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1. Yes, we’re being bought by Microsoft (mojang.com)
941 points by jordanmessina on Sept 15, 2014 | 515 comments
2. The Road to Rust 1.0 (rust-lang.org)
570 points by steveklabnik on Sept 15, 2014 | 238 comments
3. Major Android Bug Is a Privacy Disaster (CVE-2014-6041) (rapid7.com)
543 points by mike-cardwell on Sept 15, 2014 | 224 comments
4. KaTeX: Math typesetting for the web (khan.github.io)
481 points by xymostech on Sept 15, 2014 | 98 comments
5. Copies of malware used by intelligence agencies to spy on journalists (wikileaks.org)
383 points by gasull on Sept 15, 2014 | 75 comments
6. What every computer programmer should know about floating point, part 1 (reverberate.org)
323 points by haberman on Sept 15, 2014 | 72 comments
7. Cloud images that are recognized as human faces by a face-detection algorithm (ssbkyh.com)
276 points by jsvine on Sept 15, 2014 | 40 comments
8. LIVE NOW: Glenn Greenwald, Assange, and Kim Dot Com in NZ (kim.com)
271 points by vonklaus on Sept 15, 2014 | 146 comments
9. Upgrading GitHub to Rails 3 with Zero Downtime (shayfrendt.com)
252 points by dewski on Sept 15, 2014 | 62 comments
10. Volt: A Ruby web framework where your Ruby runs on both server and client (github.com/voltrb)
279 points by senorgusto on Sept 15, 2014 | 60 comments
11. WebTorrent now works in the browser, end-to-end (twitter.com/feross)
263 points by MzHN on Sept 15, 2014 | 83 comments
12. Tramadol Is Not a Natural Product After All (corante.com)
217 points by crygin on Sept 15, 2014 | 117 comments
13. Chapter Two of Peter Thiel's New Book
220 points by sama on Sept 15, 2014 | 68 comments
14. Launching Today: Mathematica Online (wolfram.com)
203 points by lelf on Sept 15, 2014 | 50 comments
15. Canon printer hacked to run Doom (bbc.co.uk)
186 points by dpina on Sept 15, 2014 | 54 comments
16. [dupe] Microsoft buys Minecraft for 2.5B (microsoft.com)
169 points by ropiku on Sept 15, 2014 | 56 comments
17. Applying to YC (samaltman.com)
178 points by hglaser on Sept 15, 2014 | 112 comments
18. Android One (officialandroid.blogspot.com)
173 points by adidash on Sept 15, 2014 | 169 comments
19. Bash.org is back (bash.org)
160 points by slifty on Sept 15, 2014 | 45 comments
20. TSA's X-Ray Nude Body Scanners Output 50% More Radiation Than Admitted to by TSA (tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com)
160 points by tsaoutourpants on Sept 15, 2014 | 73 comments
21. “Giganews is an FBI Operation” (cryptome.org)
150 points by bhaumik on Sept 15, 2014 | 67 comments
22. Apple releases U2 album removal tool (bbc.com)
146 points by schrofer on Sept 15, 2014 | 109 comments
23. Schizophrenia not a single disease but multiple genetically distinct disorders (wustl.edu)
140 points by MBCook on Sept 15, 2014 | 70 comments
24. Black Triangles
131 points by mmastrac on Sept 15, 2014 | 28 comments
25. MIT Cheetah Robot Bounds Off Tether, Outdoors (ieee.org)
131 points by spectruman on Sept 15, 2014 | 41 comments
26. 500px Co-Founder and Former CEO Ousted from the Startup (techcrunch.com)
131 points by kenrose on Sept 15, 2014 | 48 comments
27. The “community manager” role is a fraud and a farce (plus.google.com)
131 points by Tsiolkovsky on Sept 15, 2014 | 45 comments
28. SIMD Vectorization in Julia (intel.com)
126 points by mlubin on Sept 15, 2014 | 11 comments
29. The Bézier Game (method.ac)
117 points by uptown on Sept 15, 2014 | 37 comments
30. All About Batteries (adafruit.com)
117 points by MichaelAO on Sept 15, 2014 | 22 comments

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