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1.		Relay Technical Preview (facebook.github.io)
		474 points by cpojer on Aug 11, 2015 \| 106 comments
2.		Thor – A Project to Hammer Out a Royalty Free Video Codec (cisco.com)
		422 points by TD-Linux on Aug 11, 2015 \| 164 comments
3.		“Stop reverse engineering our code” (oracle.com)
		613 points by hughstephens on Aug 11, 2015 \| 344 comments
4.		Lawrence Lessig wants to run for president in an unconventional way (washingtonpost.com)
		446 points by nkassis on Aug 11, 2015 \| 197 comments
5.		Windows 10 IoT Core for Raspberry Pi 2 (windows.com)
		234 points by vyrotek on Aug 11, 2015 \| 166 comments
6.		Why Not Insider Trade on Every Company? (bloombergview.com)
		265 points by dsri on Aug 11, 2015 \| 124 comments
7.		Google reveals details about its datacenters (highscalability.com)
		281 points by toddh on Aug 10, 2015 \| 53 comments
8.		RethinkDB 2.1 is out: high availability (rethinkdb.com)
		264 points by coffeemug on Aug 11, 2015 \| 105 comments
9.		Ubuntu One file syncing code Open Sourced (ubuntu.com)
		244 points by progval on Aug 11, 2015 \| 83 comments
10.		Firefox 42 will not allow unsigned extensions (wiki.mozilla.org)
		288 points by fernandotakai on Aug 11, 2015 \| 302 comments
11.		DigitalOcean Teams Up with Bitnami, Install Over 100 Web Apps with a Few Clicks (techcrunch.com)
		182 points by mitchwainer on Aug 11, 2015 \| 76 comments
12.		Thunderstrike 2: Mac firmware worm details (trmm.net)
		155 points by georgyo on Aug 11, 2015 \| 37 comments
13.		The Container Ship Tourism Industry (atlasobscura.com)
		145 points by todayiamme on Aug 10, 2015 \| 41 comments
14.		Building the Next New York Times Recommendation Engine (nytimes.com)
		129 points by jprob on Aug 11, 2015 \| 17 comments
15.		Uber Is Serving New York’s Outer Boroughs More Than Taxis Are (fivethirtyeight.com)
		162 points by svtrent on Aug 11, 2015 \| 110 comments
16.		SICP in Clojure (afronski.pl)
		132 points by MattF on Aug 11, 2015 \| 42 comments
17.		When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China (a16z.com)
		165 points by rxin on Aug 11, 2015 \| 58 comments
18.		An open source JMAP proxy, JavaScript library and webmail demo (fastmail.com)
		95 points by cdvonstinkpot on Aug 11, 2015 \| 18 comments
19.		How much we still don’t know about Watergate and the Nixon Administration (jstor.org)
		104 points by lermontov on Aug 11, 2015 \| 77 comments
20.		High precision air bearing CNC lathe and grinder [video] (youtube.com)
		125 points by djoldman on Aug 11, 2015 \| 33 comments
21.		Best practices for building large React applications (siftscience.com)
		153 points by mtschopp on Aug 11, 2015 \| 23 comments
22.		[dupe] Oracle’s license agreement as it pertains to reverse engineering (archive.org)
		349 points by shin_lao on Aug 11, 2015 \| 117 comments
23.		Old graph paper (leancrew.com)
		110 points by ingve on Aug 11, 2015 \| 55 comments
24.		Understanding ARM Assembly, Part 1 (msdn.com)
		90 points by ingve on Aug 11, 2015 \| 16 comments
25.		Gene Therapy Makes Near-Blind Patients See by Strengthening Neural Connections (dddmag.com)
		100 points by forloop on Aug 11, 2015 \| 27 comments
26.		For Sale in Spain: Entire Villages, Cheap (csmonitor.com)
		91 points by juanplusjuan on Aug 11, 2015 \| 71 comments
27.		Don’t Hit Send: Angry Emails Just Make You Angrier (wsj.com)
		75 points by rubikscube on Aug 11, 2015 \| 35 comments
28.		Compilers Are Databases [video] (youtube.com)
		84 points by oelang on Aug 10, 2015 \| 35 comments
29.		How We Beat C++ STL Binary Search (realm.io)
		95 points by _bkgg on Aug 11, 2015 \| 43 comments
30.		PostgreSQL 9.5 New Features with Examples [pdf] (hp.com)
		140 points by snaga on Aug 11, 2015 \| 38 comments
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