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1. The Cuban CDN (cloudflare.com)
832 points by shdon on Aug 19, 2016 | 136 comments
2. Less stress, more productivity: working fewer hours is good for you and your boss (codewithoutrules.com)
605 points by itamarst on Aug 19, 2016 | 296 comments
3. Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large (megaprocessor.com)
731 points by diymaker on Aug 19, 2016 | 88 comments
4. The Hacker's Manifesto (1986) (usc.edu)
248 points by cjg on Aug 19, 2016 | 146 comments
5. Show HN: A Multiplayer Geography Game Using WebSockets (github.com/abrenaut)
220 points by abrena on Aug 19, 2016 | 69 comments
6. Former employee sues startup for financials in order to value granted stock (wsj.com)
231 points by nstj on Aug 19, 2016 | 66 comments
7. Writing a JPEG Decoder in Rust – Part 2: Implementation I (mht.technology)
158 points by adamnemecek on Aug 19, 2016 | 80 comments
8. Zika Infection May Affect Adult Brain Cells (rockefeller.edu)
189 points by remedialhedge on Aug 19, 2016 | 66 comments
9. Kubernetes the Hard Way (github.com/kelseyhightower)
240 points by tantalor on Aug 19, 2016 | 79 comments
10. Game Theory – Prison Breakthrough (economist.com)
130 points by johnwheeler on Aug 19, 2016 | 27 comments
11. Ao is a tool for programmatic computer-aided design using Scheme (mattkeeter.com)
148 points by amirouche on Aug 19, 2016 | 43 comments
12. 'Flash Boys' IEX stock exchange opens for business (latimes.com)
160 points by lxm on Aug 19, 2016 | 147 comments
13. From Chrome Apps to the Web (chromium.org)
195 points by Navarr on Aug 19, 2016 | 104 comments
14. Deutsche Bank Whistle-Blower Spurns $8M SEC Reward (bloomberg.com)
198 points by tchalla on Aug 19, 2016 | 45 comments
15. Did the US Plan a Nuclear First Strike Against Russia in the Early 1960s? (unz.com)
87 points by yurisagalov on Aug 19, 2016 | 132 comments
16. Satellites auto detect buildings in OpenStreetMap (medium.com/astrodigital)
163 points by liotier on Aug 19, 2016 | 33 comments
17. The Shadow Brokers EPICBANANAS and EXTRABACON Exploits (cisco.com)
83 points by hwatson on Aug 19, 2016 | 29 comments
18. The Difference Between AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning (nvidia.com)
288 points by kercker on Aug 19, 2016 | 101 comments
19. Lawsuit could be the beginning of the end for DRM (defectivebydesign.org)
230 points by nomanisanisland on Aug 19, 2016 | 205 comments
20. Welcome Sharon (blog.ycombinator.com)
58 points by dwaxe on Aug 19, 2016 | 28 comments
21. We Shouldn’t Wait Another 15 Years for a Conversation About Government Hacking (eff.org)
165 points by ex_amazon_sde on Aug 19, 2016 | 37 comments
22. NASA Data Portal (nasa.gov)
123 points by JohnHammersley on Aug 18, 2016 | 15 comments
23. Judge grants Happy Birthday lawyers $4.6M, citing “unusually positive results” (arstechnica.com)
173 points by Tomte on Aug 19, 2016 | 94 comments
24. New batteries could make phones, drones, and electric cars last twice as long (news.mit.edu)
171 points by SergeAx on Aug 19, 2016 | 107 comments
25. Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone (2009) [pdf] (ucr.edu)
132 points by sndean on Aug 19, 2016 | 10 comments
26. Interactive Dynamic Video [video] (jnack.com)
50 points by edward on Aug 19, 2016 | 1 comment
27. Show HN: Replify – Create a REPL for any command (gist.github.com)
112 points by danielrw7 on Aug 19, 2016 | 18 comments
28. Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'wget' aliases from PowerShell (github.com/powershell)
475 points by laurent123456 on Aug 19, 2016 | 341 comments
29. DNA traces origins of Iceman's ragtag wardrobe (bbc.com)
34 points by curtis on Aug 18, 2016 | 2 comments
30. The Connoisseur of Pain (nytimes.com)
50 points by lermontov on Aug 19, 2016 | 5 comments

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