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1. Indie Hackers: Learn how developers are making money (indiehackers.com)
971 points by csallen on Aug 11, 2016 | 184 comments
2. Bi-Directional Replication for PostgreSQL v1.0 (2ndquadrant.com)
305 points by eloycoto on Aug 12, 2016 | 91 comments
3. What Danes consider healthy children’s television (economist.com)
355 points by CraneWorm on Aug 12, 2016 | 195 comments
4. Lake Nyos suffocated over 1,700 people in one night (atlasobscura.com)
472 points by vmateixeira on Aug 12, 2016 | 101 comments
5. The Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol (minnpost.com)
235 points by lindner on Aug 11, 2016 | 62 comments
6. Rock climber Alex Honnold doesn’t experience fear like the rest of us (nautil.us)
157 points by beefield on Aug 12, 2016 | 62 comments
7. Why Buyers Shunned the World's Largest Diamond (vanityfair.com)
194 points by Thevet on Aug 11, 2016 | 119 comments
8. George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” (1946) (mtholyoke.edu)
301 points by Tomte on Aug 11, 2016 | 150 comments
9. Distributed Logging Architecture in the Container Era (treasuredata.com)
179 points by hkmurakami on Aug 12, 2016 | 76 comments
10. Show HN: Hacker Hall - Virtual Coworking (complice.co)
147 points by malcolmocean on Aug 12, 2016 | 29 comments
11. World Brain: The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopædia (1937) (ischool.berkeley.edu)
76 points by yk on Aug 12, 2016 | 19 comments
12. Return True to Win (alf.nu)
234 points by moklick on Aug 12, 2016 | 116 comments
13. Alphabet is still figuring out how to be a conglomerate (backchannel.com)
192 points by mirandak4 on Aug 12, 2016 | 91 comments
14. Building a C Compiler Type System – Part 2: A Canonical Type Representation (robertelder.org)
72 points by robertelder on Aug 12, 2016 | 3 comments
15. A Denver Suburb Experiments with Free Lyft Rides to Light Rail (citylab.com)
168 points by dpflan on Aug 12, 2016 | 72 comments
16. Too Poor to Afford the Internet (nytimes.com)
145 points by danso on Aug 12, 2016 | 149 comments
17. World's Oldest Gold Object May Have Just Been Unearthed in Bulgaria (smithsonianmag.com)
60 points by ranit on Aug 12, 2016 | 18 comments
18. Ingesting MySQL data at scale – Part 1 (pinterest.com)
100 points by samber on Aug 11, 2016 | 26 comments
19. Pete Davies: The ‘Invadar’ Arcade Collection (arcadeblogger.com)
117 points by GuiA on Aug 12, 2016 | 18 comments
20. Now is a really good time to buy a helicopter (qz.com)
82 points by lxm on Aug 11, 2016 | 89 comments
21. Happy 10th birthday pandoc (groups.google.com)
227 points by psibi on Aug 12, 2016 | 43 comments
22. Frp: A fast reverse proxy to help you expose a local server to the internet (github.com/fatedier)
134 points by fatedier on Aug 12, 2016 | 29 comments
23. Greenland shark found to be at least 272 years old (nature.com)
151 points by okket on Aug 11, 2016 | 25 comments
24. Can the Academic Write? (theawl.com)
39 points by diodorus on Aug 12, 2016 | 30 comments
25. Automatically closing FIN_WAIT_2 is a violation of the TCP specification (cloudflare.com)
238 points by jgrahamc on Aug 12, 2016 | 32 comments
26. Upping the volts will make hybrid cars much cheaper (economist.com)
49 points by edward on Aug 11, 2016 | 68 comments
27. Hacker Unlocks ‘High Security’ Electronic Safes Without a Trace (wired.com)
76 points by walterbell on Aug 12, 2016 | 41 comments
28. Show HN: Twincl Editor – A WYSIWYG/Markdown dual-mode editor (twincl.com)
55 points by arthurtw on Aug 12, 2016 | 26 comments
29. RedHat is hiring to make Linux run better on laptops (gnome.org)
245 points by soulbadguy on Aug 12, 2016 | 182 comments
30. Data Exfiltration from Speakerless Air-Gapped Computers via Hard Drive Noise (arxiv.org)
79 points by sohkamyung on Aug 12, 2016 | 46 comments

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