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1. [dupe] Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (ocallahan.org)
390 points by walterbell on Aug 16, 2014 | 309 comments
2. The Python I Would Like To See (pocoo.org)
327 points by rachbelaid on Aug 16, 2014 | 82 comments
3. George Orwell's review of Mein Kampf (1940) (docs.google.com)
305 points by adamnemecek on Aug 16, 2014 | 240 comments
4. Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista? (2012) (msdn.com)
230 points by pzaich on Aug 16, 2014 | 67 comments
5. Georgia Teens Develop App to Document Police Abuse (forharriet.com)
229 points by logn on Aug 16, 2014 | 50 comments
6. The secret life of SIM cards (2013) (simhacks.github.io)
225 points by cthackers on Aug 16, 2014 | 43 comments
7. Cell Phone Guide For US Protesters, Updated 2014 Edition (eff.org)
170 points by panarky on Aug 16, 2014 | 61 comments
8. VimR – Refined Vim Experience for OS X (vimr.org)
164 points by jasonrdsouza on Aug 16, 2014 | 63 comments
9. A Leica T Review (minimallyminimal.com)
122 points by constantinum on Aug 16, 2014 | 102 comments
10. Yubari, Japan: a city learns how to die (theguardian.com)
109 points by oska on Aug 16, 2014 | 53 comments
11. 3D Printed Sugar (the-sugar-lab.com)
105 points by nikhilpandit on Aug 16, 2014 | 35 comments
12. U.S. firm helped the spyware industry build a digital weapon for sale overseas (washingtonpost.com)
110 points by rpupkin on Aug 16, 2014 | 18 comments
13. Photos of the Commodore production line in Hong Kong (dustlayer.com)
96 points by yankcrime on Aug 16, 2014 | 9 comments
14. Python-ftfy: Given Unicode text, make its representation possibly less broken (github.com/luminosoinsight)
101 points by rspeer on Aug 16, 2014 | 40 comments
15. A Chinese Man, a $50 Billion Plan and a Canal to Reshape Nicaragua (npr.org)
97 points by victoro on Aug 16, 2014 | 56 comments
16. Senator Wyden: Your data’s yours no matter on whose server it lives (washingtonpost.com)
96 points by Libertatea on Aug 16, 2014 | 22 comments
17. Ask HN: Experienced dev having career lull
85 points by throwawaydotcpp on Aug 16, 2014 | 72 comments
18. Option Monads in Rust
83 points by mmastrac on Aug 16, 2014 | 57 comments
19. Ask HN: Ways to increase mental sharpness or intelligence?
78 points by hotshot on Aug 16, 2014 | 55 comments
20. Codeworld: An open-source educational programming environment using Haskell (github.com/google)
73 points by cnbuff410 on Aug 16, 2014 | 9 comments
21. Faster Python calls in Cython 0.21 (behnel.de)
75 points by andreif on Aug 16, 2014 | 7 comments
22. NSA Observer (nsa-observer.net)
65 points by getdavidhiggins on Aug 16, 2014 | 12 comments
23. Firejail – Simple Linux sandbox with seccomp (l3net.wordpress.com)
62 points by antocv on Aug 16, 2014 | 10 comments
24. Half of a Coin: Negative Probabilities [pdf] (wilmott.com)
60 points by jmount on Aug 16, 2014 | 38 comments
25. DataRobot raises $21M Series A (wsj.com)
81 points by benhamner on Aug 16, 2014 | 8 comments
26. Octo: CHIP-8 retro game programming in the browser (johnearnest.github.io)
61 points by mr_golyadkin on Aug 16, 2014 | 4 comments
27. ColorRun – Simple browser game about colors (colorrun.pl)
56 points by lukaszmtw on Aug 16, 2014 | 33 comments
28. How my startup got to #1 on both Product Hunt and Hacker News (levels.io)
59 points by pieterhg on Aug 16, 2014 | 23 comments
29. Inside The Making Of The New “Dungeons and Dragons” (fastcodesign.com)
56 points by santaclaus on Aug 16, 2014 | 23 comments
30. Show HN: EmailPK – Instant encrypted email (diafygi.github.io)
53 points by diafygi on Aug 16, 2014 | 37 comments

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