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1. Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About Previous Pay (nytimes.com)
1195 points by OhHeyItsE on Aug 2, 2016 | 760 comments
2. Inside font-rs, a font renderer written in Rust (medium.com/raphlinus)
430 points by beefsack on Aug 2, 2016 | 115 comments
3. Judge wipes out patent troll’s $625M verdict against Apple (arstechnica.com)
387 points by nkurz on Aug 2, 2016 | 104 comments
4. Show HN: Noms – A new decentralized database based on ideas from Git (medium.com/aboodman)
508 points by ahl on Aug 2, 2016 | 167 comments
5. What’s Next for Multi-Process Firefox (blog.mozilla.org)
355 points by cpeterso on Aug 2, 2016 | 240 comments
6. How to Read a Book [pdf] (umich.edu)
444 points by robschia on Aug 2, 2016 | 140 comments
7. Yahoo probes possible huge data breach (bbc.co.uk)
184 points by JohnHammersley on Aug 2, 2016 | 52 comments
8. How to Write a Novel (themillions.com)
238 points by samclemens on Aug 2, 2016 | 112 comments
9. Verizon: We Can't Become Dumb Pipes (mondaynote.com)
252 points by taylorbuley on Aug 2, 2016 | 283 comments
10. Show HN: Sharingbuttons.io – Fast and easy social media sharing buttons (sharingbuttons.io)
350 points by mxstbr on Aug 2, 2016 | 95 comments
11. .NET Framework 4.6.2 (microsoft.com)
223 points by Avalaxy on Aug 2, 2016 | 155 comments
12. Cracking the Adventure Time cipher (aaronrandall.com)
241 points by aaronrandall on Aug 1, 2016 | 24 comments
13. iOS 10 to Feature Stronger “Limit Ad Tracking” Control (fpf.org)
153 points by cpeterso on Aug 2, 2016 | 43 comments
14. Show HN: Amium – A better way to collaborate (amium.com)
168 points by yurisagalov on Aug 2, 2016 | 57 comments
15. Alan Kay on AI, Apple and Future (factordaily.com)
198 points by pm2016 on Aug 2, 2016 | 107 comments
16. Show HN: Neural network trained to generate GitHub repository names (colinmorris.github.io)
145 points by halfeatenscone on Aug 2, 2016 | 49 comments
17. Server Side TLS (wiki.mozilla.org)
233 points by benologist on Aug 1, 2016 | 37 comments
18. Show HN: Learn Functional Programming Using Haskell (lambdaschool.com)
220 points by xwowsersx on Aug 2, 2016 | 90 comments
19. How foreign governments spy using PowerPoint and Twitter (washingtonpost.com)
152 points by peter_tonoli on Aug 2, 2016 | 76 comments
20. Terraform 0.7 released (hashicorp.com)
177 points by Kaedon on Aug 2, 2016 | 60 comments
21. Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2016 (backblaze.com)
181 points by ehPReth on Aug 2, 2016 | 57 comments
22. Printing with conventional rotary presses will create cheaper electronics (economist.com)
67 points by xbryanx on Aug 2, 2016 | 11 comments
23. BitFinex down due to Bitcoin security breach - 120k BTC stolen (reddit.com)
226 points by STRML on Aug 2, 2016 | 138 comments
24. Microsoft forks Unreal Engine 4 and ports it to Universal Windows Platform (unrealengine.com)
157 points by htaunay on Aug 2, 2016 | 115 comments
25. Summary of Donella Meadows' “Thinking in Systems” (2009) (consciouscapitalism.typepad.com)
95 points by musha68k on Aug 2, 2016 | 25 comments
26. Rust on BBC micro:bit (github.com/simonsapin)
206 points by robin_reala on Aug 2, 2016 | 41 comments
27. The History of Email (eager.io)
111 points by zackbloom on Aug 1, 2016 | 21 comments
28. Sentiment Analysis – Improving Bayesian Methods (github.com/kennycason)
83 points by KennyCason on Aug 1, 2016 | 16 comments
29. The headless web (kinlan.me)
91 points by kinlan on Aug 1, 2016 | 22 comments
30. Tom Hanks on Typewriters (nytimes.com)
126 points by keiferski on Aug 2, 2016 | 90 comments

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