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1.
“Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this” (github.com/shadowsocks)
1543 points by realfuncode on Aug 22, 2015 | 525 comments
2.
On being the maintainer and sole developer of SPITBOL (2012) (daveshields.me)
334 points by Zuider on Aug 22, 2015 | 95 comments
3.
Startup Metrics (a16z.com)
252 points by webmasterraj on Aug 22, 2015 | 48 comments
4.
Feynman's Public Lectures on Quantum Electrodynamics (vega.org.uk)
108 points by evanb on Aug 22, 2015 | 20 comments
5.
IBM System/360 Model 67 (wikipedia.org)
73 points by luu on Aug 21, 2015 | 36 comments
6.
Matlab’s internal memory representation (2012) (undocumentedmatlab.com)
72 points by PascLeRasc on Aug 21, 2015 | 9 comments
7.
It Is Done (textfiles.com)
329 points by kryptiskt on Aug 21, 2015 | 38 comments
8.
How to Fold a Julia Fractal (acko.net)
171 points by rosstex on Aug 22, 2015 | 29 comments
9.
Exploring the Hacker Tools of Mr. Robot (hackertarget.com)
234 points by thewanderer1999 on Aug 22, 2015 | 85 comments
10.
Lisp for the Web, Part III (vitovan.com)
105 points by VitoVan on Aug 22, 2015 | 61 comments
11.
DRAKON – An algorithmic visual programming language (wikipedia.org)
86 points by state on Aug 21, 2015 | 48 comments
12.
SQLite timeline items related to "json" (sqlite.org)
100 points by _pgmf on Aug 22, 2015 | 22 comments
13.
Modafinil for cognitive neuroenhancement: a systematic review (europeanneuropsychopharmacology.com)
135 points by molecule on Aug 22, 2015 | 76 comments
14.
DCFL – A parallelized constraint solving library for Haskell (poincare.github.io)
47 points by dhaivatpandya on Aug 22, 2015 | 9 comments
15.
Hints on Programming Language Design (1973) [pdf] (stanford.edu)
59 points by ingve on Aug 22, 2015 | 25 comments
16.
Maze Algorithms (1997) (astrolog.org)
64 points by lobo_tuerto on Aug 22, 2015 | 10 comments
17.
China loves the lingo of games (boingboing.net)
64 points by _delirium on Aug 22, 2015 | 3 comments
18.
Jim Tcl – A Tcl Interpreter (tcl.tk)
55 points by giancarlostoro on Aug 22, 2015 | 7 comments
19.
Another toll of the drought: Land is sinking in San Joaquin Valley (latimes.com)
50 points by 11thEarlOfMar on Aug 22, 2015 | 31 comments
20.
Trucks Are Killing Us (nytimes.com)
213 points by nkzednan on Aug 22, 2015 | 240 comments
21.
Programming the Quantum Future (acm.org)
42 points by MichaelAO on Aug 22, 2015 | 2 comments
22.
How Coursera Cracked the Chinese Market (techcrunch.com)
55 points by dhawalhs on Aug 22, 2015 | 4 comments
23.
What Can AI Get from Neuroscience? (2007) [pdf] (gatech.edu)
45 points by koopuluri on Aug 22, 2015 | 30 comments
24.
Got Papers? Preserving the Demoscene's Material Heritage (untergrund.net)
52 points by bane on Aug 22, 2015 | 1 comment
25.
Russian parliament asks to prohibit Windows 10 use in state organizations (translate.google.com)
91 points by ommunist on Aug 22, 2015 | 46 comments
26.
Making maps with noise functions (redblobgames.com)
28 points by carapace on Aug 21, 2015 | 5 comments
27.
Super: Solving an example problem by the Myosotis method (leancrew.com)
15 points by jessaustin on Aug 21, 2015
28.
How “The End of the Tour” Nails an Entire Profession (newyorker.com)
31 points by fezz on Aug 22, 2015 | 2 comments
29.
Rethinking temperature, sensors, and Raspberry Pi (rethinkdb.com)
39 points by mglukhovsky on Aug 22, 2015 | 12 comments
30.
Reid Hoffman and Peter Thiel in China [video] (youtube.com)
38 points by fitzwatermellow on Aug 22, 2015 | 27 comments

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