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1. Dear Google Mail Team (plus.google.com)
719 points by ingve on July 17, 2015 | 260 comments
2. How a car works (2012) (howacarworks.com)
508 points by gshrikant on July 17, 2015 | 117 comments
3. NASA’s New Horizons Discovers Frozen Plains in the Heart of Pluto’s ‘Heart’ (nasa.gov)
246 points by Thorondor on July 17, 2015 | 116 comments
4. Artificial Killing Machine (hackaday.com)
191 points by wglb on July 17, 2015 | 57 comments
5. Homejoy says goodbye (homejoy.com)
379 points by philip1209 on July 17, 2015 | 399 comments
6. Google Hires Tech Team from Homejoy, Readies Leap into Home Services (recode.net)
155 points by coloneltcb on July 17, 2015 | 57 comments
7. Tesla’s Model S Gets “Ludicrous” Mode, Will Do 0-60 in 2.8 Seconds (techcrunch.com)
266 points by arturogarrido on July 17, 2015 | 286 comments
8. New Electric Car Company Emerges: Faraday Future (motortrend.com)
88 points by allanberger on July 17, 2015 | 51 comments
9. LAX becomes largest U.S. airport to allow Uber, Lyft pickups (latimes.com)
173 points by tchalla on July 16, 2015 | 122 comments
10. Legends in D3 (susielu.com)
206 points by jsweojtj on July 17, 2015 | 20 comments
11. Delays have hampered the ability of journalists to use FOIA as a tool (cjr.org)
95 points by aaronbrethorst on July 17, 2015 | 6 comments
12. The Last Great Steam Car (2006) (damninteresting.com)
150 points by jmadsen on July 17, 2015 | 46 comments
13. Unsanctioned Web Tracking (w3.org)
86 points by cpeterso on July 17, 2015 | 36 comments
14. Intro to RenderMan for Blender (pixar.com)
138 points by mariuz on July 17, 2015 | 71 comments
15. High Availability for PostgreSQL, Batteries Not Included (compose.io)
132 points by rfks on July 17, 2015 | 62 comments
16. Designing a Programming Language (ducklang.org)
159 points by xigency on July 17, 2015 | 85 comments
17. Significant Flash exploit mitigations are live in v18.0.0.209 (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
90 points by scarybeast on July 16, 2015 | 25 comments
18. Deep Intellect (orionmagazine.org)
90 points by sergeant3 on July 16, 2015 | 39 comments
19. Afrostream (YC S15) Is Netflix for African and African-American Movies (techcrunch.com)
92 points by panagios on July 17, 2015 | 128 comments
20. My Two Years as an Anthropologist on the Photoshop Team (medium.com/mediauras)
77 points by ingve on July 17, 2015 | 8 comments
21. MPs win surveillance powers legal challenge (bbc.co.uk)
124 points by callum85 on July 17, 2015 | 59 comments
22. U.S. judge says Internet streaming service should be treated like cable (reuters.com)
88 points by Animats on July 17, 2015 | 19 comments
23. Two Dots Too Many (2008) (upenn.edu)
86 points by vilhelm_s on July 17, 2015 | 38 comments
24. Zynga Analytics at its Peak (amplitude.com)
93 points by doppp on July 17, 2015 | 49 comments
25. Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle (2006) (norvig.com)
80 points by srathi on July 17, 2015 | 27 comments
26. The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving Car, Chapter 2 (medium.com/chris_urmson)
109 points by ivank on July 17, 2015 | 84 comments
27. The Square Kilometre Array: Radio silence for most powerful telescope in history (theguardian.com)
88 points by bart42_0 on July 17, 2015 | 34 comments
28. Feds bust through huge Tor-hidden child porn site using questionable malware (arstechnica.com)
96 points by r721 on July 17, 2015 | 136 comments
29. Error Handling in Nodejs (joyent.com)
86 points by jessaustin on July 17, 2015 | 29 comments
30. 'Massive leap' wins engineering award (bbc.co.uk)
70 points by hanoz on July 17, 2015 | 15 comments

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