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1.		The Strange and Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit (gq.com)
		383 points by randomwalker on Aug 21, 2014 \| 86 comments
2.		Show HN: A virtual whiteboard for working or teaching remotely (whiteboardfox.com)
		309 points by MarkMc on Aug 21, 2014 \| 140 comments
3.		DocumentDB (azure.microsoft.com)
		300 points by daigoba66 on Aug 21, 2014 \| 164 comments
4.		Multi-Datacenter Cassandra on 32 Raspberry Pi’s (datastax.com)
		276 points by zzzqqq on Aug 21, 2014 \| 55 comments
5.		Biologically extending human vision into the near-infrared: Initial success (experiment.com)
		228 points by irollboozers on Aug 21, 2014 \| 60 comments
6.		Serendipity – When 2 people listen to the same song at the same time (kylemcdonald.net)
		226 points by gflandre on Aug 21, 2014 \| 67 comments
7.		The Harvard Classics: Download All 51 Volumes as Free EBooks (openculture.com)
		236 points by yammesicka on Aug 21, 2014 \| 48 comments
8.		RTFM 0day in iOS apps (algorithm.dk)
		186 points by algorithm_dk on Aug 21, 2014 \| 58 comments
9.		Show HN: Duo – a next-generation package manager for the front end (duojs.org)
		168 points by matthewmueller on Aug 21, 2014 \| 100 comments
10.		LowDB – A flat JSON file database (github.com/typicode)
		148 points by ca98am79 on Aug 21, 2014 \| 70 comments
11.		Ftrace: The hidden light switch (lwn.net)
		145 points by luu on Aug 21, 2014 \| 10 comments
12.		This Is Your Brain on Silence (nautil.us)
		145 points by pmcpinto on Aug 21, 2014 \| 71 comments
13.		At Burning Man, the Tech Elite One-Up One Another (nytimes.com)
		142 points by ZanyProgrammer on Aug 21, 2014 \| 57 comments
14.		Codefights (codefights.com)
		154 points by r_ms on Aug 21, 2014 \| 84 comments
15.		Gamma error in picture scaling (2007) (4p8.com)
		113 points by bpierre on Aug 21, 2014 \| 32 comments
16.		Dune Genesis (1980) (moodleshare.org)
		111 points by walterbell on Aug 21, 2014 \| 72 comments
17.		Metaballs and Marching Squares (jamie-wong.com)
		109 points by zodiac on Aug 21, 2014 \| 19 comments
18.		Finances of a Bare Bones Developer (gamasutra.com)
		94 points by Impossible on Aug 21, 2014 \| 71 comments
19.		Coding with EFF (eff.org)
		96 points by sinak on Aug 21, 2014 \| 21 comments
20.		Chinese coal consumption just fell for first time this century (reneweconomy.com.au)
		95 points by ph0rque on Aug 21, 2014 \| 29 comments
21.		Product Hunt iOS App (producthunt.com)
		103 points by tonyteate on Aug 21, 2014 \| 36 comments
22.		Ask HN: MTurk is no longer available to non-US companies. How are you coping?
		89 points by chrisacky on Aug 21, 2014 \| 57 comments
23.		Earn a Master of Information and Data Science Online (datascience.berkeley.edu)
		94 points by eplanit on Aug 21, 2014 \| 63 comments
24.		Walking The Beat – Mining Seattle's Police Report Data (bayesimpact.org)
		86 points by ajiang on Aug 21, 2014 \| 29 comments
25.		Show HN: Perspective Mockups – Hipster-as-fuck perspectives for your mockups (perspectivemockups.com)
		84 points by simoncoulton on Aug 21, 2014 \| 51 comments
26.		What Lies Beneath Stonehenge? (smithsonianmag.com)
		76 points by jonbaer on Aug 21, 2014 \| 36 comments
27.		Choosing the Right JavaScript Framework (airpair.com)
		101 points by elkelk on Aug 21, 2014 \| 90 comments
28.		Gulp.js: The streaming build system (gulpjs.com)
		83 points by tombenner on Aug 21, 2014 \| 49 comments
29.		Recommendations API (bestbuy.com)
		83 points by projectileboy on Aug 21, 2014 \| 25 comments
30.		Will you be seated on a jury? (nytimes.com)
		74 points by gk1 on Aug 21, 2014 \| 85 comments
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