| 1. | | What's the scariest thing in the world? Ask your teenage daughter (polygon.com) |
| 496 points by wglb on July 16, 2014 | 247 comments |
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| 2. | | Why the Bootstrap 3 Grid Works (2013) (helloerik.com) |
| 503 points by analogj on July 16, 2014 | 83 comments |
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| 3. | | Making of Aprilzero (aprilzero.com) |
| 445 points by vpj on July 16, 2014 | 78 comments |
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| 4. | | Show HN: Papa Parse 3 (papaparse.com) |
| 363 points by mholt on July 16, 2014 | 83 comments |
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| 5. | | Offer HN: Free Use of Agricultural Land 30 miles Northwest of Chicago |
| 354 points by syedkarim on July 16, 2014 | 113 comments |
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| 6. | | Amazon leaks Kindle Unlimited (googleusercontent.com) |
| 304 points by ecrotty on July 16, 2014 | 230 comments |
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| 7. | | YC Portfolio Stats (blog.ycombinator.com) |
| 288 points by nedwin on July 16, 2014 | 119 comments |
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| 8. | | GPS and Relativity (ohio-state.edu) |
| 261 points by jcr on July 16, 2014 | 83 comments |
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| 9. | | Digital sundial (wikipedia.org) |
| 232 points by thisjepisje on July 16, 2014 | 47 comments |
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| 10. | | Tesla Model III to challenge BMW 3 Series (autoexpress.co.uk) |
| 229 points by mshafrir on July 16, 2014 | 84 comments |
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| 11. | | Overcast – A powerful yet simple iPhone podcast player (overcast.fm) |
| 201 points by haraball on July 16, 2014 | 121 comments |
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| 12. | | Startup Growth Calculator (tlb.org) |
| 201 points by staunch on July 16, 2014 | 30 comments |
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| 13. | | European Citizens’ Initiative against TTIP and CETA (stop-ttip.org) |
| 188 points by Tsiolkovsky on July 16, 2014 | 92 comments |
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| 14. | | Why We Use OCaml (esper.com) |
| 169 points by ALee on July 16, 2014 | 137 comments |
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| 15. | | State of Rust 0.11.0 (octayn.net) |
| 170 points by cmrx64 on July 16, 2014 | 112 comments |
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| 16. | | Machine Learning frameworks, libraries and software (github.com/josephmisiti) |
| 163 points by misiti3780 on July 16, 2014 | 35 comments |
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| 17. | | Show HN: Shoelace.io – Visual Bootstrap Grid Builder and Teacher Beta (shoelace.io) |
| 158 points by eflowers on July 16, 2014 | 46 comments |
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| 18. | | GoRails – Ruby on Rails screencasts for web developers (gorails.com) |
| 152 points by bdcravens on July 16, 2014 | 55 comments |
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| 19. | | World’s largest four-winged dinosaur discovered (washingtonpost.com) |
| 151 points by tokenadult on July 16, 2014 | 21 comments |
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| 20. | | The Craigwatch Story (craigwatch.com) |
| 146 points by stickfigure on July 16, 2014 | 48 comments |
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| 21. | | A detailed exposé on how the market is rigged from a data-centric approach (nanex.net) |
| 125 points by isivaxa on July 16, 2014 | 149 comments |
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| 23. | | The New Airbnb (airbnb.com) |
| 126 points by hoverkraft on July 16, 2014 | 126 comments |
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| 24. | | Amazon's Cloud Is One of the Fastest-Growing Software Businesses in History (businessweek.com) |
| 142 points by adventured on July 16, 2014 | 30 comments |
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| 25. | | Turning College Into a No-Thought Zone (bloombergview.com) |
| 110 points by lsh123 on July 16, 2014 | 81 comments |
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| 26. | | A flat icon set for OS X (flaticns.com) |
| 110 points by tinalatif on July 16, 2014 | 56 comments |
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| 27. | | UN: Nations hide rise in private digital snooping (washingtonpost.com) |
| 112 points by Libertatea on July 16, 2014 | 67 comments |
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| 28. | | An IRC Bot in Arm Assembler (github.com/wyc) |
| 116 points by wyc on July 16, 2014 | 49 comments |
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| 29. | | Spotify migrate 5000 servers from Debian to Ubuntu (raphaelhertzog.com) |
| 90 points by lmedinas on July 16, 2014 | 38 comments |
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| 30. | | Ask HN: How do you showcase work from previous jobs? |
| 81 points by jit_hacker on July 16, 2014 | 61 comments |
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People have always had the option to read books without buying them. In those days, going to the library was effectively the same effort as going to a book store. In fact, it was more convenient for my family. We happened to live a few blocks from the library and didn't need to drive across town to the mall to get books in dingy little B. Dalton bookstore.
I will grant that the economics in the eBook situation are dramatically different than with physical books, but I really wonder how different they really are. Local libraries already lend ebooks as well. I'm not sure why more people don't take advantage of that.