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1.Some Dark Patterns Now Illegal in UK (90percentofeverything.com)
653 points by robin_reala on Aug 26, 2014 | 260 comments
2.A Single Div (singlediv.com)
649 points by brbcoding on Aug 26, 2014 | 140 comments
3.Vermont Quits War on Drugs to Treat Heroin Abuse as Health Issue (businessweek.com)
479 points by benblodgett on Aug 26, 2014 | 143 comments
4.Hyperlapse, Instagram's new video stabilization app (wired.com)
438 points by bpierre on Aug 26, 2014 | 149 comments
5.The Relative Cost of Bandwidth Around the World (cloudflare.com)
366 points by FredericJ on Aug 26, 2014 | 101 comments
6.JavaScript: Servo’s only garbage collector (blog.mozilla.org)
304 points by brson on Aug 26, 2014 | 16 comments
7.How Norway has avoided the 'curse of oil' (bbc.com)
271 points by diminish on Aug 26, 2014 | 143 comments
8.Mozilla Unveils $33 Intex Cloud FX Smartphone (wsj.com)
271 points by rhelmer on Aug 26, 2014 | 124 comments
9.The poisoned NUL byte, 2014 edition (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
231 points by tshtf on Aug 26, 2014 | 17 comments
10.Ask HN: Startup stole our software, and raised $2MM with it. What should we do?
231 points by qeorge on Aug 26, 2014 | 67 comments
11.Amazon has sold no more than 35,000 Fire phones, data suggests (theguardian.com)
212 points by wfjackson on Aug 26, 2014 | 213 comments
12.The State of NAT Traversal (zerotier.com)
189 points by api on Aug 26, 2014 | 96 comments
13.This Man Built a $3M Business a Year After Four Years in Prison (forbes.com/sites/hollieslade)
188 points by rbobby on Aug 26, 2014 | 46 comments
14.Late Bloomers: Why do we equate genius with precocity? (2008) (newyorker.com)
156 points by wslh on Aug 26, 2014 | 67 comments
15.Helmhurts: Placing a WiFi router with the Helmholtz equation (jasmcole.com)
145 points by signa11 on Aug 26, 2014 | 19 comments
16.Microservices for the Grumpy Neckbeard (chrisstucchio.com)
144 points by spindritf on Aug 26, 2014 | 102 comments
17.Holographic universe experiment begins (symmetrymagazine.org)
149 points by saticmotion on Aug 26, 2014 | 47 comments
18.RethinkDB 1.14: binary data, seamless migration, and Python 3 support (rethinkdb.com)
154 points by coffeemug on Aug 26, 2014 | 48 comments
19.Introducing Meteor 0.9.0, the Meteor Package Server, and Isobuild (meteor.com)
153 points by waitingkuo on Aug 26, 2014 | 62 comments
20.The fundamental problem of programming language package management (ezyang.com)
134 points by route66 on Aug 26, 2014 | 72 comments
21.Show HN: Weird iOS, a list of the weirdest, most artful or unexpected apps (weirdios.tumblr.com)
136 points by kennywinker on Aug 26, 2014 | 20 comments
22.Show HN: Monitorbook – Easily track anything on the web (monitorbook.com)
134 points by evenflow on Aug 26, 2014 | 54 comments
23.Show HN: Pol.is – a new commenting system powered by machine learning and D3 (pol.is)
126 points by colinmegill on Aug 26, 2014 | 41 comments
24.Sublime Text 3 Updated (sublimetext.com)
115 points by jimhart3000 on Aug 26, 2014 | 85 comments
25.Statistics: Losing Ground to CS, Losing Image Among Students (revolutionanalytics.com)
104 points by sampo on Aug 26, 2014 | 70 comments
26.Slap: Terminal-based text editor (github.com/slap-editor)
110 points by kolodny on Aug 26, 2014 | 39 comments
27.Self Employed CV
98 points by sudorank on Aug 26, 2014 | 40 comments
28.PACER Deleting Old Cases; Time to Fix PACER (techdirt.com)
96 points by thinkcomp on Aug 26, 2014 | 26 comments
29.Tim Hortons agrees to Burger King offer for $94 a share (cbc.ca)
99 points by oulipian on Aug 26, 2014 | 117 comments
30.Why Crunch Mode Doesn't Work (2005) (igda.org)
97 points by support_ribbons on Aug 26, 2014 | 57 comments

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