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1.WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages (wordsafety.com)
431 points by randall on Aug 25, 2015 [ext] | 276 comments [ext]
2.State of the Common Lisp Ecosystem (eudoxia.me)
199 points by dwc on Aug 25, 2015 [ext] | 104 comments [ext]
3.Literary Magazines for Socialists Funded by the CIA, Ranked (theawl.com)
176 points by samclemens on Aug 25, 2015 [ext] | 133 comments [ext]
4. Assad's fall strands Moscow's warm-water ambitions at sea (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 491 days ago | hide | 26 comments
4.Haskell for Mac (haskellformac.com)
297 points by grayprog on Aug 25, 2015 [ext] | 179 comments [ext]
5.Show HN: Ear training using midi.js (tonedear.com)
230 points by dncrane on Aug 25, 2015 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
6.Python, Machine Learning, and Language Wars. A Highly Subjective Point of View (sebastianraschka.com)
167 points by Lofkin on Aug 24, 2015 [ext] | 93 comments [ext]
7. Two grad students bet biology can eat the chemicals industry by 2030 (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 601 days ago | hide | 170 comments
7.A new Stephen Hawking presentation about black holes (washingtonpost.com)
169 points by ColinCochrane on Aug 25, 2015 [ext] | 95 comments [ext]
8.Will Your Hardware Startup Make Money? (medium.com/boltvc)
209 points by tigrella on Aug 25, 2015 [ext] | 82 comments [ext]
9.Angular 1 and Angular 2 integration: the path to seamless upgrade (angularjs.blogspot.com)
202 points by hswolff on Aug 25, 2015 [ext] | 100 comments [ext]
10. Why hypothesis and diagnosis will resist the coming AI wave ()
71 points by fin781 264 days ago | hide | 11 comments
10.Facebook ‘Spam King’ Guilty for Sending 27M Messages (bloomberg.com)
102 points by tchalla on Aug 25, 2015 [ext] | 86 comments [ext]
11.A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography [pdf] (stanford.edu)
134 points by windhamdavid on Aug 25, 2015 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
12.Silicon Brain: 100,000 ARM cores [video] (youtube.com)
119 points by DiabloD3 on Aug 25, 2015 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
13. From Wool Sneakers to AI Chips: The Anatomy of a Desperation Pivot (archive.is)
42 points by eum3372 16 hours ago | hide | 186 comments
13.When hardware Kickstarters ship (koalasafe.com)
169 points by steven_pack on Aug 25, 2015 [ext] | 87 comments [ext]
14.As Coursera Evolves, Colleges Stay On and Investors Buy In (chronicle.com)
132 points by jyosim4 on Aug 25, 2015 [ext] | 86 comments [ext]
15.UK surveillance “worse than 1984” says new UN privacy chief (arstechnica.co.uk)
313 points by fukusa on Aug 25, 2015 [ext] | 229 comments [ext]
16. Why Uber-for-X Failed While Amazon Built an Impenetrable Moat ()
257 points by pen4647 498 days ago | hide | 50 comments
16.Debian GNU/Hurd Status Update [pdf] (debian.org)
121 points by Tsiolkovsky on Aug 25, 2015 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
17.Traceroute (scripts.mit.edu)
130 points by evandrix on Aug 25, 2015 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
18.Writing a Linux Kernel Module — Part 3: Buttons and LEDs (derekmolloy.ie)
116 points by OrangeTux on Aug 25, 2015 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
19. Elon's $140 Billion, Maduro's Capture, and a $30K Polymarket Windfall (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 86 days ago | hide | 122 comments
19.Chebyshev Approximation (embeddedrelated.com)
204 points by alexcasalboni on Aug 25, 2015 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
20.50 years ago today the word “hypertext” was introduced (gigaom.com)
119 points by epsylon on Aug 25, 2015 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
21.Writ – Opinionated, classless styles for semantic HTML (cmcenroe.me)
150 points by citizenk on Aug 25, 2015 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
22. The Leipzig judge who acquitted an innocent Jew straight into the Gestapo (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 212 days ago | hide | 32 comments
22.Towards Neural Network-based Reasoning (arxiv.org)
134 points by lucidrains on Aug 25, 2015 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
23.How a Volcanic Eruption in 1815 Darkened the World but Colored the Arts (nytimes.com)
69 points by danso on Aug 25, 2015 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
24.The Holocaust epigenetics study was over-interpreted (epgntxeinstein.tumblr.com)
92 points by tokenadult on Aug 25, 2015 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
25. The dangerous delusion of high stock valuations during a Middle East war (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 2 days ago | hide | 150 comments
25.How Sick Is the Stock Market? (bloombergview.com)
116 points by gedrap on Aug 25, 2015 [ext] | 116 comments [ext]
26.Fun with time travel: retroactive data structures in Python (github.com/csvoss)
79 points by puremachinery on Aug 25, 2015 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
27.Learn X in Y minutes – Tcl (learnxinyminutes.com)
94 points by notduncansmith on Aug 25, 2015 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
28. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 264 days ago | hide | 183 comments
28.Parents' Math Anxiety Is Contagious to Their Kids (nytimes.com)
83 points by euske on Aug 25, 2015 [ext] | 75 comments [ext]
29.What It Looks Like to Use the Internet for the First Time (vice.com)
82 points by danso on Aug 25, 2015 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
30.Photos at Microsoft Corp (1979) (sound-photo.com)
200 points by colinprince on Aug 25, 2015 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
31. Why giving advice fails and reflecting back changes minds (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 171 days ago | hide | 48 comments

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