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1. Death Valley National Park: First Observation of Rocks in Motion (plosone.org)
344 points by McKittrick on Aug 27, 2014 | 54 comments
2. Building 3D with Ikea (cgsociety.org)
337 points by panarky on Aug 27, 2014 | 61 comments
3. Useful Unix commands for exploring data (datavu.blogspot.com)
343 points by aks_c on Aug 27, 2014 | 151 comments
4. What happened to Motorola (chicagomag.com)
262 points by marban on Aug 27, 2014 | 95 comments
5. People suck at technical interviews (seldo.com)
215 points by themonk on Aug 27, 2014 | 173 comments
6. Proposal for a Friendly Dialect of C (regehr.org)
218 points by 0x09 on Aug 27, 2014 | 118 comments
7. How to walk through walls using the 4th dimension [video] (marctenbosch.com)
218 points by numo16 on Aug 27, 2014 | 95 comments
8. Microsoft filed patent applications for scoped and immutable types (dlang.org)
206 points by chx on Aug 27, 2014 | 86 comments
9. Firefox 32 Supports Public Key Pinning (monica-at-mozilla.blogspot.com)
188 points by jonchang on Aug 27, 2014 | 100 comments
10. Firefox OS is a developer's best friend (binary-choice.blogspot.com)
200 points by damian2000 on Aug 27, 2014 | 41 comments
11. The Guide to Not Buying a 3D Printer (chopmeister.blogspot.com)
165 points by ChuckMcM on Aug 27, 2014 | 59 comments
12. The Arachnids That Live on Your Face (ncsu.edu)
160 points by peeko on Aug 27, 2014 | 32 comments
13. The Technology Behind Hyperlapse from Instagram (instagram-engineering.tumblr.com)
167 points by peterhunt on Aug 27, 2014 | 48 comments
14. Linda Sandvik Resigns As Director Of Code Club (gist.github.com)
164 points by rcknight on Aug 27, 2014 | 80 comments
15. Maps that illustrate the global economy (vox.com)
158 points by ejr on Aug 27, 2014 | 40 comments
16. How Google Works (howgoogleworks.net)
148 points by panarky on Aug 27, 2014 | 55 comments
17. Introducing a more powerful Dropbox Pro (dropbox.com)
139 points by markmassie on Aug 27, 2014 | 144 comments
18. How serious is the California drought? Before and after pictures (imgur.com)
119 points by hispanic on Aug 27, 2014 | 72 comments
19. C++11 FQA anyone? (yosefk.com)
105 points by signa11 on Aug 27, 2014 | 87 comments
20. Dockersh – a shell that puts users into individual docker containers (github.com/yelp)
110 points by whalesalad on Aug 27, 2014 | 30 comments
21. Entangled Photons Make a Picture from a Paradox (scientificamerican.com)
100 points by foolrush on Aug 27, 2014 | 44 comments
22. Implementing a "sketch" style of rendering in webGL (floored.com)
98 points by uptown on Aug 27, 2014 | 14 comments
23. The Future Programming Manifesto (alarmingdevelopment.org)
101 points by jashkenas on Aug 27, 2014 | 106 comments
24. Transmitting binary information from one person’s brain to another (newsweek.com)
100 points by holasnic on Aug 27, 2014 | 42 comments
25. A few useful things to know about machine learning (2012) [pdf] (washington.edu)
99 points by chaitanyav on Aug 27, 2014 | 7 comments
26. Van Gogh Museum (vangoghmuseum.nl)
96 points by primigenus on Aug 27, 2014 | 50 comments
27. Speak up (defmacro.org)
86 points by coffeemug on Aug 27, 2014 | 23 comments
28. Dropbox Pro – 1 TB for $99/year (dropbox.com)
80 points by jpalomaki on Aug 27, 2014 | 99 comments
29. 3-D Printed Keys Can Pick High-Security Locks in Seconds (wired.com)
77 points by usaphp on Aug 27, 2014 | 62 comments
30. Getting Started in *Lisp (1991) [pdf] (csail.mit.edu)
75 points by eudox on Aug 27, 2014 | 19 comments

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