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1.Announcing UberPool (uber.com)
430 points by jefftchan on Aug 5, 2014 [ext] | 155 comments [ext]
2.Justin.tv has shut down (justin.tv)
396 points by abstractbill on Aug 5, 2014 [ext] | 137 comments [ext]
3.3D Object Manipulation in a Single Photograph using Stock 3D Models (cmu.edu)
343 points by nkurz on Aug 5, 2014 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
4. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
4.Arrow: Better dates and times for Python (crsmithdev.com)
315 points by amarsahinovic on Aug 5, 2014 [ext] | 72 comments [ext]
5.Navdy: HUD for your car (navdy.com)
337 points by adambratt on Aug 5, 2014 [ext] | 215 comments [ext]
6.LinkedIn to pay nearly $6M in unpaid overtime wages and damages to 359 employees (dol.gov)
316 points by e15ctr0n on Aug 5, 2014 [ext] | 164 comments [ext]
7. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
7.Why I am leaving the best job I ever had (maxschireson.com)
257 points by jasondc on Aug 5, 2014 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
8.Harry Potter and the Cryptocurrency of Stars (kalzumeus.com)
236 points by pc on Aug 5, 2014 [ext] | 122 comments [ext]
9.Why does Windows think that my wireless keyboard is a toaster? (superuser.com)
227 points by SergeyDruid on Aug 5, 2014 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
10. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
10.We Will Fight Until The End (zenmagnets.com)
190 points by nathannecro on Aug 5, 2014 [ext] | 102 comments [ext]
11.Russian Gang Said to Amass More Than a Billion Stolen Internet Credentials (nytimes.com)
192 points by GabrielF00 on Aug 5, 2014 [ext] | 84 comments [ext]
12.Show HN: Instantly Understand Any Spreadsheet (useslate.com)
192 points by f292 on Aug 5, 2014 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
13. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 368 days ago | hide | 168 comments
13.Researcher’s death shocks Japan (nature.com)
163 points by danso on Aug 5, 2014 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
14.Obama's Secret Terrorist-Tracking System, by the Numbers (firstlook.org)
176 points by couchand on Aug 5, 2014 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
15.Aspirin could dramatically cut cancer risk, according to biggest study yet (theguardian.com)
152 points by wslh on Aug 5, 2014 [ext] | 105 comments [ext]
16. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
16.LowRISC: Open-source RISC-V SoC (lowrisc.org)
135 points by br0ke on Aug 5, 2014 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
17.Academic Urban Legends (sagepub.com)
129 points by dougmccune on Aug 5, 2014 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
18.Watch the Rosetta rendezvous (esa.int)
144 points by ColinWright on Aug 5, 2014 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
19. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
19.Recommending music on Spotify with deep learning (benanne.github.io)
140 points by benanne on Aug 5, 2014 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
20.Entitlement issues (2009) (neilgaiman.com)
121 points by drx on Aug 5, 2014 [ext] | 151 comments [ext]
21.A spambot became the second most powerful member of an Italian social network (technologyreview.com)
130 points by avyfain on Aug 5, 2014 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
22. From Shortlist to Shipped: A Tournament Method for Picking Life's Work (guzey.com)
110 points by coz850 602 days ago | hide | 97 comments
22.A Fast, Minimal Memory, Consistent Hash Algorithm (arxiv.org)
121 points by luu on Aug 5, 2014 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
23.Why Privacy Matters Even If You Have 'Nothing to Hide' (2011) (chronicle.com)
130 points by davidbarker on Aug 5, 2014 [ext] | 73 comments [ext]
24.Anthropology: The sad truth about uncontacted tribes (bbc.com)
117 points by Libertatea on Aug 5, 2014 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
25. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 105 days ago | hide | 48 comments
25.Experimental Drug Likely Saved Ebola Patients (cnn.com)
123 points by codexjourneys on Aug 5, 2014 [ext] | 91 comments [ext]
26.An underrated feature in Python 3 (ionelmc.ro)
112 points by ionelm on Aug 5, 2014 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
27.A Gentle Introduction to Backpropagation (numericinsight.blogspot.com)
112 points by ttandon on Aug 5, 2014 [ext] | 17 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.Irken Language – A Scheme with parametric polymorphism (nightmare.com)
106 points by wirrbel on Aug 5, 2014 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
29.What is type safety? (pl-enthusiast.net)
106 points by tenslisi on Aug 5, 2014 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
30.Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2 (ietf.org)
99 points by yoavz on Aug 5, 2014 [ext] | 109 comments [ext]
31. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments

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