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  1. Chinese doctors bowing down to a 11 year old boy diagnosed with brain cancer who managed to save several lives by donating his organs to the hospital he was being treated in shortly before his death. ❞ ×▾
  2. The face of a new father of quadruplets.... ❞ ×▾
  3. Air Algerie 'loses contact with plane from Burkina Faso' ❞
  4. TIL "Point blank" does not mean "at close range" but "close enough to disregard veering of projectile due to gravity" ❞
  5. So this dude creates a tool to fill up 100 water balloon a minute... ❞ ×▾
  6. Half life 3 mystery solved ❞ ×▾
  7. Weird Al Yankovic's 'Mandatory Fun' becomes his first #1 album in his three decade career and the first comedy album to reach #1 on Billboard's charts since 1963 ❞
  8. Jon Stewart launches $10 billion 'Kickstarter' to buy CNN ❞
  9. My father and his friends, 1971, enjoying an ice cream in the English countryside. ❞
  10. If you had $999,999,999, you'd be the world's richest millionaire, but if you had one more dollar, you'd be the world's poorest billionaire. ❞
  11. What was "cool" back in elementary school? ❞
  12. My cat likes to sleep where I can't avoid stroking her ❞ ×▾
  13. My steak looked like Africa ❞
  14. Kobe's got some balls ❞ ×▾
  15. The man with a 25 inch penis. ❞
  16. Mighty Mount Manakau, Kaikoura Ranges, New Zealand [OC] [1920x1280] ❞ ×▾
  17. A month ago, I decided to make a change in my life. I decided to quit smoking. Here I am today ❞ ×▾
  18. NO CAMERAS ALLOWED: Guy sneaks into Bonnaroo, The Grammys, Glastonbury, and Coachella with film equipment. The result is absolutely incredible. ❞
  19. Astronaut Alexander Gerst tweets his "saddest photo yet" snapped while flying over Gaza & Israel ❞
  20. 'Ant-Man' Comic-Con poster ❞ ×▾
  21. Ray LaMontagne storms offstage during concert, saying "Why don't you go the (expletive) home and talk?" to concertgoers talking during his set ❞
  22. My Lego Art ❞
  23. Sassy Martial Arts Kids ❞ ×▾
  24. ELI5:Can being exposed to sounds outside the discernible range of human hearing cause us to go deaf? I.E. Can I go deaf from being exposed to a noise I cant even hear? ❞
  25. I was eating lunch and a random Giada appeared. ❞ ×▾
  26. Study shows that crows can perform as well as 7- to 10-year-olds on cause-and-effect water displacement tasks ❞
  27. I am Adrian Peterson, Pro Running back and Wheaties Cover Athlete ❞
  28. The Video Statistics on the classic song "Never gonna give you up" show the days where it looks like people were rick rolled on a major site. ❞ ×▾
  29. I feel so helpless... ISIS orders genital mutilation on all "women" aged 11 (!) through 46... ❞
  30. TIFU: by allowing my brother to stay with me while he was in town for work ❞
  31. 15/16 months progress. [28M] ❞
  32. I converted my hilly backyard into an ~800sqft patio by hand. ❞
  33. This girl is not my ex, looking for advice [Update] ❞
  34. Frank the Bunny in marble (x-post from pareidolia) ❞
  35. Peppers are hot because of capsaicin. Why is ginger root hot? What's the mechanism of action? ❞
  36. Announcing reddit live ❞
  37. A Puppy In Need Walked Up To A Man At Work. What Followed Shattered My Heart. | Pet doof ❞
  38. LPT: Put a piece of clear packing tape over the speaker on toys that are loud and obnoxious. It will significantly reduce the volume. ❞
  39. Americans Really Like to Drink Beer, Says Unsurprising Poll ❞
  40. Commercial mini-shuttle 'Dream Chaser' closer to critical design review and first flight ❞
  41. This Little Free Library Was Violated ❞
  42. Sick chicken: what you need to know. (2014) Investigative journalism short by the Guardian exposes conditions inside the chicken factories that supply some of the biggest supermarket and fast-food chains in the business. Also reveals 2/3 chickens we buy are contaminated with Campylobacter. ❞
  43. [WP] Time Travel is possible, but only used to send terminally ill people into the future in hopes of being cured. For the first time, someone's been sent back. ❞
  44. Shipadick.com. For when you just want to ship your friends some dicks! ❞
  45. Some beautiful Soviet fabric designs from the 1920s ❞
  46. I built a debt payoff calculator. I’m looking for ways to make it better. What features would you like to have in this thing? ❞
  47. Samsung Might Have Found A Shortcut To Mobile Virtual Reality Through Oculus VR ❞
  48. Quel petit truc pas grave vous énerve tellement que vous pourriez en parler pendant des heures? ❞
  49. Shanghai Restoration Project -- "Can't Get Your Love" (得不到的愛情) [Chinese Electronic/Jazz] (2014) ❞
  50. Germany - Reaching 4 Stars by shadiego - really nice video of the german team in the 2014 tournament ❞
  51. Clarifying Sam Harris' Clarifications ❞
  52. He wants to play! ❞ ×▾
  53. 212 lb Czech Sumo Wrestler retires after 12 years in the sport. Here are some of his highlights ❞
  54. Overweight children don't know they're overweight. Approximately 81% of overweight boys and 71% of overweight girls believe they are about the right weight. ❞
  55. A Conversation With David Friedman - part 5: Protection Agencies vs Protection Rackets & Defense ❞
  56. TIFU by having sex that was too rough (UPDATE) ❞
  57. Using a skydiving simulator like a boss! ❞ ×▾
  58. Jeff Bridges here, abiding with you all. AMA. ❞
  59. Svartifoss, Iceland [3008x2000] ❞ ×▾
  60. I am an Australian kid about to run away from home ❞
  61. Opinion: Call for World Cup boycott a nod to populism ❞
  62. TIL that it would take 76 8-hour work days for the average person to read the Terms and Conditions they agree to in a year. ❞
  63. She fell asleep in my hand while I was rubbing her belly. ❞ ×▾
  64. Tep No - Promises [Electronic] (2014) ❞
  65. Boy heard screaming for help rescued from rip current by lifeguard ❞
  66. The new Unreal Tournament is looking pretty sweet ❞
  67. Nothing super special about this pic. I just really love my dog. ❞ ×▾
  68. Any examples of predators overexploiting their prey population, leading to the extinction of both? ❞
  69. Top 5 Baffling World Cup Surprises ❞
  70. The Devil Inside ❞ ×▾
  71. Watch LG roll up an 18-inch OLED panel while it plays video ❞
  72. She laid on every cold surface after her haircut, but this was her favorite. ❞ ×▾
  73. [WP] A $1mil bounty has been placed on your head worldwide for the next 24 hours. Anyone is free to claim it. ❞
  74. The disabled person on this restroom symbol has an abnormally long neck ❞ ×▾
  75. Doctors and nurses of reddit, what disease should scare the shit out of us that we currently don't take seriously? (Serious) [NSFW] ❞
  76. My cat has this constant look of shock on her face... ❞
  77. buddy is riding a unicycle while pulling a kayak on rollerblades ❞ ×▾
  78. Scandinavian History ❞
  79. Well, that goes without saying ❞ ×▾
  80. Now I understand "creepy guys". ❞
  81. The Queen Just Photobombed a Selfie At The Commonwealth Games ❞ ×▾
  82. Sir Chris Hoy asked for ID to enter Chris Hoy velodrome in Glasgow ❞
  83. Kindly Old Robert E. Lee ❞
  84. Leave no man behind ❞ ×▾
  85. IBM Watson partners with USAA for Military Members for First Consumer-facing Application ❞
  86. IamA Actor Part Time Demi God Professional Badass - Dwayne Johnson aka The Rock - AMA! ❞
  87. Found a new roomie. High 5! ❞ ×▾
  88. On nous balance beaucoup de chiffres sur les professions réglementés, on tape sur les pharmaciens depuis quelques années, je suis pharmacien, AMA. ❞
  89. I thought PF might find this image funny ❞
  90. LPT: Remove a broken key from a lock ❞
  91. DARPA Humanoid Robot Plan Going Too Well, Apparently ❞
  92. Do any of you consider yourselves avid readers, but still don't feel 'well-read'? ❞
  93. A look at Ben Affleck's bat cowl/cape from BATMAN V SUPERMAN (2016) ❞
  94. Triumphant Thursday Thread for the week of July 24, 2014 ❞
  95. TIFU by having rough sex with my boyfriend ❞
  96. ISIS orders all women and girls in Mosul to undergo Female Genital Mutilation ❞
  97. I'm just glad they all get along. ❞
  98. Got a Girl -- "Did We Live Too Fast" [Baroque pop / Trip Hop] (2014) Mary Elizabeth Winstead collaboration with Dan The Automater ❞
  99. I fucking hate being female. I don't want to live anymore. Please help. ❞
  100. [WP] A million years in the future, the earth has fallen into disrepair, society is slowing crumbling, and what's left of the human race has collectively decided we were not meant to exist this long. Tomorrow is scheduled as the date of our self-extinction. ❞
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  1. How A Solar Storm Nearly Destroyed Life As We Know It Two Years Ago
  2. An Algerian Plane With 116 On Board Has Crashed, Officials Confirm
  3. The 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Trailer Is Here
  4. Everything You Need To See, In Your Inbox
  5. ISIS Orders Female Genital Mutilation For Women In Mosul
  6. Frank Caliendo Reads LeBron James' 'Coming Home' Letter In The Voice Of Morgan Freeman
  7. Why Boarding An Airplane Feels Unfair And Chaotic
  8. 'I Was Illegally Terminated': A Working Mom’s Wal-Mart Nightmare
  9. The Rom-Com Hall Of Fame
  10. Family Booted Off Southwest Airlines After Dad Complained On Twitter

Hacker News More

  1. ❞ Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M Raised
  2. ❞ Josh Topolsky of The Verge Is Joining Bloomberg
  3. ❞ How to move a 200-ton spectrometer across Europe
  4. ❞ Mastering Emacs in one year
  5. ❞ Why blurring sensitive information is a bad idea
  6. ❞ Announcing the all new Cloud9 development environment
  7. ❞ “You’re not allowed bioinformatics anymore”
  8. ❞ Bitwage
  9. ❞ Gosu – A pragmatic language for the JVM
  10. ❞ Read these while you still can – New Yorker to go behind paywall
  11. ❞ A Conference Flagrantly Stole My Identity and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
  12. ❞ The 75-Year Saga Behind a Game That Teaches Preschoolers to Code
  13. ❞ European Court Says CIA Ran Secret Jail in a Polish Forest
  14. ❞ Air Controllers Lose Contact With Air Algérie Plane
  15. ❞ GOG.com Now Supports Linux
  16. ❞ GOG now supports Linux
  17. ❞ Near Miss: The Solar Superstorm of July 2012
  18. ❞ How do I go about quitting my contracting software job (telling two bosses)?
  19. ❞ UK government adopts ODF as standard document format
  20. ❞ Opinionated AngularJS styleguide for teams
  21. ❞ Thread (YC S12) London, UK is hiring engineers and a data scientist (thread.com)
  22. ❞ India’s Answer to Google Glass: The Smartshoe
  23. ❞ Firm Inefficiency
  24. ❞ Tracking down a kernel bug with git bisect
  25. ❞ Trello, Inc
  26. ❞ Rebuilding a broken Gameboy with a Raspberry Pi
  27. ❞ Apply to Hacker School
  28. ❞ Access Control in Swift
  29. ❞ Missing Air Algerie plane from Burkina Faso has crashed
  30. ❞ Lisp in QBASIC
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  1. Wal-Mart U.S. CEO Bill Simon to Leave Company
  2. Belkin’s Smartphone-Controlled Crock-Pot Doesn’t Dish Enough Features
  3. Report: China Regulator Determines Qualcomm Has Monopoly
  4. Disrupting Payments, Africa Style
  5. HP Makes $50 Million Strategic Investment in Hortonworks
  6. #Mustreads From Other Sites: Fighting Terror on Twitter; a $2 Million Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle
  7. LG Shipped 14.5 Million Smartphones in Q2, Up 20 Percent, as Phone Business Turned a Profit
  8. Razer Integrates WeChat Into Its Nabu Wearable, Says It Should Hit U.S. for Under $100
  9. Angie’s List Slips on Q2 Loss, Weak Outlook
  10. Be Careful What You Tweet For (Comic)
  11. Qualcomm’s China Disputes Dent Forecast, Sending Shares Lower
  12. Don’t Try to Copy League of Legends Model, Advises Game Consultant
  13. AT&T Q2 Profit Falls Short, but Registers Strong Subscriber Gains
  14. Mark Zuckerberg Promises That Some of Facebook’s Biggest Bets Won’t Pay Off for a Long Time
  15. Seven Arrests Made in $1.6 Million StubHub Cyberfraud Case
  16. Chernin and AT&T Set to Buy Control of Fullscreen YouTube Network
  17. New Boy of Benchmark: Rockmelt’s Eric Vishria Talks About Becoming Fifth Partner at VC Powerhouse
  18. Code/red: A Rackin’, Frackin’ Yosemite Open Beta
  19. Dropbox Boosts Enterprise Features, Has 80,000 Paying Corporate Customers
  20. Sprint Partners With Google to Sell Apps for Business
  21. BlueStacks Gains Samsung as Investor and Backer of GamePop Console
  22. Can Startups Create Blue-Collar Jobs in America?
  23. EMC Is Ready to Meet With Activists, Meets Street View
  24. Drone Startup Airware Raises $25 Million in Kleiner-Led Round
  25. App That Gives Hourly Workers Access to Wages Raises $4.1 Million
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BBC Google

  1. Air Algerie plane with 116 aboard crashes in Mali - USA TODAY
  2. Airstrike Hits School Sheltering Gaza Civilians - New York Times
  3. Arizona's Two-Hour Execution of Joseph Wood Set to Stir Debate - NBCNews.com
  4. Obama sends assessment team to border - USA TODAY
  5. Christian Woman on Death Row Leaves Sudan, Meets Pope - Voice of America
  6. Democrats stand by Sen. John Walsh after plagiarism accusations - CBS News
  7. Watch the First, Very Sexy 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Trailer With Jamie Dornan ... - ABC News
  8. US jobless claims lowest since early 2006; new home sales tumble - Reuters
  9. Injuries reported as possible tornado hits Va. - Washington Post
  10. Women shot dead in Herat taxi - The Australian

Bitcoin

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  2. Organic Lawn Care For the Cheap and Lazy
  3. PrepBootstrap - Bootstrap themes and templates
  4. Bitcoin: the Stripe perspective
  5. Untitled (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/11/18/guy-walks-into-a-bar)
  6. The secret of Minecraft
  7. The Fasinatng … Frustrating … Fascinating History of Autocorrect | Gadget Lab | WIRED
  8. Untitled (http://www.propublica.org/article/meet-the-online-tracking-device-that-is-virtually-impossible-to-block)
  9. Untitled (http://css-tricks.com/mega-list-svg-information/)
  10. No skin thick enough: The daily harassment of women in the game industry | Polygon
  11. Ivy League Schools Are Overrated. Send Your Kids Elsewhere. | New Republic
  12. George Orwell: Politics and the English Language
  13. Blacklisted: The Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a TerroristThe Intercept
  14. StackOverflow Update: 560M Pageviews a Month, 25 Servers, and It's All About Performance - High Scalability -
  15. Untitled (http://www.bhorowitz.com/how_to_ruin_your_company_with_one_bad_process)
  16. Dev.Opera — Responsive Images: Use Cases and Documented Code Snippets to Get You Started
  17. Let’s fly — The Message — Medium
  18. Responsive Logos
  19. Putting Thought Into Things | Information Architects
  20. Business models based on the compiled list at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924647. I find the link very hard to browse, so I made a simple version in Markdown instead.
  21. I'm Ira Glass, Host of This American Life, and This Is How I Work
  22. The 101 Most Useful Websites on the Internet
  23. LanceList
  24. Verizon made an enemy tonight
  25. How to Wire Up Ruby on Rails and AngularJS as a Single-Page Application | Angular on Rails
  26. Making Sense of Microsoft | stratechery by Ben Thompson
  27. Metacademy - Level-Up Your Machine Learning
  28. Paletton - The Color Scheme Designer
  29. Untitled (http://www.newrepublic.com/node/118782)
  30. Discovering private APIs with Charles.app - Tim Rogers
  31. ellisonleao/magictools · GitHub
  32. Twitter / hackneymarshman: Sign warns cyclists about itself ...
  33. You May Be Losing Users If Responsive Web Design Is Your Only Mobile Strategy | Smashing Magazine
  34. Longform: Our 25 Favorite Unlocked New Yorker Articles by David Grann, Susan Orlean, Atul Gawande, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tad Friend, Ariel Levy, Ian Parker, Mattathias Schwartz, John Lee Anderson, Peter J. Boyer, Larissa MacFarquhar, Peter Hessler, Tina Fey,
  35. Ten CSS One-Liners to Replace Native Apps ∙ An A List Apart Blog Post
  36. You’re probably using the wrong dictionary
  37. A Sublime Text selection primer - BrettTerpstra.com
  38. The elegant art of not giving a shit
  39. On unsolicited criticism - Lara Swanson
  40. Why Seven Hours of Sleep Might Be Better Than Eight - WSJ
  41. Terminal.com
  42. addyosmani/critical · GitHub
  43. An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments
  44. The Web never forgets: Persistent tracking mechanisms in the wild
  45. ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic Wraps 8 Days of Videos With ‘Mission Statement’ (Exclusive) - Speakeasy - WSJ
  46. Seriously, Fuck You, "Kindle Unlimited" - The Awl
  47. It's a Windowful Life
  48. DomFlags - devtools extension to create keyboard shortcuts to DOM elements
  49. Learn the Basics of Color Theory to Know What Looks Good
  50. Hemingway App for Mac OSX
  51. Blazing-Fast-Html
  52. The Foursquare Blog — A brand new Foursquare, with a brand new logo and look, is almost ready for you
  53. Explaining Continuity: The tech tying iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite together | Ars Technica
  54. 1 second per second is harder than it sounds
  55. Facebook Mentions Versus Facebook Pages Apps
  56. Pagekit
  57. Hacks for Dealing with Specificity
  58. Manufacturing the Talent Shortage, by Dimas Guardado | Model View Culture
  59. Twitter / BCAppelbaum: That time Americans wouldn't ...
  60. Twitter / ArenaFlowers: We're living in a brave new ...
  61. Untitled (http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2014%2F07%2F27%2Fmagazine%2Fwhy-do-americans-stink-at-math.html%3F_r%3D2)
  62. Tower - The most powerful Git client for Mac
  63. raumrot: FREE Hi-Res pictures for your personal and commercial projects. Outstanding Hi-Res Photos for FREE. CC BY / By: Markus Spiske
  64. Ten CSS One-Liners to Replace Native Apps
  65. How to Be Happy
  66. Waves
  67. A Comprehensive Reading List for and by Designers
  68. BBC News - The Cornish beaches where Lego keeps washing up
  69. Transit — Cognitect Blog
  70. Generic and overused logos - Avoid it!
  71. GitHub's CSS · @mdo
  72. IPFS: The Permanent Web, by Juan Benet (Talks at Sourcegraph 003)
  73. The tech utopia nobody wants: why the world nerds are creating will be awful | JR Hennessy | Comment is free | theguardian.com
  74. What’s the design process at GDS? | Government Digital Service
  75. Getting Over Procrastination
  76. Terminator 2 and the world’s biggest spoiler / The Dissolve
  77. Twitter / textfiles: Why do we preserve history? ...
  78. PatternBolt
  79. Collection Pipeline
  80. Duckie - A tool for one person pairing.
  81. Untitled (http://nshipster.com/xctestcase/)
  82. Open Library
  83. How recursion got into programming: a comedy of errors | A Programmers Place
  84. Kim Philby, Spies, and the Dangers of Paranoia
  85. Building a Twitter we can be proud of | Twitter Blogs
  86. The Pickpocket’s Tale - NYTimes.com
  87. Digital Tattoo for Moto X
  88. Big Blue and Apple's Soul | stratechery by Ben Thompson
  89. Reptilians: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  90. Introduction to A*
  91. Women Who are Ambivalent about Women Against Women Against Feminism | The Bloggess
  92. Responsive Logos
  93. Delight is in the Details — By Shawn Blanc
  94. Star Trek: DS9 Episodes worth watching
  95. Open document formats selected to meet user needs - Press releases - GOV.UK
  96. The Bible's a mess, but a designer is fixing it | The Verge
  97. underscore.go
  98. ePub from Google Drive documents
  99. Untitled (http://thepatternlibrary.com/)
  100. Twitter / Astro_Alex: My saddest photo yet. From ...
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