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1.
Bcachefs – A general purpose COW filesystem (lkml.org)
385 points by koverstreet on Aug 21, 2015 | 101 comments
2.
GCC is moving to git (gcc.gnu.org)
295 points by ingve on Aug 21, 2015 | 133 comments
3.
Financial Misstatements (samaltman.com)
244 points by edward on Aug 21, 2015 | 178 comments
4.
Hackpad source code (github.com/dropbox)
265 points by jez on Aug 21, 2015 | 49 comments
5.
An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory (ribbonfarm.com)
126 points by simulate on Aug 21, 2015 | 57 comments
6.
A NASA Engineer Became an Astronaut After Being Rejected 14 Times (popularmechanics.com)
150 points by pmcpinto on Aug 21, 2015 | 22 comments
7.
What would happen if a massive solar storm hit the earth? (gizmodo.com)
84 points by tomohawk on Aug 21, 2015 | 30 comments
8.
Jailhouse: Linux-based partitioning hypervisor (github.com/siemens)
92 points by kordless on Aug 21, 2015 | 7 comments
9.
Calculus on Graphs (2004) (arxiv.org)
80 points by skeuomorf on Aug 21, 2015 | 6 comments
10.
Gopher Tricks (golang.org)
101 points by rjammala on Aug 21, 2015 | 36 comments
11.
Hardware Reverse Engineering Course (rpi.edu)
96 points by geographomics on Aug 21, 2015 | 9 comments
12.
The Fundamental Limits of Knowledge (medium.com/starts-with-a-bang)
91 points by D_Guidi on Aug 21, 2015 | 9 comments
13.
Show HN: Generate React forms from JSON form schemas (github.com/stevevitali)
107 points by SteveVitali on Aug 21, 2015 | 27 comments
14.
Prune: A Tree-Based, Home-Row-Oriented Code Editor (facebook.com)
118 points by KentBeck on Aug 21, 2015 | 43 comments
15.
Real Life First Person Shooter, Chatroulette Version [video] (youtube.com)
423 points by makmanalp on Aug 21, 2015 | 41 comments
16.
What Killed Smalltalk? (pointersgonewild.com)
104 points by Garbage on Aug 21, 2015 | 185 comments
17.
Code Rush – The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla (2000) [video] (youtube.com)
142 points by donflamenco on Aug 21, 2015 | 34 comments
18.
The Glium Library – Safe OpenGL in Rust (medium.com/tomaka)
163 points by bpbp-mango on Aug 21, 2015 | 26 comments
19.
The time is right to re-examine the L.A. freeway (latimes.com)
113 points by samclemens on Aug 21, 2015 | 146 comments
20.
The Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons (blog.mozilla.org)
281 points by zawaideh on Aug 21, 2015 | 295 comments
21.
New Book: Clojure Algorithms and Data Structures Cookbook (clojure.tn)
97 points by erikcw on Aug 20, 2015 | 9 comments
22.
Something Deep Inside Pluto Is Replenishing Its Atmosphere (wired.com)
48 points by happyscrappy on Aug 21, 2015 | 23 comments
23.
Writing a Game Boy Advance Game (reinterpretcast.com)
179 points by ingve on Aug 21, 2015 | 49 comments
24.
A visual proof that neural nets can compute any function (neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com)
116 points by p1esk on Aug 21, 2015 | 65 comments
25.
The SQLite Query Planner (sqlite.org)
117 points by otoolep on Aug 21, 2015 | 22 comments
26.
How the F.B.I. Made 'Winners Don't Use Drugs' the Arcade Motto of the '90s (inverse.com)
77 points by dottrap on Aug 21, 2015 | 47 comments
27.
Petition UK government to not ban encryption (petition.parliament.uk)
292 points by chrisdew on Aug 21, 2015 | 106 comments
28.
The likely end of DownThemAll (downthemall.net)
257 points by deltaprotocol on Aug 21, 2015 | 135 comments
29.
Python Enhancement Proposal 495: Local Time Disambiguation (python.org)
51 points by philipn on Aug 21, 2015 | 35 comments
30.
Show HN: A collection of algorithmic art generated with POV-Ray (mscharrer.net)
90 points by mscharrer on Aug 21, 2015 | 25 comments

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