firefox Developer Tools features (mzl.la)
256 points by xOnic on Aug 3, 2014 | 40 comments
2.
EtherCalc: Open-source web spreadsheet (ethercalc.org)
245 points by sheetjs on Aug 3, 2014 | 26 comments
3.
Localizing Papers, Please (dukope.tumblr.com)
198 points by baxter on Aug 3, 2014 | 58 comments
4.
My Synology NAS has been hacked by ransomware calling itself Synolocker (twitter.com/mikeevangelist)
180 points by hjuutilainen on Aug 3, 2014 | 150 comments
5.
Macintel: The End Is Nigh (mondaynote.com)
166 points by donmcc on Aug 3, 2014 | 152 comments
6.
Textract, a Python package for extracting text from any document (datascopeanalytics.com)
176 points by ColinWright on Aug 3, 2014 | 27 comments
7.
Introduction to Moose, Perl’s OO system (houseabsolute.com)
159 points by lelf on Aug 3, 2014 | 52 comments
8.
$1,000 Hepatitis Pill Shows Why Fixing Health Costs Is So Hard (nytimes.com)
152 points by wallflower on Aug 3, 2014 | 283 comments
9.
Input: Fonts for Code (fontbureau.com)
151 points by wasabian on Aug 3, 2014 | 41 comments
10.
Replacing 32-bit loop variable with 64-bit introduces performance deviations (stackoverflow.com)
144 points by thisisnotmyname on Aug 3, 2014 | 22 comments
11.
“Theater” vs. “Theatre”: The Great New York Times Language Swap (bitfilter.net)
125 points by recycle on Aug 3, 2014 | 84 comments
12.
HTML5 mockups of popular devices (github.com/pixelsign)
132 points by tilt on Aug 3, 2014 | 15 comments
13.
Cheap FPGA Development Boards: What to look for (joelw.id.au)
127 points by jestinjoy1 on Aug 3, 2014 | 53 comments
14.
Attacked By Thugs (2004) (idlewords.com)
123 points by hubot on Aug 3, 2014 | 115 comments
15.
Show HN: Workfrom – The best coffee shops and cafes to work from (workfrom.co)
117 points by darrenbuckner on Aug 3, 2014 | 74 comments
16.
A Contrarian View of MITx: What Are We Doing? (web.mit.edu)
115 points by r_singh on Aug 3, 2014 | 40 comments
17.
FCC asked six more ISPs, content providers to reveal paid peering deals (arstechnica.com)
112 points by rosser on Aug 3, 2014 | 8 comments
18.
Lightbot: Kids learn programming concepts (light-bot.com)
107 points by plurby on Aug 3, 2014 | 24 comments
19.
Designing game narrative (hitboxteam.com)
103 points by Ideka on Aug 3, 2014 | 26 comments
20.
HN frontpage ranked by discussion activity (news.ycombinator.com)
96 points by mike_esspe on Aug 3, 2014 | 19 comments
21.
Show HN: Gutenberg – A simple interface to the Project Gutenberg corpus (bitbucket.org/c-w)
94 points by c-w on Aug 3, 2014 | 13 comments
22.
Backtracker: Radar sixth sense for cyclists (dragoninnovation.com)
82 points by jimzvz on Aug 3, 2014 | 44 comments
23.
Learning from Kaggle masters (kaggle.com)
83 points by dpmehta02 on Aug 3, 2014 | 4 comments
24.
The Social Laboratory: Singapore's Surveillance State (foreignpolicy.com)
83 points by fortepianissimo on Aug 3, 2014 | 115 comments
25.
Facebook's Gateway Drug (nytimes.com)
83 points by applecore on Aug 3, 2014 | 33 comments
26.
The Lawyer’s Apprentice: How to Learn the Law Without Law School (nytimes.com)
82 points by e15ctr0n on Aug 3, 2014 | 63 comments
27.
India’s Toilet Race Failing as Villages Don’t Use Them (bloomberg.com)
72 points by eplanit on Aug 3, 2014 | 81 comments
28.
An Android app that collects Mag-Stripe data and CVC3 codes from PayPass cards (github.com/matuskysel)
84 points by oxplot on Aug 3, 2014 | 56 comments
29.
If all the ice melted (nationalgeographic.com)
72 points by bra-ket on Aug 3, 2014 | 57 comments
30.
Pun: A small library to enable pattern matching in JavaScript and CoffeeScript (github.com/crogers)
73 points by unignorant on Aug 3, 2014 | 16 comments

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