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1. They're Made out of Meat (terrybisson.com)
558 points by ColinWright on Aug 8, 2014 | 170 comments
2. Chesscademy – Learn How to Play Chess (chesscademy.com)
438 points by lumens on Aug 8, 2014 | 116 comments
3. Open Source Email Templates (sendwithus.com)
390 points by bvanvugt on Aug 8, 2014 | 60 comments
4. Ask HN: I was hired and unhired in 2 weeks, for no reason
368 points by guybrushT on Aug 8, 2014 | 281 comments
5. Lightspeed – A Browser Experiment (blog.mozilla.org)
355 points by khc on Aug 8, 2014 | 179 comments
6. Judge rejects $324.5M settlement over Apple, Google hiring (reuters.com)
278 points by uptown on Aug 8, 2014 | 172 comments
7. War in the womb (aeon.co)
267 points by Mz on Aug 8, 2014 | 69 comments
8. Plot Thickens as 900 Writers Battle Amazon (nytimes.com)
215 points by IBM on Aug 8, 2014 | 135 comments
9. Painting in Clojure (tombooth.co.uk)
212 points by speednoise on Aug 8, 2014 | 14 comments
10. Corporate America Hasn’t Been Disrupted (fivethirtyeight.com)
200 points by japaget on Aug 8, 2014 | 138 comments
11. Python Practice Book (anandology.com)
204 points by aburan28 on Aug 8, 2014 | 36 comments
12. Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (ocallahan.org)
175 points by joshmoz on Aug 8, 2014 | 126 comments
13. Ask HN: Who isn't in the software industry/not a hacker?
157 points by graham1776 on Aug 8, 2014 | 190 comments
14. The Lie Behind 1.2B Stolen Passwords (youarenotpayingattention.com)
176 points by mhurron on Aug 8, 2014 | 42 comments
15. Toga: A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit (pybee.org)
149 points by samf on Aug 8, 2014 | 69 comments
16. What Kind of Logo Do You Get for $5? (medium.com/sachagreif)
155 points by sebgeelen on Aug 8, 2014 | 81 comments
17. Live attacks against the Norse honeypot infrastructure (ipviking.com)
149 points by dtournemille on Aug 8, 2014 | 35 comments
18. An Internet-Ready OS From Scratch in a Week – Rump Kernels on Bare Metal (netbsd.org)
123 points by zdw on Aug 8, 2014 | 23 comments
19. Yann LeCun on the IBM neural net chip (facebook.com)
120 points by luu on Aug 8, 2014 | 45 comments
20. λ Lessons (stevekrouse.github.io)
127 points by lelf on Aug 8, 2014 | 19 comments
21. Roda – A new Ruby web framework (jeremyevans.net)
106 points by sebkomianos on Aug 8, 2014 | 42 comments
22. That WoW server blade (augustl.com)
104 points by facorreia on Aug 8, 2014 | 64 comments
23. Anthropology of Mid-Sized Startups (ribbonfarm.com)
109 points by jasim on Aug 8, 2014 | 6 comments
24. Remote code execution on Android devices (bromium.com)
107 points by ghosh on Aug 8, 2014 | 51 comments
25. Perceptual Image Hashing (bertolami.com)
104 points by specular on Aug 8, 2014 | 34 comments
26. How to Use Your Cat to Hack Your Neighbor’s Wi-Fi (wired.com)
113 points by klunger on Aug 8, 2014 | 76 comments
27. Physical Side-Channel Key-Extraction Attacks On PCs (tau.ac.il)
100 points by madars on Aug 8, 2014 | 16 comments
28. The Brazilian Bus Magnate Who’s Buying Up Vinyl Records (nytimes.com)
100 points by sheltgor on Aug 8, 2014 | 18 comments
29. Really Good Emails (reallygoodemails.com)
97 points by rayshan on Aug 8, 2014 | 21 comments
30. How casinos get you to spend more money (vox.com)
99 points by bennesvig on Aug 8, 2014 | 93 comments

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