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1.Show HN: Hacker News Simulator (ycombniator.com)
572 points by orf on Sept 20, 2015 [ext] | 163 comments [ext]
2.Show HN: %%30%30: A Game (github.com/szhu)
608 points by szhu on Sept 20, 2015 [ext] | 89 comments [ext]
3.PaperBack – How to store data on a single A4/Letter sheet (ollydbg.de)
255 points by jguegant on Sept 19, 2015 [ext] | 114 comments [ext]
4. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 170 days ago | hide | 48 comments
4.$1 Unistroke Recognizer (washington.edu)
138 points by tambourine_man on Sept 19, 2015 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
5.AVG can sell your browsing and search history to advertisers (wired.co.uk)
260 points by SimplyUseless on Sept 20, 2015 [ext] | 132 comments [ext]
6.Improved Digital Certificate Security (googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)
141 points by mikecarlton on Sept 20, 2015 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
7. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
7.Drones are taking off in the oil industry, especially in dangerous offshore work (bloomberg.com)
88 points by grej on Sept 20, 2015 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
8.Shock in the Shower (1997) (esdjournal.com)
92 points by jms on Sept 19, 2015 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
9.Tower purifies a million cubic feet of air per hour (wired.com)
87 points by anigbrowl on Sept 19, 2015 [ext] | 44 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.Who killed Ashraf Marwan, described as the 20th century’s greatest spy? (theguardian.com)
92 points by Thevet on Sept 19, 2015 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
11.The Night They Drove the Price of Electricity Down (slate.com)
101 points by luu on Sept 19, 2015 [ext] | 81 comments [ext]
12.Syncer: fast stateful file/disk data syncer written on Go (github.com/stargrave)
56 points by stargrave on Sept 19, 2015 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
13. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 60 days ago | hide | 65 comments
13.The Hottest Restaurant of 2081 (eater.com)
56 points by benbreen on Sept 20, 2015 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
14.Beyond the $1K Genome: DNA ‘Writing’ Comes Next (techcrunch.com)
33 points by jonbaer on Sept 20, 2015 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
15.Cruise Raises $12.5M for Self-Driving Cars, Poaches Tesla’s Lead on Autopilot (techcrunch.com)
80 points by replicatorblog on Sept 20, 2015 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
16. Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 432 days ago | hide | 93 comments
16.MLDB – Machine Learning Database (mldb.ai)
103 points by JPKab on Sept 20, 2015 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
17.Implementing Levenshtein Automata (fulmicoton.com)
100 points by fulmicoton on Sept 20, 2015 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
18.Elephants Shot with Poison Arrows Travel to Humans for Help (thedodo.com)
221 points by ghosh on Sept 20, 2015 [ext] | 72 comments [ext]
19. Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
292 points by ksk4362 203 days ago | hide | 110 comments
19.Travels From The Monk That Lives in My Phone (boboandchichi.com)
83 points by brudgers on Sept 20, 2015 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
20.Bantu expansion shows that habitat alters the route and pace of human dispersals (phys.org)
80 points by curtis on Sept 20, 2015 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
21.Rust bare metal on ARM microcontroller (antoinealb.net)
80 points by AndrewDucker on Sept 19, 2015 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
22. Borrowed Conviction, King-Making, And The Fragility Of Engineered Winners ()
44 points by gtl4094 91 days ago | hide | 70 comments
22.ARM immediate value encoding (mcdiarmid.org)
83 points by JoshTriplett on Sept 20, 2015 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
23.Loading an x64 register, how hard could it be? (c9x.me)
51 points by mpu on Sept 19, 2015 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
24.Aerial Construction – Building structures with flying machines (ethz.ch)
64 points by voska on Sept 20, 2015 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
25. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
25.Parallel Java 2 Library (rit.edu)
30 points by zatkin on Sept 20, 2015 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
26.Prison vs. Harvard in an unlikely debate (wsj.com)
56 points by rohunati on Sept 19, 2015 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
27.Life in Walter Segal's self-build 'anarchist' estate (theguardian.com)
43 points by markvdb on Sept 20, 2015 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
28. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
28.Right Approach to Minimal Boot Times (2010) [pdf] (elinux.org)
41 points by vezzy-fnord on Sept 20, 2015 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
29.The Death of the Party (nytimes.com)
112 points by mojuba on Sept 20, 2015 [ext] | 110 comments [ext]
30.Gary Becker's biggest mistake (marginalrevolution.com)
64 points by smollett on Sept 20, 2015 [ext] | 13 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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