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1.Relay Technical Preview (facebook.github.io)
474 points by cpojer on Aug 11, 2015 [ext] | 106 comments [ext]
2.Thor – A Project to Hammer Out a Royalty Free Video Codec (cisco.com)
422 points by TD-Linux on Aug 11, 2015 [ext] | 164 comments [ext]
3.“Stop reverse engineering our code” (oracle.com)
613 points by hughstephens on Aug 11, 2015 [ext] | 344 comments [ext]
4. Why Hitchhiking Taught Kevin Kelly a Theory of Grace (kk.org)
312 points by oan7422 99 days ago | hide | 83 comments
4.Lawrence Lessig wants to run for president in an unconventional way (washingtonpost.com)
446 points by nkassis on Aug 11, 2015 [ext] | 197 comments [ext]
5.Windows 10 IoT Core for Raspberry Pi 2 (windows.com)
234 points by vyrotek on Aug 11, 2015 [ext] | 166 comments [ext]
6.Why Not Insider Trade on Every Company? (bloombergview.com)
265 points by dsri on Aug 11, 2015 [ext] | 124 comments [ext]
7. How Google’s new ‘TurboQuant’ AI might end the current RAM price hike crisis (tech.sportskeeda.com)
312 points by gul702 8 hours ago | hide | 19 comments
7.Google reveals details about its datacenters (highscalability.com)
281 points by toddh on Aug 10, 2015 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
8.RethinkDB 2.1 is out: high availability (rethinkdb.com)
264 points by coffeemug on Aug 11, 2015 [ext] | 105 comments [ext]
9.Ubuntu One file syncing code Open Sourced (ubuntu.com)
244 points by progval on Aug 11, 2015 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
10. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 199 days ago | hide | 18 comments
10.Firefox 42 will not allow unsigned extensions (wiki.mozilla.org)
288 points by fernandotakai on Aug 11, 2015 [ext] | 302 comments [ext]
11.DigitalOcean Teams Up with Bitnami, Install Over 100 Web Apps with a Few Clicks (techcrunch.com)
182 points by mitchwainer on Aug 11, 2015 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
12.Thunderstrike 2: Mac firmware worm details (trmm.net)
155 points by georgyo on Aug 11, 2015 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
13. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 169 days ago | hide | 48 comments
13.The Container Ship Tourism Industry (atlasobscura.com)
145 points by todayiamme on Aug 10, 2015 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
14.Building the Next New York Times Recommendation Engine (nytimes.com)
129 points by jprob on Aug 11, 2015 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
15.Uber Is Serving New York’s Outer Boroughs More Than Taxis Are (fivethirtyeight.com)
162 points by svtrent on Aug 11, 2015 [ext] | 110 comments [ext]
16. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
16.SICP in Clojure (afronski.pl)
132 points by MattF on Aug 11, 2015 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
17.When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China (a16z.com)
165 points by rxin on Aug 11, 2015 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
18.An open source JMAP proxy, JavaScript library and webmail demo (fastmail.com)
95 points by cdvonstinkpot on Aug 11, 2015 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
19. Structure Over Style: How Knowledge and Practice Beat Natural Speaking Talent (m.youtube.com)
81 points by pom4591 229 days ago | hide | 180 comments
19.How much we still don’t know about Watergate and the Nixon Administration (jstor.org)
104 points by lermontov on Aug 11, 2015 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
20.High precision air bearing CNC lathe and grinder [video] (youtube.com)
125 points by djoldman on Aug 11, 2015 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
21.Best practices for building large React applications (siftscience.com)
153 points by mtschopp on Aug 11, 2015 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
22. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 489 days ago | hide | 26 comments
22. [dupe] Oracle’s license agreement as it pertains to reverse engineering (archive.org)
349 points by shin_lao on Aug 11, 2015 [ext] | 117 comments [ext]
23.Old graph paper (leancrew.com)
110 points by ingve on Aug 11, 2015 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
24.Understanding ARM Assembly, Part 1 (msdn.com)
90 points by ingve on Aug 11, 2015 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
25. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
25.Gene Therapy Makes Near-Blind Patients See by Strengthening Neural Connections (dddmag.com)
100 points by forloop on Aug 11, 2015 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
26.For Sale in Spain: Entire Villages, Cheap (csmonitor.com)
91 points by juanplusjuan on Aug 11, 2015 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
27.Don’t Hit Send: Angry Emails Just Make You Angrier (wsj.com)
75 points by rubikscube on Aug 11, 2015 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
28. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 332 days ago | hide | 88 comments
28.Compilers Are Databases [video] (youtube.com)
84 points by oelang on Aug 10, 2015 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
29.How We Beat C++ STL Binary Search (realm.io)
95 points by _bkgg on Aug 11, 2015 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
30.PostgreSQL 9.5 New Features with Examples [pdf] (hp.com)
140 points by snaga on Aug 11, 2015 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
31. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments

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