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1.
Yahoo sold to US telecoms giant Verizon (bbc.co.uk)
426 points by kartikkumar on July 24, 2016 | 355 comments
2.
With Launch of AU Passport, Africa Is Now Borderless (venturesafrica.com)
416 points by juanplusjuan on July 24, 2016 | 107 comments
3.
The Uber Engineering Tech Stack, Part I: The Foundation (uber.com)
386 points by kfish on July 24, 2016 | 180 comments
4.
Functional Programming Jargon (github.com/hemanth)
339 points by adamnemecek on July 24, 2016 | 103 comments
5.
Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming (medium.com/cscalfani)
377 points by ingve on July 24, 2016 | 340 comments
6.
Linux 4.7 Released (lkml.org)
226 points by jrepin on July 24, 2016 | 78 comments
7.
Super-hard metal 'four times tougher than titanium' (bbc.com)
185 points by Jerry2 on July 24, 2016 | 90 comments
8.
My biology paper in Science (scottaaronson.com)
209 points by nabla9 on July 24, 2016 | 14 comments
9.
Zapping Their Brains at Home (nytimes.com)
99 points by lxm on July 23, 2016 | 49 comments
10.
Start here to learn R (r-exercises.com)
191 points by sinodin on July 24, 2016 | 43 comments
11.
Hard Forks (avc.com)
156 points by lxm on July 24, 2016 | 99 comments
12.
Q&A: Bill Gates on investments in energy technologies (technologyreview.com)
74 points by miraj on July 23, 2016 | 46 comments
13.
How learning Smalltalk can make you a better developer (techbeacon.com)
115 points by horrido on July 24, 2016 | 70 comments
14.
Good Storytellers Are Happier in Life and in Love (wsj.com)
136 points by pepy on July 24, 2016 | 66 comments
15.
Porting Day of the Tentacle to Linux (cheesetalks.net)
116 points by thiagoharry on July 24, 2016 | 20 comments
16.
Making your own web debugging proxy (twiinsen.com)
87 points by ejcx on July 24, 2016 | 21 comments
17.
Brain may flush out toxins during sleep (2015) (qz.com)
120 points by lxm on July 24, 2016 | 43 comments
18.
Show HN: Chalkbot (hipolabs.com)
64 points by tunavargi on July 23, 2016 | 11 comments
19.
Repairing the only known prototype of Nintendo PlayStation [video] (youtube.com)
121 points by Jerry2 on July 23, 2016 | 25 comments
20.
Space Emerging from Quantum Mechanics (preposterousuniverse.com)
131 points by MichaelAO on July 24, 2016 | 21 comments
21.
Confessions of a Former Apocalypse Survival Guide Writer (vice.com)
86 points by jackgavigan on July 24, 2016 | 83 comments
22.
Follow-up of Kepler data yields more than 100 confirmed exoplanets (ucsc.edu)
54 points by Hooke on July 20, 2016 | 16 comments
23.
Code behaving differently in C90, C99, C11, C++98, and C++11 (kristerw.blogspot.com)
134 points by Kristine1975 on July 24, 2016 | 17 comments
24.
With a new tool, spreadsheet users can construct custom database interfaces (news.mit.edu)
89 points by renafowler on July 24, 2016 | 43 comments
25.
Stealing Bitcoin with Math (speakerdeck.com)
150 points by marksamman on July 24, 2016 | 12 comments
26.
Pokemon Go API (github.com/grover-c13)
120 points by fmax30 on July 24, 2016 | 80 comments
27.
Why I’m Not a Fan of R-Squared (johnmyleswhite.com)
77 points by sndean on July 24, 2016 | 51 comments
28.
Questions for our first 1:1 (larahogan.me)
88 points by wallflower on July 21, 2016 | 12 comments
29.
The FarmBot Genesis Brings Precision Agriculture to Your Own Backyard (smithsonianmag.com)
109 points by Osiris30 on July 24, 2016 | 37 comments
30.
How a Champagne-Laden Steamship Ended Up in a Kansas Cornfield (atlasobscura.com)
91 points by benbreen on July 24, 2016 | 16 comments

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