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Stories from September 9, 2014
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1.With genetic testing, I gave my parents the gift of divorce (vox.com)
467 points by anigbrowl on Sept 9, 2014 [ext] | 212 comments [ext]
2.Stripe and Apple Pay (stripe.com)
447 points by Peroni on Sept 9, 2014 [ext] | 97 comments [ext]
3.Issue #3 – Better Late Than Never (neovim.org)
344 points by bpierre on Sept 9, 2014 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
4. The $10 Lens That Reshaped Global Blindness Prevention (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 201 days ago | hide | 18 comments
4.Microsoft Near Deal to Buy Minecraft Maker Mojang (wsj.com)
354 points by thethimble on Sept 9, 2014 [ext] | 262 comments [ext]
5.Google Employees Secretly Live on Campus to Avoid Paying Rent (yahoo.com)
349 points by thejteam on Sept 9, 2014 [ext] | 263 comments [ext]
6.The curious case of the cyclist’s unshaven legs (theglobeandmail.com)
280 points by soundsop on Sept 9, 2014 [ext] | 80 comments [ext]
7. How Three Laws Quietly Killed the Programmable Web (continuations.com)
215 points by doz2675 595 days ago | hide | 76 comments
7.Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event (apple.com)
237 points by Geee on Sept 9, 2014 [ext] | 362 comments [ext]
8.Intel Edison Module (intel.com)
217 points by gao8a on Sept 9, 2014 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
9.Zimg – A lightweight and high-performance image storage and processing system (github.com/buaazp)
196 points by lonre on Sept 9, 2014 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
10. Why self-play crushed two-week-old agents 95% of the time (blog.samaltman.com)
487 points by htx5127 610 days ago | hide | 15 comments
10.Lost Franklin expedition ship found in the Arctic (cbc.ca)
189 points by trusche on Sept 9, 2014 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
11.Apple Pay (apple.com)
185 points by andreiursan on Sept 9, 2014 [ext] | 212 comments [ext]
12.iPhone 6 (apple.com)
182 points by antr on Sept 9, 2014 [ext] | 308 comments [ext]
13. Outsource your willpower: a protocol for couples who want to ship (web.archive.org)
420 points by guz3550 603 days ago | hide | 25 comments
13.Weave – The Docker Network (github.com/zettio)
197 points by ferrantim on Sept 9, 2014 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
14.DSLR – Damn Small Linux Remake (dimakrasner.com)
182 points by networked on Sept 9, 2014 [ext] | 84 comments [ext]
15.China's Island Factory – New islands being made in disputed China Sea (bbc.co.uk)
186 points by roc123 on Sept 9, 2014 [ext] | 144 comments [ext]
16. Why Dollar Reserves Hit a 31-Year Low Despite Rising Treasury Holdings (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 114 days ago | hide | 68 comments
16.A Revolutionary Technique That Changed Machine Vision (technologyreview.com)
175 points by lelf on Sept 9, 2014 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
17.Steve Ballmer did not write the text for the blue screen of death (msdn.com)
159 points by ingve on Sept 9, 2014 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
18.How Apple Pay works and why it matters for developers (clover-developers.blogspot.com)
184 points by johndbeatty on Sept 9, 2014 [ext] | 113 comments [ext]
19. Generative AI may finally crack physical design's impenetrable vendor lock-in (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 594 days ago | hide | 193 comments
19.Ragnarok MMO open-source HTML5 client (github.com/vthibault)
176 points by mihai_ionic on Sept 9, 2014 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
20.Responsive Web Design with DevTools' Device Mode (chromium.org)
157 points by AshleysBrain on Sept 9, 2014 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
21.Venture Firms Fret as Y Combinator Soars (genius.com)
154 points by samnm on Sept 9, 2014 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
22. The dangerous delusion of high stock valuations during a Middle East war (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 1 day ago | hide | 150 comments
22.Summary of ZFS on Linux for Debian (gmane.org)
141 points by ferrantim on Sept 9, 2014 [ext] | 96 comments [ext]
23.The Satoshi Nakamoto Email Hacker Says He's Negotiating with the Bitcoin Founder (vice.com)
129 points by harwoodr on Sept 9, 2014 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
24.From Reddit to Pornhub, Websites Slow Down for Net Neutrality on September 10 (eff.org)
121 points by sinak2 on Sept 9, 2014 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
25. How a Polymarket Wallet Outearned Google Predicting Gemini 3's Launch (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 59 days ago | hide | 13 comments
25.Ebola death toll rises to at least 2,296: WHO (reuters.com)
113 points by anigbrowl on Sept 9, 2014 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
26.OPM – Open PostgreSQL Monitoring (opm.io)
102 points by rayshan on Sept 9, 2014 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
27.The Father of Net Neutrality Is Running for Office (wired.com)
103 points by cyphersanctus on Sept 9, 2014 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
28. The Provincial Incentive Loop: Decoding China’s Hyper-Competitive Industrial Scaling Model (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 220 days ago | hide | 175 comments
28.Use Emacs Org-mode Links for Absolutely Anything (endlessparentheses.com)
95 points by malabarba on Sept 9, 2014 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
29.The Cost of Waterloo Software Engineering (petersobot.com)
95 points by psobot on Sept 9, 2014 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
30.A hilariously sad tale of gender bias (medium.com/trisha)
91 points by juanplusjuan on Sept 9, 2014 [ext] | 125 comments [ext]
31. A CTO Killed A $150K SaaS Deal In A Week With Claude ()
44 points by gtl4094 92 days ago | hide | 70 comments

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