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1.Seymour Papert has died (media.mit.edu)
820 points by j4mie on Aug 1, 2016 [ext] | 137 comments [ext]
2.Why we lost Uber as a user (postgresql.org)
1234 points by areski on Aug 1, 2016 [ext] | 285 comments [ext]
3.Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016) [ext]
534 points by whoishiring on Aug 1, 2016 [ext] | 941 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.Surprises of the Faraday Cage (siam.org)
388 points by leephillips on Aug 1, 2016 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
5.Germany offers up to €30k for 6 months of working on OSS (prototypefund.de)
512 points by haraball on Aug 1, 2016 [ext] | 150 comments [ext]
6.YouTube's road to HTTPS (youtube-eng.blogspot.com)
282 points by seanwatson on Aug 1, 2016 [ext] | 93 comments [ext]
7. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 115 days ago | hide | 193 comments
7.Salesforce buys word processing app Quip for $750M (techcrunch.com)
272 points by rhc2104 on Aug 1, 2016 [ext] | 175 comments [ext]
8.Uber to Sell China Business to Rival Didi After Losing Billions (bloomberg.com)
396 points by igonvalue on Aug 1, 2016 [ext] | 186 comments [ext]
9.Why I stopped hacking the Amazon Dash button and learned to solder (medium.com/ecaron)
253 points by ecaron on July 31, 2016 [ext] | 124 comments [ext]
10. Blind Spots in the West: Why Every Chinese VC Studies Our Podcasts (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 219 days ago | hide | 175 comments
10.Millennium Tower is tilting, sinking (curbed.com)
268 points by lelf on Aug 1, 2016 [ext] | 180 comments [ext]
11.Gh-ost: GitHub's online schema migration tool for MySQL (githubengineering.com)
226 points by samlambert on Aug 1, 2016 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
12.The vanishing civility: The game of jerks, bozos and assholes (stactivist.com)
173 points by azuajef on Aug 1, 2016 [ext] | 194 comments [ext]
13. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
13.FCC Reaches Settlement with TP-Link in Wi-Fi Router Investigation (fcc.gov)
134 points by pentago on Aug 1, 2016 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
14.Django 1.10 released (djangoproject.com)
227 points by hrayr on Aug 1, 2016 [ext] | 119 comments [ext]
15.Is Earthly life premature from a cosmic perspective? (phys.org)
111 points by dnetesn on Aug 1, 2016 [ext] | 171 comments [ext]
16. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 60 days ago | hide | 65 comments
16.Enhancing Download Protection in Firefox (blog.mozilla.org)
91 points by ehPReth on Aug 1, 2016 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
17.Reverse engineering and removing Pokémon GO’s certificate pinning (eaton-works.com)
145 points by mkane848 on Aug 1, 2016 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
18.The hidden base that could have ended the world (bbc.com)
197 points by yitchelle on Aug 1, 2016 [ext] | 94 comments [ext]
19. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 490 days ago | hide | 26 comments
19.Raw footage of the Japanese games industry (gamasutra.com)
238 points by Mauricio_ on Aug 1, 2016 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
20.Harnessing the Immune System to Fight Cancer (nytimes.com)
171 points by e15ctr0n on July 31, 2016 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
21.Tips from the Pragmatic Programmer (2000) (pragprog.com)
165 points by gasull on Aug 1, 2016 [ext] | 72 comments [ext]
22. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 105 days ago | hide | 48 comments
22.Netflix Billing Migration to AWS – Part III (netflix.com)
124 points by samber on Aug 1, 2016 [ext] | 69 comments [ext]
23.A Regular Expression Matcher (2007) (princeton.edu)
132 points by _acme on Aug 1, 2016 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
24.List of IPython Notebooks by Peter Norvig (norvig.com)
234 points by tu7001 on July 31, 2016 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
25. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
25.Late Bronze Age Shipwreck Excavation (nauticalarch.org)
53 points by onderkalaci on Aug 1, 2016 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
26.Closed city (wikipedia.org)
84 points by lelf on Aug 1, 2016 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
27.‘Bitcoin Browser’ Brave Raises $4.5M, Readies for 1.0 Launch (bitcoin.com)
158 points by 3eto on Aug 1, 2016 [ext] | 123 comments [ext]
28. Structure Over Style: How Knowledge and Practice Beat Natural Speaking Talent (m.youtube.com)
81 points by pom4591 230 days ago | hide | 180 comments
28.How to use your full brain when writing code (chrismm.com)
218 points by innerspirit on Aug 1, 2016 [ext] | 72 comments [ext]
29.Olympic executives cash in on a ‘Movement’ that keeps athletes poor (washingtonpost.com)
247 points by vmateixeira on Aug 1, 2016 [ext] | 213 comments [ext]
30.Franz Liszt: Musician, Celebrity, Superstar (theguardian.com)
72 points by tintinnabula on Aug 1, 2016 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
31. The Dota result Altman calls closest to real-world decision making (blog.samaltman.com)
487 points by htx5127 609 days ago | hide | 15 comments

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