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1. Storemapper: Bootstrapped to $50k/year in 2 years (tylertringas.com)
434 points by TTringas on Aug 11, 2014 | 58 comments
2. OpenStreetMap Then and Now (mvexel.github.io)
406 points by sashazykov on Aug 11, 2014 | 106 comments
3. Uber's dirty tricks quantified: Rival counts 5,560 canceled rides (cnn.com)
353 points by wfjackson on Aug 11, 2014 | 243 comments
4. Compile like it's 1992 (fabiensanglard.net)
315 points by cremno on Aug 11, 2014 | 40 comments
5. I ‘Liked’ Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days (wired.com)
304 points by sethbannon on Aug 11, 2014 | 115 comments
6. Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Comedian, Dies at 63 (nytimes.com)
293 points by kmod on Aug 11, 2014 | 63 comments
7. Reverse Engineering for Beginners: Free book (beginners.re)
276 points by galapago on Aug 11, 2014 | 28 comments
8. White House launches “U.S. Digital Service,” with HealthCare.gov fixer at helm (washingtonpost.com)
276 points by dctoedt on Aug 11, 2014 | 139 comments
9. A Diablo 3 Story (diablo3story.blogspot.com)
193 points by minimaxir on Aug 11, 2014 | 97 comments
10. Almost perfect: the rise and fall of WordPerfect Corporation (1993)
168 points by mmastrac on Aug 11, 2014 | 87 comments
11. Intel's 14nm Technology in Detail (anandtech.com)
160 points by jsnell on Aug 11, 2014 | 31 comments
12. The end of neighbours (macleans.ca)
153 points by dfritsch on Aug 11, 2014 | 147 comments
13. Inside a Chinese Bitcoin Mine (thecoinsman.com)
151 points by danoprey on Aug 11, 2014 | 44 comments
14. Why I've Said Goodbye to Mobile in Favor of PC (gamasutra.com)
143 points by n3on_net on Aug 11, 2014 | 84 comments
15. Imgui: Immediate Mode Graphical User Interface with minimal dependencies (github.com/ocornut)
134 points by jblow on Aug 11, 2014 | 41 comments
16. Ask HN: What info do you web scrape for?
129 points by cblock811 on Aug 11, 2014 | 110 comments
17. Windows 1.0 and the Applications of Tomorrow (2005) (charlespetzold.com)
125 points by bluedino on Aug 11, 2014 | 64 comments
18. My Experience at YC Hacks (erica.biz)
132 points by jamest on Aug 11, 2014 | 16 comments
19. Intel Broadwell Architecture Preview: A Glimpse into Core M (anandtech.com)
115 points by ismavis on Aug 11, 2014 | 54 comments
20. Inside Apple’s Internal Training Program (nytimes.com)
127 points by jameshk on Aug 11, 2014 | 17 comments
21. Google Invests in $300M Submarine Cable to Improve Connection Between Japan, US (techcrunch.com)
122 points by swohns on Aug 11, 2014 | 72 comments
22. Why one of cybersecurity’s thought leaders uses a pager instead of a smart phone (washingtonpost.com)
118 points by doctorshady on Aug 11, 2014 | 47 comments
23. Key Advances in the OpenGL Ecosystem (khronos.org)
115 points by Jarlakxen on Aug 11, 2014 | 42 comments
24. The Inner Guts of Bitbucket [video] (blog.bitbucket.org)
109 points by quicksilver03 on Aug 11, 2014 | 20 comments
25. German armed forces warn that carbon fiber might be cancer-causing (ndr.de)
101 points by m8rl on Aug 11, 2014 | 55 comments
26. DashGum – Free Bootstrap Admin Template (blacktie.co)
105 points by tilt on Aug 11, 2014 | 29 comments
27. Glowing Plant Is One of Y Combinator’s First Biotech Startups (techcrunch.com)
100 points by katm on Aug 11, 2014 | 61 comments
28. An App Store for Algorithms (wired.com)
101 points by doppenhe on Aug 11, 2014 | 45 comments
29. Can We Trust the Libraries We Use? (viva64.com)
93 points by AndreyKarpov on Aug 11, 2014 | 53 comments
30. BadUSB – On accessories that turn evil [pdf] (srlabs.de)
84 points by thefreeman on Aug 11, 2014 | 24 comments

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