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1.
fork() can fail (rachelbythebay.com)
760 points by dantiberian on Aug 20, 2014 | 313 comments
2.
Fish vs. Fish in Street Fighter II (twitch.tv)
372 points by cyberfart on Aug 20, 2014 | 69 comments
3.
YouTab: Automatically get chords for music (youtab.me)
349 points by yoodit on Aug 20, 2014 | 88 comments
4.
Rails 4.2.0 beta1: Active Job, Deliver Later, Adequate Record, Web Console (rubyonrails.org)
322 points by jyunderwood on Aug 20, 2014 | 132 comments
5.
Screenshots Forever and Ever Until You Can’t Stand it (textfiles.com)
238 points by cleverjake on Aug 20, 2014 | 39 comments
6.
The Chairless Chair, an invisible chair that you can wear (cnn.com)
220 points by 51Cards on Aug 20, 2014 | 68 comments
7.
Programming language subreddits and their choice of words (github.com/dobiasd)
176 points by quantisan on Aug 20, 2014 | 55 comments
8.
Linux Performance (brendangregg.com)
186 points by kissgyorgy on Aug 20, 2014 | 22 comments
9.
RISC creator is pushing open source chips (gigaom.com)
175 points by Tsiolkovsky on Aug 20, 2014 | 93 comments
10.
The Little Book of Semaphores (umn.edu)
160 points by laex on Aug 20, 2014 | 19 comments
11.
Word Perhect (wordperhect.net)
152 points by cardamomo on Aug 20, 2014 | 66 comments
12.
Ask HN: Why are there two Job Ads at the top?
143 points by tomp on Aug 20, 2014 | 35 comments
13.
Apache Wave on Sandstorm.io (sandstorm.io)
142 points by srpeck on Aug 20, 2014 | 45 comments
14.
GNU hackers discover HACIENDA government surveillance (fsf.org)
138 points by lelf on Aug 20, 2014 | 79 comments
15.
Clocks (procyonic.org)
123 points by highCs on Aug 20, 2014 | 5 comments
16.
Uber Opens Its API (techcrunch.com)
134 points by zabalmendi on Aug 20, 2014 | 84 comments
17.
 [dupe] Faster Spelling Correction algorithm (2012) (faroo.com)
117 points by tyn on Aug 20, 2014 | 20 comments
18.
Security Analysis of a Full-Body Scanner (radsec.org)
113 points by jakemask on Aug 20, 2014 | 63 comments
19.
Which Is Closer: Local Beer or Local Whiskey? (wolfram.com)
111 points by lelf on Aug 20, 2014 | 31 comments
20.
Who Stole the Four-Hour Workday? (vice.com)
108 points by ca98am79 on Aug 20, 2014 | 97 comments
21.
Dat, open-source software, seeks to restart the open data revolution (wired.com)
109 points by gordon_freeman on Aug 20, 2014 | 18 comments
22.
BKS Iyengar, who helped bring yoga to the West, has died (vox.com)
100 points by krsree on Aug 20, 2014 | 35 comments
23.
An editor for composed programs (tratt.net)
91 points by ltratt on Aug 20, 2014 | 35 comments
24.
Optimizing Elasticsearch Searches (found.no)
90 points by brasetvik on Aug 20, 2014 | 4 comments
25.
Knot DNS: A high-performance, authoritative DNS server (lwn.net)
85 points by oerdnj on Aug 20, 2014 | 33 comments
26.
Counterfeit U.S. Cash Floods Crime Forums (krebsonsecurity.com)
86 points by denwer on Aug 20, 2014 | 57 comments
27.
Researchers find it’s easy to hack traffic lights (arstechnica.com)
89 points by privong on Aug 20, 2014 | 42 comments
28.
Scientists find traces of sea plankton on ISS surface (itar-tass.com)
96 points by Shivetya on Aug 20, 2014 | 34 comments
29.
Minecraft vanilla 4KB HDD, with read/write heads (imgur.com)
82 points by thejj on Aug 20, 2014 | 18 comments
30.
The White House vows to let programmers dress informally (washingtonpost.com)
82 points by Libertatea on Aug 20, 2014 | 92 comments

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