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1. Gamma FinFisher hacked: 40 GB of internal documents and source code published (netzpolitik.org)
402 points by srslack on Aug 6, 2014 | 102 comments
2. P5.js: Processing for today’s web (p5js.org)
381 points by bpierre on Aug 6, 2014 | 93 comments
3. Transducers are coming to Clojure (cognitect.com)
319 points by siavosh on Aug 6, 2014 | 100 comments
4. Goodbye to Sasha Shulgin, Godfather of Psychedelics (alumni.berkeley.edu)
263 points by sbilstein on Aug 6, 2014 | 63 comments
5. Bizarro World: World Record Tetris (2007) (boston.com)
236 points by rinesh on Aug 6, 2014 | 75 comments
6. Europe's Rosetta probe goes into orbit around comet 67P (bbc.co.uk)
234 points by NickPollard on Aug 6, 2014 | 73 comments
7. Mapbox GL for the Web (mapbox.com)
232 points by uptown on Aug 6, 2014 | 39 comments
8. With Lyft Line, Passengers Can Split Fares for Shared Rides (techcrunch.com)
224 points by cstigler on Aug 6, 2014 | 103 comments
9. Wikipedia refuses to delete photo taken by monkey (telegraph.co.uk)
201 points by christop on Aug 6, 2014 | 203 comments
10. Chrome Experiments: “3d city” (chromeexperiments.com)
205 points by mmastrac on Aug 6, 2014 | 36 comments
11. How Microsoft dragged its development practices into the 21st century (arstechnica.com)
170 points by amaks on Aug 6, 2014 | 128 comments
12. CERN Particle Clicker (cern.ch)
177 points by cjrd on Aug 6, 2014 | 48 comments
13. CloudFlare Now Supports WebSockets (cloudflare.com)
171 points by jgrahamc on Aug 6, 2014 | 32 comments
14. Why Some Schools Are Selling All Their iPads (theatlantic.com)
167 points by jmduke on Aug 6, 2014 | 214 comments
15. How to Make the Best Pourover Coffee (seriouseats.com)
137 points by Mz on Aug 6, 2014 | 102 comments
16. Defragmenting Qt and Uniting Our Ecosystem (digia.com)
134 points by drgvond on Aug 6, 2014 | 91 comments
17. Ethereum pre-sale hits 12.7M$, still 27 days to go (wsj.com)
130 points by simonebrunozzi on Aug 6, 2014 | 105 comments
18. Kale, cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, Brussels sprouts are all the same species (vox.com)
99 points by lukas on Aug 6, 2014 | 97 comments
19. How the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition (2010) (slate.com)
108 points by calcsam on Aug 6, 2014 | 65 comments
20. Wikipedia reveals Google 'forgotten' search links (bbc.co.uk)
112 points by cmsefton on Aug 6, 2014 | 54 comments
21. Pissed off about functional programming (2005) (perlmonks.org)
102 points by yiransheng on Aug 6, 2014 | 61 comments
22. Foursquare Now Tracks Users Even When the App Is Closed (wsj.com)
100 points by petethomas on Aug 6, 2014 | 42 comments
23. How startup founders and CEOs rate the top VCs in Silicon Valley [pdf] (yougov.com)
92 points by wesleytt on Aug 6, 2014 | 21 comments
24. Apples to Apples, Part II (jessesquires.com)
90 points by poolpool on Aug 6, 2014 | 13 comments
25. Twitch implements YouTube-like system for blocking copyrighted audio (polygon.com)
84 points by pauljonas on Aug 6, 2014 | 70 comments
26. Show HN: EDI – An editor in Go (satyajit.ranjeev.in)
93 points by satyajitranjeev on Aug 6, 2014 | 48 comments
27. Reflecting back on one year of Kaggle contests (mlwave.com)
76 points by dpmehta02 on Aug 6, 2014 | 6 comments
28. Dbignore – .gitignore for Dropbox (konolige.com)
75 points by tiedye on Aug 6, 2014 | 14 comments
29. The New Foursquare (avc.com)
75 points by joaodepaula on Aug 6, 2014 | 75 comments
30. Houston City Council gives green light to Uber, Lyft (abc13.com)
68 points by danelectro on Aug 6, 2014 | 44 comments

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