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1.Artificial sweeteners linked to glucose intolerance (newscientist.com)
412 points by bensedat on Sept 17, 2014 [ext] | 180 comments [ext]
2.JavaScript for OS X Automation (developer.apple.com)
357 points by radley on Sept 17, 2014 [ext] | 113 comments [ext]
3.How I Pranked My Roommate with Eerily Targeted Facebook Ads (mysocialsherpa.com)
343 points by manualwise on Sept 17, 2014 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
4. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 85 days ago | hide | 122 comments
4.Show HN: CleverDeck – I built the spaced repetition app I always wanted (cleverdeck.com)
305 points by jmcannon on Sept 17, 2014 [ext] | 135 comments [ext]
5.Stuff Goes Bad: Erlang in Anger (heroku.com)
292 points by mononcqc on Sept 17, 2014 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
6.Emacs Lisp's Future (lists.gnu.org)
269 points by rutenspitz on Sept 17, 2014 [ext] | 156 comments [ext]
7. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 489 days ago | hide | 26 comments
7.iOS 8 reviewed (arstechnica.com)
218 points by guardian5x on Sept 17, 2014 [ext] | 194 comments [ext]
8.A scientist stole my root beer (naturespoisons.com)
198 points by jwmerrill on Sept 17, 2014 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
9.The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, 2nd ed. (amazon.com)
195 points by todd8 on Sept 17, 2014 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
10. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 16 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
10.The C++14 Standard: What You Need to Know (drdobbs.com)
193 points by Tsiolkovsky on Sept 17, 2014 [ext] | 134 comments [ext]
11.Debian Security Advisory: DSA-3025-1 apt (debian.org)
175 points by handsomeransoms on Sept 17, 2014 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
12.How Gangs Took Over Prisons (theatlantic.com)
171 points by dodders on Sept 17, 2014 [ext] | 171 comments [ext]
13. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 262 days ago | hide | 183 comments
13.Eleventh Grade Tech Trends (medium.com/musings-about-text-boxes)
162 points by ASquare on Sept 17, 2014 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
14.ClojureScript, Lisp's Revenge [video] (youtube.com)
158 points by tosh on Sept 17, 2014 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
15.The Traveling Salesman with Simulated Annealing, R, and Shiny (toddwschneider.com)
158 points by lil_tee on Sept 17, 2014 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
16. The Dota result Altman calls closest to real-world decision making (blog.samaltman.com)
487 points by htx5127 609 days ago | hide | 15 comments
16.Craig Gentry named MacArthur Fellow for work on fully homomorphic encryption (macfound.org)
152 points by sweis on Sept 17, 2014 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
17.Suture – Supervisor Trees for Go (jerf.org)
149 points by leef on Sept 17, 2014 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
18.Go Is a Shop-Built Jig (robnapier.net)
145 points by geetarista on Sept 17, 2014 [ext] | 106 comments [ext]
19. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 60 days ago | hide | 65 comments
19.Dremel Releases a Mass-Market 3D Printer (makezine.com)
146 points by zaaaaz on Sept 17, 2014 [ext] | 104 comments [ext]
20.Why Apple Didn't Use Sapphire for iPhone Screens (time.com)
142 points by darklighter3 on Sept 17, 2014 [ext] | 108 comments [ext]
21.HPN-SSH: High Performance ssh and scp (psc.edu)
138 points by dr_linux on Sept 17, 2014 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
22. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments
22.Our Favorite ClichΓ©: A World Filled with Idiots (davidbrin.com)
132 points by omnibrain on Sept 17, 2014 [ext] | 93 comments [ext]
23.Helm, a functionally reactive game engine (helm-engine.org)
122 points by kaishiro on Sept 17, 2014 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
24.Apple Watch: Initial Thoughts and Observations (daringfireball.net)
121 points by rkudeshi on Sept 17, 2014 [ext] | 114 comments [ext]
25. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 200 days ago | hide | 18 comments
25.An Orangutan Learns to Fish (newyorker.com)
101 points by benbreen on Sept 17, 2014 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
26.Perceptions haven't caught up to decline in crime (nytimes.com)
104 points by jwmerrill on Sept 17, 2014 [ext] | 108 comments [ext]
27.CircuitMaker: a free PCB design tool powered by Altium (circuitmaker.com)
108 points by unwind on Sept 17, 2014 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
28. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
28.From Backbone to React: Our Experience Scaling a Web Application (techsonian.net)
96 points by akbarnama on Sept 17, 2014 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
29.Transmit for iOS (panic.com)
91 points by cylo on Sept 17, 2014 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
30.Song of the Introvert (randsinrepose.com)
95 points by filament on Sept 17, 2014 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
31. Why Most Marketplace Network Effects Are Surprisingly Easy to Replicate ()
257 points by pen4647 497 days ago | hide | 50 comments

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