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1. Not Saying Winter Is Coming, but Where’s Your Coat? (facebook.com)
454 points by KentBeck on Aug 3, 2016 | 448 comments
2. React Native for Ubuntu (github.com/canonicalltd)
380 points by bpierre on Aug 3, 2016 | 138 comments
3. Writing an OS in Rust: Better Exception Messages (phil-opp.com)
220 points by anp on Aug 3, 2016 | 31 comments
4. Making Django CMS as easy to install as WordPress (django-cms.org)
212 points by DanieleProcida on Aug 3, 2016 | 193 comments
5. When It Comes to China, Google’s Experience Still Says It All (backchannel.com)
277 points by dwaxe on Aug 3, 2016 | 264 comments
6. Vizceral Open Source (netflix.com)
301 points by samber on Aug 3, 2016 | 31 comments
7. China has built an elevated bus that travels above car traffic (techcrunch.com)
252 points by rezist808 on Aug 3, 2016 | 189 comments
8. Thoughts on Uber’s List of Postgres Limitations (2ndquadrant.com)
245 points by areski on Aug 3, 2016 | 103 comments
9. Macbook charger teardown: Complexity inside Apple's power adapter (2015) (righto.com)
146 points by blowski on Aug 3, 2016 | 98 comments
10. A Guide to Employee Equity (themacro.com)
200 points by craigcannon on Aug 3, 2016 | 96 comments
11. In a Sign of Broader Ambitions, Facebook Opens Hardware Lab (nytimes.com)
134 points by dconrad on Aug 3, 2016 | 74 comments
12. Singapore Is the Perfect Place to Test Self-Driving Cars (citylab.com)
116 points by jseliger on Aug 3, 2016 | 101 comments
13. In His Own Words: Gary Kildall (computerhistory.org)
100 points by EvanAnderson on Aug 3, 2016 | 27 comments
14. Appending to a file from multiple processes (nullprogram.com)
109 points by signa11 on Aug 3, 2016 | 49 comments
15. Hash Functions all the way down (aras-p.info)
148 points by based2 on Aug 3, 2016 | 30 comments
16. China, Not Silicon Valley, Is Cutting Edge in Mobile Tech (nytimes.com)
169 points by nstj on Aug 3, 2016 | 199 comments
17. Hackers accessed Telegram messaging accounts in Iran – researchers (reuters.com)
139 points by slizard on Aug 2, 2016 | 64 comments
18. The Canadian Housing Boom Fueled by China’s Billionaires (bloomberg.com)
182 points by dataminer on Aug 3, 2016 | 237 comments
19. Wal-Mart in Talks to Buy Web Retailer Jet.com for $3B (wsj.com)
159 points by doh on Aug 3, 2016 | 186 comments
20. Uber and Under: China’s Hometown Advantage Claims Another Victim (medium.com/backchannel)
93 points by steven on Aug 3, 2016 | 47 comments
21. Show HN: Heartbeat – Transform REST Endpoints to Streaming APIs (appbase.io)
111 points by sidi on Aug 3, 2016 | 24 comments
22. Vanity Project: The difficulty of knowing that we look like ourselves (reallifemag.com)
48 points by prismatic on Aug 2, 2016 | 7 comments
23. Classic Shell hacked with compromised update that erases your partition table (classicshell.net)
175 points by megalomaniac443 on Aug 3, 2016 | 105 comments
24. A Swede Returns to Silicon Valley from China (traintracks.io)
246 points by jaimebuelta on Aug 3, 2016 | 230 comments
25. WebRender2 Lands in Servo (github.com/servo)
158 points by leeoniya on Aug 3, 2016 | 27 comments
26. Why aren’t we using SSH for everything? (medium.com/swlh)
308 points by joshmanders on Aug 3, 2016 | 114 comments
27. Federal health expert drop flossing from health guidelines (arstechnica.com)
159 points by jld89 on Aug 3, 2016 | 176 comments
28. Adopting Feature Flag-Driven Releases (launchdarkly.com)
71 points by ZachNelsonSF on Aug 3, 2016 | 39 comments
29. LibreOffice 5.2 “fresh” Released, for Windows, Mac OS and GNU/Linux (documentfoundation.org)
155 points by okket on Aug 3, 2016 | 148 comments
30. Has Wall Street Been Tamed? (nytimes.com)
61 points by nature24 on Aug 3, 2016 | 82 comments

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