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1.
Oliver Sacks has died (nytimes.com)
495 points by aburan28 on Aug 30, 2015 | 37 comments
2.
OS X Command Line Utilities (mitchchn.me)
517 points by AlexeyBrin on Aug 30, 2015 | 202 comments
3.
BMW: All Models Electric Within Decade (nasdaq.com)
332 points by Doubleguitars on Aug 30, 2015 | 292 comments
4.
How widely used are security-based HTTP response headers? (scotthelme.co.uk)
116 points by bikeshack on Aug 30, 2015 | 34 comments
5.
Ask HN: How to Find the Best Info on Cancer Treatments?
188 points by ekianjo on Aug 30, 2015 | 86 comments
6.
How the Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive (theatlantic.com)
228 points by samclemens on Aug 30, 2015 | 125 comments
7.
Frederick Forsyth reveals MI6 spying past (bbc.co.uk)
102 points by rb2e on Aug 30, 2015 | 18 comments
8.
The man who mistook his wife for a hat (1983) (lrb.co.uk)
217 points by lermontov on Aug 30, 2015 | 26 comments
9.
Examining the core memory module inside a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe (righto.com)
122 points by NelsonMinar on Aug 30, 2015 | 24 comments
10.
Using DTrace to measure Erlang dirty scheduler overhead (medium.com/jlouis666)
87 points by bcantrill on Aug 29, 2015 | 18 comments
11.
Tufte in R (motioninsocial.com)
123 points by trengrj on Aug 29, 2015 | 17 comments
12.
P values are not as reliable as many scientists assume (2014) (nature.com)
83 points by e0m on Aug 30, 2015 | 87 comments
13.
How the Dutch got their cycling infrastructure (2011) (bicycledutch.wordpress.com)
120 points by omnibrain on Aug 30, 2015 | 74 comments
14.
Ten years later, the story of Suck.com (2005) (keepgoing.org)
57 points by pavel_lishin on Aug 30, 2015 | 21 comments
15.
The Solar Sunflower (arstechnica.com)
79 points by Rifu on Aug 30, 2015 | 46 comments
16.
Assembly Gems (dflund.se)
78 points by aburan28 on Aug 29, 2015 | 13 comments
17.
N8VEM – Homebrew Computing Project (wikipedia.org)
52 points by jdmoreira on Aug 30, 2015 | 15 comments
18.
Polyfills as a Service (polyfills.io)
67 points by grflynn on Aug 30, 2015 | 15 comments
19.
Factor – A Practical Stack Language (factorcode.org)
76 points by terminalcommand on Aug 29, 2015 | 7 comments
20.
Can we ever really know another person? (nautil.us)
63 points by dnetesn on Aug 30, 2015 | 22 comments
21.
Getting C-compatible structs in Go with and for cgo (utcc.utoronto.ca)
39 points by ash on Aug 30, 2015 | 9 comments
22.
A neuroscientist who believes addiction is not a disease (theguardian.com)
101 points by rocketbop on Aug 30, 2015 | 89 comments
23.
Bitsavers' Software Archive (uni-stuttgart.de)
30 points by signaler on Aug 30, 2015 | 3 comments
24.
Thinking too much: self-generated thought as the engine of neuroticism (cell.com)
86 points by stevewilhelm on Aug 30, 2015 | 13 comments
25.
Show HN: Cdefs, extract function prototypes in C files to JSON (github.com/mateogianolio)
22 points by megalodon on Aug 30, 2015 | 28 comments
26.
John Conway's Life in Games (quantamagazine.org)
56 points by ColinWright on Aug 30, 2015 | 3 comments
27.
Subatomic particles that appear to defy Standard Model (yahoo.com)
56 points by lrondanini on Aug 30, 2015 | 9 comments
28.
To See and Not See by Oliver Sacks (1993) [pdf] (willamette.edu)
47 points by osahal on Aug 30, 2015 | 2 comments
29.
Google Caching Overview (peering.google.com)
78 points by anand-s on Aug 30, 2015 | 27 comments
30.
What happens if you take the Fifth in a civil case? (washingtonpost.com)
58 points by SCAQTony on Aug 30, 2015 | 6 comments

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