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1.“It's The Future” (circleci.com)
1323 points by knowbody on Aug 17, 2016 [ext] | 521 comments [ext]
2.Writing Less Code (heydonworks.com)
583 points by fiatjaf on Aug 17, 2016 [ext] | 200 comments [ext]
3.What Great Listeners Actually Do (hbr.org)
521 points by wallflower on Aug 17, 2016 [ext] | 198 comments [ext]
4. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
4.Users You Don’t Want (themacro.com)
292 points by craigcannon on Aug 17, 2016 [ext] | 177 comments [ext]
5.Cisco to lay off about 14,000 employees (reuters.com)
349 points by petethomas on Aug 17, 2016 [ext] | 277 comments [ext]
6.Rate Limits (letsencrypt.org)
175 points by beardicus on Aug 17, 2016 [ext] | 115 comments [ext]
7. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 210 days ago | hide | 32 comments
7.Lonnie Johnson: The father of the Super Soaker (bbc.co.uk)
257 points by mebassett on Aug 16, 2016 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
8.NPR Website to Get Rid of Comments (npr.org)
271 points by hampelm on Aug 17, 2016 [ext] | 433 comments [ext]
9.Bitcoin 0.13.0 Binary Safety Warning (bitcoin.org)
216 points by pigeons on Aug 17, 2016 [ext] | 108 comments [ext]
10. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 262 days ago | hide | 11 comments
10.With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Privacy (eff.org)
465 points by DiabloD3 on Aug 17, 2016 [ext] | 398 comments [ext]
11.15 Page Tutorial for R (studytrails.com)
194 points by sndean on Aug 17, 2016 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
12.30K Page Views for $0.21: A Serverless Story (fmlnerd.com)
238 points by kiyanwang on Aug 17, 2016 [ext] | 73 comments [ext]
13. From Shortlist to Shipped: A Tournament Method for Picking Life's Work (guzey.com)
110 points by coz850 601 days ago | hide | 97 comments
13.Simpler GitHub Pages publishing (github.com/blog)
275 points by dwaxe on Aug 17, 2016 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
14.Pendulum – Python datetimes made easy (github.com/sdispater)
172 points by sdispater on Aug 16, 2016 [ext] | 73 comments [ext]
15.Information, Physics and Computation (2009) (stanford.edu)
100 points by KKKKkkkk1 on Aug 17, 2016 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
16. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 601 days ago | hide | 193 comments
16.A Conflict-Free Replicated JSON Datatype (arxiv.org)
132 points by DanielRibeiro on Aug 17, 2016 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
17.Open Source PaaS Built on Docker (github.com/ooyala)
87 points by neokya on Aug 16, 2016 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
18.Show HN: GPU-Accelerated Digit Recognition with WebGL (erkaman.github.io)
135 points by erkaman on Aug 17, 2016 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
19. How a PVC rig in a Dallas garage became a $500M chemicals company (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 600 days ago | hide | 170 comments
19.Context aware MySQL pools via HAProxy (githubengineering.com)
103 points by samlambert on Aug 17, 2016 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
20.Building Soundcloud's iOS App; in-depth retrospective (michaelevensen.com)
89 points by felixbraun on Aug 17, 2016 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
21.Airlander 10: Maiden flight at last for longest aircraft (bbc.co.uk)
82 points by rwmj on Aug 17, 2016 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
22. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
22.The Write Stuff: How the Humble Pencil Conquered the World (popularmechanics.com)
76 points by NaOH on Aug 16, 2016 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
23.Attracting Early Stage Investors: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment (2015) (ssrn.com)
89 points by gghyslain on Aug 17, 2016 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
24.Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance SNMP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (cisco.com)
134 points by runesoerensen on Aug 17, 2016 [ext] | 127 comments [ext]
25. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 251 days ago | hide | 128 comments
25.The misleading stream of articles about scientific studies (washingtonpost.com)
72 points by timthorn on Aug 17, 2016 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
26.Chinese Tech Firms Forced to Choose Market: Home or Everywhere Else (nytimes.com)
150 points by vinnyglennon on Aug 17, 2016 [ext] | 126 comments [ext]
27.Harvard Museums Releases Online Catalogue of 32,000 Bauhaus Works (archdaily.com)
70 points by at-fates-hands on Aug 17, 2016 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
28. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
28.Nvidia – significant increases in parental benefits for employees (virtuallyvisual.wordpress.com)
181 points by bing_dai on Aug 17, 2016 [ext] | 170 comments [ext]
29.Modern anti-spam and E2E crypto (2014) (moderncrypto.org)
48 points by louis-paul on Aug 16, 2016 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
30.A History of Palm, Part 1: Before the PalmPilot (lowendmac.com)
78 points by WoodenChair on Aug 17, 2016 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
31. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments

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