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1.
Up in the Air: Escaping from East Germany (damninteresting.com)
205 points by vinnyglennon on Aug 23, 2015 | 87 comments
2.
Cat purr generator (mynoise.net)
289 points by kleer001 on Aug 23, 2015 | 47 comments
3.
A collection of debugging stories (github.com/danluu)
155 points by luu on Aug 23, 2015 | 16 comments
4.
The New York Times Makes 17k Recipes Available Online (openculture.com)
224 points by edward on Aug 23, 2015 | 94 comments
5.
Porsche 911: 52 years of staying true to its roots (arstechnica.com)
163 points by ingve on Aug 23, 2015 | 126 comments
6.
Met Office loses BBC weather forecasting contract after 93 years (theguardian.com)
109 points by edward on Aug 23, 2015 | 83 comments
7.
A Ghost Ship Drifting Through International Waters (sobify.com)
171 points by antimora on Aug 23, 2015 | 61 comments
8.
EasyOpenCL – The easiest way to get started with GPU programming (github.com/gladdy)
60 points by Gladdyu on Aug 22, 2015 | 30 comments
9.
ABCs of IBM z/OS System Programming Volume 1 (ibm.com)
75 points by emersonrsantos on Aug 23, 2015 | 59 comments
10.
A Western Kid Living in Communist Poland (2014) (jacquesmattheij.com)
135 points by ash on Aug 23, 2015 | 87 comments
11.
It is now easy to edit the genomes of plants, animals and humans (economist.com)
92 points by thomasrossi on Aug 23, 2015 | 75 comments
12.
Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012) (nothings.org)
63 points by epsylon on Aug 23, 2015 | 19 comments
13.
Linux-insides: Introduction to system calls (github.com/0xax)
115 points by 0xAX on Aug 23, 2015 | 4 comments
14.
SnoPy – Snobol Pattern Matching Extension for Python (sourceforge.net)
63 points by curtis on Aug 23, 2015 | 10 comments
15.
Why Yale Library decided to preserve 3000 horror and exploitation movies on VHS (theatlantic.com)
55 points by benbreen on Aug 23, 2015 | 37 comments
16.
Ritzy – A collaborative web-based rich text editor (github.com/ritzyed)
100 points by kylemathews on Aug 23, 2015 | 41 comments
17.
“It's easier to port a shell than a shell script” (1998) (quux.org)
92 points by beshrkayali on Aug 22, 2015 | 63 comments
18.
One-Time SSH Keys (fwei.ml)
76 points by theunamedguy on Aug 23, 2015 | 27 comments
19.
MicroPython 1.4.5 (python.org)
90 points by pfalcon on Aug 23, 2015 | 16 comments
20.
Lively Kernel (lively-kernel.org)
47 points by gull on Aug 23, 2015 | 13 comments
21.
Polari, the Lost Gay English Dialect (slate.com)
101 points by peteforde on Aug 23, 2015 | 22 comments
22.
Summernote – Super Simple WYSIWYG Editor on Bootstrap (summernote.org)
80 points by arm on Aug 23, 2015 | 22 comments
23.
What a posthumous brain scan reveals about Leonardo Da Vinci's creativity? (brainpickings.org)
58 points by webmasterraj on Aug 22, 2015 | 25 comments
24.
Writing comments about pointer ownership (gpfault.net)
42 points by nice_byte on Aug 23, 2015 | 39 comments
25.
Interview with Dennis Ritchie, Bjarne Stroustrup, and James Gosling (2000) (gotw.ca)
56 points by ingve on Aug 23, 2015 | 22 comments
26.
Planck is a ClojureScript REPL and script execution environment (fikesfarm.com)
86 points by jballanc on Aug 23, 2015 | 10 comments
27.
The structure of the 'THE'-multiprogramming system (1968) (utexas.edu)
23 points by vezzy-fnord on Aug 23, 2015 | 3 comments
28.
Twitter has killed Politwoops, which monitored politicians' deleted tweets (thenextweb.com)
179 points by brie22 on Aug 23, 2015 | 86 comments
29.
Matrices in Julia (alexhwoods.com)
51 points by alexhwoods on Aug 23, 2015 | 29 comments
30.
Five Ways to Lie with Charts (nautil.us)
87 points by chmars on Aug 22, 2015 | 12 comments

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