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1.
In Iraq, I raided insurgents. In Virginia, the police raided me (washingtonpost.com)
600 points by webmonkeyuk on July 25, 2015 | 285 comments
2.
Why Debian returned to FFmpeg (lwn.net)
265 points by vezzy-fnord on July 25, 2015 | 99 comments
3.
The Battle for Wesnoth needs help (wesnoth.org)
397 points by mproud on July 25, 2015 | 147 comments
4.
What Makes Founders Succeed (foundersatwork.posthaven.com)
189 points by revorad on July 25, 2015 | 98 comments
5.
Rwasa – A high-performance web server in x86_64 assembly (2ton.com.au)
228 points by jonathonf on July 25, 2015 | 70 comments
6.
JSCity – JavaScript code visualizations using Three.js (github.com/aserg-ufmg)
129 points by bhjs on July 25, 2015 | 17 comments
7.
The Craigslist Lawsuit (3taps.com)
209 points by squigs25 on July 25, 2015 | 122 comments
8.
Plasma Mobile (plasma-mobile.org)
238 points by jbk on July 25, 2015 | 138 comments
9.
Ask HN: Has anyone here programmed in Kotlin? What do you think about it?
190 points by lemevi on July 25, 2015 | 199 comments
10.
The Facebook Method of Dealing with Complexity (acm.org)
146 points by ingve on July 25, 2015 | 46 comments
11.
The Software Paradox: The Rise and Fall of the Commercial Software Market [pdf] (oreilly.com)
128 points by rdudekul on July 25, 2015 | 53 comments
12.
Thesis, Automattic, and WordPress: A Conflict of Ideology (poststatus.com)
112 points by krogsgard on July 24, 2015 | 49 comments
13.
Excel_to_code – Converts some Excel spreadsheets to C (github.com/tamc)
92 points by gmac on July 24, 2015 | 59 comments
14.
Everything About Tor [pdf] (ritter.vg)
96 points by QuinnWilton on July 24, 2015 | 4 comments
15.
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning (2010) (mariovittone.com)
151 points by Tomte on July 25, 2015 | 40 comments
16.
Square Files Confidential IPO (wsj.com)
94 points by ryanmonroe on July 25, 2015 | 31 comments
17.
Oliver Sacks: My Periodic Table (nytimes.com)
99 points by benbreen on July 25, 2015 | 9 comments
18.
Tentacle simulation using inverse kinematics (github.com/soulwire)
77 points by bemmu on July 25, 2015 | 10 comments
19.
Additional C/C++ Tooling (nickdesaulniers.github.io)
98 points by ScottWRobinson on July 24, 2015 | 67 comments
20.
Programmable Materials (selfassemblylab.net)
75 points by jcr on July 25, 2015 | 3 comments
21.
The Death of Cash (bbc.com)
90 points by JacobAldridge on July 25, 2015 | 122 comments
22.
Building a concurrent TCP server with libmill (libmill.org)
69 points by rumcajz on July 25, 2015 | 16 comments
23.
Ask HN: What are some good resources on the history of programming languages?
75 points by groth on July 25, 2015 | 24 comments
24.
Std::shared_ptr's secret constructor (justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk)
87 points by santaclaus on July 25, 2015 | 10 comments
25.
Chisel: Constructing Hardware in a Scala Embedded Language (eecs.berkeley.edu)
57 points by archgoon on July 25, 2015 | 58 comments
26.
The MIT Gang (nytimes.com)
88 points by drallison on July 25, 2015 | 50 comments
27.
Hammer: Parser Combinators for C (github.com/upstandinghackers)
56 points by QuinnWilton on July 25, 2015 | 20 comments
28.
Generate Regex from Examples (units.it)
79 points by atroche on July 25, 2015 | 43 comments
29.
Using machine learning to compose drum rhythms (trivedigaurav.com)
54 points by oversc0re on July 24, 2015 | 7 comments
30.
Micro-Talespin: A Story Generator in Common Lisp (1992) (eliterature.org)
44 points by 32bitkid on July 25, 2015 | 15 comments

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