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1.
OnHub (on.google.com)
984 points by ropiku on Aug 18, 2015 | 615 comments
2.
Multiple Vulnerabilities in Pocket (gnu.gl)
533 points by ers35 on Aug 18, 2015 | 154 comments
3.
We are barely halfway done (textfiles.com)
487 points by pmorici on Aug 18, 2015 | 74 comments
4.
Decertifying the worst voting machine in the US (freedom-to-tinker.com)
296 points by germinalphrase on Aug 18, 2015 | 201 comments
5.
How I came to find Linux (ianmurdock.com)
317 points by pythonist on Aug 18, 2015 | 115 comments
6.
Show HN: Tonic – A data visualizing REPL for Node.js (tonicdev.com)
342 points by boucher on Aug 18, 2015 | 79 comments
7.
FCC Fines Smart City $750K for Blocking Wi-Fi (fcc.gov)
345 points by pdabbadabba on Aug 18, 2015 | 180 comments
8.
Call Me Maybe: Chronos (aphyr.com)
243 points by sbilstein on Aug 18, 2015 | 87 comments
9.
Registered clinical trials make positive findings vanish (nature.com)
167 points by Alex3917 on Aug 18, 2015 | 60 comments
10.
How to Get Tenure (might.net)
308 points by norswap on Aug 18, 2015 | 50 comments
11.
Introducing Elm to a JavaScript Web App (noredinktech.tumblr.com)
137 points by Keats on Aug 18, 2015 | 30 comments
12.
Working Toward Bret Victor's “Learnable Programming” (comealive.io)
206 points by Permit on Aug 18, 2015 | 80 comments
13.
OpenBSD on EdgeRouter Lite (tedunangst.com)
112 points by ingve on Aug 18, 2015 | 27 comments
14.
US Patent 9085897: Space elevator (uspto.gov)
111 points by andyjohnson0 on Aug 18, 2015 | 79 comments
15.
RaspBSD – FreeBSD images for the Raspberry Pi (raspbsd.org)
126 points by fcambus on Aug 18, 2015 | 19 comments
16.
Are “Better” Ideas More Likely to Succeed? An Analysis of Startup Evaluation [pdf] (hbs.edu)
81 points by jforman on Aug 17, 2015 | 30 comments
17.
Ngrok – Expose any local server behind a NAT or firewall to the Internet (ngrok.com)
180 points by mavidser on Aug 18, 2015 | 40 comments
18.
Mainframes connected to the Internet (mainframesproject.tumblr.com)
118 points by danners on Aug 18, 2015 | 17 comments
19.
CloudFlare starts discussion about LuaJIT project governance (freelists.org)
89 points by bratao on Aug 18, 2015 | 52 comments
20.
Atria: A toolkit for modern C++ development from Ableton (abletonag.github.io)
104 points by ingve on Aug 18, 2015 | 34 comments
21.
Gneiss – A spreadsheet programming tool (cmu.edu)
104 points by spion on Aug 18, 2015 | 6 comments
22.
Cybiko (wikipedia.org)
122 points by bpierre on Aug 18, 2015 | 39 comments
23.
Solid Electrolyte Paves the Way for Batteries with Almost Indefinite Lifetimes (scitechdaily.com)
70 points by sprucely on Aug 18, 2015 | 31 comments
24.
Corn Wars (newrepublic.com)
96 points by GabrielF00 on Aug 18, 2015 | 128 comments
25.
Assembly 2015 demo party results (assembly.org)
84 points by zaf on Aug 18, 2015 | 14 comments
26.
Show HN: Heman – Tiny C library for working with height maps (readthedocs.org)
46 points by prideout on Aug 18, 2015
27.
The Dataflow Model: Balancing Correctness, Latency, and Cost in Data Processing [pdf] (googleusercontent.com)
56 points by timclark on Aug 18, 2015 | 12 comments
28.
Show HN: Stackie – A tiny stack machine for texture generation (fingswotidun.com)
81 points by Lerc on Aug 18, 2015 | 19 comments
29.
Tentacles that think (economist.com)
69 points by tomaskazemekas on Aug 18, 2015 | 17 comments
30.
A successful strategy to get college students thinking critically (arstechnica.com)
74 points by shawndumas on Aug 18, 2015 | 38 comments

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