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1.		Unity Comes to Linux: Experimental Build Now Available (unity3d.com)
		377 points by fractalb on Aug 26, 2015 \| 129 comments
2.		Who Hacked Ashley Madison? (krebsonsecurity.com)
		410 points by david_shaw on Aug 26, 2015 \| 293 comments
3.		M, a personal digital assistant inside Facebook Messenger (wired.com)
		324 points by jasonlbaptiste on Aug 26, 2015 \| 169 comments
4.		A Woman Who Spent Six Years Fighting a Traffic Stop (themarshallproject.org)
		284 points by danso on Aug 26, 2015 \| 124 comments
5.		YC Stats (blog.ycombinator.com)
		249 points by macleanjr on Aug 26, 2015 \| 135 comments
6.		Apple Loses German Top Court Case on Swipe-to-Unlock Patent (bloomberg.com)
		250 points by bitzerlander on Aug 26, 2015 \| 127 comments
7.		How to Onboard Software Engineers (fogcreek.com)
		280 points by GarethX on Aug 26, 2015 \| 111 comments
8.		Potentially Reprogramming Cancer Cells Back to Normal Cells (neurosciencenews.com)
		208 points by jaoued on Aug 26, 2015 \| 40 comments
9.		WebExtensions FAQ (wiki.mozilla.org)
		177 points by jtgeibel on Aug 26, 2015 \| 126 comments
10.		A Russian Family Was Isolated for 40 Years, Unaware of WWII (2013) (smithsonianmag.com)
		226 points by sergeant3 on Aug 26, 2015 \| 58 comments
11.		Secretive fusion company claims reactor breakthrough (news.sciencemag.org)
		163 points by sparrowlisted on Aug 26, 2015 \| 93 comments
12.		An example Python machine learning notebook for newcomers (github.com/rhiever)
		174 points by rhiever on Aug 25, 2015 \| 15 comments
13.		What Does the OS X Activity Monitor’s “Energy Impact” Actually Measure? (blog.mozilla.org)
		137 points by nnethercote on Aug 25, 2015 \| 65 comments
14.		NeXTBSD aka FreeBSD X (slideshare.net)
		154 points by tachion on Aug 26, 2015 \| 70 comments
15.		A heads up display for git (github.com/michaeldfallen)
		242 points by michaelallen on Aug 26, 2015 \| 60 comments
16.		PyPy Vectorization (pypyvecopt.blogspot.com)
		99 points by hencq on Aug 26, 2015 \| 8 comments
17.		Vulcan-74 – A 6502 Retro MegaProject (6502.org)
		114 points by cmrdporcupine on Aug 26, 2015 \| 25 comments
18.		A Computational Introduction to Number Theory and Algebra (shoup.net)
		163 points by luu on Aug 26, 2015 \| 17 comments
19.		How to support PGP encryption in Gmail (conorpp.com)
		113 points by conorpp on Aug 26, 2015 \| 49 comments
20.		How companies make millions off lead-poisoned, poor blacks (washingtonpost.com)
		249 points by eplanit on Aug 26, 2015 \| 246 comments
21.		Why Do Colleges Give Honorary Degrees? (priceonomics.com)
		123 points by bpolania on Aug 26, 2015 \| 123 comments
22.		The Beauty of Clojure (owenrh.me.uk)
		217 points by erikcw on Aug 26, 2015 \| 170 comments
23.		Paxos Made Moderately Complex (paxos.systems)
		85 points by sargun on Aug 26, 2015 \| 29 comments
24.		How security flaws work: the buffer overflow (arstechnica.com)
		154 points by guardian5x on Aug 26, 2015 \| 45 comments
25.		How developers search for code: a case study (research.google.com)
		103 points by pramodbiligiri on Aug 26, 2015 \| 13 comments
26.		Network handover in Google Fi (nicholasarmstrong.com)
		107 points by ndrarmst on Aug 26, 2015 \| 51 comments
27.		3D printing titanium: Learning to learn from success (pencerw.com)
		73 points by pencerw on Aug 26, 2015 \| 35 comments
28.		Python Extension Proposal 498: Literal String Formatting (python.org)
		107 points by ptest1 on Aug 26, 2015 \| 97 comments
29.		Inside the Fight Over Bitcoin’s Future (newyorker.com)
		93 points by donohoe on Aug 26, 2015 \| 49 comments
30.		Making Ocean Water Drinkable (popularmechanics.com)
		75 points by prawn on Aug 26, 2015 \| 55 comments
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