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1.		Maps of the Roman Empire (vox.com)
		345 points by kcovia on Aug 19, 2014 \| 91 comments
2.		Steve Ballmer steps down as board member at Microsoft (microsoft.com)
		343 points by jtoeman on Aug 19, 2014 \| 138 comments
3.		Amit's Game Programming Information (stanford.edu)
		317 points by WoodenChair on Aug 19, 2014 \| 29 comments
4.		Seneca: On the Shortness of Life (forumromanum.org)
		316 points by stingraycharles on Aug 19, 2014 \| 79 comments
5.		XKCD “Time” Wins Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story (thehugoawards.org)
		239 points by doctoboggan on Aug 19, 2014 \| 22 comments
6.		NY Times releases military surplus gear data on GitHub (github.com/theupshot)
		214 points by frenchman_in_ny on Aug 19, 2014 \| 132 comments
7.		The 1,000-hour rule (2009) (pgbovine.net)
		190 points by ode on Aug 19, 2014 \| 119 comments
8.		WRTnode Opened for $25 (wrtnode.com)
		180 points by Noel_lo on Aug 19, 2014 \| 93 comments
9.		Cider Project: Run iOS apps on Android (columbia.edu)
		166 points by nepger21 on Aug 19, 2014 \| 102 comments
10.		High Performance Map Interactions Using HTML5 Canvas (seatgeek.com)
		177 points by efkv on Aug 19, 2014 \| 25 comments
11.		The S in Rest (teddziuba.github.io)
		147 points by fishtoaster on Aug 19, 2014 \| 70 comments
12.		China's Underground Wholesale Markets (youngmoneychina.com)
		136 points by gdilla on Aug 19, 2014 \| 49 comments
13.		Triple-E Ship Leaves Port With World Record Load (gcaptain.com)
		131 points by chermanowicz on Aug 19, 2014 \| 64 comments
14.		California “Kill Switch” Bill Could Be Used to Disrupt Protests (cdt.org)
		133 points by conorgil145 on Aug 19, 2014 \| 134 comments
15.		Why doesn't Sandstorm just run Docker apps? (sandstorm.io)
		122 points by kentonv on Aug 19, 2014 \| 27 comments
16.		YC Demo Day Session 1 (techcrunch.com)
		120 points by TheMakeA on Aug 19, 2014 \| 101 comments
17.		Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Raising Money at a Valuation Approaching $10B (techcrunch.com)
		118 points by spountzy on Aug 19, 2014 \| 98 comments
18.		Intellectual Ventures cuts 140 employees from its patent-buying workforce (geekwire.com)
		104 points by aaronbrethorst on Aug 19, 2014 \| 77 comments
19.		Dyad: Minimal, portable async networking library for C (github.com/rxi)
		97 points by api on Aug 19, 2014 \| 46 comments
20.		The Derivative of a Number (rjlipton.wordpress.com)
		101 points by j2kun on Aug 19, 2014 \| 47 comments
21.		Fixing Bad Data in Datomic (datomic.com)
		103 points by lauriswtf on Aug 19, 2014 \| 16 comments
22.		GPLGPU: An Open-Source GPU (gplgpu.com)
		102 points by raldu on Aug 19, 2014 \| 9 comments
23.		Complete iOS7 Course for free (producthunt.com)
		98 points by mstolpm on Aug 19, 2014 \| 36 comments
24.		Reading Literature on Screen: A Price for Convenience? (nytimes.com)
		90 points by rocketbop on Aug 19, 2014 \| 75 comments
25.		YC Demo Day Session 2 (techcrunch.com)
		90 points by xpop2027 on Aug 19, 2014 \| 43 comments
26.		QuickCheck by example: Number theory and Okasaki's red-black trees (might.net)
		83 points by lelf on Aug 19, 2014 \| 2 comments
27.		Delivery Startups Are Back Like It’s 1999 (nytimes.com)
		83 points by dotluis on Aug 19, 2014 \| 66 comments
28.		Baseball Bat With an Axe Handle Brings More Power, Fewer Injuries (wired.com)
		84 points by x43b on Aug 19, 2014 \| 27 comments
29.		Show HN: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Finding Your First Customers (yourfirstcustomers.com)
		99 points by jjets718 on Aug 19, 2014 \| 14 comments
30.		A JavaScript Quality Guide (github.com/bevacqua)
		86 points by bevacqua on Aug 19, 2014 \| 68 comments
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