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1.		Hack: A typeface designed for source code (sourcefoundry.org)
		521 points by erickhill on Aug 29, 2015 \| 243 comments
2.		Windows Certificate Manager does not display the complete trust list (hexatomium.github.io)
		390 points by svenfaw on Aug 29, 2015 \| 100 comments
3.		Linear Algebra: What matrices are (nolaymanleftbehind.wordpress.com)
		262 points by lormayna on Aug 29, 2015 \| 83 comments
4.		FCC considering a proposal to lock down devices with a “modular wireless radio” (libreplanet.org)
		211 points by thejosh on Aug 29, 2015 \| 133 comments
5.		The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com)
		130 points by shadowfiend on Aug 29, 2015 \| 23 comments
6.		Why telephone keypads are arranged the way they are (datagenetics.com)
		104 points by squeakynick on Aug 29, 2015 \| 46 comments
7.		Android-x86 Project – Run Android on Your PC (android-x86.org)
		140 points by cblte on Aug 29, 2015 \| 45 comments
8.		First South Americans Were Australian Aborigines (1999) (bbc.co.uk)
		59 points by ptio on Aug 29, 2015 \| 22 comments
9.		Glitter – Dead-simple boilerplate for OpenGL (github.com/polytonic)
		68 points by Polytonic on Aug 29, 2015 \| 16 comments
10.		NASA starts year-long isolation to prepare astronauts for Mars (bbc.com)
		98 points by anigbrowl on Aug 29, 2015 \| 15 comments
11.		Uber hires two security researchers to improve car technology (reuters.com)
		67 points by chermanowicz on Aug 28, 2015 \| 30 comments
12.		Efficient Tabular Storage (matthewrocklin.com)
		62 points by ah- on Aug 28, 2015 \| 9 comments
13.		Reliably measuring IQ through commercial puzzle games (sciencedirect.com)
		93 points by davidiach on Aug 29, 2015 \| 60 comments
14.		Genode – Operating System Framework (genode.org)
		92 points by neodypsis on Aug 29, 2015 \| 23 comments
15.		Megagames: Giant board games for hundreds of people in the same room (independent.co.uk)
		71 points by jsnell on Aug 29, 2015 \| 17 comments
16.		Remembering When Driverless Elevators Drew Skepticism (npr.org)
		110 points by piyushmakhija on Aug 28, 2015 \| 129 comments
17.		Aquameta Layer 0: Meta – Writable System Catalog for PostgreSQL (aquameta.com)
		50 points by erichanson on Aug 29, 2015 \| 10 comments
18.		YouTube is preparing to launch two subscription services (theverge.com)
		75 points by _7h4m on Aug 29, 2015 \| 62 comments
19.		Parallelism, Concurrency, and Asynchrony in Perl 6 [video] (youtube.com)
		54 points by bulknews on Aug 28, 2015 \| 4 comments
20.		MARS-500 (wikipedia.org)
		49 points by sethbannon on Aug 29, 2015 \| 14 comments
21.		Methods Videos Are Making Science Smarter (newyorker.com)
		50 points by retupmoc01 on Aug 29, 2015 \| 10 comments
22.		The Supervolcano Under Yellowstone Is Alive and Kicking (nautil.us)
		58 points by DarkContinent on Aug 29, 2015 \| 50 comments
23.		Re: OpenBSD MIPS32 Support (swarthmore.edu)
		61 points by protomyth on Aug 29, 2015 \| 40 comments
24.		The Cannabis Chemist [video] (fivethirtyeight.com)
		57 points by ryan_j_naughton on Aug 29, 2015 \| 5 comments
25.		Doradus – A graph-based data model, advanced indexing and search for Cassandra (github.com/dell-oss)
		34 points by kylequest on Aug 29, 2015 \| 5 comments
26.		The End of Rationalism: An Interview with John Ralston Saul (2001) (scottlondon.com)
		67 points by walterbell on Aug 29, 2015 \| 43 comments
27.		Deringing in DCT via overshoot and clipping (pornel.net)
		39 points by ot on Aug 29, 2015 \| 7 comments
28.		Writing code that writes code with Hack Codegen (facebook.com)
		32 points by ctice on Aug 29, 2015 \| 4 comments
29.		The ncurses licensing saga (invisible-island.net)
		75 points by Somasis on Aug 29, 2015 \| 20 comments
30.		As self-driving cars come to more states, regulators take a back seat (washingtonpost.com)
		30 points by grej on Aug 28, 2015 \| 13 comments
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