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1.		YC Fellowship (blog.ycombinator.com)
		998 points by mattkrisiloff on July 20, 2015 \| 378 comments
2.		Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home (gainesville.com)
		922 points by cnnrjcbsn on July 20, 2015 \| 136 comments
3.		Dropdowns Should Be the UI of Last Resort (lukew.com)
		535 points by mathattack on July 20, 2015 \| 234 comments
4.		Dragula: Simple drag and drop (github.com/bevacqua)
		339 points by bevacqua on July 20, 2015 \| 52 comments
5.		A Man Who Flies Around the World for Free (rollingstone.com)
		288 points by aaronbrethorst on July 20, 2015 \| 173 comments
6.		Sorry to burst your bubble (economist.com)
		219 points by lxm on July 19, 2015 \| 182 comments
7.		Coin Card Teardown (bitsofcents.com)
		171 points by monkeypod on July 20, 2015 \| 116 comments
8.		Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100M Initiative to Seek ET (scientificamerican.com)
		288 points by saticmotion on July 20, 2015 \| 226 comments
9.		Vulnerability in Microsoft Font Driver Could Allow Remote Code Execution (technet.microsoft.com)
		172 points by mortenlarsen on July 20, 2015 \| 49 comments
10.		Under the Hood of Amazon EC2 Container Service (allthingsdistributed.com)
		136 points by werner on July 20, 2015 \| 34 comments
11.		Google, the Wassenaar arrangement, and vulnerability research (googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)
		137 points by _jomo on July 20, 2015 \| 57 comments
12.		Frequency Counting Algorithms Over Data Streams (micvog.com)
		86 points by mvogiatzis on July 20, 2015 \| 9 comments
13.		Announcing TypeScript 1.5 (msdn.com)
		248 points by pingec on July 20, 2015 \| 85 comments
14.		A history of backdoors (cryptographyengineering.com)
		88 points by mariuz on July 20, 2015 \| 8 comments
15.		Procedurally generated HTML5 3D world with day/night cycle (endtime.at)
		165 points by zabast on July 20, 2015 \| 36 comments
16.		Password Hashing Competition winner and special recognitions (groups.google.com)
		89 points by earthrise on July 20, 2015 \| 21 comments
17.		Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Available for Download (msdn.com)
		263 points by runesoerensen on July 20, 2015 \| 120 comments
18.		Comet lander falls silent, scientists fear it has moved (reuters.com)
		82 points by anigbrowl on July 20, 2015 \| 6 comments
19.		Code Golf at Google (zmxv.com)
		86 points by antichaos on July 19, 2015 \| 34 comments
20.		Monads in JavaScript (curiosity-driven.org)
		102 points by eatonphil on July 20, 2015 \| 125 comments
21.		The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (oeis.org)
		63 points by colinprince on July 20, 2015 \| 19 comments
22.		Daniel Kahneman: ‘What would I eliminate if I had a magic wand? Overconfidence’ (theguardian.com)
		125 points by aaronchall on July 20, 2015 \| 65 comments
23.		Call9 (YC S15) Delivers On-Demand Doctors in Emergency Situations (techcrunch.com)
		81 points by katm on July 20, 2015 \| 85 comments
24.		The Long, Strange Trip to Pluto, and How NASA Nearly Missed It (nytimes.com)
		59 points by bentaber on July 20, 2015 \| 4 comments
25.		Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked (krebsonsecurity.com)
		208 points by albedoa on July 20, 2015 \| 353 comments
26.		Growing a Language (1998) [video] (youtube.com)
		49 points by pvorb on July 20, 2015 \| 10 comments
27.		Doas – Dedicated OpenBSD application subexecutor (tedunangst.com)
		94 points by ingve on July 20, 2015 \| 34 comments
28.		Content Is King (1996) (archive.org)
		48 points by ops7eng5 on July 20, 2015 \| 28 comments
29.		Richard Feynman on the Challenger disaster (1986) [video] (youtube.com)
		94 points by richardfeynman on July 20, 2015 \| 27 comments
30.		Show HN: ZomboDB – Postgres extension for indexes backed by Elasticsearch (github.com/zombodb)
		88 points by nstart on July 20, 2015 \| 17 comments
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