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1.		Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock (hellorhei.com)
		681 points by damjanstankovic on Sept 26, 2015 \| 103 comments
2.		The real anti-Facebook is good old email (wired.com)
		255 points by Alex3917 on Sept 26, 2015 \| 155 comments
3.		Terence Tao solves the Erdős Discrepancy Problem (nature.com)
		285 points by jonbaer on Sept 26, 2015 \| 27 comments
4.		The Greatest Regex Trick Ever (2014) (rexegg.com)
		227 points by user_235711 on Sept 26, 2015 \| 131 comments
5.		Lazy Redis is better Redis (antirez.com)
		205 points by mostafah on Sept 26, 2015 \| 22 comments
6.		“Tsundoku,” the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves (openculture.com)
		163 points by ColinWright on Sept 26, 2015 \| 83 comments
7.		Epistemic learned helplessness (2013) (squid314.livejournal.com)
		130 points by ikeboy on Sept 25, 2015 \| 56 comments
8.		How a $2.7B air-defense system became a 'zombie' program (latimes.com)
		86 points by JumpCrisscross on Sept 25, 2015 \| 30 comments
9.		Stupid Apps and Changing the World (samaltman.com)
		118 points by jimsojim on Sept 25, 2015 \| 80 comments
10.		Emacs Artist Mode (cinsk.org)
		118 points by brudgers on Sept 25, 2015 \| 26 comments
11.		Always bet on text (2014) (graydon2.dreamwidth.org)
		156 points by ColinWright on Sept 26, 2015 \| 69 comments
12.		Utron: Go MVC framework for fast, scalable and robust database-driven web apps (github.com/gernest)
		205 points by ingve on Sept 26, 2015 \| 19 comments
13.		The Secret Structure of the S-Box of [GOST] Streebog, Kuznechik and Stribob (iacr.org)
		61 points by tptacek on Sept 26, 2015 \| 7 comments
14.		U.S.-China Deal to Ban Ivory Trade Is Good News for Elephants (nationalgeographic.com)
		62 points by adamnemecek on Sept 26, 2015 \| 40 comments
15.		Zero-Bullshit Method for Recruiting a Sales Force (a16z.com)
		57 points by takinola on Sept 26, 2015 \| 24 comments
16.		Cuba's Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify, all without the internet (vox.com)
		50 points by comrh on Sept 25, 2015 \| 48 comments
17.		Too often, the government uses its information machinery to try to persuade (washingtonpost.com)
		55 points by spking on Sept 26, 2015 \| 22 comments
18.		Writing a browser extension for three browsers (einaregilsson.com)
		58 points by einaregilsson on Sept 25, 2015 \| 20 comments
19.		Why do PCs load their boot sector at 7C000h linear? (glamenv-septzen.net)
		73 points by monopolemagnet on Sept 26, 2015 \| 26 comments
20.		The Inside Story Behind MS08-067 (technet.com)
		102 points by dsr12 on Sept 26, 2015 \| 12 comments
21.		Gravity-Powered Solar Tracker (notechmagazine.com)
		42 points by davesailer on Sept 25, 2015 \| 30 comments
22.		Gryffin: a large scale web security scanning platform from Yahoo (github.com/yahoo)
		55 points by cnbuff410 on Sept 26, 2015 \| 4 comments
23.		30 second arithmetic challenge (christianp.github.io)
		74 points by 317070 on Sept 25, 2015 \| 40 comments
24.		Atlassian Planning U.S. IPO (wsj.com)
		75 points by sqs on Sept 26, 2015 \| 55 comments
25.		Prebake: Block EU Cookie Notices with Adblock (prebake.eu)
		106 points by rcarmo on Sept 26, 2015 \| 77 comments
26.		Spinning ring on a table found to behave more like a boomerang than a coin (phys.org)
		34 points by dnetesn on Sept 25, 2015 \| 2 comments
27.		Sid – Static Intrusion Detection for NetBSD (netbsd.org)
		58 points by vezzy-fnord on Sept 26, 2015 \| 7 comments
28.		Gitcolony – The next generation of pull requests (gitcolony.com)
		36 points by mfocaraccio on Sept 25, 2015 \| 23 comments
29.		Mobile Ad Brokers as DDoS Distribution Vectors: A Case Study (cloudflare.com)
		37 points by majke on Sept 25, 2015 \| 9 comments
30.		Clarifications about Redis and Memcached (antirez.com)
		191 points by juanfatas on Sept 26, 2015 \| 38 comments
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