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1.AT&T Helped N.S.A. Spy on an Array of Internet Traffic (nytimes.com)
568 points by tchalla on Aug 15, 2015 [ext] | 117 comments [ext]
2.Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace (nytimes.com)
708 points by IBM on Aug 15, 2015 [ext] | 424 comments [ext]
3.We should host the Olympics in the same place every time (washingtonpost.com)
288 points by evanb on Aug 15, 2015 [ext] | 122 comments [ext]
4. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
4.Phaser – A fast, fun and free open source HTML5 game framework (phaser.io)
232 points by lobo_tuerto on Aug 15, 2015 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
5.“Big data” features coming in PostgreSQL 9.5 (lwn.net)
226 points by snaga on Aug 15, 2015 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
6.Oliver Sacks: Sabbath (nytimes.com)
197 points by samclemens on Aug 15, 2015 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
7. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 105 days ago | hide | 48 comments
7.Google’s S2, geometry on the sphere, cells and Hilbert curve (christianperone.com)
166 points by perone on Aug 15, 2015 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
8.Snake Oil Crypto Competition (cr.yp.to)
104 points by aburan28 on Aug 15, 2015 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
9.Saving 25,000 Manuals (textfiles.com)
314 points by Doubleguitars on Aug 15, 2015 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
10. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 1 day ago | hide | 47 comments
10.ACM Classic Computer Science Books Series (acm.org)
96 points by adamnemecek on Aug 15, 2015 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
11.The TTY demystified (2008) (linusakesson.net)
127 points by r4um on Aug 15, 2015 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
12.Reverse-engineered Linux driver for the Broadcom 1570 PCIe webcam (github.com/patjak)
73 points by ai_ja_nai on Aug 15, 2015 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
13. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 252 days ago | hide | 170 comments
13.Why NASA Switched from Unity to Blend4Web (gamedev.net)
150 points by felhr on Aug 15, 2015 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
14.Strongtalk: A high-speed Smalltalk with incremental, optional strong typing (strongtalk.org)
58 points by david-given on Aug 14, 2015 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
15.The Hexayurt Project: Free Hardware Housing for the World (hexayurt.com)
67 points by rbcoffee on Aug 15, 2015 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
16. Why you care for your dog better than yourself — and the fix (web.archive.org)
420 points by guz3550 602 days ago | hide | 25 comments
16.Documents confirm Apple is building self-driving car (theguardian.com)
112 points by r0h1n on Aug 14, 2015 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
17.Some Musings on Mathematics (solipsys.co.uk)
48 points by ColinWright on Aug 15, 2015 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
18.A simpler web architecture using React, Flux, CSP, and FRP concepts (codrspace.com)
95 points by juliangamble on Aug 15, 2015 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
19. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments
19.Cyanogen Platform SDK: The Proof Is in the Pudding (cyanogenmod.org)
42 points by _jomo on Aug 15, 2015 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
20.The Bugs We Have to Kill [pdf] (usenix.org)
47 points by vezzy-fnord on Aug 15, 2015 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
21.Memory Efficient Hard Real-Time Garbage Collection (2003) [pdf] (diva-portal.org)
55 points by MaysonL on Aug 15, 2015 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
22. Why Most Marketplace Network Effects Are Surprisingly Easy to Replicate ()
257 points by pen4647 497 days ago | hide | 50 comments
22.Marathon Editing Brings New Rigor to Wikipedia Physics (simonsfoundation.org)
49 points by JohnHammersley on Aug 15, 2015 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
23.I Will Kill You [video] (youtube.com)
159 points by nnd on Aug 14, 2015 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
24.Fzf-fs: file browser and navigator with fuzzy matching (github.com/d630)
36 points by ivank on Aug 15, 2015 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
25. How a PVC rig in a Dallas garage became a $500M chemicals company (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 600 days ago | hide | 170 comments
25.Bayesian Financial Models (toddmoses.com)
55 points by toddmoses on Aug 15, 2015 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
26.OpenBSD Foundation Announces New Silver Donor: Yandex (undeadly.org)
92 points by stargrave on Aug 15, 2015 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
27.Mass FTP Crawling (cedsys.nl)
53 points by _okx2 on Aug 15, 2015 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
28. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 91 days ago | hide | 148 comments
28.NSA announces plans for transitioning to quantum resistant algorithms (nsa.gov)
87 points by lisper on Aug 15, 2015 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
29.Easy parallel Python with concurrent.futures (gist.github.com)
50 points by edward on Aug 15, 2015 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
30.How new 'white space' rules could lead to an urban super-Wi-Fi (computerworld.com)
47 points by doener on Aug 15, 2015 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
31. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 120 days ago | hide | 105 comments

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