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1.Choose hotels by the quality of their WiFi (hotelwifitest.com)
671 points by gozmike on July 24, 2014 | 237 comments
2.Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M (wsj.com)
590 points by moritzplassnig on July 24, 2014 | 162 comments
3.Math Intuition Cheatsheet (betterexplained.com)
478 points by jgrodziski on July 24, 2014 | 64 comments
4.Why blurring sensitive information is a bad idea (2007) (dheera.net)
265 points by Schiphol on July 24, 2014 | 124 comments
5.A Conference Stole My Identity (futurestack.com)
237 points by jballanc on July 24, 2014 | 142 comments
6.Google’s $1B purchase of Twitch confirmed (venturebeat.com)
237 points by owenwil on July 24, 2014 | 96 comments
7.Near Miss: The Solar Superstorm of July 2012 (nasa.gov)
234 points by jamessun on July 24, 2014 | 157 comments
8.Show HN: Streisand – Silence censorship, automate the effect (github.com/jlund)
234 points by jlund on July 24, 2014 | 52 comments
9.Gog.com Now Supports Linux (gog.com)
225 points by oal on July 24, 2014 | 58 comments
10.Trello, Inc (joelonsoftware.com)
197 points by kissgyorgy on July 24, 2014 | 25 comments
11.Washington, Minnesota officially endorse a “safer, faster” traffic merge (arstechnica.com)
179 points by smacktoward on July 24, 2014 | 200 comments
12.Ray, the self-driving forklift that is parking cars at a German airport (washingtonpost.com)
179 points by digisth on July 24, 2014 | 75 comments
13.CSS One-Liners (alistapart.com)
162 points by Brajeshwar on July 24, 2014 | 54 comments
14.How to move a 200-ton spectrometer across Europe (fogonazos.es)
157 points by lelf on July 24, 2014 | 49 comments
15.The new Cloud9 development environment (c9.io)
190 points by ivarpruijn on July 24, 2014 | 73 comments
16.A Face Recognition Algorithm That Finally Outperforms Humans (medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog)
147 points by Mz on July 24, 2014 | 31 comments
17.ISPs are spending less on their networks as they make more money off them (washingtonpost.com)
156 points by markmassie on July 24, 2014 | 71 comments
18.Master Emacs in one year (github.com/redguardtoo)
145 points by dgellow on July 24, 2014 | 116 comments
19.HN Hiring mapped (gaganpreet.github.io)
132 points by rullopat on July 24, 2014 | 26 comments
20.“You're not allowed science any more” (nature.com)
127 points by thisjepisje on July 24, 2014 | 158 comments
21.Emails reveal close Google relationship with NSA (aljazeera.com)
127 points by chmars on July 24, 2014 | 32 comments
22.Open sourcing our email signature parsing library (mailgun.com)
130 points by orliesaurus on July 24, 2014 | 20 comments
23.European Court Says CIA Ran Secret Jail in a Polish Forest (nytimes.com)
124 points by reirob on July 24, 2014 | 48 comments
24.India’s Answer to Google Glass: The Smartshoe (wsj.com)
138 points by skbohra123 on July 24, 2014 | 64 comments
25.A Closer Look at Transit (swannodette.github.io)
122 points by _halgari on July 24, 2014 | 36 comments
26.Ask HN: Do bootstrapped billion-dollar companies exist?
107 points by mdunn on July 24, 2014 | 134 comments
27.Our Startup Would Probably Die If We Were In San Francisco (needwant.com)
103 points by marshallhaas on July 24, 2014 | 69 comments
28.Notorious Airbnb squatter may be the dev behind two flailing Kickstarter games (polygon.com)
95 points by smacktoward on July 24, 2014 | 90 comments
29.Joel Spolsky's business operating system (pixelmonkey.org)
93 points by pixelmonkey on July 24, 2014 | 17 comments
30.Burger King's CEO Is 33 (businessweek.com)
90 points by AVTizzle on July 24, 2014 | 74 comments

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