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1.		Pixar in a Box – Khan Academy (pixarinabox.org)
		753 points by beneater on Aug 27, 2015 \| 65 comments
2.		Amazon Underground (amazon.com)
		350 points by acjohnson55 on Aug 26, 2015 \| 131 comments
3.		China Sells U.S. Treasuries to Support Yuan (bloomberg.com)
		301 points by randomname2 on Aug 27, 2015 \| 204 comments
4.		Your Job as a Founder Is to Create Believers (josephwalla.com)
		270 points by guiseppecalzone on Aug 27, 2015 \| 157 comments
5.		Ghost: $411k Annual Revenue with a team of 6 (ghost.org)
		234 points by shark1 on Aug 27, 2015 \| 163 comments
6.		Lock freedom without garbage collection in Rust (aturon.github.io)
		234 points by aturon on Aug 27, 2015 \| 90 comments
7.		13,000 fall into homelessness every month in L.A. County (latimes.com)
		148 points by Futurebot on Aug 27, 2015 \| 80 comments
8.		Toxy, a hackable HTTP proxy to simulate failure scenarios (github.com/h2non)
		130 points by jsnell on Aug 27, 2015 \| 15 comments
9.		Ad Blocking Extensions Tested for Performance (raymond.cc)
		282 points by rayshan on Aug 27, 2015 \| 97 comments
10.		Lantern – Open Internet for Everyone (getlantern.org)
		134 points by obilgic on Aug 26, 2015 \| 46 comments
11.		The Best Jobs Now Require You to Be a People Person (fivethirtyeight.com)
		214 points by kareemm on Aug 27, 2015 \| 238 comments
12.		Profiling and Optimizing in Go (github.com/bradfitz)
		116 points by mmastrac on Aug 27, 2015 \| 8 comments
13.		Handling App Transport Security in iOS 9 (googleadsdeveloper.blogspot.com)
		123 points by Kallikrates on Aug 27, 2015 \| 59 comments
14.		Windows 10 Review (anandtech.com)
		146 points by sinak on Aug 26, 2015 \| 248 comments
15.		OCamlers' critiques of Haskell (reddit.com)
		177 points by a0 on Aug 27, 2015 \| 137 comments
16.		The Gracie jiu-jitsu story (grantland.com)
		143 points by fezz on Aug 27, 2015 \| 112 comments
17.		Understanding LSTM networks (colah.github.io)
		99 points by michael_nielsen on Aug 27, 2015 \| 17 comments
18.		How recursion got into Algol 60: a comedy of errors (vanemden.wordpress.com)
		103 points by sytelus on Aug 27, 2015 \| 124 comments
19.		The Upside of a Downturn in Silicon Valley (nytimes.com)
		101 points by edw519 on Aug 27, 2015 \| 26 comments
20.		Mr. Wizard, Television's Original Science Guy (smithsonianmag.com)
		84 points by snake117 on Aug 26, 2015 \| 28 comments
21.		The Tomb of Queen Esther in Persia (riowang.blogspot.com)
		104 points by CrocodileStreet on Aug 27, 2015 \| 34 comments
22.		Many Psychology Findings Not as Strong as Claimed, Study Says (nytimes.com)
		99 points by mcgwiz on Aug 27, 2015 \| 34 comments
23.		MITIE: MIT Information Extraction (github.com/mit-nlp)
		76 points by bane on Aug 27, 2015 \| 16 comments
24.		“Spookiness” Confirmed by the First Loophole-Free Quantum Test (fqxi.org)
		96 points by flurpitude on Aug 27, 2015 \| 44 comments
25.		Koka – A function-oriented programming language (research.microsoft.com)
		107 points by chrisaycock on Aug 27, 2015 \| 10 comments
26.		Distributed consensus reloaded: ZooKeeper and replication in Kafka (confluent.io)
		82 points by nehanarkhede on Aug 27, 2015 \| 18 comments
27.		Prenav "hello world" drone drawing cubes inside a building [video] (prenav.com)
		104 points by alain94040 on Aug 26, 2015 \| 20 comments
28.		Embedding D3 in an IPython Notebook (christianmoscardi.com)
		72 points by c_moscardi on Aug 27, 2015 \| 20 comments
29.		Show HN: Flarum – Delightfully simple open-source forum software (flarum.org)
		163 points by tobyzerner on Aug 27, 2015 \| 78 comments
30.		Emulating exceptions in C: a case study (sevko.io)
		55 points by sevko on Aug 26, 2015 \| 27 comments
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