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1.
The Internet of Way Too Many Things (nytimes.com)
393 points by lxm on Sept 7, 2015 | 257 comments
2.
The Pixel Factory (acko.net)
739 points by bpierre on Sept 7, 2015 | 47 comments
3.
Better and worse ways to spot a liar (bbc.com)
256 points by williamhpark on Sept 7, 2015 | 139 comments
4.
Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces (wisc.edu)
334 points by acdanger on Sept 7, 2015 | 35 comments
5.
Show HN: HTML5 version of StarCraft (github.com/gloomyson)
320 points by gloomyson on Sept 7, 2015 | 96 comments
6.
Dear Dad, Send Money – Letters from Students in the Middle Ages (medievalists.net)
148 points by diodorus on Sept 7, 2015 | 43 comments
7.
Notation as a Tool of Thought (1980) (jsoftware.com)
124 points by vonnik on Sept 7, 2015 | 17 comments
8.
Walking Every Street in San Francisco (sfwalkingman.com)
157 points by wormold on Sept 7, 2015 | 59 comments
9.
Bypassing the Linux kernel for high-performance packet filtering (cloudflare.com)
179 points by jgrahamc on Sept 7, 2015 | 90 comments
10.
Poison-Injecting Robot Submarine Kills Sea Stars to Save Coral Reefs (ieee.org)
84 points by ivank on Sept 7, 2015 | 46 comments
11.
Proposal for a Go Interpreter (docs.google.com)
114 points by mhfs on Sept 7, 2015 | 47 comments
12.
Sshmuxd: SSH proxy to replace jump hosts (github.com/joushou)
108 points by Spiritus on Sept 7, 2015 | 62 comments
13.
Slipping Away: Jo Aubin Has Alzheimer's. He's 38 (macleans.ca)
177 points by benbreen on Sept 6, 2015 | 50 comments
14.
Fixing Twitter (dcurt.is)
308 points by rkudeshi on Sept 7, 2015 | 133 comments
15.
The Founder of Firefox Wrote His Own Screenplay for HBO’s Silicon Valley (techcrunch.com)
223 points by bobajeff on Sept 7, 2015 | 50 comments
16.
Programming with distributed functional futures (hw.ac.uk)
60 points by zeckalpha on Sept 7, 2015 | 6 comments
17.
The 21-year-old building India's largest hotel network (bbc.co.uk)
142 points by retube on Sept 7, 2015 | 41 comments
18.
Writing an Operating System with Modula-3 (1995) [pdf] (ucsd.edu)
52 points by vezzy-fnord on Sept 7, 2015 | 6 comments
19.
Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (1978) [pdf] (stanford.edu)
91 points by beefman on Sept 7, 2015 | 57 comments
20.
Diagnosing Memory “Leaks” in Python (chase-seibert.github.io)
73 points by todd8 on Sept 7, 2015 | 30 comments
21.
Ancestry.com can use your DNA to target ads (freedom-to-tinker.com)
67 points by randomwalker on Sept 7, 2015 | 40 comments
22.
How to multiply polynomials in Θ(n log n) time (agarri.ga)
80 points by rray on Sept 7, 2015 | 25 comments
23.
The Myth of Quality Time (nytimes.com)
160 points by kareemm on Sept 7, 2015 | 24 comments
24.
Why Some Security Experts Use Mutt (vice.com)
158 points by secfirstmd on Sept 7, 2015 | 157 comments
25.
MIT 6.001 Spellbook (1992) (hacks.mit.edu)
73 points by jstoja on Sept 6, 2015 | 2 comments
26.
The Hardest Places in the World to Visit (theatlantic.com)
121 points by antigizmo on Sept 6, 2015 | 73 comments
27.
All Websites Look the Same (novolume.co.uk)
171 points by brownie on Sept 7, 2015 | 99 comments
28.
The Nitty Gritty of In-Memory Computing (theplatform.net)
48 points by nkurz on Sept 7, 2015 | 1 comment
29.
Software: Immaculate, fetid and grimy (dtrace.org)
81 points by WestCoastJustin on Sept 7, 2015 | 5 comments
30.
CAP Twelve Years Later: How the “Rules” Have Changed (2012) (infoq.com)
57 points by gabbo on Sept 7, 2015 | 4 comments

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