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1.
Chesscademy – Learn How to Play Chess (chesscademy.com)
438 points by lumens on Aug 8, 2014 | 116 comments
2.
Open Source Email Templates (sendwithus.com)
390 points by bvanvugt on Aug 8, 2014 | 60 comments
3.
Ask HN: I was hired and unhired in 2 weeks, for no reason
368 points by guybrushT on Aug 8, 2014 | 281 comments
4.
Lightspeed – A Browser Experiment (blog.mozilla.org)
355 points by khc on Aug 8, 2014 | 179 comments
5.
Judge rejects $324.5M settlement over Apple, Google hiring (reuters.com)
278 points by uptown on Aug 8, 2014 | 172 comments
6.
War in the womb (aeon.co)
267 points by Mz on Aug 8, 2014 | 69 comments
7.
Plot Thickens as 900 Writers Battle Amazon (nytimes.com)
215 points by IBM on Aug 8, 2014 | 135 comments
8.
Painting in Clojure (tombooth.co.uk)
212 points by speednoise on Aug 8, 2014 | 14 comments
9.
Corporate America Hasn’t Been Disrupted (fivethirtyeight.com)
200 points by japaget on Aug 8, 2014 | 138 comments
10.
Python Practice Book (anandology.com)
204 points by aburan28 on Aug 8, 2014 | 36 comments
11.
Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (ocallahan.org)
175 points by joshmoz on Aug 8, 2014 | 126 comments
12.
Ask HN: Who isn't in the software industry/not a hacker?
157 points by graham1776 on Aug 8, 2014 | 190 comments
13.
The Lie Behind 1.2B Stolen Passwords (youarenotpayingattention.com)
176 points by mhurron on Aug 8, 2014 | 42 comments
14.
Toga: A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit (pybee.org)
149 points by samf on Aug 8, 2014 | 69 comments
15.
What Kind of Logo Do You Get for $5? (medium.com/sachagreif)
155 points by sebgeelen on Aug 8, 2014 | 81 comments
16.
Live attacks against the Norse honeypot infrastructure (ipviking.com)
149 points by dtournemille on Aug 8, 2014 | 35 comments
17.
An Internet-Ready OS From Scratch in a Week – Rump Kernels on Bare Metal (netbsd.org)
123 points by zdw on Aug 8, 2014 | 23 comments
18.
Yann LeCun on the IBM neural net chip (facebook.com)
120 points by luu on Aug 8, 2014 | 45 comments
19.
λ Lessons (stevekrouse.github.io)
127 points by lelf on Aug 8, 2014 | 19 comments
20.
Roda – A new Ruby web framework (jeremyevans.net)
106 points by sebkomianos on Aug 8, 2014 | 42 comments
21.
That WoW server blade (augustl.com)
104 points by facorreia on Aug 8, 2014 | 64 comments
22.
Anthropology of Mid-Sized Startups (ribbonfarm.com)
109 points by jasim on Aug 8, 2014 | 6 comments
23.
Remote code execution on Android devices (bromium.com)
107 points by ghosh on Aug 8, 2014 | 51 comments
24.
Perceptual Image Hashing (bertolami.com)
104 points by specular on Aug 8, 2014 | 34 comments
25.
How to Use Your Cat to Hack Your Neighbor’s Wi-Fi (wired.com)
113 points by klunger on Aug 8, 2014 | 76 comments
26.
Physical Side-Channel Key-Extraction Attacks On PCs (tau.ac.il)
100 points by madars on Aug 8, 2014 | 16 comments
27.
The Brazilian Bus Magnate Who’s Buying Up Vinyl Records (nytimes.com)
100 points by sheltgor on Aug 8, 2014 | 18 comments
28.
Really Good Emails (reallygoodemails.com)
97 points by rayshan on Aug 8, 2014 | 21 comments
29.
How casinos get you to spend more money (vox.com)
99 points by bennesvig on Aug 8, 2014 | 93 comments
30.
One Year Review of Lob.com (lob.com)
89 points by bavidar on Aug 8, 2014 | 23 comments

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