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1.		Gamma FinFisher hacked: 40 GB of internal documents and source code published (netzpolitik.org)
		402 points by srslack on Aug 6, 2014 \| 102 comments
2.		P5.js: Processing for today’s web (p5js.org)
		381 points by bpierre on Aug 6, 2014 \| 93 comments
3.		Transducers are coming to Clojure (cognitect.com)
		319 points by siavosh on Aug 6, 2014 \| 100 comments
4.		Goodbye to Sasha Shulgin, Godfather of Psychedelics (alumni.berkeley.edu)
		263 points by sbilstein on Aug 6, 2014 \| 63 comments
5.		Bizarro World: World Record Tetris (2007) (boston.com)
		236 points by rinesh on Aug 6, 2014 \| 75 comments
6.		Europe's Rosetta probe goes into orbit around comet 67P (bbc.co.uk)
		234 points by NickPollard on Aug 6, 2014 \| 73 comments
7.		Mapbox GL for the Web (mapbox.com)
		232 points by uptown on Aug 6, 2014 \| 39 comments
8.		With Lyft Line, Passengers Can Split Fares for Shared Rides (techcrunch.com)
		224 points by cstigler on Aug 6, 2014 \| 103 comments
9.		Wikipedia refuses to delete photo taken by monkey (telegraph.co.uk)
		201 points by christop on Aug 6, 2014 \| 203 comments
10.		Chrome Experiments: “3d city” (chromeexperiments.com)
		205 points by mmastrac on Aug 6, 2014 \| 36 comments
11.		How Microsoft dragged its development practices into the 21st century (arstechnica.com)
		170 points by amaks on Aug 6, 2014 \| 128 comments
12.		CERN Particle Clicker (cern.ch)
		177 points by cjrd on Aug 6, 2014 \| 48 comments
13.		CloudFlare Now Supports WebSockets (cloudflare.com)
		171 points by jgrahamc on Aug 6, 2014 \| 32 comments
14.		Why Some Schools Are Selling All Their iPads (theatlantic.com)
		167 points by jmduke on Aug 6, 2014 \| 214 comments
15.		How to Make the Best Pourover Coffee (seriouseats.com)
		137 points by Mz on Aug 6, 2014 \| 102 comments
16.		Defragmenting Qt and Uniting Our Ecosystem (digia.com)
		134 points by drgvond on Aug 6, 2014 \| 91 comments
17.		Ethereum pre-sale hits 12.7M$, still 27 days to go (wsj.com)
		130 points by simonebrunozzi on Aug 6, 2014 \| 105 comments
18.		Kale, cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, Brussels sprouts are all the same species (vox.com)
		99 points by lukas on Aug 6, 2014 \| 97 comments
19.		How the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition (2010) (slate.com)
		108 points by calcsam on Aug 6, 2014 \| 65 comments
20.		Wikipedia reveals Google 'forgotten' search links (bbc.co.uk)
		112 points by cmsefton on Aug 6, 2014 \| 54 comments
21.		Pissed off about functional programming (2005) (perlmonks.org)
		102 points by yiransheng on Aug 6, 2014 \| 61 comments
22.		Foursquare Now Tracks Users Even When the App Is Closed (wsj.com)
		100 points by petethomas on Aug 6, 2014 \| 42 comments
23.		How startup founders and CEOs rate the top VCs in Silicon Valley [pdf] (yougov.com)
		92 points by wesleytt on Aug 6, 2014 \| 21 comments
24.		Apples to Apples, Part II (jessesquires.com)
		90 points by poolpool on Aug 6, 2014 \| 13 comments
25.		Twitch implements YouTube-like system for blocking copyrighted audio (polygon.com)
		84 points by pauljonas on Aug 6, 2014 \| 70 comments
26.		Show HN: EDI – An editor in Go (satyajit.ranjeev.in)
		93 points by satyajitranjeev on Aug 6, 2014 \| 48 comments
27.		Reflecting back on one year of Kaggle contests (mlwave.com)
		76 points by dpmehta02 on Aug 6, 2014 \| 6 comments
28.		The New Foursquare (avc.com)
		75 points by joaodepaula on Aug 6, 2014 \| 75 comments
29.		Dbignore – .gitignore for Dropbox (konolige.com)
		75 points by tiedye on Aug 6, 2014 \| 14 comments
30.		Houston City Council gives green light to Uber, Lyft (abc13.com)
		68 points by danelectro on Aug 6, 2014 \| 44 comments
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