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1. [dupe] Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (ocallahan.org)
390 points by walterbell on Aug 16, 2014 | 309 comments
2.The Python I Would Like To See (pocoo.org)
327 points by rachbelaid on Aug 16, 2014 | 82 comments
3.George Orwell's review of Mein Kampf (1940) (docs.google.com)
305 points by adamnemecek on Aug 16, 2014 | 240 comments
4.Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista? (2012) (msdn.com)
230 points by pzaich on Aug 16, 2014 | 67 comments
5.Georgia Teens Develop App to Document Police Abuse (forharriet.com)
229 points by logn on Aug 16, 2014 | 50 comments
6.The secret life of SIM cards (2013) (simhacks.github.io)
225 points by cthackers on Aug 16, 2014 | 43 comments
7.Cell Phone Guide For US Protesters, Updated 2014 Edition (eff.org)
170 points by panarky on Aug 16, 2014 | 61 comments
8.VimR – Refined Vim Experience for OS X (vimr.org)
164 points by jasonrdsouza on Aug 16, 2014 | 63 comments
9.A Leica T Review (minimallyminimal.com)
122 points by constantinum on Aug 16, 2014 | 102 comments
10.Yubari, Japan: a city learns how to die (theguardian.com)
109 points by oska on Aug 16, 2014 | 53 comments

For those saying Google is a benevolent company, here are a few signs that the bean counters are taking over:

Tracking Google Apps for Education and even paid Google Apps for Business emails to build ad profiles, making misleading statement to the public that they're not doing so, and then when it finally came to statements to federal court, lacking the dare to continue lying and finally confessing the truth and then claiming the consumer Gmail policy applied to Apps for Education data.

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/03/13/26google.h33.ht...

Conspiring to kill SkyHook(and succeeding) with its 500lb outsized influence like Microsoft used to.

http://www.theverge.com/2011/05/12/google-android-skyhook-la...

Tracking the physical location of Android phones for ad purposes without properly informing users and disabling things like Google Now if you disable the tracking.

http://digiday.com/platforms/google-tracking/

Google employee access personal information of others. Google says it has fixed the issue, but how do we even know? Is there any legal safeguard against someone at Google reading your email?

http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-tee...

Paid inclusion for shopping search results

http://marketingland.com/once-deemed-evil-google-now-embrace...

Ranking Google+ reviews over Yelp results even if the user explicitly searches for Yelp

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/yelp-complains-outranked-...

Decreasing contrast in the background of ads, this especially hurts older people as ability to see contrast decreases with age, and the FTC found that almost half the people fail to notice that there are ads on the page, thus forcing products that are first in the organic results to pay Google for ads.

http://ppcblog.com/fbf0fa-now-you-see-itor-maybe-not/

http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/01/31/is-google-intentional...

http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/ftc-googles-ad-practice-i...

Making people literally cry with the forced Google+ integration into Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccxiwu4MaJs (warning, NSFW language)

Extracting petty revenge on CNET for googling(!) information on its CEO

http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/05/technology/google_cnet/

12.3D Printed Sugar (the-sugar-lab.com)
105 points by nikhilpandit on Aug 16, 2014 | 35 comments
13.U.S. firm helped the spyware industry build a digital weapon for sale overseas (washingtonpost.com)
110 points by rpupkin on Aug 16, 2014 | 18 comments
14.Photos of the Commodore production line in Hong Kong (dustlayer.com)
96 points by yankcrime on Aug 16, 2014 | 9 comments
15.Python-ftfy: Given Unicode text, make its representation possibly less broken (github.com/luminosoinsight)
101 points by rspeer on Aug 16, 2014 | 40 comments
16.A Chinese Man, a $50 Billion Plan and a Canal to Reshape Nicaragua (npr.org)
97 points by victoro on Aug 16, 2014 | 56 comments
17.Senator Wyden: Your data’s yours no matter on whose server it lives (washingtonpost.com)
96 points by Libertatea on Aug 16, 2014 | 22 comments
18.Ask HN: Experienced dev having career lull
85 points by throwawaydotcpp on Aug 16, 2014 | 72 comments
19.Option Monads in Rust
83 points by mmastrac on Aug 16, 2014 | 57 comments
20.Ask HN: Ways to increase mental sharpness or intelligence?
78 points by hotshot on Aug 16, 2014 | 55 comments
21.Codeworld: An open-source educational programming environment using Haskell (github.com/google)
73 points by cnbuff410 on Aug 16, 2014 | 9 comments
22.Faster Python calls in Cython 0.21 (behnel.de)
75 points by andreif on Aug 16, 2014 | 7 comments
23.NSA Observer (nsa-observer.net)
65 points by getdavidhiggins on Aug 16, 2014 | 12 comments
24.Firejail – Simple Linux sandbox with seccomp (l3net.wordpress.com)
62 points by antocv on Aug 16, 2014 | 10 comments
25.Half of a Coin: Negative Probabilities [pdf] (wilmott.com)
60 points by jmount on Aug 16, 2014 | 38 comments
26.DataRobot raises $21M Series A (wsj.com)
81 points by benhamner on Aug 16, 2014 | 8 comments
27.Octo: CHIP-8 retro game programming in the browser (johnearnest.github.io)
61 points by mr_golyadkin on Aug 16, 2014 | 4 comments
28.ColorRun – Simple browser game about colors (colorrun.pl)
56 points by lukaszmtw on Aug 16, 2014 | 33 comments
29.How my startup got to #1 on both Product Hunt and Hacker News (levels.io)
59 points by pieterhg on Aug 16, 2014 | 23 comments
30.Inside The Making Of The New “Dungeons and Dragons” (fastcodesign.com)
56 points by santaclaus on Aug 16, 2014 | 23 comments

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