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1. Using Google without a Google+ profile (googleblog.blogspot.com)
589 points by _khwc on July 27, 2015 | 273 comments
2. I am an 18-year-old techie/student. I have leukemia and need your help (github.com/m3hr)
549 points by mehrzad on July 27, 2015 | 74 comments
3. One in every 600 websites has .git exposed (jamiembrown.com)
424 points by jamiejin on July 26, 2015 | 205 comments
4. Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Just a Text (npr.org)
399 points by dynofuz on July 27, 2015 | 283 comments
5. Play GTA V in your Browser, Sort of (phoboslab.org)
362 points by luastoned on July 27, 2015 | 158 comments
6. Steam hit by major security breach (masterherald.com)
300 points by aestetix on July 27, 2015 | 245 comments
7. Show HN: A Hand-Drawn QR Code Alternative (meshtag.com)
270 points by samfpetersen on July 27, 2015 | 134 comments
8. Review of Nestle water permit neglected for decades (desertsun.com)
262 points by umeboshi on July 27, 2015 | 132 comments
9. A LinkedIn Hack That Led to a $120k Investment (thehustle.co)
248 points by samp615 on July 27, 2015 | 89 comments
10. ‘Sea Slaves’: The human misery that feeds pets and livestock (nytimes.com)
236 points by lkurtz on July 27, 2015 | 121 comments
11. Moving Fast with High Code Quality (quora.com)
198 points by kilimchoi on July 27, 2015 | 52 comments
12. The Itanium processor, part 1: Warming up (msdn.com)
144 points by ingve on July 27, 2015 | 58 comments
13. Final Steps (ethereum.org)
149 points by Moshe_Silnorin on July 27, 2015 | 99 comments
14. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, nuclear scientist and former president of India, has died (thehindu.com)
458 points by Andromeda101 on July 27, 2015 | 76 comments
15. Documenting your PostgreSQL database (craigkerstiens.com)
111 points by dmmalam on July 26, 2015 | 30 comments
16. Debops (2014) (enricozini.org)
190 points by chei0aiV on July 27, 2015 | 93 comments
17. Nike Missile Sites of the San Francisco Bay Area (2001) (acme.com)
90 points by stevewilhelm on July 27, 2015 | 48 comments
18. Brazil Is An Alternate Video Game Universe Where Sega Beat Nintendo (atlasobscura.com)
157 points by rshrsh on July 27, 2015 | 71 comments
19. Autonomous Weapons: An Open Letter from AI and Robotics Researchers (futureoflife.org)
305 points by espadrine on July 27, 2015 | 288 comments
20. Kids in India Are Sparking Urban Planning Changes by Mapping Slums (citylab.com)
108 points by lermontov on July 27, 2015 | 14 comments
21. The Brain vs. Deep Learning Part I: Computational Complexity (timdettmers.wordpress.com)
106 points by mbeissinger on July 27, 2015 | 16 comments
22. Thoughts Evoked by CircleCI's July 2015 Outage (mihasya.com)
82 points by d23 on July 27, 2015 | 5 comments
23. On Hurd, Linux and the Misadventures of Cross-Compiling a GNU Hurd Toolchain (darknedgy.net)
94 points by vezzy-fnord on July 27, 2015
24. The Confused deputy (csail.mit.edu)
41 points by zenincognito on July 26, 2015 | 9 comments
25. 8-bit GIFs of Japanese life (designmadeinjapan.com)
268 points by _0nac on July 27, 2015 | 62 comments
26. China stocks drop over 8% (reuters.com)
213 points by pingec on July 27, 2015 | 158 comments
27. DSL processing in Scala (papathanasiou.org)
40 points by dpapathanasiou on July 27, 2015 | 22 comments
28. Open Astrophysics Bookshelf (open-astrophysics-bookshelf.github.io)
73 points by antognini on July 27, 2015 | 1 comment
29. The Time Zone Rebels of the World (hopesandfears.com)
63 points by nols on July 27, 2015 | 44 comments
30. Why slow thinking wins (bostonglobe.com)
109 points by JohnHammersley on July 27, 2015 | 64 comments

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