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1.		Edward Snowden at IETF 93 (gist.github.com)
		442 points by grey-area on Aug 14, 2015 \| 139 comments
2.		Rust in 2016 (rust-lang.org)
		371 points by aturon on Aug 14, 2015 \| 149 comments
3.		Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep (2013) (npr.org)
		445 points by Practicality on Aug 14, 2015 \| 184 comments
4.		OpenBSD removes support for non-UTF8 locales (marc.info)
		236 points by ingve on Aug 14, 2015 \| 180 comments
5.		Apes may be closer to speaking than many scientists think (wisc.edu)
		196 points by adamnemecek on Aug 14, 2015 \| 103 comments
6.		The US digital service (samaltman.com)
		326 points by S4M on Aug 14, 2015 \| 292 comments
7.		VW Has Spent Two Years Trying to Hide a Big Security Flaw (bloomberg.com)
		309 points by Sami_Lehtinen on Aug 14, 2015 \| 221 comments
8.		Blinking Commits (annharter.com)
		340 points by gurraman on Aug 14, 2015 \| 97 comments
9.		DEFCON 23 Badge Challenge (potatohatsecurity.tumblr.com)
		271 points by zioto on Aug 14, 2015 \| 44 comments
10.		How California Is Winning the Drought (nytimes.com)
		148 points by kevin on Aug 14, 2015 \| 191 comments
11.		Stop Looking for a Cofounder (dontscale.com)
		280 points by adrianmsmith on Aug 14, 2015 \| 152 comments
12.		Show HN: Algebra.js – Build, display, and solve algebraic equations (algebra.js.org)
		132 points by nicolewhite on Aug 14, 2015 \| 30 comments
13.		GSMem: Data Exfiltration from Air-Gapped Computers Over GSM Frequencies [pdf] (usenix.org)
		110 points by tptacek on Aug 14, 2015 \| 46 comments
14.		Runit – a Unix init scheme with service supervision (smarden.org)
		110 points by jsingleton on Aug 14, 2015 \| 65 comments
15.		A Simple Fix for Drunken Driving: Modest, Immediate Penalties (wsj.com)
		229 points by nradov on Aug 14, 2015 \| 249 comments
16.		Modified yeast produce opiates from sugar (sciencemag.org)
		102 points by runesoerensen on Aug 14, 2015 \| 47 comments
17.		CS224d: Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing (stanford.edu)
		192 points by andreaespinosa on Aug 14, 2015 \| 30 comments
18.		FreeBSD 10.2 (freebsd.org)
		192 points by forkandwait on Aug 13, 2015 \| 50 comments
19.		Show HN: Guess which government programs work (80000hours.org)
		184 points by robertwiblin on Aug 13, 2015 \| 53 comments
20.		Oxford University Machine Learning Course (ox.ac.uk)
		185 points by jcr on Aug 14, 2015 \| 18 comments
21.		Octopart (YC W07) is Joining Altium (octopart.com)
		95 points by ahhrrr on Aug 13, 2015 \| 29 comments
22.		Beginner's Guide to Blockchain Technology (blockstrap.com)
		185 points by bytebot on Aug 14, 2015 \| 25 comments
23.		Go 1.6 GC improvements (docs.google.com)
		115 points by artursapek on Aug 13, 2015 \| 30 comments
24.		Markhor (YC S15) Takes the Middleman Out of Designer Shoemaking (techcrunch.com)
		79 points by katm on Aug 14, 2015 \| 40 comments
25.		The Desk of Haruki Murakami (harukimurakami.com)
		138 points by samclemens on Aug 14, 2015 \| 72 comments
26.		Russian antivirus firm faked malware to harm rivals, say ex-employees (reuters.com)
		194 points by uptown on Aug 14, 2015 \| 98 comments
27.		First Time User Experiences (firsttimeux.tumblr.com)
		116 points by josuegio on Aug 14, 2015 \| 12 comments
28.		Building CircleCI's Front End with Om [video] (youtube.com)
		64 points by sgrove on Aug 14, 2015 \| 2 comments
29.		How RED Cameras Changed the Game (nyfa.edu)
		91 points by fezz on Aug 14, 2015 \| 63 comments
30.		Show HN: Myra – AI based personal assistant you can text (getmyra.co)
		137 points by viksit on Aug 14, 2015 \| 88 comments
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