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1.Maps of the Roman Empire (vox.com)
345 points by kcovia on Aug 19, 2014 | 91 comments
2.Steve Ballmer steps down as board member at Microsoft (microsoft.com)
343 points by jtoeman on Aug 19, 2014 | 138 comments
3.Amit's Game Programming Information (stanford.edu)
317 points by WoodenChair on Aug 19, 2014 | 29 comments
4.Seneca: On the Shortness of Life (forumromanum.org)
316 points by stingraycharles on Aug 19, 2014 | 79 comments
5.XKCD “Time” Wins Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story (thehugoawards.org)
239 points by doctoboggan on Aug 19, 2014 | 22 comments
6.NY Times releases military surplus gear data on GitHub (github.com/theupshot)
214 points by frenchman_in_ny on Aug 19, 2014 | 132 comments
7.The 1,000-hour rule (2009) (pgbovine.net)
190 points by ode on Aug 19, 2014 | 119 comments
8.WRTnode Opened for $25 (wrtnode.com)
180 points by Noel_lo on Aug 19, 2014 | 93 comments
9.Cider Project: Run iOS apps on Android (columbia.edu)
166 points by nepger21 on Aug 19, 2014 | 102 comments
10.High Performance Map Interactions Using HTML5 Canvas (seatgeek.com)
177 points by efkv on Aug 19, 2014 | 25 comments
11.The S in Rest (teddziuba.github.io)
147 points by fishtoaster on Aug 19, 2014 | 70 comments
12.China's Underground Wholesale Markets (youngmoneychina.com)
136 points by gdilla on Aug 19, 2014 | 49 comments
13.Triple-E Ship Leaves Port With World Record Load (gcaptain.com)
131 points by chermanowicz on Aug 19, 2014 | 64 comments
14.California “Kill Switch” Bill Could Be Used to Disrupt Protests (cdt.org)
133 points by conorgil145 on Aug 19, 2014 | 134 comments
15.Why doesn't Sandstorm just run Docker apps? (sandstorm.io)
122 points by kentonv on Aug 19, 2014 | 27 comments
16.YC Demo Day Session 1 (techcrunch.com)
120 points by TheMakeA on Aug 19, 2014 | 101 comments
17.Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Raising Money at a Valuation Approaching $10B (techcrunch.com)
118 points by spountzy on Aug 19, 2014 | 98 comments
18.Intellectual Ventures cuts 140 employees from its patent-buying workforce (geekwire.com)
104 points by aaronbrethorst on Aug 19, 2014 | 77 comments
19.Dyad: Minimal, portable async networking library for C (github.com/rxi)
97 points by api on Aug 19, 2014 | 46 comments
20.The Derivative of a Number (rjlipton.wordpress.com)
101 points by j2kun on Aug 19, 2014 | 47 comments
21.Fixing Bad Data in Datomic (datomic.com)
103 points by lauriswtf on Aug 19, 2014 | 16 comments
22.GPLGPU: An Open-Source GPU (gplgpu.com)
102 points by raldu on Aug 19, 2014 | 9 comments
23.Complete iOS7 Course for free (producthunt.com)
98 points by mstolpm on Aug 19, 2014 | 36 comments
24.Reading Literature on Screen: A Price for Convenience? (nytimes.com)
90 points by rocketbop on Aug 19, 2014 | 75 comments
25.YC Demo Day Session 2 (techcrunch.com)
90 points by xpop2027 on Aug 19, 2014 | 43 comments
26.QuickCheck by example: Number theory and Okasaki's red-black trees (might.net)
83 points by lelf on Aug 19, 2014 | 2 comments
27.Delivery Startups Are Back Like It’s 1999 (nytimes.com)
83 points by dotluis on Aug 19, 2014 | 66 comments
28.Baseball Bat With an Axe Handle Brings More Power, Fewer Injuries (wired.com)
84 points by x43b on Aug 19, 2014 | 27 comments
29.Show HN: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Finding Your First Customers (yourfirstcustomers.com)
99 points by jjets718 on Aug 19, 2014 | 14 comments
30.A JavaScript Quality Guide (github.com/bevacqua)
86 points by bevacqua on Aug 19, 2014 | 68 comments

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