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1. Pierre Sprey on the F-35 [video] (youtube.com)
380 points by guillaume8375 on June 17, 2014 | 356 comments
2. Show HN: We put an iPhone on the front wheel of a car (evilwindowdog.com)
380 points by stelabouras on June 17, 2014 | 108 comments
3. Dear Marc Andreessen (al3x.net)
352 points by steveklabnik on June 17, 2014 | 186 comments
4. The Abstinence Method – Dutch farmers say no to antibiotics for livestock (modernfarmer.com)
295 points by Mz on June 17, 2014 | 99 comments
5. UK intelligence forced to reveal secret policy for mass surveillance (privacyinternational.org)
291 points by r0h1n on June 17, 2014 | 143 comments
6. The Man Who Saves You from Yourself (2013) (harpers.org)
264 points by schrijver on June 17, 2014 | 139 comments
7. The SSD Endurance Experiment: Casualties on the way to a petabyte (techreport.com)
260 points by nkurz on June 17, 2014 | 109 comments
8. Literally worse than EA (notch.net)
262 points by itafroma on June 17, 2014 | 138 comments
9. Om Sweet Om: functional front-end engineering with ClojureScript and React (getprismatic.com)
262 points by trevoragilbert on June 17, 2014 | 68 comments
10. The Highest-Paid CEOs Are The Worst Performers, New Study Says (forbes.com/sites/susanadams)
260 points by dbingham on June 17, 2014 | 136 comments
11. Sherlock lives in public domain, US court rules (theguardian.com)
205 points by danso on June 17, 2014 | 51 comments
12. YouTube to block indie labels who don't sign up to new music service (theguardian.com)
213 points by uptown on June 17, 2014 | 113 comments
13. Scoop: A Glimpse Into the NYTimes CMS (nytimes.com)
190 points by edavis on June 17, 2014 | 71 comments
14. OpenXcom 1.0 (openxcom.org)
166 points by etiam on June 17, 2014 | 50 comments
15. SolarCity has signed an agreement to acquire Silevo (solarcity.com)
162 points by ph0rque on June 17, 2014 | 45 comments
16. Democrats unveil legislation forcing the FCC to ban Internet fast lanes (washingtonpost.com)
161 points by spenvo on June 17, 2014 | 104 comments
17. RethinkDB 1.13: pull data via HTTP, push data via changefeeds (rethinkdb.com)
149 points by coffeemug on June 17, 2014 | 52 comments
18. World Cup data in JSON (sfg.io)
141 points by llamataboot on June 17, 2014 | 51 comments
19. Facebook Slingshot – A new way to share photos and videos (sling.me)
142 points by jeremylevy on June 17, 2014 | 152 comments
20. The History of Mana: How an Austronesian Concept Became a Video Game Mechanic (theappendix.net)
129 points by chesterfield on June 17, 2014 | 47 comments
21. JavaScript Cryptography Considered Harmful (matasano.com)
127 points by mazsa on June 17, 2014 | 140 comments
22. Where the term "Zero Day" comes from (markmaunder.com)
127 points by mmaunder on June 17, 2014 | 43 comments
23. Not So Much ‘New York Poor’ as ‘Pittsburgh Rich’ (psmag.com)
121 points by ForHackernews on June 17, 2014 | 201 comments
24. Nokia 'paid millions to software blackmailers six years ago' (timminspress.com)
117 points by rpledge on June 17, 2014 | 43 comments
25. Say Hello to Our New Web API (spotify.com)
113 points by Fogh on June 17, 2014 | 41 comments
26. VersionPress – Version Control Plugin for WordPress (versionpress.net)
109 points by borekb on June 17, 2014 | 45 comments
27. Authentication for Single Page Apps (madhatted.com)
105 points by mixonic on June 17, 2014 | 29 comments
28. New EBS volume type: General Purpose (SSD) (amazon.com)
107 points by cperciva on June 17, 2014 | 45 comments
29. Show HN: We open-sourced our anime discovery application (github.com/hummingbird-me)
91 points by radq on June 17, 2014 | 39 comments
30. Show HN: Switchboard – open-source email processing in Erlang (spatch.co)
92 points by mickhagen on June 17, 2014 | 37 comments

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