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1.		How I Built a Custom Camper Van (2015) (syntheti.cc)
		751 points by pvsukale3 on Aug 29, 2016 \| 340 comments
2.		The Myth of RAM (2014) (ilikebigbits.com)
		593 points by ddlatham on Aug 29, 2016 \| 277 comments
3.		Academic Torrents: A distributed system for sharing enormous datasets (academictorrents.com)
		552 points by iamjeff on Aug 29, 2016 \| 95 comments
4.		Hunter S. Thompson on Finding Your Purpose (1958) (tranquilmonkey.com)
		525 points by zeeshanm on Aug 29, 2016 \| 257 comments
5.		Rotoscoped Animation of Filmed Parkour (moral.net.au)
		452 points by ropable on Aug 29, 2016 \| 49 comments
6.		Gene Wilder Has Died (bbc.com)
		379 points by cpymchn on Aug 29, 2016 \| 118 comments
7.		Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup (medium.com/pennykim)
		1311 points by davidkhess on Aug 29, 2016 \| 558 comments
8.		Zig: a system language which prioritizes optimality, safety, and readability (ziglang.org)
		237 points by vmorgulis on Aug 28, 2016 \| 218 comments
9.		Principles for Programming Languages for Learners (acm.org)
		225 points by akkartik on Aug 29, 2016 \| 109 comments
10.		SRL – Simple Regex Language (simple-regex.com)
		279 points by maxpert on Aug 29, 2016 \| 133 comments
11.		How a Technical Co-Founder Spends His Time (jdlm.info)
		245 points by JohnHammersley on Aug 29, 2016 \| 60 comments
12.		Warned of a Crash, Startups in Silicon Valley Narrow Their Focus (nytimes.com)
		230 points by my_first_acct on Aug 29, 2016 \| 174 comments
13.		The first autonomous, entirely soft robot (news.harvard.edu)
		189 points by krnekdo on Aug 29, 2016 \| 44 comments
14.		Seven Puzzles You Think You Must Not Have Heard Correctly (2006) [pdf] (dartmouth.edu)
		303 points by support_ribbons on Aug 29, 2016 \| 207 comments
15.		A giant pyramid hidden inside a mountain (bbc.com)
		176 points by Cozumel on Aug 29, 2016 \| 52 comments
16.		Advanced Deanonymization Attacks (whonix.org)
		139 points by ashitlerferad on Aug 29, 2016 \| 30 comments
17.		Btree vs. LSM (github.com/wiredtiger)
		129 points by pbhowmic on Aug 29, 2016 \| 40 comments
18.		DTrace and Python (github.com/pyconsk)
		129 points by myautsai on Aug 29, 2016 \| 20 comments
19.		Can smiling make you happier? (slate.com)
		105 points by nate on Aug 29, 2016 \| 58 comments
20.		Pythran: a Python to C++ compiler with a focus on scientific computing (pythonhosted.org)
		107 points by vmorgulis on Aug 28, 2016 \| 64 comments
21.		Maquette – Pure and simple virtual DOM library (maquettejs.org)
		79 points by tilt on Aug 29, 2016 \| 30 comments
22.		Sierra Gets Creative (filfre.net)
		139 points by ColinCochrane on Aug 29, 2016 \| 51 comments
23.		Google Cast is now built-in to Chrome (googleblog.com)
		240 points by jdimov10 on Aug 29, 2016 \| 148 comments
24.		Major next steps for fusion energy based on the spherical tokamak design (pppl.gov)
		83 points by jonbaer on Aug 29, 2016 \| 57 comments
25.		The Fall of a High-End Wine Scammer (bloomberg.com)
		100 points by kspaans on Aug 28, 2016 \| 57 comments
26.		90% of software developers in the US work outside Silicon Valley (qz.com)
		152 points by cpeterso on Aug 29, 2016 \| 79 comments
27.		How connected cars are turning into revenue-generating machines (techcrunch.com)
		52 points by lxm on Aug 28, 2016 \| 28 comments
28.		The Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age (theguardian.com)
		93 points by okket on Aug 29, 2016 \| 19 comments
29.		Play along with NSA: The RAFTER unintentional radio emissions how-to (phasenoise.livejournal.com)
		97 points by wolframio on Aug 29, 2016 \| 26 comments
30.		Optimizing matrix multiplication in C (attractivechaos.wordpress.com)
		82 points by attractivechaos on Aug 28, 2016 \| 32 comments
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