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1.Browsing your website does not mean I want your spam (medium.com/art-marketing)
615 points by davezatch on Aug 22, 2016 [ext] | 240 comments [ext]
2.Fighting Cancer (hintjens.com)
497 points by egorst on Aug 22, 2016 [ext] | 148 comments [ext]
3.Almost 80% of Private Day Traders Lose Money (curiousgnu.com)
402 points by kabouseng on Aug 22, 2016 [ext] | 268 comments [ext]
4. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 90 days ago | hide | 148 comments
4.A year of Rust and DNS (bluejekyll.github.io)
369 points by bluejekyll on Aug 21, 2016 [ext] | 102 comments [ext]
5.Computers do better than pathologists in predicting lung cancer type, severity (stanford.edu)
204 points by rch on Aug 22, 2016 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
6.Everything I Am Afraid Might Happen If I Ask New Acquaintances to Get Coffee (newyorker.com)
379 points by misnamed on Aug 22, 2016 [ext] | 228 comments [ext]
7. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 252 days ago | hide | 170 comments
7.Google Intrusion Detection Problems (fredtrotter.com)
374 points by K0nserv on Aug 22, 2016 [ext] | 136 comments [ext]
8.The Internet of Poorly Working Things (mondaynote.com)
321 points by kawera on Aug 22, 2016 [ext] | 306 comments [ext]
9.How to be mediocre and be happy with yourself (bbc.co.uk)
356 points by sjcsjc on Aug 22, 2016 [ext] | 213 comments [ext]
10. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 60 days ago | hide | 65 comments
10.RNNs in TensorFlow: Practical Guide and Undocumented Features (wildml.com)
178 points by tim_sw on Aug 22, 2016 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
11.Taking the final wrapper off of Android 7.0 Nougat (android-developers.blogspot.com)
290 points by raptaml on Aug 22, 2016 [ext] | 243 comments [ext]
12.The Ethernet PAUSE frame (jeffq.com)
266 points by quandry on Aug 22, 2016 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
13. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
13.Amateur Radio Sleuthing Pins Down Source of Strange RF Interference (arrl.org)
196 points by xoa on Aug 22, 2016 [ext] | 88 comments [ext]
14.Evidence points to another leaker at the NSA (reuters.com)
378 points by mudil on Aug 22, 2016 [ext] | 229 comments [ext]
15.Make Dope Beats with ReactJS (formidable.com)
216 points by thekenwheeler on Aug 22, 2016 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
16. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 333 days ago | hide | 88 comments
16.Major Mobile US Networks Pass 50% IPv6 Threshold for IPv6-Enabled Hosts (worldipv6launch.org)
122 points by okket on Aug 22, 2016 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
17.The Elegance of Deflate (codersnotes.com)
251 points by ingve on Aug 22, 2016 [ext] | 82 comments [ext]
18.Penny Auctions (curiousgnu.com)
339 points by tonteldoos on Aug 22, 2016 [ext] | 159 comments [ext]
19. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 211 days ago | hide | 32 comments
19.In Paris, Plans for a Seine Reinvention (2015) (citylab.com)
111 points by rch on Aug 22, 2016 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
20.Open MCT – Open-Source Mission Control Software (nasa.github.io)
170 points by taylorbuley on Aug 22, 2016 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
21.A Soccer Con Man Who Couldn't Play the Game (atlasobscura.com)
183 points by dluan on Aug 22, 2016 [ext] | 106 comments [ext]
22. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 263 days ago | hide | 11 comments
22.Unreal: The Backstory (facebook.com)
125 points by bane on Aug 21, 2016 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
23.Higher-kinded types: the difference between giving up and moving forward (typelevel.org)
139 points by dmit on Aug 22, 2016 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
24.Sponge creates steam using ambient sunlight (news.mit.edu)
69 points by jimsojim on Aug 22, 2016 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
25. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 368 days ago | hide | 7 comments
25.Building a Modern Computer from First Principles (nand2tetris.org)
171 points by josh-wrale on Aug 22, 2016 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
26.A huge crack is spreading across one of Antarctica’s biggest ice shelves (thestar.com)
211 points by BudVVeezer on Aug 22, 2016 [ext] | 104 comments [ext]
27.NSA's Puzzle Periodical (nsa.gov)
135 points by edgartaor on Aug 22, 2016 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
28. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 170 days ago | hide | 48 comments
28.Loneliness Is a Warning Sign to Be Social (nautil.us)
225 points by dnetesn on Aug 22, 2016 [ext] | 114 comments [ext]
29.Registered Replication Report – Facial Feedback Hypothesis [pdf] (psychologicalscience.org)
124 points by Jerry2 on Aug 21, 2016 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
30.Reflections on NixOS (zenhack.net)
164 points by ikhthiandor on Aug 22, 2016 [ext] | 99 comments [ext]
31. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 200 days ago | hide | 18 comments

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