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1.
The Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times (nautil.us)
639 points by aatish on Sept 29, 2014 | 107 comments
2.
Postgres full text search is good enough (lostpropertyhq.com)
416 points by chdir on Sept 29, 2014 | 95 comments
3.
How Hong Kong Protesters Are Connecting, Without Cell or Wi-Fi Networks (npr.org)
445 points by evo_9 on Sept 29, 2014 | 113 comments
4.
Adobe joins the Chromebook party, starting with Photoshop (chrome.blogspot.com)
368 points by zastrowm on Sept 29, 2014 | 245 comments
5.
OS X Bash Update 1.0 (support.apple.com)
247 points by 0x0 on Sept 29, 2014 | 155 comments
6.
Google Classroom (google.com)
250 points by diegolo on Sept 29, 2014 | 140 comments
7.
Trends in the Silk Road 2.0 (lau.im)
218 points by dlau1 on Sept 29, 2014 | 92 comments
8.
Learning Online (christinacacioppo.com)
219 points by christinac on Sept 29, 2014 | 36 comments
9.
With New Ad Platform, Facebook Opens Gates to Its Vault of User Data (nytimes.com)
190 points by 001sky on Sept 29, 2014 | 115 comments
10.
T – a command-line power tool for Twitter (sferik.github.io)
185 points by lelf on Sept 29, 2014 | 49 comments
11.
The SQLite Database File Format (sqlite.org)
144 points by s16h on Sept 29, 2014 | 42 comments
12.
Interview with Terence Tao (docs.google.com)
145 points by mikevm on Sept 29, 2014 | 53 comments
13.
A Simple Guide to Five Normal Forms in Relational Database Theory (1982) (bkent.net)
133 points by brudgers on Sept 29, 2014 | 65 comments
14.
Using Machine Learning and Node.js to detect the gender of Instagram Users (totems.co)
142 points by spolu on Sept 29, 2014 | 53 comments
15.
Can We Trust Uber? (medium.com/petersimsie)
132 points by petercooper on Sept 29, 2014 | 95 comments
16.
Common Parts Library (octopart.com)
123 points by sam on Sept 29, 2014 | 35 comments
17.
Nvidia Introduces CuDNN, a CUDA-based Library for Deep Neural Networks (infoq.com)
124 points by jonbaer on Sept 29, 2014 | 20 comments
18.
Clojure Cup 2014 Apps (clojurecup.com)
118 points by Sandman on Sept 29, 2014 | 14 comments
19.
Tor executive director hints at Firefox integration (dailydot.com)
116 points by blottsie on Sept 29, 2014 | 26 comments
20.
Suicide, a Crime of Loneliness (newyorker.com)
98 points by samclemens on Sept 29, 2014 | 83 comments
21.
ZooKeeper: Wait-free coordination for Internet-scale systems (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
100 points by mad44 on Sept 29, 2014 | 9 comments
22.
The Extraordinary California Drought of 2013-2014 (weatherwest.com)
96 points by pc on Sept 29, 2014 | 67 comments
23.
Parody copyright laws set to come into effect in the UK (bbc.co.uk)
94 points by GotAnyMegadeth on Sept 29, 2014 | 39 comments
24.
A world without mosquitoes (2010) (nature.com)
92 points by tchalla on Sept 29, 2014 | 56 comments
25.
Winning A/B results were not translating into improved user acquisition (sumall.com)
106 points by pretzel on Sept 29, 2014 | 61 comments
26.
Shellshocking OpenVPN servers
86 points by kfreds on Sept 29, 2014 | 6 comments
27.
Purely Functional 3D in Typed Racket [video] (youtube.com)
83 points by michaelsbradley on Sept 29, 2014 | 10 comments
28.
Microsoft Prediction Lab (prediction.microsoft.com)
83 points by metermaid on Sept 29, 2014 | 20 comments
29.
Template Metaprogramming with Modern C++: templates in depth (biicode.com)
81 points by signa11 on Sept 29, 2014 | 48 comments
30.
Future Smartphones Won’t Need Cell Towers to Connect (technologyreview.com)
78 points by cjdulberger on Sept 29, 2014 | 22 comments

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