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These days, you can have the perfect pair of glasses come to you, instead of going to the mall or eye store to deal with salespeople selling subpar frames. Last week we asked you for your favorite online retailers, then looked at the five best online glasses stores. Now we’re back to highlight the crowd favorite.

Internet startup, fashion forward, and charity focused Warby Parker took the top spot with over 43% of the overall vote. They may not be the oldest, the cheapest, or offer the broadest selection in the bunch, but they certainly have significant mindshare and a great try-at-home service that lets you find the perfect frames for you before you spend a ton of money.

Second place went to the always affordable Zenni Optical, which offers tons of frames in a wide variety of styles (and qualities, ranging from cheap plastic you won’t feel bad about sitting on to higher-end designer materials) at consistently low prices. Zenni pulled in 27% of the overall vote. Third place went to Coastal with over 12% of the vote, thanks to its massive stock of designer frames. Fourth place went to Eye Buy Direct with close to 12% of the votes cast, and Goggles 4 U brought up the rear in fifth with 5% of the overall vote.

For more on each of these and the honorable mentions not listed here, head back to our full Hive Five feature to read more.

The Hive Five is based on reader nominations. As with most Hive Five posts, if your favorite was left out, it didn’t get the nominations required in the call for contenders post to make the top five. We understand it’s a bit of a popularity contest. Have a suggestion for the Hive Five? Send us an email at tips+hivefive@lifehacker.com!

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Most Popular Online Glasses Store: Warby Parker

Mac: iTerm 2, our favorite terminal emulator for Mac, updated today with a ton of handy new features. These include support for triggers, a toolbelt feature, and more.

The new toolbelt gives you a place to take notes, shows your paste history, and shows all your running jobs. The new trigger features makes it so you can set it up so errors are highlighted in red, a dock icon bounces, or so that prompts are responded to automatically. Finally, there’s also a bunch of new customization options, automatic profile changes, and a bunch more other improvements.

iTerm 2 (Free)

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iTerm 2 Updates with a Toolbelt, Trigger Support, and More

Robert S. Ballard and his team of ocean explorers have taken new crystal-clear photos of a Nazi submarine in the Gulf of Mexico, right off the Texas’ shoreline: U-166 was one of the many Kriegsmarine U-boats that swam like sharks waiting for prey around the United States’ coast. Admire it in all its decrepit glory—in high resolution.

The U-166 was a type IXC U-boat built in 1940, a revision of the IX long range submarine series. The C version carried an additional 43 tons of fuel, which further extended the Kriegsmarine’s area of influence right to the Gulf of Mexico. In fact, the U-166 was the only U-boat of any class ever sunk in that coast.

While in the Gulf the U-166 destroyed four ships in the month of July 1942: the Carmen—a sailing vessel with Dominican Republic flag—the Oneida—an American steam merchant—the Gertrude—an American fishing ship—and the Robert E. Lee—an American passenger steamer that was sunk on July 30, 45 miles off the mouth of the Mississippi River. 25 people died of a total of 404 people aboard. The Robert E. Lee lies only a few miles from the U-166.

The Robert E. Lee, a passenger ship sunk by the U-166.

Right after the attack against the Robert E. Lee, the escort US Navy patrol craft PC-566 launched deep charges against the U-166, sinking her and all of her crew members, 52 sailors.

The wreck was discovered in 2001, first the Robert E. Lee at a depth of 5,000 feet (1,500 m) then the U-166, two miles away from the site, but the photos above were just captured this month.

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Spooky underwater photos reveal Nazi submarine off the coast of Texas

Disney Animation’s latest flick follows the adventures of a robotics prodigy, his robot guardian, and his friends who must stop a sinister plot against San Francisco. A decidedly different spin on the Marvel comic which inspired it.
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Big Hero 6 (Trailer)

Net neutrality is very important though not wonderfully understood . So allow College Humor to explains the concept incredibly well, while still making you laugh a little.

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An Amusing Explanation of Why Net Neutrality Is So Serious

the last eight minutes of an unbelievable 18-minute support call  
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Ryan Block’s Comcast disconnection call

Admin panels are one of the bare necessities of modern web sites. Yet, as they are only seen by very few people, designers tend to not put too much effort into them. This is perfectly understandable, while at the same time too narrowly considered. The customer who will have to work with these panels for years to come will be much more likely to stay satisfied if you provide him with a dashboard, that is both beautiful and easy to handle. Keep in mind, that getting existing customers to place the next order is much easier than the acquisition of new ones. So, let’s do something to better your customer relationship. The so-called “backend” is going to be today’s topic. We have collected 20 of the best free resources we were able to find…
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20 Free Dashboard UI Mockups: Graphs, Diagrams, Charts and Functional Widgets

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Dilbert 2014-07-13

The Google guy has to take on another batch of strange, deviant and downright idiotic requests from his users in the latest edition of CollegeHumor’s amusing technology as reality sketch. This time, he’s “assisted” by Siri.
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If Google Was a Guy (Part 3)

Ryan Clark made his friend Matt Bittner Internet famous when he shared this video of Matt doing an impression of a woman. Matt’s not as good at it as these two dudes, but he’ll still surprise and confuse you. Of course, he could be faking.
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Matt’s Girl Voice