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1.Dear Google Mail Team (plus.google.com)
719 points by ingve on July 17, 2015 [ext] | 260 comments [ext]
2.How a car works (2012) (howacarworks.com)
508 points by gshrikant on July 17, 2015 [ext] | 117 comments [ext]
3.NASA’s New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto’s ‘Heart’ (nasa.gov)
246 points by Thorondor on July 17, 2015 [ext] | 116 comments [ext]
4. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
4.Artificial Killing Machine (hackaday.com)
191 points by wglb on July 17, 2015 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
5.Homejoy says goodbye (homejoy.com)
379 points by philip1209 on July 17, 2015 [ext] | 399 comments [ext]
6.Google Hires Tech Team from Homejoy, Readies Leap into Home Services (recode.net)
155 points by coloneltcb on July 17, 2015 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
7. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 104 days ago | hide | 48 comments
7.Tesla’s Model S Gets “Ludicrous” Mode, Will Do 0-60 in 2.8 Seconds (techcrunch.com)
266 points by arturogarrido on July 17, 2015 [ext] | 286 comments [ext]
8.New Electric Car Company Emerges: Faraday Future (motortrend.com)
88 points by allanberger on July 17, 2015 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
9.LAX becomes largest U.S. airport to allow Uber, Lyft pickups (latimes.com)
173 points by tchalla on July 16, 2015 [ext] | 122 comments [ext]
10. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 59 days ago | hide | 65 comments
10.Legends in D3 (susielu.com)
206 points by jsweojtj on July 17, 2015 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
11.Delays have hampered the ability of journalists to use FOIA as a tool (cjr.org)
95 points by aaronbrethorst on July 17, 2015 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
12.The Last Great Steam Car (2006) (damninteresting.com)
150 points by jmadsen on July 17, 2015 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
13. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 367 days ago | hide | 7 comments
13.Unsanctioned Web Tracking (w3.org)
86 points by cpeterso on July 17, 2015 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
14.Intro to RenderMan for Blender (pixar.com)
138 points by mariuz on July 17, 2015 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
15.High Availability for PostgreSQL, Batteries Not Included (compose.io)
132 points by rfks on July 17, 2015 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
16. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 489 days ago | hide | 26 comments
16.Designing a Programming Language (ducklang.org)
159 points by xigency on July 17, 2015 [ext] | 85 comments [ext]
17.Significant Flash exploit mitigations are live in v18.0.0.209 (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
90 points by scarybeast on July 16, 2015 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
18.Deep Intellect (orionmagazine.org)
90 points by sergeant3 on July 16, 2015 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
19. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 84 days ago | hide | 122 comments
19.Afrostream (YC S15) Is Netflix for African and African-American Movies (techcrunch.com)
92 points by panagios on July 17, 2015 [ext] | 128 comments [ext]
20.My Two Years as an Anthropologist on the Photoshop Team (medium.com/mediauras)
77 points by ingve on July 17, 2015 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
21.MPs win surveillance powers legal challenge (bbc.co.uk)
124 points by callum85 on July 17, 2015 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
22. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 262 days ago | hide | 183 comments
22.U.S. judge says Internet streaming service should be treated like cable (reuters.com)
88 points by Animats on July 17, 2015 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
23.Two Dots Too Many (2008) (upenn.edu)
86 points by vilhelm_s on July 17, 2015 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
24.Zynga Analytics at its Peak (amplitude.com)
93 points by doppp on July 17, 2015 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
25. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 262 days ago | hide | 11 comments
25.Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle (2006) (norvig.com)
80 points by srathi on July 17, 2015 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
26.The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving Car, Chapter 2 (medium.com/chris_urmson)
109 points by ivank on July 17, 2015 [ext] | 84 comments [ext]
27.The Square Kilometre Array: Radio silence for most powerful telescope in history (theguardian.com)
88 points by bart42_0 on July 17, 2015 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
28. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 84 days ago | hide | 14 comments
28.Feds bust through huge Tor-hidden child porn site using questionable malware (arstechnica.com)
96 points by r721 on July 17, 2015 [ext] | 136 comments [ext]
29.Error Handling in Nodejs (joyent.com)
86 points by jessaustin on July 17, 2015 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
30.'Massive leap' wins engineering award (bbc.co.uk)
70 points by hanoz on July 17, 2015 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
31. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 367 days ago | hide | 168 comments

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