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1.		US cable giants calls on FCC to block cities' expansion of high-speed internet (theguardian.com)
		460 points by primelens on Aug 30, 2014 \| 154 comments
2.		Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails to US Government (windowsitpro.com)
		385 points by xamlhacker on Aug 30, 2014 \| 117 comments
3.		Ask HN: How to start earning $500/month in passive income in next 12-18 months?
		288 points by rtcoms on Aug 30, 2014 \| 193 comments
4.		Facebook's std::vector optimization (github.com/facebook)
		275 points by iamsalman on Aug 30, 2014 \| 89 comments
5.		Show HN: Restore tmux environment after a system restart (github.com/tmux-plugins)
		241 points by brunosutic on Aug 30, 2014 \| 43 comments
6.		Man builds 3D printed concrete castle in his own backyard (3ders.org)
		212 points by e15ctr0n on Aug 30, 2014 \| 60 comments
7.		States with Medical Marijuana Have Fewer Painkiller Deaths (smithsonianmag.com)
		209 points by robg on Aug 30, 2014 \| 38 comments
8.		Psychedelics in problem-solving experiment (wikipedia.org)
		167 points by gasull on Aug 30, 2014 \| 47 comments
9.		Say hello to x64 Assembly, part 1 (0xax.blogspot.com)
		163 points by nkurz on Aug 30, 2014 \| 41 comments
10.		A React.js case study (krawaller.se)
		153 points by xngzng on Aug 30, 2014 \| 39 comments
11.		I Went from Grad School to Prison (cosmopolitan.com)
		143 points by theoutlander on Aug 30, 2014 \| 105 comments
12.		Kitematic – The easiest way to start using Docker on your Mac (kitematic.com)
		155 points by alpacaaa on Aug 30, 2014 \| 47 comments
13.		We're building the GNU system [pdf] (savannah.gnu.org)
		149 points by rev on Aug 30, 2014 \| 60 comments
14.		Atreus: My Custom Keyboard (mattgauger.com)
		131 points by luu on Aug 30, 2014 \| 24 comments
15.		Why doctors are sick of their profession (wsj.com)
		123 points by roye on Aug 30, 2014 \| 236 comments
16.		VAXen, My Children, Just Don't Belong in Some Places (hactrn.net)
		117 points by siganakis on Aug 30, 2014 \| 33 comments
17.		The Lava Lamp Just Won't Quit (priceonomics.com)
		120 points by ryan_j_naughton on Aug 30, 2014 \| 41 comments
18.		What We Do and Don't Know about Software Development Effort Estimation (infoq.com)
		107 points by ExpiredLink on Aug 30, 2014 \| 46 comments
19.		Clojure's Transducers are as fundamental as function composition (thecomputersarewinning.com)
		92 points by ithayer on Aug 30, 2014 \| 47 comments
20.		Frequentism and Bayesianism: A Practical Introduction (jakevdp.github.io)
		93 points by atakan_gurkan on Aug 30, 2014 \| 57 comments
21.		Howard on Curry-Howard (wadler.blogspot.com)
		76 points by lelf on Aug 30, 2014 \| 8 comments
22.		Taking it to Th’emacs (gbracha.blogspot.com)
		80 points by allard on Aug 30, 2014 \| 38 comments
23.		The Last of a Class (medium.com/stanford-select)
		85 points by cmstoken on Aug 30, 2014 \| 11 comments
24.		Machine learning isn't Kaggle competitions (jvns.ca)
		81 points by akbarnama on Aug 30, 2014 \| 20 comments
25.		Experimental Ebola drug cured 100% of monkeys tested (usatoday.com)
		80 points by zefi on Aug 30, 2014 \| 15 comments
26.		HubCap: pwning the Chromecast part 1 (fail0verflow.com)
		67 points by joshbaptiste on Aug 30, 2014 \| 6 comments
27.		Predictive learning vs. representation learning (seas.harvard.edu)
		63 points by cottonseed on Aug 30, 2014 \| 2 comments
28.		GCR decoding on the fly (linusakesson.net)
		62 points by silentbicycle on Aug 30, 2014 \| 5 comments
29.		MSN Messenger to end after 15 years (bbc.com)
		48 points by _rjlt on Aug 30, 2014 \| 23 comments
30.		Hidden message in Google Maps? (google.com)
		48 points by ablokker on Aug 30, 2014 \| 15 comments
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