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1.JSON Resume – a JSON-based open source standard for resumes (jsonresume.org)
490 points by krrishd on July 7, 2014 | 210 comments
2.MIT And Dropbox Alums Launch Inbox, a Next-Generation Email Platform (techcrunch.com)
390 points by ThomPete on July 7, 2014 | 262 comments
3.SecureDrop (washingtonpost.com)
316 points by brianmwaters_hn on July 7, 2014 | 95 comments
4.Ask HN: How best to learn software design principles?
274 points by chaimkut on July 7, 2014 | 98 comments
5. [dupe] Xiki: An amazing shell (techcrunch.com)
311 points by jestinjoy1 on July 7, 2014 | 123 comments
6.Super Pixel Quest (superpixelquest.com)
273 points by EmilandDC on July 7, 2014 | 40 comments
7.Detecting login state for almost any website on the internet (zemn.me)
250 points by zemnmez on July 7, 2014 | 61 comments
8.iOS 8 Privacy Updates (lmjabreu.com)
228 points by kqdreger on July 7, 2014 | 77 comments
9.CentOS 7 released on x86_64 (centos.org)
207 points by priteau on July 7, 2014 | 120 comments
10.Ask HN: What's the best technical eBook you have read?
193 points by davidshariff on July 7, 2014 | 82 comments
11.Urllib3, Stripe, and Open Source Grants (medium.com/shazow)
205 points by malditojavi on July 7, 2014 | 20 comments
12.U.S. Banks Curtail International Money Transfers (nytimes.com)
182 points by 001sky on July 7, 2014 | 159 comments
13.Firefly Space Systems (fireflyspace.com)
197 points by cryptoz on July 7, 2014 | 126 comments
14.Bitcoin Core switching from hard-coded to flexible fees in next major release (bitcoinfoundation.org)
176 points by FatalLogic on July 7, 2014 | 55 comments
15.Code review without your glasses (robertheaton.com)
175 points by padolsey on July 7, 2014 | 42 comments
16.Ubuntu and open source help the City of Munich save millions (ubuntu.com)
180 points by arunc on July 7, 2014 | 107 comments

“Inbox is an email company. Google is an advertising company. This product is our focus, and will not be ‘discontinued’ unexpectedly.” Burn!

Very amusing. But for all we know they will be acqui-hired, maybe even by Google, and then shifted to a different project.

18.Herringbone Wang Tiles (nothings.org)
153 points by speednoise on July 7, 2014 | 10 comments
19.Show HN: Sheetlabs – Turn your spreadsheets into APIs (sheetlabs.com)
158 points by samcrawford on July 7, 2014 | 78 comments
20.The Life And Death Of 'The Internet's Own Boy' (npr.org)
157 points by soasme on July 7, 2014 | 90 comments
21.How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business at Will (wired.com)
152 points by cryptoz on July 7, 2014 | 124 comments
22.The Rise of Thin, Mini and Insert Skimmers (krebsonsecurity.com)
135 points by acdanger on July 7, 2014 | 73 comments
23.Private Team Fires 36-Year-Old NASA Probe's Engines (space.com)
133 points by lsh123 on July 7, 2014 | 11 comments
24.Natural Earth: A public domain map dataset (naturalearthdata.com)
114 points by falava on July 7, 2014 | 9 comments
25.Developer inequality and the technical debt crisis (alarmingdevelopment.org)
114 points by swannodette on July 7, 2014 | 103 comments
26.Update to Microsoft Takedown – Domains Fully Restored (noip.com)
104 points by thefreeman on July 7, 2014 | 49 comments

Indeed, the probability of this being discontinued, if it follows normal trends, is dramatically higher than pretty much any Google product, and worse the notion that the "product is their focus" is specious: getting investment cash or a buyout is their focus, as it is with virtually all startups.

Moralizing or taking shots at competitors is a dangerous tactic when you live in a glass house.

28.Germany turns up pressure in suspected US spy case (aljazeera.com)
109 points by molecule on July 7, 2014 | 86 comments
29.OCaml for the Masses (2011) (acm.org)
100 points by luu on July 7, 2014 | 88 comments
30.Unapologetically build your startup technology in C# (sirchristian.net)
97 points by sirchristian on July 7, 2014 | 146 comments

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