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1.		Indie Hackers: Learn how developers are making money (indiehackers.com)
		971 points by csallen on Aug 11, 2016 \| 184 comments
2.		Bi-Directional Replication for PostgreSQL v1.0 (2ndquadrant.com)
		305 points by eloycoto on Aug 12, 2016 \| 91 comments
3.		What Danes consider healthy children’s television (economist.com)
		355 points by CraneWorm on Aug 12, 2016 \| 195 comments
4.		Lake Nyos suffocated over 1,700 people in one night (atlasobscura.com)
		472 points by vmateixeira on Aug 12, 2016 \| 101 comments
5.		The Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol (minnpost.com)
		235 points by lindner on Aug 11, 2016 \| 62 comments
6.		Rock climber Alex Honnold doesn’t experience fear like the rest of us (nautil.us)
		157 points by beefield on Aug 12, 2016 \| 62 comments
7.		Why Buyers Shunned the World's Largest Diamond (vanityfair.com)
		194 points by Thevet on Aug 11, 2016 \| 119 comments
8.		George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” (1946) (mtholyoke.edu)
		301 points by Tomte on Aug 11, 2016 \| 150 comments
9.		Distributed Logging Architecture in the Container Era (treasuredata.com)
		179 points by hkmurakami on Aug 12, 2016 \| 76 comments
10.		Show HN: Hacker Hall - Virtual Coworking (complice.co)
		147 points by malcolmocean on Aug 12, 2016 \| 29 comments
11.		World Brain: The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopædia (1937) (ischool.berkeley.edu)
		76 points by yk on Aug 12, 2016 \| 19 comments
12.		Return True to Win (alf.nu)
		234 points by moklick on Aug 12, 2016 \| 116 comments
13.		Alphabet is still figuring out how to be a conglomerate (backchannel.com)
		192 points by mirandak4 on Aug 12, 2016 \| 91 comments
14.		Building a C Compiler Type System – Part 2: A Canonical Type Representation (robertelder.org)
		72 points by robertelder on Aug 12, 2016 \| 3 comments
15.		A Denver Suburb Experiments with Free Lyft Rides to Light Rail (citylab.com)
		168 points by dpflan on Aug 12, 2016 \| 72 comments
16.		Too Poor to Afford the Internet (nytimes.com)
		145 points by danso on Aug 12, 2016 \| 149 comments
17.		World's Oldest Gold Object May Have Just Been Unearthed in Bulgaria (smithsonianmag.com)
		60 points by ranit on Aug 12, 2016 \| 18 comments
18.		Ingesting MySQL data at scale – Part 1 (pinterest.com)
		100 points by samber on Aug 11, 2016 \| 26 comments
19.		Pete Davies: The ‘Invadar’ Arcade Collection (arcadeblogger.com)
		117 points by GuiA on Aug 12, 2016 \| 18 comments
20.		Now is a really good time to buy a helicopter (qz.com)
		82 points by lxm on Aug 11, 2016 \| 89 comments
21.		Happy 10th birthday pandoc (groups.google.com)
		227 points by psibi on Aug 12, 2016 \| 43 comments
22.		Frp: A fast reverse proxy to help you expose a local server to the internet (github.com/fatedier)
		134 points by fatedier on Aug 12, 2016 \| 29 comments
23.		Greenland shark found to be at least 272 years old (nature.com)
		151 points by okket on Aug 11, 2016 \| 25 comments
24.		Can the Academic Write? (theawl.com)
		39 points by diodorus on Aug 12, 2016 \| 30 comments
25.		Automatically closing FIN_WAIT_2 is a violation of the TCP specification (cloudflare.com)
		238 points by jgrahamc on Aug 12, 2016 \| 32 comments
26.		Upping the volts will make hybrid cars much cheaper (economist.com)
		49 points by edward on Aug 11, 2016 \| 68 comments
27.		Hacker Unlocks ‘High Security’ Electronic Safes Without a Trace (wired.com)
		76 points by walterbell on Aug 12, 2016 \| 41 comments
28.		Show HN: Twincl Editor – A WYSIWYG/Markdown dual-mode editor (twincl.com)
		55 points by arthurtw on Aug 12, 2016 \| 26 comments
29.		RedHat is hiring to make Linux run better on laptops (gnome.org)
		245 points by soulbadguy on Aug 12, 2016 \| 182 comments
30.		Data Exfiltration from Speakerless Air-Gapped Computers via Hard Drive Noise (arxiv.org)
		79 points by sohkamyung on Aug 12, 2016 \| 46 comments
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