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1.Using Google without a Google+ profile (googleblog.blogspot.com)
589 points by _khwc on July 27, 2015 [ext] | 273 comments [ext]
2.I am an 18-year-old techie/student. I have leukemia and need your help (github.com/m3hr)
549 points by mehrzad on July 27, 2015 [ext] | 74 comments [ext]
3.One in every 600 websites has .git exposed (jamiembrown.com)
424 points by jamiejin on July 26, 2015 [ext] | 205 comments [ext]
4. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 251 days ago | hide | 128 comments
4.Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Just a Text (npr.org)
399 points by dynofuz on July 27, 2015 [ext] | 283 comments [ext]
5.Play GTA V in your Browser, Sort of (phoboslab.org)
362 points by luastoned on July 27, 2015 [ext] | 158 comments [ext]
6.Steam hit by major security breach (masterherald.com)
300 points by aestetix on July 27, 2015 [ext] | 245 comments [ext]
7. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
7.Show HN: A Hand-Drawn QR Code Alternative (meshtag.com)
270 points by samfpetersen on July 27, 2015 [ext] | 134 comments [ext]
8.Review of Nestle water permit neglected for decades (desertsun.com)
262 points by umeboshi on July 27, 2015 [ext] | 132 comments [ext]
9.A LinkedIn Hack That Led to a $120k Investment (thehustle.co)
248 points by samp615 on July 27, 2015 [ext] | 89 comments [ext]
10. Why Most Marketplace Network Effects Are Surprisingly Easy to Replicate ()
257 points by pen4647 497 days ago | hide | 50 comments
10.‘Sea Slaves’: The human misery that feeds pets and livestock (nytimes.com)
236 points by lkurtz on July 27, 2015 [ext] | 121 comments [ext]
11.Moving Fast with High Code Quality (quora.com)
198 points by kilimchoi on July 27, 2015 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
12.The Itanium processor, part 1: Warming up (msdn.com)
144 points by ingve on July 27, 2015 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
13. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 115 days ago | hide | 193 comments
13.Final Steps (ethereum.org)
149 points by Moshe_Silnorin on July 27, 2015 [ext] | 99 comments [ext]
14.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, nuclear scientist and former president of India, has died (thehindu.com)
458 points by Andromeda101 on July 27, 2015 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
15.Documenting your PostgreSQL database (craigkerstiens.com)
111 points by dmmalam on July 26, 2015 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
16. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 170 days ago | hide | 48 comments
16.Debops (2014) (enricozini.org)
190 points by chei0aiV on July 27, 2015 [ext] | 93 comments [ext]
17.Nike Missile Sites of the San Francisco Bay Area (2001) (acme.com)
90 points by stevewilhelm on July 27, 2015 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
18.Brazil Is An Alternate Video Game Universe Where Sega Beat Nintendo (atlasobscura.com)
157 points by rshrsh on July 27, 2015 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
19. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 263 days ago | hide | 11 comments
19.Autonomous Weapons: An Open Letter from AI and Robotics Researchers (futureoflife.org)
305 points by espadrine on July 27, 2015 [ext] | 288 comments [ext]
20.Kids in India Are Sparking Urban Planning Changes by Mapping Slums (citylab.com)
108 points by lermontov on July 27, 2015 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
21.The Brain vs. Deep Learning Part I: Computational Complexity (timdettmers.wordpress.com)
106 points by mbeissinger on July 27, 2015 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
22. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
22.Thoughts Evoked by CircleCI's July 2015 Outage (mihasya.com)
82 points by d23 on July 27, 2015 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
23.On Hurd, Linux and the Misadventures of Cross-Compiling a GNU Hurd Toolchain (darknedgy.net)
94 points by vezzy-fnord on July 27, 2015 [ext]
24.The Confused deputy (csail.mit.edu)
41 points by zenincognito on July 26, 2015 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
25. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 200 days ago | hide | 18 comments
25.8-bit GIFs of Japanese life (designmadeinjapan.com)
268 points by _0nac on July 27, 2015 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
26.China stocks drop over 8% (reuters.com)
213 points by pingec on July 27, 2015 [ext] | 158 comments [ext]
27.DSL processing in Scala (papathanasiou.org)
40 points by dpapathanasiou on July 27, 2015 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
28. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
28.Open Astrophysics Bookshelf (open-astrophysics-bookshelf.github.io)
73 points by antognini on July 27, 2015 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
29.The Time Zone Rebels of the World (hopesandfears.com)
63 points by nols on July 27, 2015 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
30.Why slow thinking wins (bostonglobe.com)
109 points by JohnHammersley on July 27, 2015 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
31. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments

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