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1. Artificial sweeteners linked to glucose intolerance (newscientist.com)
412 points by bensedat on Sept 17, 2014 | 180 comments
2. JavaScript for OS X Automation (developer.apple.com)
357 points by radley on Sept 17, 2014 | 113 comments
3. How I Pranked My Roommate with Eerily Targeted Facebook Ads (mysocialsherpa.com)
343 points by manualwise on Sept 17, 2014 | 46 comments
4. Show HN: CleverDeck – I built the spaced repetition app I always wanted (cleverdeck.com)
305 points by jmcannon on Sept 17, 2014 | 135 comments
5. Stuff Goes Bad: Erlang in Anger (heroku.com)
292 points by mononcqc on Sept 17, 2014 | 51 comments
6. Emacs Lisp's Future (lists.gnu.org)
269 points by rutenspitz on Sept 17, 2014 | 156 comments
7. iOS 8 reviewed (arstechnica.com)
218 points by guardian5x on Sept 17, 2014 | 194 comments
8. A scientist stole my root beer (naturespoisons.com)
198 points by jwmerrill on Sept 17, 2014 | 40 comments
9. The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, 2nd ed. (amazon.com)
195 points by todd8 on Sept 17, 2014 | 55 comments
10. The C++14 Standard: What You Need to Know (drdobbs.com)
193 points by Tsiolkovsky on Sept 17, 2014 | 134 comments
11. Debian Security Advisory: DSA-3025-1 apt (debian.org)
175 points by handsomeransoms on Sept 17, 2014 | 64 comments
12. How Gangs Took Over Prisons (theatlantic.com)
171 points by dodders on Sept 17, 2014 | 171 comments
13. Eleventh Grade Tech Trends (medium.com/musings-about-text-boxes)
162 points by ASquare on Sept 17, 2014 | 67 comments
14. The Traveling Salesman with Simulated Annealing, R, and Shiny (toddwschneider.com)
158 points by lil_tee on Sept 17, 2014 | 25 comments
15. ClojureScript, Lisp's Revenge [video] (youtube.com)
158 points by tosh on Sept 17, 2014 | 34 comments
16. Craig Gentry named MacArthur Fellow for work on fully homomorphic encryption (macfound.org)
152 points by sweis on Sept 17, 2014 | 21 comments
17. Suture – Supervisor Trees for Go (jerf.org)
149 points by leef on Sept 17, 2014 | 38 comments
18. Go Is a Shop-Built Jig (robnapier.net)
145 points by geetarista on Sept 17, 2014 | 106 comments
19. Dremel Releases a Mass-Market 3D Printer (makezine.com)
146 points by zaaaaz on Sept 17, 2014 | 104 comments
20. Why Apple Didn't Use Sapphire for iPhone Screens (time.com)
142 points by darklighter3 on Sept 17, 2014 | 108 comments
21. HPN-SSH: High Performance ssh and scp (psc.edu)
138 points by dr_linux on Sept 17, 2014 | 31 comments
22. Our Favorite Cliché: A World Filled with Idiots (davidbrin.com)
132 points by omnibrain on Sept 17, 2014 | 93 comments
23. Helm, a functionally reactive game engine (helm-engine.org)
122 points by kaishiro on Sept 17, 2014 | 12 comments
24. Apple Watch: Initial Thoughts and Observations (daringfireball.net)
121 points by rkudeshi on Sept 17, 2014 | 114 comments
25. An Orangutan Learns to Fish (newyorker.com)
101 points by benbreen on Sept 17, 2014 | 16 comments
26. Perceptions haven't caught up to decline in crime (nytimes.com)
104 points by jwmerrill on Sept 17, 2014 | 108 comments
27. CircuitMaker: a free PCB design tool powered by Altium (circuitmaker.com)
108 points by unwind on Sept 17, 2014 | 53 comments
28. From Backbone to React: Our Experience Scaling a Web Application (techsonian.net)
96 points by akbarnama on Sept 17, 2014 | 52 comments
29. Transmit for iOS (panic.com)
91 points by cylo on Sept 17, 2014 | 32 comments
30. Song of the Introvert (randsinrepose.com)
95 points by filament on Sept 17, 2014 | 67 comments

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