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1. LastPass autofill exploit (detectify.com)
1008 points by detectify on July 27, 2016 | 420 comments
2. ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Donations Lead to Significant Gene Discovery (alsa.org)
481 points by obeone on July 27, 2016 | 102 comments
3. The Rust Platform (aturon.github.io)
362 points by anp on July 27, 2016 | 250 comments
4. YC’s Summer Reading (themacro.com)
323 points by craigcannon on July 27, 2016 | 180 comments
5. Mercedes-Benz shows off the first fully electric heavy urban transport truck (techcrunch.com)
268 points by felixbraun on July 27, 2016 | 198 comments
6. Bringing ChakraCore to Linux and OS X (windows.com)
264 points by bevacqua on July 27, 2016 | 120 comments
7. Ask HN: Anonymous person sent proof of SSH access to our production server
450 points by throwaway0727 on July 27, 2016 | 231 comments
8. Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco (1995) (nybooks.com)
235 points by azuajef on July 27, 2016 | 173 comments
9. Show HN: Accelerating SHA256 by 100x in Golang on ARM (minio.io)
156 points by y4m4b4 on July 27, 2016 | 86 comments
10. Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival (techcrunch.com)
382 points by adalyz on July 27, 2016 | 437 comments
11. Facebook Posts Strong Profit and Revenue Growth (wsj.com)
171 points by kartD on July 27, 2016 | 194 comments
12. Solving the Dating Problem with the SENPAI Protocol [pdf] (csail.mit.edu)
305 points by obi1kenobi on July 27, 2016 | 108 comments
13. LexVec, a word embedding model written in Go that outperforms word2vec (github.com/alexandres)
131 points by atrudeau on July 27, 2016 | 43 comments
14. Inside Tesla's gigantic Gigafactory (bbc.co.uk)
201 points by jsingleton on July 27, 2016 | 94 comments
15. Why poetry is good for the rational mind (newhumanist.org.uk)
155 points by kawera on July 27, 2016 | 42 comments
16. What makes music sound “good?” (princeton.edu)
186 points by grimgrin on July 27, 2016 | 71 comments
17. How to escape lock-in with a multi-cloud stack (googleblog.com)
145 points by mikecb on July 26, 2016 | 67 comments
18. Dune: Safe User-Level Access to Privileged CPU Features [pdf] (stanford.edu)
66 points by ingve on July 26, 2016 | 6 comments
19. Salary transparency at Stack Overflow (stackoverflow.com)
334 points by ocoster on July 27, 2016 | 282 comments
20. What Happened to Howard Stern? (nytimes.com)
145 points by nautilus on July 27, 2016 | 80 comments
21. Xen exploitation part 2: XSA-148, from guest to host (quarkslab.com)
87 points by adamnemecek on July 27, 2016 | 13 comments
22. What is the roundest country? (gciruelos.com)
120 points by gciruelos on July 27, 2016 | 44 comments
23. Hijacking YouTube to transmit your data (banmeihack.wordpress.com)
98 points by adamnemecek on July 26, 2016 | 43 comments
24. Philae Lander: “It’s time for me to say goodbye” (twitter.com/philae2014)
254 points by aurhum on July 27, 2016 | 47 comments
25. How Exhaustion Became a Status Symbol (newrepublic.com)
114 points by Petiver on July 26, 2016 | 40 comments
26. Vizio acquired by LeEco for $2B (theverge.com)
96 points by lxm on July 27, 2016 | 21 comments
27. Platform wars: the final score (ben-evans.com)
120 points by lxm on July 27, 2016 | 125 comments
28. Zero Knowledge Protocols without Magic (cossacklabs.com)
65 points by cossacklabs on July 27, 2016 | 19 comments
29. At World’s Largest Hedge Fund, Sex, Fear and Video Surveillance (nytimes.com)
167 points by kafkaesq on July 27, 2016 | 75 comments
30. Compile OCaml to JavaScript, use ReactJS, bindings to ReactJS, several examples (github.com/fxfactorial)
82 points by e_d_g_a_r on July 27, 2016 | 29 comments

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