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1. The Water-Repelling Surface That Lives Outside My Window (wired.com)
350 points by aatish on June 20, 2014 | 62 comments
2. What Happened When We Tried to Publish a Real Paper Investigating Time Travel (thewinnower.com)
335 points by jmnicholson on June 20, 2014 | 181 comments
3. Teaching college is no longer a middle-class job, and everyone should care (guernicamag.com)
311 points by nkurz on June 20, 2014 | 273 comments
4. The first stable release of PyPy3 (morepypy.blogspot.com)
299 points by pjenvey on June 20, 2014 | 84 comments
5. 8088 Domination Post-Mortem, Part 1 (oldskool.org)
252 points by userbinator on June 20, 2014 | 106 comments
6. Euclid: The Game (euclidthegame.org)
246 points by mpwarres on June 20, 2014 | 82 comments
7. Webkit.js (trevorlinton.github.io)
205 points by ndesaulniers on June 20, 2014 | 103 comments
8. Valuations (samaltman.com)
186 points by moritzplassnig on June 20, 2014 | 87 comments
9. Java Pain (tbray.org)
176 points by robin_reala on June 20, 2014 | 144 comments
10. Cops hid use of phone tracking tech in court documents at feds’ request (arstechnica.com)
185 points by Atlas on June 20, 2014 | 53 comments
11. On Mining (ethereum.org)
168 points by jc123 on June 20, 2014 | 29 comments
12. Mario Maker: Create Your Own Super Mario Levels (nintendo.com)
163 points by stevekinney on June 20, 2014 | 56 comments
13. Boring SSL (imperialviolet.org)
161 points by FredericJ on June 20, 2014 | 41 comments
14. Tell your ISP to stop retaining your data (openrightsgroup.org)
135 points by vrikis on June 20, 2014 | 36 comments
15. Will 7nm And 5nm Really Happen? (semiengineering.com)
128 points by matt42 on June 20, 2014 | 132 comments
16. The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830) (umich.edu)
125 points by ptio on June 20, 2014 | 37 comments
17. Servo – Render in parallel (github.com/mozilla)
123 points by heydenberk on June 20, 2014 | 27 comments
18. CGrep: a context-aware grep for source codes (awgn.github.io)
109 points by psibi on June 20, 2014 | 35 comments
19. EBay Valet (ebay.com)
108 points by zengr on June 20, 2014 | 85 comments
20. The Joy of Typing (medium.com/message)
103 points by dmnd on June 20, 2014 | 93 comments
21. Interesting Swift Features (mikeash.com)
94 points by ingve on June 20, 2014 | 74 comments
22. The Boomerang Kids Won't Leave (nytimes.com)
90 points by wallflower on June 20, 2014 | 146 comments
23. Videos from Startup School NY are now online (blog.ycombinator.com)
94 points by balbaugh on June 20, 2014 | 17 comments
24. Run Your Own Massive Distributed Honeypot System (threatstream.github.io)
89 points by jaytaylor on June 20, 2014 | 5 comments
25. Annyang.js – Let visitors control your site with voice commands (talater.com)
86 points by danso on June 20, 2014 | 23 comments
26. A framework for making 2D DOS games in Lua (github.com/rxi)
85 points by ethicszen on June 20, 2014 | 16 comments
27. Fun with Python bytecode – Generate and modify it using evolutionary algorithms (multigrad.blogspot.com)
81 points by soravux on June 20, 2014 | 11 comments
28. House Passes Amendment To Cut Off Funding For NSA’s “Backdoor” Searches (techcrunch.com)
80 points by user_235711 on June 20, 2014 | 5 comments
29. Patent Trolls Are Mortally Wounded (slate.com)
76 points by pron on June 20, 2014 | 32 comments
30. Sex, Lies, And Quantum Computers (rjlipton.wordpress.com)
70 points by mike_esspe on June 20, 2014 | 16 comments

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