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1.
SoundCloud saved by emergency funding as CEO steps aside (techcrunch.com)
550 points by janober on Aug 11, 2017 | 218 comments
2.
I Fell Victim to a $1,500 Used Camera Lens Scam on Amazon (petapixel.com)
937 points by _vvdf on Aug 11, 2017 | 428 comments
3.
Ad blocking is under attack (adguard.com)
1111 points by tiagobraw on Aug 11, 2017 | 559 comments
4.
The world in which IPv6 was a good design (apenwarr.ca)
677 points by dbenamy on Aug 11, 2017 | 191 comments
5.
Is LIBOR, Benchmark for Trillions of Dollars in Transactions, a Lie? (rollingstone.com)
276 points by signor_bosco on Aug 11, 2017 | 85 comments
6.
OpenAI at the Dota 2 World Championships (openai.com)
510 points by frisco on Aug 11, 2017 | 213 comments
7.
Timescale, an open-source time-series SQL database for PostgreSQL (timescale.com)
358 points by pbowyer on Aug 10, 2017 | 100 comments
8.
HyperCard On The Archive (archive.org)
327 points by dogecoinbase on Aug 11, 2017 | 115 comments
9.
Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
488 points by superasn on Aug 10, 2017 | 569 comments
10.
The Origin of Japanese Tempura (bbc.com)
189 points by lukeinator42 on Aug 11, 2017 | 69 comments
11.
How far you can get if you leave the largest U.S. cities at rush hour (washingtonpost.com)
273 points by mcone on Aug 11, 2017 | 132 comments
12.
Lab hidden inside a famous monument (bbc.com)
144 points by happy-go-lucky on Aug 11, 2017 | 30 comments
13.
Filecoin Suspends ICO After Raising $186M in One Hour (financemagnates.com)
287 points by ianopolous on Aug 11, 2017 | 360 comments
14.
Galaxy Magazine: Free Texts (archive.org)
196 points by anthraxstars on Aug 11, 2017 | 23 comments
15.
A pilot explains turbulence (businessinsider.com)
125 points by sohkamyung on Aug 10, 2017 | 72 comments
16.
Britain's Forgotten Bike Highways (citylab.com)
115 points by jamesbowman on Aug 11, 2017 | 52 comments
17.
Crafting Plausible Maps (2015) (mythcreants.com)
285 points by fanf2 on Aug 11, 2017 | 55 comments
18.
Creating domain-specific languages in Julia using macros (julialang.org)
92 points by ViralBShah on Aug 11, 2017 | 19 comments
19.
Safari Should Display Favicons in Its Tabs (daringfireball.net)
256 points by ingve on Aug 11, 2017 | 135 comments
20.
UX brutalism (uxbrutalism.com)
354 points by takinola on Aug 11, 2017 | 177 comments
21.
Malware Encoded in DNA Can Hack Gene-Sequencing Software (wired.com)
157 points by sprucely on Aug 10, 2017 | 46 comments
22.
Critical security updates for Git, Subversion and Mercurial (marc.info)
366 points by mnw21cam on Aug 11, 2017 | 125 comments
23.
MIT team’s school-bus algorithm could save $5M and 1M bus miles (wsj.com)
169 points by frostmatthew on Aug 11, 2017 | 109 comments
24.
Bootstrap 4 Beta (getbootstrap.com)
306 points by jdorfman on Aug 11, 2017 | 149 comments
25.
Companies play around with their origin stories (wsj.com)
117 points by rayuela on Aug 11, 2017 | 53 comments
26.
High End CPUs – Intel vs. AMD (cpubenchmark.net)
192 points by bhouston on Aug 11, 2017 | 95 comments
27.
Implementing Font-Size in Servo: An Unexpectedly Complex CSS Property (manishearth.github.io)
262 points by kibwen on Aug 10, 2017 | 52 comments
28.
A ghostly radio station that no one claims to run (bbc.com)
209 points by rubenv on Aug 11, 2017 | 66 comments
29.
Body Count of the Roman Empire (necrometrics.com)
123 points by Red_Tarsius on Aug 11, 2017 | 61 comments
30.
Hidden benefits of gossip, ostracism (2014) (stanford.edu)
71 points by Mz on Aug 11, 2017 | 16 comments

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