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1.		Show HN: Breach – A modular browser built on Chromium and Node.js (breach.cc)
		405 points by spolu on July 10, 2014 \| 169 comments
2.		Study: Half of black males, 40% of white males arrested by age 23 (eurekalert.org)
		334 points by EGreg on July 10, 2014 \| 312 comments
3.		Pinboard Turns Five (blog.pinboard.in)
		491 points by thisisblurry on July 10, 2014 \| 116 comments
4.		Data.sparkfun.com: A place to push your data (sparkfun.com)
		216 points by jamesbritt on July 10, 2014 \| 68 comments
5.		Beginner's guide to OCaml beginner's guides (nullspace.io)
		209 points by akerl_ on July 10, 2014 \| 70 comments
6.		Learn Lisp the Hard Way (learnlispthehardway.org)
		190 points by wes-exp on July 10, 2014 \| 141 comments
7.		Kickstarter project spent $3.5M to finish a prototype and ended in disaster (arstechnica.com)
		189 points by tmflannery on July 10, 2014 \| 149 comments
8.		Diffie-Hellman key exchange, explained using colors (wikipedia.org)
		159 points by Tomte on July 10, 2014 \| 25 comments
9.		Microsoft, RedHat, IBM, Docker, Mesosphere, CoreOS and SaltStack join Kubernetes (googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com)
		160 points by bgoldy on July 10, 2014 \| 53 comments
10.		You might not need a WebSocket (fanout.io)
		160 points by 650REDHAIR on July 10, 2014 \| 66 comments
11.		Silent Circle Launches Global Encrypted Calling Plan (silentcircle.com)
		133 points by mike-cardwell on July 10, 2014 \| 44 comments
		cs702 on July 10, 2014 \| parent \| context \| on: Why is Netflix Buffering? Dispelling the Congestio... Verizon is blaming Netflix for sending "an unprecedented amount of traffic" and "not taking steps to ensure that there is adequate capacity for their traffic to enter" Verizon's network. The thing is, Netflix is NOT pushing any of that traffic to Verizon. It is Verizon's customers who are pulling that traffic from NetFlix -- and they are paying Verizon to deliver it!!! More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7701494
13.		Why is Netflix Buffering? Dispelling the Congestion Myth (verizon.com)
		106 points by danielsamuels on July 10, 2014 \| 213 comments
14.		Customer churn can kill your startup (tomblomfield.com)
		108 points by tomblomfield on July 10, 2014 \| 29 comments
15.		Our Path Forward (aereo.com)
		100 points by e15ctr0n on July 10, 2014 \| 29 comments
		msandford on July 10, 2014 \| parent \| context \| on: Why is Netflix Buffering? Dispelling the Congestio... From the article: "Netflix sends out an unprecedented amount of traffic." YES! Yes they do! But Netflix doesn't send that traffic for fun and giggles, just to swamp your network and clog up the port. They do it because YOUR CUSTOMERS HAVE ASKED THEM TO and you, Verizon, you duplicitous shitbag, have SOLD THAT CAPABILITY to your customers. They have LITERALLY PAID you to successfully receive up to 75Mbps worth of traffic from ANYONE, INCLUDING NETFLIX. I can't fucking stand this "they send a lot of traffic our way, but we don't send any back!" bullshit. Netflix doesn't PUSH traffic to your customers, your customers PULL traffic FROM Netflix.
17.		How a password changed my life (medium.com/manicho)
		97 points by caruana on July 10, 2014 \| 46 comments
18.		The Rube Goldberg of Rice (newyorker.com)
		84 points by Mz on July 10, 2014 \| 30 comments
19.		Functional Go Programming Language (github.com/eobrain)
		89 points by psibi on July 10, 2014 \| 35 comments
20.		Uber Makes Economists Sad (bloombergview.com)
		84 points by luu on July 10, 2014 \| 182 comments
21.		Japanese Farmer Builds High-Tech Indoor Veggie Factory (gereports.com)
		81 points by mundizzle on July 10, 2014 \| 42 comments
22.		New Venture Capital Fund Gives Entrepreneurs a Cut of the Profit (nytimes.com)
		93 points by ryanmickle on July 10, 2014 \| 32 comments
23.		Bold Ambition and Our Core (microsoft.com)
		80 points by jdp23 on July 10, 2014 \| 54 comments
		peterb on July 10, 2014 \| parent \| context \| on: Amazon Zocalo Jeff Bezos is using Bill Gates' playbook from the 1990's: build alternatives to the most popular apps on your platform; bundle them; and improve app quality over time. This business strategy is very hard for a company like dropbox to compete against, even if they have better IP/quality/features. Edit: we can also expect Amazon versions of "knife the baby", "cut off their air supply" and "DOS ain't done until Lotus won't run".
25.		Show HN: Keep, an app that helps you love how you spend every dollar (trykeep.com)
		79 points by tomrohlf on July 10, 2014 \| 92 comments
26.		When REST Gets Messy (zapier.com)
		74 points by brian_cooksey on July 10, 2014 \| 43 comments
27.		How To Profit From Selling Digital Products (smashingmagazine.com)
		70 points by acconrad on July 10, 2014 \| 21 comments
28.		RocketSkates let you zip along the sidewalk at a top speed of 12 MPH (engadget.com)
		68 points by bjchrist on July 10, 2014 \| 63 comments
		rnovak on July 10, 2014 \| parent \| context \| on: Why is Netflix Buffering? Dispelling the Congestio... They can claim whatever they want, but when you tunnel Netflix traffic through a VPN so all the ISP see's is encrypted traffic and bandwidth issues disappear, it removes all mystery. I've tried several VPN's to test out my theory, and with each one, as soon as the ISP couldn't inspect traffic, all throttling seem to magically vanish. considering what we're paying for broadband, we should be getting what we pay for without resorting to obfuscating our data.
30.		Prince Alwaleed And The Curious Case Of Kingdom Holding Stock (2013) (forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan)
		63 points by NN88 on July 10, 2014 \| 9 comments
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