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1.		What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? (mcmansionhell.tumblr.com)
		758 points by jseliger on Aug 14, 2016 \| 519 comments
2.		NASA Systems Engineering Handbook (2008) [pdf] (nasa.gov)
		198 points by efm on Aug 14, 2016 \| 39 comments
3.		Computational and Inferential Thinking – The Foundations of Data Science (inferentialthinking.com)
		161 points by gkst on Aug 13, 2016 \| 12 comments
4.		How the Hunt Brothers Cornered the Silver Market and Then Lost It All (priceonomics.com)
		134 points by adventured on Aug 14, 2016 \| 52 comments
5.		Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (longnow.org)
		225 points by jonbaer on Aug 13, 2016 \| 32 comments
6.		An introduction to Japanese (pomax.github.io)
		363 points by e-sushi on Aug 14, 2016 \| 122 comments
7.		Motivational Incongruence and Well-Being at the Workplace (frontiersin.org)
		152 points by rjdevereux on Aug 14, 2016 \| 86 comments
8.		Ask HN: How to prepare for a Front-end Developer interview?
		209 points by eesta on Aug 14, 2016 \| 136 comments
9.		Sdl-gpu: A library for high-performance, modern 2D graphics with SDL (github.com/grimfang4)
		119 points by vmorgulis on Aug 14, 2016 \| 26 comments
10.		SW-delta: an incremental cache for the web (github.com/gmetais)
		139 points by instakill on Aug 14, 2016 \| 28 comments
11.		NUMA Deep Dive Part 1: From UMA to NUMA (frankdenneman.nl)
		100 points by wila on Aug 14, 2016 \| 16 comments
12.		Software Freedom Doesn't Kill People, Security Through Obscurity Kills People (ebb.org)
		192 points by ashitlerferad on Aug 14, 2016 \| 124 comments
13.		What is it like to understand advanced mathematics? (quora.com)
		252 points by maverick_iceman on Aug 14, 2016 \| 92 comments
14.		Steam on FreeBSD (github.com/steamonfreebsd)
		123 points by vasili111 on Aug 14, 2016 \| 17 comments
15.		A History of Early Versions of Adventure (bluerenga.wordpress.com)
		56 points by ingve on Aug 13, 2016 \| 4 comments
16.		OpenFisca – Open models to compute tax and benefit systems (openfisca.fr)
		125 points by based2 on Aug 14, 2016 \| 12 comments
17.		FreeBSD 11.0-RC1 Now Available (freebsd.org)
		113 points by vasili111 on Aug 14, 2016 \| 38 comments
18.		ZFS High-Availability NAS (github.com/ewwhite)
		150 points by louwrentius on Aug 13, 2016 \| 59 comments
19.		SVG 2 new features (github.com/w3c)
		152 points by okket on Aug 14, 2016 \| 72 comments
20.		Tim Cook, the interview: Running Apple ‘is sort of a lonely job’ (washingtonpost.com)
		178 points by jerryhuang100 on Aug 14, 2016 \| 172 comments
21.		Explorable Explanations (explorableexplanations.com)
		91 points by guiambros on Aug 14, 2016 \| 10 comments
22.		The Rise of the Platform Economy (issues.org)
		67 points by jonbaer on Aug 14, 2016 \| 18 comments
23.		ARM Cortex-M, Interrupts and FreeRTOS (mcuoneclipse.com)
		93 points by another on Aug 14, 2016 \| 12 comments
24.		Which MBAs Make More: Consultants or Small-Business Owners? (hbr.org)
		103 points by randomname2 on Aug 14, 2016 \| 33 comments
25.		Free Software Foundation Releases FY2015 Annual Report (fsf.org)
		68 points by jordigh on Aug 14, 2016 \| 10 comments
26.		Gopherpedia: The Gopher Interface to Wikipedia (floodgap.com)
		60 points by vmorgulis on Aug 14, 2016 \| 10 comments
27.		Backers of Open-Source Chips Launch Startup (wsj.com)
		66 points by poindontcare on Aug 13, 2016 \| 16 comments
28.		Seamless Object-Oriented Software Architecture (1994) [pdf] (bon-method.com)
		46 points by Tomte on Aug 14, 2016 \| 5 comments
29.		Non-Cooperative Games (1950) [pdf] (princeton.edu)
		46 points by thewisenerd on Aug 14, 2016 \| 17 comments
30.		How Silicon Valley's Palantir Wired Washington (politico.com)
		143 points by hownottowrite on Aug 14, 2016 \| 108 comments
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