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1.
AT&T Helped N.S.A. Spy on an Array of Internet Traffic (nytimes.com)
568 points by tchalla on Aug 15, 2015 | 117 comments
2.
Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace (nytimes.com)
708 points by IBM on Aug 15, 2015 | 424 comments
3.
We should host the Olympics in the same place every time (washingtonpost.com)
288 points by evanb on Aug 15, 2015 | 122 comments
4.
Phaser – A fast, fun and free open source HTML5 game framework (phaser.io)
232 points by lobo_tuerto on Aug 15, 2015 | 55 comments
5.
“Big data” features coming in PostgreSQL 9.5 (lwn.net)
226 points by snaga on Aug 15, 2015 | 33 comments
6.
Oliver Sacks: Sabbath (nytimes.com)
197 points by samclemens on Aug 15, 2015 | 51 comments
7.
Google’s S2, geometry on the sphere, cells and Hilbert curve (christianperone.com)
166 points by perone on Aug 15, 2015 | 29 comments
8.
Snake Oil Crypto Competition (cr.yp.to)
104 points by aburan28 on Aug 15, 2015 | 20 comments
9.
Saving 25,000 Manuals (textfiles.com)
314 points by Doubleguitars on Aug 15, 2015 | 68 comments
10.
ACM Classic Computer Science Books Series (acm.org)
96 points by adamnemecek on Aug 15, 2015 | 19 comments
11.
The TTY demystified (2008) (linusakesson.net)
127 points by r4um on Aug 15, 2015 | 31 comments
12.
Reverse-engineered Linux driver for the Broadcom 1570 PCIe webcam (github.com/patjak)
73 points by ai_ja_nai on Aug 15, 2015 | 23 comments
13.
Why NASA Switched from Unity to Blend4Web (gamedev.net)
150 points by felhr on Aug 15, 2015 | 46 comments
14.
Strongtalk: A high-speed Smalltalk with incremental, optional strong typing (strongtalk.org)
58 points by david-given on Aug 14, 2015 | 5 comments
15.
The Hexayurt Project: Free Hardware Housing for the World (hexayurt.com)
67 points by rbcoffee on Aug 15, 2015 | 20 comments
16.
Documents confirm Apple is building self-driving car (theguardian.com)
112 points by r0h1n on Aug 14, 2015 | 70 comments
17.
Some Musings on Mathematics (solipsys.co.uk)
48 points by ColinWright on Aug 15, 2015 | 45 comments
18.
A simpler web architecture using React, Flux, CSP, and FRP concepts (codrspace.com)
95 points by juliangamble on Aug 15, 2015 | 34 comments
19.
Cyanogen Platform SDK: The Proof Is in the Pudding (cyanogenmod.org)
42 points by _jomo on Aug 15, 2015 | 21 comments
20.
The Bugs We Have to Kill [pdf] (usenix.org)
47 points by vezzy-fnord on Aug 15, 2015 | 22 comments
21.
Memory Efficient Hard Real-Time Garbage Collection (2003) [pdf] (diva-portal.org)
55 points by MaysonL on Aug 15, 2015 | 8 comments
22.
Marathon Editing Brings New Rigor to Wikipedia Physics (simonsfoundation.org)
49 points by JohnHammersley on Aug 15, 2015 | 22 comments
23.
I Will Kill You [video] (youtube.com)
159 points by nnd on Aug 14, 2015 | 16 comments
24.
Fzf-fs: file browser and navigator with fuzzy matching (github.com/d630)
36 points by ivank on Aug 15, 2015 | 7 comments
25.
Bayesian Financial Models (toddmoses.com)
55 points by toddmoses on Aug 15, 2015 | 19 comments
26.
OpenBSD Foundation Announces New Silver Donor: Yandex (undeadly.org)
92 points by stargrave on Aug 15, 2015 | 14 comments
27.
Mass FTP Crawling (cedsys.nl)
53 points by _okx2 on Aug 15, 2015 | 14 comments
28.
NSA announces plans for transitioning to quantum resistant algorithms (nsa.gov)
87 points by lisper on Aug 15, 2015 | 76 comments
29.
Easy parallel Python with concurrent.futures (gist.github.com)
50 points by edward on Aug 15, 2015 | 11 comments
30.
How new 'white space' rules could lead to an urban super-Wi-Fi (computerworld.com)
47 points by doener on Aug 15, 2015 | 25 comments

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