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1.		Alda: A music programming language (daveyarwood.github.io)
		276 points by daveyarwood on Sept 6, 2015 \| 75 comments
2.		India's Forgotten Stepwells (archdaily.com)
		295 points by juanplusjuan on Sept 6, 2015 \| 36 comments
3.		SICP Distilled: An idiosyncratic tour of SICP in Clojure (sicpdistilled.com)
		243 points by jboynyc on Sept 6, 2015 \| 20 comments
4.		Microservices without the Servers (amazon.com)
		273 points by alexbilbie on Sept 6, 2015 \| 136 comments
5.		Vega: A Visualization Grammar (vega.github.io)
		192 points by hemapani on Sept 6, 2015 \| 24 comments
6.		Open-source Playstation 4 SDK (github.com/cturt)
		166 points by SchizoDuckie on Sept 6, 2015 \| 23 comments
7.		Black Screen: A modern terminal emulator based on Electron (github.com/shockone)
		215 points by SalGnt on Sept 5, 2015 \| 95 comments
8.		How Germany abolished tuition fees (bbc.com)
		150 points by HarryHirsch on Sept 6, 2015 \| 97 comments
9.		Linux-insides: System calls in the Linux kernel, Part 3 (github.com/0xax)
		73 points by 0xAX on Sept 6, 2015 \| 1 comment
10.		When the Unix load average was added to Unix (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		96 points by sciurus on Sept 6, 2015 \| 17 comments
11.		More young Indians are choosing their own spouses (economist.com)
		92 points by jimsojim on Sept 6, 2015 \| 44 comments
12.		Random Valid US Address (fakena.me)
		143 points by jayess on Sept 6, 2015 \| 52 comments
13.		Academics are being hoodwinked into writing books nobody can buy (theguardian.com)
		216 points by samclemens on Sept 6, 2015 \| 94 comments
14.		Kubernetes from the ground up: the API server (kamalmarhubi.com)
		116 points by luu on Sept 6, 2015 \| 21 comments
15.		What F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tax returns reveal about his life and times (2009) (theamericanscholar.org)
		69 points by danso on Sept 6, 2015 \| 35 comments
16.		“This week, I resigned from my position at Duke University” (facebook.com)
		279 points by Fede_V on Sept 6, 2015 \| 133 comments
17.		The Synthesis of Reliable Organisms from Unreliable Parts (1956) [pdf] (caltech.edu)
		58 points by rndn on Sept 6, 2015 \| 7 comments
18.		Notes on a tour of an Amazon distribution facility (2014) (docs.google.com)
		145 points by scmoore on Sept 6, 2015 \| 39 comments
19.		Death to Bullshit (deathtobullshit.com)
		325 points by spking on Sept 6, 2015 \| 213 comments
20.		Downsides of Caching (msol.io)
		80 points by arkenflame on Sept 6, 2015 \| 35 comments
21.		The selling of the Krays: how two mediocre criminals created their own legend (theguardian.com)
		37 points by pepys on Sept 6, 2015 \| 1 comment
22.		Public defender: it’s impossible for me to do a good job representing my clients (washingtonpost.com)
		233 points by ikeboy on Sept 6, 2015 \| 117 comments
23.		The Magical Island of Kanren – Core.logic Intro (2011) (objectcommando.com)
		41 points by jasim on Sept 6, 2015
24.		OMN: Scripting the whole language of traditional staff notation (opusmodus.com)
		46 points by geoffroy on Sept 6, 2015 \| 12 comments
25.		Cow Magnets (magnetsource.com)
		119 points by corndoge on Sept 6, 2015 \| 71 comments
26.		Five years, building a culture, and handing it off (laughingmeme.org)
		83 points by tamersalama on Sept 6, 2015 \| 18 comments
27.		How JavaScript closures work under the hood (dmitryfrank.com)
		83 points by dimonomid on Sept 6, 2015 \| 16 comments
28.		Zeigarnik Effect (psychwiki.com)
		42 points by 2a0c40 on Sept 6, 2015 \| 6 comments
29.		My Keyboard (zyghost.com)
		144 points by efnx on Sept 6, 2015 \| 105 comments
30.		The “Hitler at Home” stories of the pre-WWII American press (atlasobscura.com)
		75 points by aaronbrethorst on Sept 6, 2015 \| 75 comments
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