| 1. | | Inside the Dark, Lucrative World of Consumer Debt Collection (nytimes.com) |
| 317 points by aet on Aug 15, 2014 [ext] | 260 comments [ext] |
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| 2. | | An amateur linguist loses control of the language he invented (2012) (newyorker.com) |
| 272 points by godarderik on Aug 15, 2014 [ext] | 106 comments [ext] |
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| 3. | | I am not planning any nuclear attacks (henrysmith.org) |
| 250 points by technicalfault on Aug 15, 2014 [ext] | 146 comments [ext] |
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How Rich Barton Turns Gossip Into Billion-Dollar Search Monopolies (kwokchain.com) |
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234 points by gak1654 431 days ago | hide | 59 comments
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| 4. | | Gavin Andresen, the Most Powerful Person in the World of Bitcoin (technologyreview.com) |
| 208 points by lxm on Aug 15, 2014 [ext] | 30 comments [ext] |
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| 5. | | The 30-year-old health sector billionaire (bbc.com) |
| 180 points by schrofer on Aug 15, 2014 [ext] | 76 comments [ext] |
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| 6. | | Tesla's Infinite Mile Warranty (teslamotors.com) |
| 170 points by brbcoding on Aug 15, 2014 [ext] | 57 comments [ext] |
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How Google’s new ‘TurboQuant’ AI might end the current RAM price hike crisis (tech.sportskeeda.com) |
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312 points by gul702 10 hours ago | hide | 19 comments
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| 7. | | The most common errors in undergraduate mathematics (vanderbilt.edu) |
| 160 points by Tomte on Aug 15, 2014 [ext] | 110 comments [ext] |
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| 8. | | Green Arabia (idlewords.com) |
| 155 points by ingve on Aug 15, 2014 [ext] | 68 comments [ext] |
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| 9. | | Vindinium: An artificial intelligence programming challenge (vindinium.org) |
| 158 points by gren on Aug 15, 2014 [ext] | 42 comments [ext] |
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The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me) |
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478 points by iuz6368 114 days ago | hide | 193 comments
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| 10. | | Packing things in your brain in a way that keeps them from leaking out (wired.com) |
| 147 points by Tomte on Aug 15, 2014 [ext] | 50 comments [ext] |
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| 11. | | Kivy – Open-source Python library for rapid development of applications (kivy.org) |
| 154 points by albertzeyer on Aug 15, 2014 [ext] | 47 comments [ext] |
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| 12. | | How “Legal” Are Seed Libraries? (postcarbon.org) |
| 144 points by nkurz on Aug 15, 2014 [ext] | 74 comments [ext] |
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Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com) |
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43 points by jan967 251 days ago | hide | 128 comments
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| 13. | | AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs [pdf] (pewinternet.org) |
| 141 points by eplanit on Aug 15, 2014 [ext] | 149 comments [ext] |
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| 14. | | Ask HN: How to learn design as a hacker? [ext] |
| 117 points by dkyc on Aug 15, 2014 [ext] | 49 comments [ext] |
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| 15. | | Show HN: Practical Guide to Mobile Apps Using Phonegap and Famo.us (practicalguidetomobileapps.com) |
| 131 points by nicholasreed on Aug 15, 2014 [ext] | 70 comments [ext] |
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Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets () |
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374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
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| 16. | | Open Source Game Clones (osgameclones.com) |
| 121 points by adamnemecek on Aug 15, 2014 [ext] | 28 comments [ext] |
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| 17. | | Where I Should Live, According to Math (munsonscity.wordpress.com) |
| 121 points by aaronbrethorst on Aug 15, 2014 [ext] | 75 comments [ext] |
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| 18. | | NSA/GCHQ: The HACIENDA Program for Internet Colonization (heise.de) |
| 116 points by mstolpm on Aug 15, 2014 [ext] | 49 comments [ext] |
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Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe) |
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429 points by pex8279 10 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
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| 19. | | Tax haven in the heart of Britain (2011) (newstatesman.com) |
| 112 points by ljf on Aug 15, 2014 [ext] | 71 comments [ext] |
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| 20. | | Starbucks to Revise Policies to End Irregular Schedules for Its 130,000 Baristas (nytimes.com) |
| 108 points by blatherard on Aug 15, 2014 [ext] | 53 comments [ext] |
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| 21. | | The Law-School Scam (theatlantic.com) |
| 117 points by gautamnarula on Aug 15, 2014 [ext] | 78 comments [ext] |
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Inside Shopify's Multi-Year Playbook Behind Tobi Lütke's Viral AI Memo (firstround.com) |
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253 points by paz1543 251 days ago | hide | 127 comments
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| 22. | | The Zen of Gradient Descent (mrtz.org) |
| 100 points by ot on Aug 15, 2014 [ext] | 11 comments [ext] |
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| 23. | | Blink won’t implement pointer events (code.google.com) |
| 107 points by robin_reala on Aug 15, 2014 [ext] | 63 comments [ext] |
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| 24. | | A Blockchain-based DNS and HTTP server (github.com/okturtles) |
| 103 points by timtadh on Aug 15, 2014 [ext] | 25 comments [ext] |
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From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com) |
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98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
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| 25. | | Basic Income is Practical Today, Necessary Soon (hawkins.ventures) |
| 99 points by mchusma on Aug 15, 2014 [ext] | 129 comments [ext] |
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| 26. | | Show HN: Lit – a modern literate programming tool (github.com/cdosborn) |
| 95 points by cdosborn on Aug 15, 2014 [ext] | 61 comments [ext] |
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| 27. | | Quality Software Costs Money – Heartbleed Was Free (acm.org) |
| 94 points by dblohm7 on Aug 15, 2014 [ext] | 70 comments [ext] |
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The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com) |
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249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
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| 28. | | The Future of College? (theatlantic.com) |
| 85 points by mikeleeorg on Aug 15, 2014 [ext] | 42 comments [ext] |
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| 29. | | Astrophysicists propose new twist on Big Bang (uwaterloo.ca) |
| 84 points by blazar on Aug 15, 2014 [ext] | 51 comments [ext] |
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| 30. | | How Boston Police Used Facial Recognition Technology to Spy on Thousands (vice.com) |
| 99 points by fizl on Aug 15, 2014 [ext] | 24 comments [ext] |
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Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com) |
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370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
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