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1.		Death by Inches: The battle over the metric system in America (slate.com)
		192 points by rpm4321 on Aug 9, 2014 \| 350 comments
2.		We’re 10 today (openstreetmap.org)
		183 points by Vik1ng on Aug 9, 2014 \| 32 comments
3.		Fast and easy Levenshtein distance using a trie (2011) (stevehanov.ca)
		168 points by sytelus on Aug 9, 2014 \| 38 comments
4.		A Message from the Amazon Books Team (readersunited.com)
		146 points by ashdav on Aug 9, 2014 \| 57 comments
5.		MacBasic (folklore.org)
		149 points by yuhong on Aug 9, 2014 \| 63 comments
6.		One wolf's migration across Europe (theguardian.com)
		143 points by lelf on Aug 9, 2014 \| 25 comments
7.		Hackers Unveil Their Plan to Change Email (time.com)
		130 points by hachiya on Aug 9, 2014 \| 68 comments
8.		Getting It Done with Haskell (doxiq.com)
		126 points by lelf on Aug 9, 2014 \| 63 comments
9.		The Trucking Industry Needs More Drivers. Maybe It Needs to Pay More (nytimes.com)
		123 points by cadlin on Aug 9, 2014 \| 172 comments
10.		We’re tackling aging (calicolabs.com)
		95 points by exratione on Aug 9, 2014 \| 85 comments
11.		Neuromancer, 30 years old this month (theguardian.com)
		95 points by slurry on Aug 9, 2014 \| 61 comments
12.		Sysmon – Log system activity to the Windows event log (technet.microsoft.com)
		94 points by ingve on Aug 9, 2014 \| 29 comments
13.		Why Not a Three-Day Week? (newyorker.com)
		85 points by mrcdima on Aug 9, 2014 \| 106 comments
14.		Clojure Style Guide (github.com/bbatsov)
		75 points by jgrodziski on Aug 9, 2014 \| 27 comments
15.		Non-Transparent Memory Safety (regehr.org)
		70 points by luu on Aug 9, 2014 \| 8 comments
16.		Soviet Armored Military Vehicles for Sale (sovietarmor.com)
		67 points by sssilver on Aug 9, 2014 \| 40 comments
17.		Nigel Richards, The Best Scrabble Player (fivethirtyeight.com)
		70 points by ryan_j_naughton on Aug 9, 2014 \| 46 comments
18.		Towards daily imaging of Spaceship Earth (planet.com)
		64 points by lxm on Aug 9, 2014 \| 7 comments
19.		How to bypass Zeus Trojan’s self protection mechanism (int0xcc.svbtle.com)
		58 points by officialjunk on Aug 9, 2014 \| 11 comments
20.		Is Wine-Tasting Junk Science? (npr.org)
		53 points by 1337biz on Aug 9, 2014 \| 46 comments
21.		18F API Standards (github.com/18f)
		58 points by mooreds on Aug 9, 2014 \| 15 comments
22.		Secrets of amazing teachers: What both sides of the education debate get wrong (salon.com)
		52 points by tokenadult on Aug 9, 2014 \| 38 comments
23.		Haskell Platform 2014.2.0.0 Released (haskell.org)
		51 points by tel on Aug 9, 2014 \| 8 comments
24.		For The Love Of Open Mapping Data (techcrunch.com)
		47 points by dalek2point3 on Aug 9, 2014 \| 10 comments
25.		NY DA Employs Secret Orders to Gather Complete Dossiers from Facebook (eff.org)
		44 points by steindavidb on Aug 9, 2014 \| 1 comment
26.		[dupe] Court Rejects Silicon Valley Hiring Settlement (nytimes.com)
		39 points by igonvalue on Aug 9, 2014 \| 11 comments
27.		How Math Got Its ‘Nobel’ (nytimes.com)
		38 points by wallflower on Aug 9, 2014 \| 17 comments
28.		Why so many shipowners find Panama's flag convenient (bbc.co.uk)
		40 points by tareqak on Aug 9, 2014 \| 22 comments
29.		The Difference Between Working at Facebook, Google, and Microsoft (businessinsider.com)
		39 points by jgunaratne on Aug 9, 2014 \| 16 comments
30.		Doing Data Science with coLaboratory (googleresearch.blogspot.com)
		39 points by kestert on Aug 9, 2014 \| 3 comments
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