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1.Nobody. Understands. Punctuation. (stilldrinking.org)
418 points by hachiya on June 8, 2014 | 149 comments
2.Fake Friends with Real Benefits (medium.com/i-data)
310 points by ossama on June 8, 2014 | 107 comments
3.Call me maybe: RabbitMQ (aphyr.com)
231 points by timf on June 8, 2014 | 42 comments
4.Valve sponsors Mesa development (lunarg.com)
217 points by Rovanion on June 8, 2014 | 28 comments
5.Turing Test Success (reading.ac.uk)
216 points by stevejalim on June 8, 2014 | 134 comments
6.Good and Bad Procrastination (2005) (paulgraham.com)
189 points by jeremylevy on June 8, 2014 | 54 comments
7.How mistakes can save lives: one man’s mission to revolutionise the NHS (newstatesman.com)
184 points by wormold on June 8, 2014 | 41 comments
8.Cable Companies Are Astroturfing Fake Consumer Support to End Net Neutrality (vice.com)
182 points by ghosh on June 8, 2014 | 47 comments
9.Noam Chomsky: A Surveillance State Beyond Imagination Is Being Created (alternet.org)
174 points by 001sky on June 8, 2014 | 78 comments
10.The Secret Life of an Obsessive Airbnb Host (narrative.ly)
148 points by Calcite on June 8, 2014 | 30 comments
11.In memory of Rebecca Alison Meyer (meyerweb.com)
141 points by _ugfj on June 8, 2014 | 69 comments
12.PythonJS now faster than CPython (pythonjs.blogspot.com)
138 points by tyrion on June 8, 2014 | 60 comments
13.Colleges are full of it: Behind the three-decade scheme to raise tuition (salon.com)
119 points by ph0rque on June 8, 2014 | 101 comments
14.Code that will only execute once (codegolf.stackexchange.com)
113 points by hawkharris on June 8, 2014 | 26 comments
15.MIT at center of political power play over campus fusion reactor (bostonglobe.com)
104 points by ilamont on June 8, 2014 | 78 comments
16.Monarch butterfly decline linked to spread of GM crops (cbc.ca)
105 points by drjohnson on June 8, 2014 | 62 comments

Good. It should be a problem for them.
18.Myths about ElementaryOS (elementaryos.org)
97 points by dgellow on June 8, 2014 | 53 comments

If this becomes the trend (which in my opinon would be nice) it will become a big problem for companies that specialise in customer tracking e.g. for supermarkets and big department stores. Previously it was quite easy to track a customer, how long he or she spends time in the store, which floors he or she visits, etc. by putting up dummy WiFI-networks that the customers phones find by giving out their MAC-addresses.
20.Engineering the Extinction of 40 Species of Mosquitoes (rockstarresearch.com)
89 points by olalonde on June 8, 2014 | 29 comments
21.Swift impressions (evanmiller.org)
78 points by gmac on June 8, 2014 | 80 comments
22.The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face (plos.org)
76 points by shahocean on June 8, 2014 | 10 comments
23.Steady.js – No more scroll jank (lafikl.github.io)
69 points by khalidlafi on June 8, 2014 | 26 comments
24.Beeplay.js: Write a song in JavaScript (watilde.github.io)
70 points by yror10 on June 8, 2014 | 21 comments

I think on the general principle of privacy. But also, the idea that the more trackable you are, the more easily manipulated you are by marketers and advertisers. Free markets work better the more consumers are rational. Giving marketers deep psychological and behavioral insight increasingly enables them to circumvent rationality and "hack" consumers in various ways.
26.Getting started in data science (treycausey.com)
70 points by treycausey on June 8, 2014 | 32 comments
27.$300 Billion Broadband Scandal (2009) [pdf] (teletruth.org)
64 points by kushnick on June 8, 2014 | 17 comments
28.Steve Wozniak is not boring (github.com/dotcloud)
62 points by neilellis on June 8, 2014 | 18 comments
29.Japan's A-Bomb project (sites.google.com)
65 points by nkurz on June 8, 2014 | 21 comments
30.Why Canada’s banks have weaker passwords than Twitter or Google (theglobeandmail.com)
58 points by uladzislau on June 8, 2014 | 64 comments

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