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1.		Nasa just made all its research available online for free (independent.co.uk)
		776 points by signa11 on Aug 20, 2016 \| 49 comments
2.		Japanese writing system basics (candyjapan.com)
		961 points by bemmu on Aug 20, 2016 \| 338 comments
3.		Playing with Syntax (stevelosh.com)
		144 points by jsnell on Aug 20, 2016 \| 93 comments
4.		A parallel implementation of gzip for modern multi-processor multi-core machines (github.com/madler)
		280 points by odeke-em on Aug 20, 2016 \| 67 comments
5.		The World Is Closer Than Ever to Eradicating Guinea Worm (washingtonpost.com)
		118 points by dpflan on Aug 20, 2016 \| 39 comments
6.		All of Google's cloud database services are now out of beta (techcrunch.com)
		173 points by smb06 on Aug 19, 2016 \| 74 comments
7.		How to make an efficient payment system in Erlang (joearms.github.io)
		168 points by tdurden on Aug 20, 2016 \| 15 comments
8.		Is Bandcamp the Holy Grail of Online Record Stores? (nytimes.com)
		195 points by joshjkim on Aug 20, 2016 \| 119 comments
9.		Algorithm Visualizer – Knight's tour problem (jasonpark.me)
		121 points by avinassh on Aug 20, 2016 \| 8 comments
10.		A Bosnian pine growing in Greece has been dated to be more than 1000 years old (sciencebulletin.org)
		82 points by upen on Aug 19, 2016 \| 24 comments
11.		SizeCoding.org: creating very tiny programs for the 80x86 family of CPUs (sizecoding.org)
		100 points by ingve on Aug 20, 2016 \| 15 comments
12.		The Japanese Urban Zoning System (marginalrevolution.com)
		187 points by Osiris30 on Aug 20, 2016 \| 60 comments
13.		If English were written like Chinese (1999) (zompist.com)
		228 points by rogerbraun on Aug 20, 2016 \| 94 comments
14.		Data points that Facebook uses to target ads (washingtonpost.com)
		240 points by suprgeek on Aug 20, 2016 \| 131 comments
15.		Sad Trombone Exoplanet Reality Check (antipope.org)
		151 points by cstross on Aug 20, 2016 \| 195 comments
16.		List of languages by time of extinction (wikipedia.org)
		98 points by sndean on Aug 20, 2016 \| 68 comments
17.		Decommissioning Otto (hashicorp.com)
		151 points by zhenjl on Aug 20, 2016 \| 96 comments
18.		Realize – Go build system with file watchers, live reload and output streams (github.com/tockins)
		88 points by Asoseil on Aug 19, 2016 \| 14 comments
19.		A suggestion on how to spend a day at home (mousereeve.com)
		312 points by tripofmice on Aug 20, 2016 \| 95 comments
20.		MySQL founder tries a new software licensing model (techcrunch.com)
		126 points by phire on Aug 20, 2016 \| 66 comments
21.		Paleontologists find huge T. Rex skull in Montana (theverge.com)
		73 points by Tomte on Aug 20, 2016 \| 15 comments
22.		Guiding a Venture-Backed Startup to a Felony (linkedin.com)
		86 points by sigacts on Aug 20, 2016 \| 41 comments
23.		PyCNN: Cellular Neural Networks Image Processing Python Library (github.com/ankitaggarwal011)
		64 points by bane on Aug 20, 2016 \| 18 comments
24.		Building PokemonGo in Pure HTML, JavaScript and CSS (geofenceapi.org)
		80 points by jonthepirate on Aug 20, 2016 \| 8 comments
25.		Fixing JSON (tbray.org)
		139 points by robin_reala on Aug 20, 2016 \| 179 comments
26.		Anonymouth – Document Anonymization Tool (github.com/psal)
		69 points by q-_-p on Aug 20, 2016 \| 10 comments
27.		Mutt 1.7.0 released (marc.info)
		105 points by tdurden on Aug 20, 2016 \| 90 comments
28.		The Event Calculus Explained (1999) [pdf] (ic.ac.uk)
		57 points by adamnemecek on Aug 20, 2016 \| 12 comments
29.		Rust: Systems Programming for Everyone (infoq.com)
		126 points by adamnemecek on Aug 20, 2016 \| 66 comments
30.		Fighting Poverty with Satellite Images and Machine Learning Wizardry (ieee.org)
		49 points by jonbaer on Aug 20, 2016 \| 7 comments
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