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1.OnHub (on.google.com)
984 points by ropiku on Aug 18, 2015 [ext] | 615 comments [ext]
2.Multiple Vulnerabilities in Pocket (gnu.gl)
533 points by ers35 on Aug 18, 2015 [ext] | 154 comments [ext]
3.We are barely halfway done (textfiles.com)
487 points by pmorici on Aug 18, 2015 [ext] | 74 comments [ext]
4. The Three Ingredients Behind Jitse Groen's Takeaway.com Conquest Of Europe (linkedin.com)
154 points by krz3514 374 days ago | hide | 13 comments
4.Decertifying the worst voting machine in the US (freedom-to-tinker.com)
296 points by germinalphrase on Aug 18, 2015 [ext] | 201 comments [ext]
5.How I came to find Linux (ianmurdock.com)
317 points by pythonist on Aug 18, 2015 [ext] | 115 comments [ext]
6.Show HN: Tonic – A data visualizing REPL for Node.js (tonicdev.com)
342 points by boucher on Aug 18, 2015 [ext] | 79 comments [ext]
7. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
7.FCC Fines Smart City $750K for Blocking Wi-Fi (fcc.gov)
345 points by pdabbadabba on Aug 18, 2015 [ext] | 180 comments [ext]
8.Call Me Maybe: Chronos (aphyr.com)
243 points by sbilstein on Aug 18, 2015 [ext] | 87 comments [ext]
9.Registered clinical trials make positive findings vanish (nature.com)
167 points by Alex3917 on Aug 18, 2015 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
10. Ten billion hours: the unglamorous giant AI is about to eat ()
71 points by fin781 263 days ago | hide | 11 comments
10.How to Get Tenure (might.net)
308 points by norswap on Aug 18, 2015 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
11.Introducing Elm to a JavaScript Web App (noredinktech.tumblr.com)
137 points by Keats on Aug 18, 2015 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
12.Working Toward Bret Victor's “Learnable Programming” (comealive.io)
206 points by Permit on Aug 18, 2015 [ext] | 80 comments [ext]
13. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 333 days ago | hide | 88 comments
13.OpenBSD on EdgeRouter Lite (tedunangst.com)
112 points by ingve on Aug 18, 2015 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
14.US Patent 9085897: Space elevator (uspto.gov)
111 points by andyjohnson0 on Aug 18, 2015 [ext] | 79 comments [ext]
15.RaspBSD – FreeBSD images for the Raspberry Pi (raspbsd.org)
126 points by fcambus on Aug 18, 2015 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
16. From Shortlist to Shipped: A Tournament Method for Picking Life's Work (guzey.com)
110 points by coz850 602 days ago | hide | 97 comments
16.Are “Better” Ideas More Likely to Succeed? An Analysis of Startup Evaluation [pdf] (hbs.edu)
81 points by jforman on Aug 17, 2015 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
17.Ngrok – Expose any local server behind a NAT or firewall to the Internet (ngrok.com)
180 points by mavidser on Aug 18, 2015 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
18.Mainframes connected to the Internet (mainframesproject.tumblr.com)
118 points by danners on Aug 18, 2015 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
19. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
19.CloudFlare starts discussion about LuaJIT project governance (freelists.org)
89 points by bratao on Aug 18, 2015 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
20.Atria: A toolkit for modern C++ development from Ableton (abletonag.github.io)
104 points by ingve on Aug 18, 2015 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
21.Gneiss – A spreadsheet programming tool (cmu.edu)
104 points by spion on Aug 18, 2015 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
22. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 210 days ago | hide | 32 comments
22.Cybiko (wikipedia.org)
122 points by bpierre on Aug 18, 2015 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
23.Solid Electrolyte Paves the Way for Batteries with Almost Indefinite Lifetimes (scitechdaily.com)
70 points by sprucely on Aug 18, 2015 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
24.Corn Wars (newrepublic.com)
96 points by GabrielF00 on Aug 18, 2015 [ext] | 128 comments [ext]
25. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
25.Assembly 2015 demo party results (assembly.org)
84 points by zaf on Aug 18, 2015 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
26.Show HN: Heman – Tiny C library for working with height maps (readthedocs.org)
46 points by prideout on Aug 18, 2015 [ext]
27.The Dataflow Model: Balancing Correctness, Latency, and Cost in Data Processing [pdf] (googleusercontent.com)
56 points by timclark on Aug 18, 2015 [ext] | 12 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.Show HN: Stackie – A tiny stack machine for texture generation (fingswotidun.com)
81 points by Lerc on Aug 18, 2015 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
29.Tentacles that think (economist.com)
69 points by tomaskazemekas on Aug 18, 2015 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
30.A successful strategy to get college students thinking critically (arstechnica.com)
74 points by shawndumas on Aug 18, 2015 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
31. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments

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