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1. “It's The Future” (circleci.com)
1323 points by knowbody on Aug 17, 2016 | 521 comments
2. Writing Less Code (heydonworks.com)
583 points by fiatjaf on Aug 17, 2016 | 200 comments
3. What Great Listeners Actually Do (hbr.org)
521 points by wallflower on Aug 17, 2016 | 198 comments
4. Users You Don’t Want (themacro.com)
292 points by craigcannon on Aug 17, 2016 | 177 comments
5. Cisco to lay off about 14,000 employees (reuters.com)
349 points by petethomas on Aug 17, 2016 | 277 comments
6. Rate Limits (letsencrypt.org)
175 points by beardicus on Aug 17, 2016 | 115 comments
7. Lonnie Johnson: The father of the Super Soaker (bbc.co.uk)
257 points by mebassett on Aug 16, 2016 | 34 comments
8. NPR Website to Get Rid of Comments (npr.org)
271 points by hampelm on Aug 17, 2016 | 433 comments
9. Bitcoin 0.13.0 Binary Safety Warning (bitcoin.org)
216 points by pigeons on Aug 17, 2016 | 108 comments
10. With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Privacy (eff.org)
465 points by DiabloD3 on Aug 17, 2016 | 398 comments
11. 15 Page Tutorial for R (studytrails.com)
194 points by sndean on Aug 17, 2016 | 29 comments
12. 30K Page Views for $0.21: A Serverless Story (fmlnerd.com)
238 points by kiyanwang on Aug 17, 2016 | 73 comments
13. Simpler GitHub Pages publishing (github.com/blog)
275 points by dwaxe on Aug 17, 2016 | 63 comments
14. Pendulum – Python datetimes made easy (github.com/sdispater)
172 points by sdispater on Aug 16, 2016 | 73 comments
15. Information, Physics and Computation (2009) (stanford.edu)
100 points by KKKKkkkk1 on Aug 17, 2016 | 14 comments
16. A Conflict-Free Replicated JSON Datatype (arxiv.org)
132 points by DanielRibeiro on Aug 17, 2016 | 59 comments
17. Open Source PaaS Built on Docker (github.com/ooyala)
87 points by neokya on Aug 16, 2016 | 33 comments
18. Show HN: GPU-Accelerated Digit Recognition with WebGL (erkaman.github.io)
135 points by erkaman on Aug 17, 2016 | 57 comments
19. Context aware MySQL pools via HAProxy (githubengineering.com)
103 points by samlambert on Aug 17, 2016 | 24 comments
20. Building Soundcloud's iOS App; in-depth retrospective (michaelevensen.com)
89 points by felixbraun on Aug 17, 2016 | 28 comments
21. Airlander 10: Maiden flight at last for longest aircraft (bbc.co.uk)
82 points by rwmj on Aug 17, 2016 | 67 comments
22. The Write Stuff: How the Humble Pencil Conquered the World (popularmechanics.com)
76 points by NaOH on Aug 16, 2016 | 16 comments
23. Attracting Early Stage Investors: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment (2015) (ssrn.com)
89 points by gghyslain on Aug 17, 2016 | 38 comments
24. Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance SNMP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (cisco.com)
134 points by runesoerensen on Aug 17, 2016 | 127 comments
25. The misleading stream of articles about scientific studies (washingtonpost.com)
72 points by timthorn on Aug 17, 2016 | 55 comments
26. Chinese Tech Firms Forced to Choose Market: Home or Everywhere Else (nytimes.com)
150 points by vinnyglennon on Aug 17, 2016 | 126 comments
27. Harvard Museums Releases Online Catalogue of 32,000 Bauhaus Works (archdaily.com)
70 points by at-fates-hands on Aug 17, 2016 | 11 comments
28. Nvidia – significant increases in parental benefits for employees (virtuallyvisual.wordpress.com)
181 points by bing_dai on Aug 17, 2016 | 170 comments
29. Modern anti-spam and E2E crypto (2014) (moderncrypto.org)
48 points by louis-paul on Aug 16, 2016 | 27 comments
30. A History of Palm, Part 1: Before the PalmPilot (lowendmac.com)
78 points by WoodenChair on Aug 17, 2016 | 23 comments

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