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1.Some news from LWN (lwn.net)
424 points by gghh on Aug 4, 2016 [ext] | 145 comments [ext]
2.What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone (medium.com/joonaski)
625 points by walterbell on Aug 3, 2016 [ext] | 212 comments [ext]
3.News Feed FYI: Further Reducing Clickbait in Feed (fb.com)
286 points by frostmatthew on Aug 4, 2016 [ext] | 155 comments [ext]
4. Why Hitchhiking Taught Kevin Kelly a Theory of Grace (kk.org)
312 points by oan7422 99 days ago | hide | 83 comments
4.How to listen when you disagree (urbanconfessional.org)
483 points by taheris on Aug 4, 2016 [ext] | 180 comments [ext]
5.Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby (codeship.com)
544 points by yranadive on Aug 4, 2016 [ext] | 429 comments [ext]
6.Forget Comcast. Here’s a DIY Approach to Internet Access (backchannel.com)
241 points by nreece on Aug 4, 2016 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
7. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 592 days ago | hide | 193 comments
7.Interactive Dynamic Video (interactivedynamicvideo.com)
386 points by ne0phyte on Aug 4, 2016 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
8. [dupe] U.S. Team Wins First Place at International Math Olympiad (nytimes.com)
320 points by vinchuco on Aug 4, 2016 [ext] | 223 comments [ext]
9.Show HN: 1M rows/s from Postgres to Python (magic.io)
296 points by 1st1 on Aug 4, 2016 [ext] | 89 comments [ext]
10. How Google’s new ‘TurboQuant’ AI might end the current RAM price hike crisis (tech.sportskeeda.com)
312 points by gul702 10 hours ago | hide | 19 comments
10.Ask HN: How do I write a resume after five years of a startup? [ext]
245 points by boxcardavin on Aug 3, 2016 [ext] | 127 comments [ext]
11.SteamVR Tracking (steamgames.com)
202 points by Impossible on Aug 4, 2016 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
12.Things I Won’t Work With: Peroxide Peroxides (2014) (blogs.sciencemag.org)
215 points by rishabhd on Aug 4, 2016 [ext] | 102 comments [ext]
13. Discord's Real Lesson: The Meta-Layer Enterprise Slack Can't Build (kwokchain.com)
448 points by aok168 431 days ago | hide | 83 comments
13.Visual Studio Code 1.4 (visualstudio.com)
285 points by joseraul on Aug 4, 2016 [ext] | 152 comments [ext]
14.Remove PG_ZERO and zeroidle (page-zeroing) entirely (dragonflybsd.org)
142 points by protomyth on Aug 4, 2016 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
15.FastText – Library for fast text representation and classification (github.com/facebookresearch)
220 points by Dawny33 on Aug 4, 2016 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
16. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 104 days ago | hide | 48 comments
16.Humpback whales around the globe are mysteriously rescuing animals from orcas (mnn.com)
278 points by nreece on Aug 4, 2016 [ext] | 129 comments [ext]
17.The first version of Voxel Quest (with source) has been released (voxelquest.com)
310 points by edroche on Aug 3, 2016 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
18.The Human Cost of Tech Debt (daedtech.com)
234 points by BerislavLopac on Aug 3, 2016 [ext] | 94 comments [ext]
19. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
19.“Turkey coup plotters' use of 'amateur' app helped unveil their network” (theguardian.com)
141 points by scandox on Aug 3, 2016 [ext] | 134 comments [ext]
20.Show HN: Chessboardify – Make the grid a chessboard (chessboardifygame.xyz)
95 points by mapehe on Aug 4, 2016 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
21.The super-recognisers of Scotland Yard (newstatesman.com)
98 points by pepys on Aug 4, 2016 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
22. The Three Ingredients Behind Jitse Groen's Takeaway.com Conquest Of Europe (linkedin.com)
154 points by krz3514 373 days ago | hide | 13 comments
22.Royal palace discovered in area believed to be birthplace of King Arthur (telegraph.co.uk)
105 points by curtis on Aug 4, 2016 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
23.Comcast wants to sell your Web history to advertisers (washingtonpost.com)
187 points by walterbell on Aug 3, 2016 [ext] | 157 comments [ext]
24.Playing for Data: Ground Truth from Computer Games (tu-darmstadt.de)
40 points by L_ on Aug 4, 2016 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
25. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 114 days ago | hide | 193 comments
25.The Internet of Onions (lwn.net)
100 points by azdle on Aug 4, 2016 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
26.Show HN: Use Windows 10 Apps APIs Directly from Node.js and Electron (github.com/nodert)
113 points by nadavbar on Aug 4, 2016 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
27.Why swearing is good for you (qz.com)
118 points by lxm on Aug 4, 2016 [ext] | 94 comments [ext]
28. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
28.The beauty of bitwise AND (medium.com/biffures)
161 points by coinomega on Aug 4, 2016 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
29.Emulator Latency (byuu.org)
114 points by panic on Aug 4, 2016 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
30.Running a D game in the browser (alaiwan.org)
74 points by Halienja on Aug 4, 2016 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
31. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 210 days ago | hide | 32 comments

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