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1.		Storemapper: Bootstrapped to $50k/year in 2 years (tylertringas.com)
		434 points by TTringas on Aug 11, 2014 \| 58 comments
2.		OpenStreetMap Then and Now (mvexel.github.io)
		406 points by sashazykov on Aug 11, 2014 \| 106 comments
3.		Uber's dirty tricks quantified: Rival counts 5,560 canceled rides (cnn.com)
		353 points by wfjackson on Aug 11, 2014 \| 243 comments
4.		Compile like it's 1992 (fabiensanglard.net)
		315 points by cremno on Aug 11, 2014 \| 40 comments
5.		I ‘Liked’ Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days (wired.com)
		304 points by sethbannon on Aug 11, 2014 \| 115 comments
6.		Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Comedian, Dies at 63 (nytimes.com)
		293 points by kmod on Aug 11, 2014 \| 63 comments
7.		Reverse Engineering for Beginners: Free book (beginners.re)
		276 points by galapago on Aug 11, 2014 \| 28 comments
8.		White House launches “U.S. Digital Service,” with HealthCare.gov fixer at helm (washingtonpost.com)
		276 points by dctoedt on Aug 11, 2014 \| 139 comments
9.		A Diablo 3 Story (diablo3story.blogspot.com)
		193 points by minimaxir on Aug 11, 2014 \| 97 comments
10.		Almost perfect: the rise and fall of WordPerfect Corporation (1993)
		168 points by mmastrac on Aug 11, 2014 \| 87 comments
11.		Intel's 14nm Technology in Detail (anandtech.com)
		160 points by jsnell on Aug 11, 2014 \| 31 comments
12.		The end of neighbours (macleans.ca)
		153 points by dfritsch on Aug 11, 2014 \| 147 comments
13.		Inside a Chinese Bitcoin Mine (thecoinsman.com)
		151 points by danoprey on Aug 11, 2014 \| 44 comments
14.		Why I've Said Goodbye to Mobile in Favor of PC (gamasutra.com)
		143 points by n3on_net on Aug 11, 2014 \| 84 comments
15.		Imgui: Immediate Mode Graphical User Interface with minimal dependencies (github.com/ocornut)
		134 points by jblow on Aug 11, 2014 \| 41 comments
16.		Ask HN: What info do you web scrape for?
		129 points by cblock811 on Aug 11, 2014 \| 110 comments
17.		Windows 1.0 and the Applications of Tomorrow (2005) (charlespetzold.com)
		125 points by bluedino on Aug 11, 2014 \| 64 comments
18.		My Experience at YC Hacks (erica.biz)
		132 points by jamest on Aug 11, 2014 \| 16 comments
19.		Intel Broadwell Architecture Preview: A Glimpse into Core M (anandtech.com)
		115 points by ismavis on Aug 11, 2014 \| 54 comments
20.		Inside Apple’s Internal Training Program (nytimes.com)
		127 points by jameshk on Aug 11, 2014 \| 17 comments
21.		Google Invests in $300M Submarine Cable to Improve Connection Between Japan, US (techcrunch.com)
		122 points by swohns on Aug 11, 2014 \| 72 comments
22.		Why one of cybersecurity’s thought leaders uses a pager instead of a smart phone (washingtonpost.com)
		118 points by doctorshady on Aug 11, 2014 \| 47 comments
23.		Key Advances in the OpenGL Ecosystem (khronos.org)
		115 points by Jarlakxen on Aug 11, 2014 \| 42 comments
24.		The Inner Guts of Bitbucket [video] (blog.bitbucket.org)
		109 points by quicksilver03 on Aug 11, 2014 \| 20 comments
25.		German armed forces warn that carbon fiber might be cancer-causing (ndr.de)
		101 points by m8rl on Aug 11, 2014 \| 55 comments
26.		DashGum – Free Bootstrap Admin Template (blacktie.co)
		105 points by tilt on Aug 11, 2014 \| 29 comments
27.		Glowing Plant Is One of Y Combinator’s First Biotech Startups (techcrunch.com)
		100 points by katm on Aug 11, 2014 \| 61 comments
28.		An App Store for Algorithms (wired.com)
		101 points by doppenhe on Aug 11, 2014 \| 45 comments
29.		Can We Trust the Libraries We Use? (viva64.com)
		93 points by AndreyKarpov on Aug 11, 2014 \| 53 comments
30.		BadUSB – On accessories that turn evil [pdf] (srlabs.de)
		84 points by thefreeman on Aug 11, 2014 \| 24 comments
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