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1. US cable giants calls on FCC to block cities' expansion of high-speed internet (theguardian.com)
460 points by primelens on Aug 30, 2014 | 154 comments
2. Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails to US Government (windowsitpro.com)
385 points by xamlhacker on Aug 30, 2014 | 117 comments
3. Ask HN: How to start earning $500/month in passive income in next 12-18 months?
288 points by rtcoms on Aug 30, 2014 | 193 comments
4. Facebook's std::vector optimization (github.com/facebook)
275 points by iamsalman on Aug 30, 2014 | 89 comments
5. Show HN: Restore tmux environment after a system restart (github.com/tmux-plugins)
241 points by brunosutic on Aug 30, 2014 | 43 comments
6. Man builds 3D printed concrete castle in his own backyard (3ders.org)
212 points by e15ctr0n on Aug 30, 2014 | 60 comments
7. States with Medical Marijuana Have Fewer Painkiller Deaths (smithsonianmag.com)
209 points by robg on Aug 30, 2014 | 38 comments
8. Psychedelics in problem-solving experiment (wikipedia.org)
167 points by gasull on Aug 30, 2014 | 47 comments
9. Say hello to x64 Assembly, part 1 (0xax.blogspot.com)
163 points by nkurz on Aug 30, 2014 | 41 comments
10. A React.js case study (krawaller.se)
153 points by xngzng on Aug 30, 2014 | 39 comments
11. I Went from Grad School to Prison (cosmopolitan.com)
143 points by theoutlander on Aug 30, 2014 | 105 comments
12. Kitematic – The easiest way to start using Docker on your Mac (kitematic.com)
155 points by alpacaaa on Aug 30, 2014 | 47 comments
13. We're building the GNU system [pdf] (savannah.gnu.org)
149 points by rev on Aug 30, 2014 | 60 comments
14. Atreus: My Custom Keyboard (mattgauger.com)
131 points by luu on Aug 30, 2014 | 24 comments
15. Why doctors are sick of their profession (wsj.com)
123 points by roye on Aug 30, 2014 | 236 comments
16. VAXen, My Children, Just Don't Belong in Some Places (hactrn.net)
117 points by siganakis on Aug 30, 2014 | 33 comments
17. The Lava Lamp Just Won't Quit (priceonomics.com)
120 points by ryan_j_naughton on Aug 30, 2014 | 41 comments
18. What We Do and Don't Know about Software Development Effort Estimation (infoq.com)
107 points by ExpiredLink on Aug 30, 2014 | 46 comments
19. Clojure's Transducers are as fundamental as function composition (thecomputersarewinning.com)
92 points by ithayer on Aug 30, 2014 | 47 comments
20. Frequentism and Bayesianism: A Practical Introduction (jakevdp.github.io)
93 points by atakan_gurkan on Aug 30, 2014 | 57 comments
21. Howard on Curry-Howard (wadler.blogspot.com)
76 points by lelf on Aug 30, 2014 | 8 comments
22. Taking it to Th’emacs (gbracha.blogspot.com)
80 points by allard on Aug 30, 2014 | 38 comments
23. The Last of a Class (medium.com/stanford-select)
85 points by cmstoken on Aug 30, 2014 | 11 comments
24. Machine learning isn't Kaggle competitions (jvns.ca)
81 points by akbarnama on Aug 30, 2014 | 20 comments
25. Experimental Ebola drug cured 100% of monkeys tested (usatoday.com)
80 points by zefi on Aug 30, 2014 | 15 comments
26. HubCap: pwning the Chromecast part 1 (fail0verflow.com)
67 points by joshbaptiste on Aug 30, 2014 | 6 comments
27. Predictive learning vs. representation learning (seas.harvard.edu)
63 points by cottonseed on Aug 30, 2014 | 2 comments
28. GCR decoding on the fly (linusakesson.net)
62 points by silentbicycle on Aug 30, 2014 | 5 comments
29. MSN Messenger to end after 15 years (bbc.com)
48 points by _rjlt on Aug 30, 2014 | 23 comments
30. Hidden message in Google Maps? (google.com)
48 points by ablokker on Aug 30, 2014 | 15 comments

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