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1. Leading Anti-Marijuana Academics Are Paid by Painkiller Drug Companies (vice.com)
293 points by Multics on Aug 29, 2014 | 90 comments
2. Submarine Cable Map 2014 (telegeography.com)
220 points by bhaumik on Aug 29, 2014 | 110 comments
3. Intel Unleashes Its First 8-Core Desktop Processor (intel.com)
197 points by joaojeronimo on Aug 29, 2014 | 145 comments
4. Conrod – A Rust GUI Library (piston.rs)
201 points by mitchmindtree on Aug 29, 2014 | 70 comments
5. Chartist – Simple responsive charts (gionkunz.github.io)
194 points by jcklnruns on Aug 29, 2014 | 49 comments
6. At Multiverse Impasse, a New Theory of Scale (simonsfoundation.org)
176 points by akrymski on Aug 29, 2014 | 140 comments
7. From the startup who allegedly stole software and raised $2M with it
157 points by jparkside on Aug 29, 2014 | 109 comments
8. Show HN: Chan – pure C implementation of Go channels (github.com/tylertreat)
150 points by tylertreat on Aug 29, 2014 | 44 comments
9. The Art of Profitability (codingvc.com)
146 points by lpolovets on Aug 29, 2014 | 18 comments
10. Roadmap to Alpha Centauri (nautil.us)
147 points by dnetesn on Aug 29, 2014 | 63 comments
11. Quantum Gravity Expert Says "Philosophical Superficiality" Has Harmed Physics (scientificamerican.com)
147 points by tomhoward on Aug 29, 2014 | 70 comments
12. Coinbase Insured (coinbase.com)
137 points by markmassie on Aug 29, 2014 | 41 comments
13. Building Clojure services at scale (josephwilk.net)
137 points by erkose on Aug 29, 2014 | 21 comments
14. Inside One of the World's Largest Bitcoin Mines (thecoinsman.com)
123 points by mlevy on Aug 29, 2014 | 103 comments
15. Bhyve – BSD Hypervisor (bhyve.org)
122 points by lelf on Aug 29, 2014 | 61 comments
16. Pump and Dump: How To Rig the IPO Market with $20M (wolfstreet.com)
130 points by dualogy on Aug 29, 2014 | 63 comments
17. How to choose? (aeon.co)
120 points by fossuser on Aug 29, 2014 | 94 comments
18. Fix the versioning (github.com/jashkenas)
115 points by abritishguy on Aug 29, 2014 | 78 comments
19. What People Cured of Blindness See (newyorker.com)
105 points by adamnemecek on Aug 29, 2014 | 31 comments
20. If You Want to See Inequality in the U.S. at Its Worst, Visit an Impound Lot (time.com)
102 points by dsl on Aug 29, 2014 | 121 comments
21. Y Combinator to recruit more black entrepreneurs (usatoday.com)
100 points by edw519 on Aug 29, 2014 | 74 comments
22. Evidence Grows That Online Social Networks Have Negative Effects (technologyreview.com)
95 points by ca98am79 on Aug 29, 2014 | 43 comments
23. Invertible Bloom Lookup Tables (2011) (arxiv.org)
92 points by mhlakhani on Aug 29, 2014 | 24 comments
24. Perf.fail – Do, learn, fail forward (perf.fail)
93 points by tilt on Aug 29, 2014 | 12 comments
25. India Opens 15M Bank Accounts in Modi’s Inclusion Drive (bloomberg.com)
86 points by fashok on Aug 29, 2014 | 37 comments
26. Is De-Skilling Killing Arts Education? (huffingtonpost.com)
77 points by luu on Aug 29, 2014 | 68 comments
27. How We Work on Queries at GitHub (samlambert.com)
82 points by samlambert on Aug 29, 2014 | 29 comments
28. Keurig competitors crack company's DRM code (consumeraffairs.com)
74 points by thisisblurry on Aug 29, 2014 | 88 comments
29. Go interfaces make test stubbing easy (cloudflare.com)
78 points by jgrahamc on Aug 29, 2014 | 29 comments
30. Roche Biochemical Pathways charts – navigable and annotated (roche.com)
72 points by mfringel on Aug 29, 2014 | 17 comments

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