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1.
PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux (azure.microsoft.com)
1217 points by platz on Aug 18, 2016 | 760 comments
2.
Page Dewarping (mzucker.github.io)
743 points by pietrofmaggi on Aug 18, 2016 | 70 comments
3.
Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons (washingtonpost.com)
859 points by okket on Aug 18, 2016 | 358 comments
4.
A minimal raytracer (mzucker.github.io)
395 points by ingve on Aug 18, 2016 | 61 comments
5.
How I wrote and published my novel using only open source tools (medium.com/gabrielgambetta)
391 points by ggambetta on Aug 18, 2016 | 180 comments
6.
TCP Puzzlers (joyent.com)
468 points by jsnell on Aug 18, 2016 | 70 comments
7.
Otto joins Uber (ot.to)
289 points by ktta on Aug 18, 2016 | 201 comments
8.
Grokking Deep Learning (iamtrask.github.io)
530 points by williamtrask on Aug 18, 2016 | 112 comments
9.
AMD Zen Microarchitecture: Dual Schedulers, Micro-Op Cache and Memory Hierarchy (anandtech.com)
190 points by dineshp2 on Aug 18, 2016 | 131 comments
10.
Announcing Rust 1.11 (rust-lang.org)
321 points by eslaught on Aug 18, 2016 | 92 comments
11.
Decentralization is about diversity (sandstorm.io)
169 points by ingve on Aug 18, 2016 | 93 comments
12.
Technology was meant to herald a new way of working, but that’s not the case (bbc.com)
248 points by pogbywg8 on Aug 18, 2016 | 182 comments
13.
F# for Fun and Profit (gitbook.com)
258 points by rajadigopula on Aug 18, 2016 | 31 comments
14.
Organisms might be quantum machines (bbc.com)
171 points by tropicalfruit on Aug 18, 2016 | 119 comments
15.
Evidence on how to find the right career (80000hours.org)
214 points by robertwiblin on Aug 17, 2016 | 61 comments
16.
Formal – Interruption free communication (formalapp.com)
159 points by gkr on Aug 18, 2016 | 116 comments
17.
Show HN: WebGL Fire Simulation (ghostinthecode.net)
143 points by jharsman on Aug 18, 2016 | 23 comments
18.
America’s housing system still has not been properly reformed (economist.com)
164 points by martincmartin on Aug 18, 2016 | 144 comments
19.
US ready to 'hand over' the internet's naming system (bbc.co.uk)
170 points by dcminter on Aug 18, 2016 | 133 comments
20.
Facebook is building its own Steam-style desktop gaming platform with Unity (techcrunch.com)
164 points by lxm on Aug 18, 2016 | 195 comments
21.
Hololens Commercial Suite (microsoft.com)
113 points by runesoerensen on Aug 17, 2016 | 23 comments
22.
Drawing isometric boxes in the correct order (shaunlebron.github.io)
161 points by _qc3o on Aug 18, 2016 | 40 comments
23.
Show HN: A Web Extension to save a page or selection as eBook (github.com/alexadam)
106 points by eg312 on Aug 18, 2016 | 25 comments
24.
The Secret Button (codersnotes.com)
241 points by ingve on Aug 18, 2016 | 117 comments
25.
Human joins Mapbox (human.co)
96 points by Doctor_Fegg on Aug 18, 2016 | 24 comments
26.
What Do Public Library Workers Do? (2011) (laurensmith.wordpress.com)
87 points by Mz on Aug 18, 2016 | 40 comments
27.
Intel Announces Knights Mill: A Xeon Phi for Deep Learning (anandtech.com)
94 points by scaz on Aug 17, 2016 | 56 comments
28.
Uber’s First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month (bloomberg.com)
289 points by ghosh on Aug 18, 2016 | 237 comments
29.
Was There a Problem with the Rio Pool? (swimswam.com)
229 points by furyg3 on Aug 18, 2016 | 96 comments
30.
An Illustrated Guide to Guy Debord’s ‘The Society of the Spectacle’ (hyperallergic.com)
87 points by chippy on Aug 18, 2016 | 20 comments

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