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1.		Show HN: Showgoers – Watch Netflix with friends remotely (showgoers.tv)
		281 points by eremzeit on July 24, 2015 \| 84 comments
2.		Amazon Is Now Worth More Than Wal-Mart (wsj.com)
		294 points by ryanmonroe on July 24, 2015 \| 245 comments
3.		Fiat Chrysler recalls 1.4M cars after Jeep hack (bbc.com)
		251 points by vvanders on July 24, 2015 \| 289 comments
4.		The Copyright Office Belongs in a Library (eff.org)
		190 points by DiabloD3 on July 24, 2015 \| 57 comments
5.		Amazon Web Services revenue rises 81% year over year (wsj.com)
		251 points by vizzah on July 23, 2015 \| 142 comments
6.		Phone Janitor – Take control of your phone number (phonejanitor.com)
		216 points by rufius on July 24, 2015 \| 145 comments
7.		A call to PHP's mt_rand generates only odd numbers (3v4l.org)
		212 points by ComputerGuru on July 24, 2015 \| 119 comments
8.		The Verge's web sucks (lmorchard.com)
		345 points by mbrubeck on July 24, 2015 \| 133 comments
9.		The Singular Mind of Terry Tao (nytimes.com)
		218 points by dctoedt on July 24, 2015 \| 41 comments
10.		Functional Programming in Python [pdf] (oreilly.com)
		153 points by mseri on July 24, 2015 \| 59 comments
11.		Firefox nightlies for Linux are now using Gtk+3 (glandium.org)
		166 points by abrowne on July 24, 2015 \| 123 comments
12.		Differential Line (github.com/inconvergent)
		123 points by albertzeyer on July 24, 2015 \| 9 comments
13.		Nvidia Pascal GPU to Feature 17B Transistors and 32GB HBM2 VRAM (wccftech.com)
		134 points by cma on July 24, 2015 \| 94 comments
14.		The OpenSSH Bug That Wasn't (bsdly.blogspot.com)
		129 points by glass- on July 24, 2015 \| 86 comments
15.		Selected Papers in Anonymity (freehaven.net)
		79 points by QuinnWilton on July 23, 2015 \| 14 comments
16.		How to implement a spreadsheet (semantic-domain.blogspot.com)
		173 points by kristianp on July 24, 2015 \| 68 comments
17.		Why I love the nothingness inside a float tank (aeon.co)
		87 points by sergeant3 on July 23, 2015 \| 38 comments
18.		Binary pattern matching in Elixir (zohaib.me)
		86 points by vvanders on July 24, 2015 \| 17 comments
19.		Augmenting Human Intellect (1962) (stanford.edu)
		67 points by jeremynixon on July 23, 2015 \| 5 comments
20.		Accenture will get rid of annual performance reviews and rankings (washingtonpost.com)
		153 points by duncanawoods on July 24, 2015 \| 75 comments
21.		Okay, Feminism, It’s Time We Had a Talk About Empathy (2013) (medium.com/maradydd)
		305 points by traverseda on July 24, 2015 \| 335 comments
22.		Beginner's Guide to Time Series Analysis (quantstart.com)
		81 points by tomaskazemekas on July 24, 2015 \| 7 comments
23.		[dupe] Universal asks Google to take down 127.0.0.1 for piracy (chillingeffects.org)
		268 points by davidgerard on July 24, 2015 \| 69 comments
24.		Frontback Shutting Down (frontback.me)
		83 points by eknight15 on July 24, 2015 \| 65 comments
25.		At 78, Scientist Is Starting a Hedge Fund (wsj.com)
		60 points by softdev12 on July 24, 2015 \| 34 comments
26.		Malaria vaccine gets 'green light' (bbc.co.uk)
		78 points by sjcsjc on July 24, 2015 \| 33 comments
27.		Show HN: Image segmentation and background removal in JavaScript (github.com/akshayubhat)
		60 points by secondtimeuse on July 24, 2015 \| 13 comments
28.		Tracing JITs and modern CPUs (github.com/lukego)
		78 points by jsnell on July 24, 2015 \| 42 comments
29.		Some analysis of the 1M most popular sites on the web (jacquesmattheij.com)
		136 points by jacquesm on July 24, 2015 \| 123 comments
30.		Google Wants a Piece of Air-Traffic Control for Drones (bloomberg.com)
		52 points by smullaney on July 24, 2015 \| 23 comments
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