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1.		Newegg vs. Patent Trolls: When We Win, You Win (newegg.com)
		704 points by nkurz on July 29, 2015 \| 151 comments
2.		GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation (wsj.com)
		569 points by icpmacdo on July 29, 2015 \| 389 comments
3.		GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the word 'retard' (github.com/nixxquality)
		542 points by necessity on July 29, 2015 \| 801 comments
4.		How Google Translate squeezes deep learning onto a phone (googleresearch.blogspot.com)
		403 points by xwintermutex on July 29, 2015 \| 92 comments
5.		Take-home interviews (triplebyte.com)
		271 points by socmoth on July 29, 2015 \| 285 comments
6.		Microsoft’s new small print – how your personal data is abused (edri.org)
		348 points by rvern on July 29, 2015 \| 181 comments
7.		Amazon details its plan for how drones can fly safely over U.S. skies (washingtonpost.com)
		189 points by mhb on July 29, 2015 \| 234 comments
8.		First Round 10 Year Project (firstround.com)
		202 points by sergeant3 on July 29, 2015 \| 77 comments
9.		Pilots Say That the F-16-Cessna Crash Illustrates a Civil-Military Difference (theatlantic.com)
		181 points by curtis on July 28, 2015 \| 95 comments
10.		SSL tools we wish we'd known about earlier (certsimple.com)
		217 points by nailer on July 29, 2015 \| 57 comments
11.		RubySpec is Reborn (eregon.github.io)
		135 points by chrisseaton on July 29, 2015 \| 19 comments
12.		Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today (windows.com)
		308 points by Garbage on July 29, 2015 \| 384 comments
13.		Blockspring: Do anything in a spreadsheet (a16z.com)
		170 points by robzyb on July 29, 2015 \| 78 comments
14.		Show HN: Walk around unusual geometries (parametricity.com)
		149 points by ihm on July 29, 2015 \| 34 comments
15.		Releasing jsfunfuzz and DOMFuzz (squarefree.com)
		118 points by dbaupp on July 29, 2015 \| 14 comments
16.		Show HN: File.io – Ephemeral file sharing (file.io)
		155 points by ca98am79 on July 29, 2015 \| 89 comments
17.		Database expert on why NoSQL mattered – and SQL still matters (medium.com/s-c-a-l-e)
		132 points by jasondc on July 28, 2015 \| 37 comments
18.		Binary in JavaScript (danthedev.com)
		128 points by codecurve on July 28, 2015 \| 29 comments
19.		YC Startup School Radio, Episode 1: Alexis Ohanian and Kaz Nejatian (blog.ycombinator.com)
		83 points by loyalelectron on July 28, 2015 \| 37 comments
20.		How to smuggle $1K into North Korea (politico.com)
		167 points by admp on July 29, 2015 \| 81 comments
21.		Flux Architecture Visual Cheatsheet (danmaz74.me)
		137 points by ihenvyr on July 29, 2015 \| 43 comments
22.		Facebook Ordered by Hamburg Regulator to Allow Pseudonyms (bloomberg.com)
		147 points by adventured on July 29, 2015 \| 130 comments
23.		Fragments of a wing washed up on Reunion could be wreckage from MH370 (telegraph.co.uk)
		182 points by curtis on July 29, 2015 \| 60 comments
24.		Secret TPP Talks Continue as the Deal Grows More Controversial (eff.org)
		166 points by ghosh on July 29, 2015 \| 61 comments
25.		Nóirín Plunkett has died (apache.org)
		211 points by daenney on July 29, 2015 \| 48 comments
26.		Google Straps Aclima Sensors to Street View Cars to Map Air Pollution (techcrunch.com)
		79 points by Zweihander on July 29, 2015 \| 24 comments
27.		The Factory of Ideas: Working at Bell Labs [video] (youtube.com)
		88 points by hwstar on July 29, 2015 \| 23 comments
28.		Modals in React (reactjsnews.com)
		93 points by zackify on July 29, 2015 \| 34 comments
29.		The Limitations of the Ethernet CRC and TCP/IP Checksums for Error Detection (noahdavids.org)
		42 points by luu on July 29, 2015 \| 20 comments
30.		Focusing on Developer Happiness with Humane Development (fogcreek.com)
		93 points by GarethX on July 29, 2015 \| 27 comments
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