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1.		Building a BitTorrent client from scratch in C# (cheatdeath.github.io)
		509 points by nxzero on July 5, 2016 \| 86 comments
2.		ThinkPwn: System Management Mode arbitrary code execution (github.com/cr4sh)
		338 points by edmorley on July 5, 2016 \| 144 comments
3.		Don Eyles Walks Us Through the Lunar Module Source Code (hackaday.com)
		235 points by szczys on July 5, 2016 \| 49 comments
4.		BSD vs. Linux (2005) (over-yonder.net)
		457 points by _xrjp on July 5, 2016 \| 356 comments
5.		The Food Lab: Why Does Pepperoni Curl? (seriouseats.com)
		263 points by pepys on July 5, 2016 \| 64 comments
6.		Living, in Limbo (hintjens.com)
		364 points by alcio on July 5, 2016 \| 71 comments
7.		Who pays when startup employees keep their equity? (gist.github.com)
		255 points by tanoku on July 5, 2016 \| 237 comments
8.		How to Email Early Stage Investors (themacro.com)
		249 points by craigcannon on July 5, 2016 \| 68 comments
9.		CSS is powerful, you can do a lot of things without JS (github.com/nampnq)
		493 points by NamPNQ on July 5, 2016 \| 302 comments
10.		Applying machine learning to Infosec (startup.ml)
		102 points by adamnemecek on July 5, 2016 \| 32 comments
11.		The employees shut inside coffins (bbc.com)
		186 points by amelius on July 5, 2016 \| 116 comments
12.		Amazon Is Quietly Eliminating List Prices (nytimes.com)
		216 points by _airh on July 4, 2016 \| 163 comments
13.		Live coverage of Juno's Jupiter Orbit Insertion [video] (nasa.gov)
		165 points by hybrid11 on July 5, 2016 \| 34 comments
14.		Raiden Network – High Speed Asset Transfers for Ethereum (raiden.network)
		83 points by bpierre on July 5, 2016 \| 27 comments
15.		How frigatebirds cross entire oceans without ever needing to rest (washingtonpost.com)
		166 points by dnetesn on July 5, 2016 \| 44 comments
16.		Nuclear Plant Accidents: Sodium Reactor Experiment (allthingsnuclear.org)
		87 points by tehabe on July 5, 2016 \| 50 comments
17.		Huge home-built computer used for Tetris (bbc.co.uk)
		150 points by _l4jh on July 5, 2016 \| 37 comments
18.		Consciousness: The Mind Messing with the Mind (nytimes.com)
		115 points by pavs on July 5, 2016 \| 91 comments
19.		Antibiotic resistance: The grim prospect (economist.com)
		105 points by known on July 5, 2016 \| 66 comments
20.		Implementing Software Timers (1990) (kohala.com)
		66 points by ingve on July 5, 2016 \| 10 comments
21.		GitHub: Reorder issues in a milestone (github.com/blog)
		82 points by Oompa on July 5, 2016 \| 29 comments
22.		Silent Circle removes warrant canary (techcrunch.com)
		226 points by n1000 on July 5, 2016 \| 185 comments
23.		Mlpack – a scalable C++ machine learning library (mlpack.org)
		88 points by michaelsbradley on July 5, 2016 \| 8 comments
24.		Reports of cancellation of AdSense accounts (productforums.google.com)
		242 points by _ae2r on July 5, 2016 \| 176 comments
25.		How to Write a BitTorrent Client, Part 1 (kristenwidman.com)
		184 points by networked on July 5, 2016 \| 8 comments
26.		Using free products for lead generation (clearbit.com)
		73 points by svirelka on July 4, 2016 \| 8 comments
27.		Freely available programming books (github.com/vhf)
		239 points by hitr on July 5, 2016 \| 36 comments
28.		Why do we keep building rotten foundations? (davmac.wordpress.com)
		216 points by nkurz on July 5, 2016 \| 100 comments
29.		Show HN: I built my wedding website using Polymer (maggieandcaleb.com)
		104 points by caleblloyd on July 4, 2016 \| 68 comments
30.		Shakespeare: Actor, Playwright, Social Climber (nytimes.com)
		27 points by benbreen on June 30, 2016 \| 7 comments
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