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1.		Death Valley National Park: First Observation of Rocks in Motion (plosone.org)
		344 points by McKittrick on Aug 27, 2014 \| 54 comments
2.		Building 3D with Ikea (cgsociety.org)
		337 points by panarky on Aug 27, 2014 \| 61 comments
3.		Useful Unix commands for exploring data (datavu.blogspot.com)
		343 points by aks_c on Aug 27, 2014 \| 151 comments
4.		What happened to Motorola (chicagomag.com)
		262 points by thm on Aug 27, 2014 \| 95 comments
5.		People suck at technical interviews (seldo.com)
		215 points by themonk on Aug 27, 2014 \| 173 comments
6.		Proposal for a Friendly Dialect of C (regehr.org)
		218 points by 0x09 on Aug 27, 2014 \| 118 comments
7.		How to walk through walls using the 4th dimension [video] (marctenbosch.com)
		218 points by numo16 on Aug 27, 2014 \| 95 comments
8.		Microsoft filed patent applications for scoped and immutable types (dlang.org)
		206 points by _ugfj on Aug 27, 2014 \| 86 comments
9.		Firefox 32 Supports Public Key Pinning (monica-at-mozilla.blogspot.com)
		188 points by jonchang on Aug 27, 2014 \| 100 comments
10.		Firefox OS is a developer's best friend (binary-choice.blogspot.com)
		200 points by damian2000 on Aug 27, 2014 \| 41 comments
11.		The Guide to Not Buying a 3D Printer (chopmeister.blogspot.com)
		165 points by ChuckMcM on Aug 27, 2014 \| 59 comments
12.		The Arachnids That Live on Your Face (ncsu.edu)
		160 points by peeko on Aug 27, 2014 \| 32 comments
13.		The Technology Behind Hyperlapse from Instagram (instagram-engineering.tumblr.com)
		167 points by peterhunt on Aug 27, 2014 \| 48 comments
14.		Linda Sandvik Resigns As Director Of Code Club (gist.github.com)
		164 points by rcknight on Aug 27, 2014 \| 80 comments
15.		Maps that illustrate the global economy (vox.com)
		158 points by ejr on Aug 27, 2014 \| 40 comments
16.		How Google Works (howgoogleworks.net)
		148 points by panarky on Aug 27, 2014 \| 55 comments
17.		Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro (dropbox.com)
		139 points by markmassie on Aug 27, 2014 \| 144 comments
18.		How serious is the California drought? Before and after pictures (imgur.com)
		119 points by hispanic on Aug 27, 2014 \| 72 comments
19.		C++11 FQA anyone? (yosefk.com)
		105 points by signa11 on Aug 27, 2014 \| 87 comments
20.		Dockersh – a shell that puts users into individual docker containers (github.com/yelp)
		110 points by whalesalad on Aug 27, 2014 \| 30 comments
21.		Entangled Photons Make a Picture from a Paradox (scientificamerican.com)
		100 points by foolrush on Aug 27, 2014 \| 44 comments
22.		Implementing a "sketch" style of rendering in webGL (floored.com)
		98 points by uptown on Aug 27, 2014 \| 14 comments
23.		The Future Programming Manifesto (alarmingdevelopment.org)
		101 points by jashkenas on Aug 27, 2014 \| 106 comments
24.		Transmitting binary information from one person’s brain to another (newsweek.com)
		100 points by holasnic on Aug 27, 2014 \| 42 comments
25.		A few useful things to know about machine learning (2012) [pdf] (washington.edu)
		99 points by chaitanyav on Aug 27, 2014 \| 7 comments
26.		Van Gogh Museum (vangoghmuseum.nl)
		96 points by primigenus on Aug 27, 2014 \| 50 comments
27.		Speak up (defmacro.org)
		86 points by coffeemug on Aug 27, 2014 \| 23 comments
28.		Dropbox Pro – 1 TB for $99/year (dropbox.com)
		80 points by jpalomaki on Aug 27, 2014 \| 99 comments
29.		3-D Printed Keys Can Pick High-Security Locks in Seconds (wired.com)
		77 points by usaphp on Aug 27, 2014 \| 62 comments
30.		Getting Started in *Lisp (1991) [pdf] (csail.mit.edu)
		75 points by eudox on Aug 27, 2014 \| 19 comments
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