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Show HN: Generating fantasy maps – an interactive exploration (mewo2.com)
1004 points by mewo2 on Aug 10, 2016 | 64 comments
2.
This JPEG is also a webpage (coredump.cx)
833 points by cocoflunchy on Aug 10, 2016 | 226 comments
3.
Show HN: Give 7B people an instant physical address (github.com/roberdam)
415 points by roberdam on Aug 10, 2016 | 199 comments
4.
Shape of errors to come (rust-lang.org)
425 points by runesoerensen on Aug 10, 2016 | 161 comments
5.
“CPUs are optimized for video games” (moderncrypto.org)
434 points by zx2c4 on Aug 10, 2016 | 336 comments
6.
Microsoft proves backdoor keys are a bad idea (theregister.co.uk)
299 points by ChuckMcM on Aug 10, 2016 | 100 comments
7.
How does gdb work? (jvns.ca)
320 points by deafcalculus on Aug 10, 2016 | 56 comments
8.
The OpenSSD Project (2011) (openssd-project.org)
105 points by ashitlerferad on Aug 10, 2016 | 15 comments
9.
Flash and Chrome (googleblog.com)
284 points by rayshan on Aug 10, 2016 | 174 comments
10.
90-year-old Cryptanalytic Efforts Must Stay Secret, says NSA (nsarchive.wordpress.com)
198 points by wolframio on Aug 9, 2016 | 82 comments
11.
The Million-Key Question: Investigating the Origins of RSA Public Keys (usenix.org)
106 points by dc352 on Aug 10, 2016 | 33 comments
12.
Image Completion with Deep Learning in TensorFlow (bamos.github.io)
229 points by semanser on Aug 10, 2016 | 10 comments
13.
On Cybersecurity and Being Targeted (kennethreitz.org)
281 points by kenneth_reitz on Aug 10, 2016 | 117 comments
14.
Type Punning Functions in C (evanmiller.org)
164 points by heliostatic on Aug 10, 2016 | 94 comments
15.
Study found bronze medal-winners tended to be happier than silver medalists (npr.org)
106 points by AWildDHHAppears on Aug 10, 2016 | 42 comments
16.
Citizen scientist hunts for kissing bugs (statnews.com)
70 points by aabaker99 on Aug 10, 2016 | 24 comments
17.
Interactive Sudoku Zero-Knowledge Proof (manishearth.github.io)
68 points by Manishearth on Aug 10, 2016 | 17 comments
18.
Algorithms that select which algorithm should play which game (togelius.blogspot.com)
63 points by togelius on Aug 10, 2016 | 22 comments
19.
Data Analysis and Visualization Using R (2014) (varianceexplained.org)
95 points by michaelsbradley on Aug 10, 2016 | 24 comments
20.
Secure Golden Key Boot (rol.im)
244 points by dmitrygr on Aug 10, 2016 | 51 comments
21.
FreeBSD Core statement on recent freebsd-update and related vulnerabilities (freebsd.org)
128 points by werid on Aug 10, 2016 | 35 comments
22.
Recreating the Doctor Who Time Tunnel in GLSL (roy.red)
119 points by roywiggins on Aug 9, 2016 | 17 comments
23.
The Great Productivity Puzzle (newyorker.com)
114 points by jseliger on Aug 10, 2016 | 115 comments
24.
Why scaling and parallelism remain hard even with new tools and languages (erlang-solutions.com)
141 points by andradinu on Aug 10, 2016 | 55 comments
25.
Implementing a basic x86 page frame allocator in C (anastas.io)
65 points by adamnemecek on Aug 9, 2016 | 3 comments
26.
De La Soul’s Legacy Is Trapped in Digital Limbo (nytimes.com)
128 points by _9MOTHER9HORSE on Aug 9, 2016 | 36 comments
27.
Don Bateman’s terrain mapping device (bloomberg.com)
92 points by forrest_t on Aug 10, 2016 | 27 comments
28.
Everyone is quitting (sites.google.com)
599 points by po1nter on Aug 10, 2016 | 327 comments
29.
Google employees have enjoyed revolving door during Obama administration (watchdog.org)
241 points by Jerry2 on Aug 10, 2016 | 100 comments
30.
A Prayer for Archimedes (2007) (sciencenews.org)
87 points by signa11 on Aug 10, 2016 | 33 comments

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