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1.
Massachusetts to tax ride-hailing apps, give the money to taxis (reuters.com)
337 points by petethomas on Aug 21, 2016 | 509 comments
2.
The Long, Remarkable History of the GIF (popularmechanics.com)
247 points by pmcpinto on Aug 21, 2016 | 104 comments
3.
Learning from Ada (monkeysnatchbanana.com)
144 points by rspivak on Aug 21, 2016 | 99 comments
4.
Introducing OpenStreetView (openstreetmap.org)
455 points by progval on Aug 21, 2016 | 79 comments
5.
The Mystery of the Missing Hotel Toothpaste (2013) (slate.com)
121 points by lxm on Aug 21, 2016 | 115 comments
6.
Goodbye Mac OS Forge, hello GitHub (macosforge.org)
184 points by sashk on Aug 21, 2016 | 171 comments
7.
D.A. Henderson, ‘disease detective’ who eradicated smallpox, dies at 87 (washingtonpost.com)
105 points by okket on Aug 20, 2016 | 10 comments
8.
Show HN: Cryptic – A sensible secret management toolkit and Go library (github.com/domodwyer)
93 points by domodwyer on Aug 21, 2016 | 32 comments
9.
Everyday ‘Placebo Buttons’ Create Semblance of Control (99percentinvisible.org)
137 points by pttrsmrt on Aug 21, 2016 | 171 comments
10.
On the State of Pony (groups.io)
116 points by spooneybarger on Aug 21, 2016 | 40 comments
11.
I Botched a Perl 6 Release (perl6.party)
121 points by zoffix222 on Aug 21, 2016 | 54 comments
12.
The Amiga Boing Ball Explained (lychesis.net)
142 points by doener on Aug 21, 2016 | 56 comments
13.
Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers (2015) (camdavidsonpilon.github.io)
172 points by dacm on Aug 21, 2016 | 10 comments
14.
Put One Foot Wrong in Baarle and You’ve Left the Country (nytimes.com)
109 points by e15ctr0n on Aug 21, 2016 | 33 comments
15.
What is BPF and why is it taking over Linux Performance Analysis? (memsql.com)
131 points by okket on Aug 20, 2016 | 40 comments
16.
Mobile eCommerce: Product Details (uxplanet.org)
99 points by babich on Aug 21, 2016 | 28 comments
17.
Training a Recurrent Neural Network to Compose Music (maraoz.com)
134 points by dacm on Aug 21, 2016 | 32 comments
18.
The $100 muon detector (symmetrymagazine.org)
75 points by jonbaer on Aug 20, 2016 | 27 comments
19.
Charles 4 (xk72.com)
100 points by aaronbrethorst on Aug 21, 2016 | 26 comments
20.
How to change symlinks atomically (2005) (moertel.com)
70 points by ffggvv on Aug 21, 2016 | 63 comments
21.
Eye test may detect Parkinson’s before symptoms appear (sciencebulletin.org)
66 points by renafowler on Aug 21, 2016 | 7 comments
22.
Fuzzing Perl: A Tale of Two American Fuzzy Lops (geeknik.net)
82 points by geeknik on Aug 21, 2016 | 18 comments
23.
Counterintuitive Behavior of Social Systems (1995) [pdf] (web.mit.edu)
61 points by evilsimon on Aug 21, 2016 | 12 comments
24.
Promises and pitfalls of applying computational models to mental disorders (nih.gov)
50 points by okket on Aug 21, 2016 | 27 comments
25.
Python on Pebble (gist.github.com)
74 points by nhumrich on Aug 21, 2016 | 11 comments
26.
How an early telephone silencer took on AT&T (atlasobscura.com)
62 points by tintinnabula on Aug 19, 2016 | 10 comments
27.
Intel Leverages Chip Might to Etch Photonics Future (nextplatform.com)
47 points by jonbaer on Aug 21, 2016 | 10 comments
28.
What Golang Is and Is Not (danmux.com)
168 points by elrodeo on Aug 21, 2016 | 269 comments
29.
A Beautiful Mind (1998) (vanityfair.com)
47 points by sajid on Aug 21, 2016 | 10 comments
30.
His Mickey Mouse Ways: An Appreciation of Waylon Jennings (texasmonthly.com)
54 points by tintinnabula on Aug 21, 2016 | 16 comments

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