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1. Game Mechanic Explorer – examples for game mechanics, algorithms, and effects (gamemechanicexplorer.com)
404 points by davidbarker on April 21, 2014 | 42 comments
2. Build Tools – Make, no more (hadihariri.com)
344 points by _superposition_ on April 21, 2014 | 140 comments
3. Farewell GitHub, Hello Immersive Computing (preston-werner.com)
348 points by Dorian-Marie on April 21, 2014 | 88 comments
4. The ticking time-bomb at the bottom of the Baltic Sea (economist.com)
312 points by neverminder on April 21, 2014 | 92 comments
5. Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard (1992) (pinyin.info)
270 points by SoftwarePatent on April 21, 2014 | 294 comments
6. Microsoft OneDrive for Business modifies files as it syncs (myce.com)
229 points by ingve on April 21, 2014 | 119 comments
7. Is the Toilet Free? (madebymany.com)
229 points by virmundi on April 21, 2014 | 122 comments
8. Flynn: first preview release (flynn.io)
216 points by bencevans on April 21, 2014 | 77 comments
9. The most expensive lottery ticket in the world (reuters.com)
202 points by barretts on April 21, 2014 | 94 comments
10. How to Convert a Digital Watch to a Negative Display (watchuseek.com)
188 points by zenburn on April 21, 2014 | 49 comments
11. LibGDX 1.0 released (badlogicgames.com)
171 points by octopus on April 21, 2014 | 34 comments
12. Everyone Deserves Great Design (everyonedeservesgreatdesign.com)
160 points by ztratar on April 21, 2014 | 48 comments
13. What every founder fears (medium.com/p)
160 points by mef on April 21, 2014 | 81 comments
14. Capital Man: Thomas Piketty is economics’ biggest sensation and fiercest critic (chronicle.com)
157 points by dang on April 21, 2014 | 193 comments
15. Iodine – tunneling IP over DNS (github.com/yarrick)
152 points by kudu on April 21, 2014 | 36 comments
16. Scala 2.11.0 Release Notes (scala-lang.org)
140 points by philippelh on April 21, 2014 | 72 comments
17. Supreme Court to hear arguments on Aereo this week (washingtonpost.com)
129 points by xhrpost on April 21, 2014 | 80 comments
18. Elixir v0.13.0 released, hex.pm and ElixirConf announced (elixir-lang.org)
130 points by devinus on April 21, 2014 | 54 comments
19. Show HN: To-learn list and course reminders (accredible.com)
121 points by dannyking on April 21, 2014 | 36 comments
20. Home entertainment implementations are pretty appalling (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
120 points by jdub on April 21, 2014 | 61 comments
21. Pied Piper (piedpiper.com)
113 points by dreger on April 21, 2014 | 65 comments
22. Invitation for DNC reception with Obama at YC (scribd.com)
115 points by negrit on April 21, 2014 | 110 comments
23. AT&T's 'Expansion' of 1 Gbps to 100 Cities is a Big, Fat Bluff (dslreports.com)
108 points by lelf on April 21, 2014 | 43 comments
24. Let the Type System do the Work (javadocmd.com)
105 points by Garbage on April 21, 2014 | 99 comments
25. Vegetative patient says 'I'm not in pain' (bbc.com)
101 points by kposehn on April 21, 2014 | 66 comments
26. Most of the Amazon SES IP blacklisted by SpamCannibal (amazon.com)
101 points by abhisekumar on April 21, 2014 | 168 comments
27. UPSERTisms in Postgres (johtopg.blogspot.se)
100 points by JoelJacobson on April 21, 2014 | 17 comments
28. Cubans trace roots to remote Sierra Leone village (bbc.com)
95 points by ghosh on April 21, 2014 | 2 comments
29. Uproar over plan to dispose of Syrian chemical weapons in the Mediterranean (washingtonpost.com)
84 points by stagas on April 21, 2014 | 18 comments
30. Accepted projects – Google Summer of Code 2014 (google-melange.com)
86 points by bratao on April 21, 2014 | 29 comments

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