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1.		WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages (wordsafety.com)
		431 points by randall on Aug 25, 2015 \| 276 comments
2.		State of the Common Lisp Ecosystem (eudoxia.me)
		199 points by dwc on Aug 25, 2015 \| 104 comments
3.		Literary Magazines for Socialists Funded by the CIA, Ranked (theawl.com)
		176 points by samclemens on Aug 25, 2015 \| 133 comments
4.		Haskell for Mac (haskellformac.com)
		297 points by grayprog on Aug 25, 2015 \| 179 comments
5.		Show HN: Ear training using midi.js (tonedear.com)
		230 points by dncrane on Aug 25, 2015 \| 34 comments
6.		Python, Machine Learning, and Language Wars. A Highly Subjective Point of View (sebastianraschka.com)
		167 points by Lofkin on Aug 24, 2015 \| 93 comments
7.		A new Stephen Hawking presentation about black holes (washingtonpost.com)
		169 points by ColinCochrane on Aug 25, 2015 \| 95 comments
8.		Will Your Hardware Startup Make Money? (medium.com/boltvc)
		209 points by tigrella on Aug 25, 2015 \| 82 comments
9.		Angular 1 and Angular 2 integration: the path to seamless upgrade (angularjs.blogspot.com)
		202 points by hswolff on Aug 25, 2015 \| 100 comments
10.		Facebook ‘Spam King’ Guilty for Sending 27M Messages (bloomberg.com)
		102 points by tchalla on Aug 25, 2015 \| 86 comments
11.		A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography [pdf] (stanford.edu)
		134 points by windhamdavid on Aug 25, 2015 \| 23 comments
12.		Silicon Brain: 100,000 ARM cores [video] (youtube.com)
		119 points by DiabloD3 on Aug 25, 2015 \| 54 comments
13.		When hardware Kickstarters ship (koalasafe.com)
		169 points by steven_pack on Aug 25, 2015 \| 87 comments
14.		As Coursera Evolves, Colleges Stay On and Investors Buy In (chronicle.com)
		132 points by jyosim4 on Aug 25, 2015 \| 86 comments
15.		UK surveillance “worse than 1984” says new UN privacy chief (arstechnica.co.uk)
		313 points by fukusa on Aug 25, 2015 \| 229 comments
16.		Debian GNU/Hurd Status Update [pdf] (debian.org)
		121 points by Tsiolkovsky on Aug 25, 2015 \| 54 comments
17.		Traceroute (scripts.mit.edu)
		130 points by evandrix on Aug 25, 2015 \| 45 comments
18.		Writing a Linux Kernel Module — Part 3: Buttons and LEDs (derekmolloy.ie)
		116 points by OrangeTux on Aug 25, 2015 \| 12 comments
19.		Chebyshev Approximation (embeddedrelated.com)
		204 points by alexcasalboni on Aug 25, 2015 \| 60 comments
20.		50 years ago today the word “hypertext” was introduced (gigaom.com)
		119 points by epsylon on Aug 25, 2015 \| 15 comments
21.		Writ – Opinionated, classless styles for semantic HTML (cmcenroe.me)
		150 points by citizenk on Aug 25, 2015 \| 61 comments
22.		Towards Neural Network-based Reasoning (arxiv.org)
		134 points by lucidrains on Aug 25, 2015 \| 23 comments
23.		How a Volcanic Eruption in 1815 Darkened the World but Colored the Arts (nytimes.com)
		69 points by danso on Aug 25, 2015 \| 4 comments
24.		The Holocaust epigenetics study was over-interpreted (epgntxeinstein.tumblr.com)
		92 points by tokenadult on Aug 25, 2015 \| 37 comments
25.		How Sick Is the Stock Market? (bloombergview.com)
		116 points by gedrap on Aug 25, 2015 \| 116 comments
26.		Fun with time travel: retroactive data structures in Python (github.com/csvoss)
		79 points by puremachinery on Aug 25, 2015 \| 8 comments
27.		Learn X in Y minutes – Tcl (learnxinyminutes.com)
		94 points by notduncansmith on Aug 25, 2015 \| 64 comments
28.		Parents' Math Anxiety Is Contagious to Their Kids (nytimes.com)
		83 points by euske on Aug 25, 2015 \| 75 comments
29.		What It Looks Like to Use the Internet for the First Time (vice.com)
		82 points by danso on Aug 25, 2015 \| 31 comments
30.		Photos at Microsoft Corp (1979) (sound-photo.com)
		200 points by colinprince on Aug 25, 2015 \| 83 comments
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