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1. Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality with spreadsheet (twitter.com/ericajoy)
699 points by brie22 on July 18, 2015 | 479 comments
2. “Let's talk about a hypothetical public-facing service” (reddit.com)
439 points by kgm on July 18, 2015 | 67 comments
3. Docker on FreeBSD (freebsd.org)
232 points by zdw on July 18, 2015 | 66 comments
4. Introducing Incremental (janestreet.com)
188 points by kilimchoi on July 18, 2015 | 50 comments
5. A subsystem to restrict programs into a “reduced feature operating model” (marc.info)
230 points by cnst on July 18, 2015 | 96 comments
6. If Materialism Is True, the United States Is Probably Conscious (2014) (ucr.edu)
184 points by samclemens on July 17, 2015 | 210 comments
7. Russia’s Cold War Mapmakers (wired.com)
171 points by aw3c2 on July 18, 2015 | 56 comments
8. Must Be This Tall to Write Multi-Threaded Code (bholley.net)
146 points by mnemonik on July 17, 2015 | 112 comments
9. Intellectual pursuits may buffer the brain against addiction (news.berkeley.edu)
159 points by currysausage on July 18, 2015 | 56 comments
10. Rockstar lib will make you a Rockstar programmer in 2 lines of code (github.com/avinassh)
327 points by harel on July 18, 2015 | 53 comments
11. Stochastic rain generator from the author of myNoise.net (rain.today)
113 points by ivank on July 18, 2015 | 35 comments
12. What is the most ridiculous aircraft design? (quora.com)
150 points by anigbrowl on July 17, 2015 | 54 comments
13. 50 years of Fortran at CERN (2007) (cerncourier.com)
82 points by atilev on July 18, 2015 | 52 comments
14. Animal Domestication: Taming the Wild (nationalgeographic.com)
75 points by david_west on July 18, 2015 | 36 comments
15. EnChroma: Color for the Color Blind (enchroma.com)
67 points by GuiA on July 17, 2015 | 25 comments
16. NASA Technical Standard: Crimping, Cables, Harnesses, and Wiring (2011) [pdf] (nasa.gov)
70 points by GuiA on July 17, 2015 | 18 comments
17. Show HN: Termux – Terminal emulator and Unix environment for Android (play.google.com)
94 points by fredrikfornwall on July 17, 2015 | 28 comments
18. PEP 0448 – Additional Unpacking Generalizations (python.org)
64 points by rectangletangle on July 17, 2015 | 27 comments
19. Is Advertising Morally Justifiable? The Importance of Protecting Our Attention (abc.net.au)
201 points by dredmorbius on July 18, 2015 | 159 comments
20. Airless Tires Roll Towards Consumer Vehicles (ieee.org)
66 points by simonebrunozzi on July 18, 2015 | 55 comments
21. Types for an Untyped World: Bracha vs. Felleisen [video] (youtube.com)
57 points by namarkiv on July 18, 2015 | 9 comments
22. The Vegetable Detective (craftsmanship.net)
60 points by joahua on July 18, 2015 | 24 comments
23. Allen Curve (wikipedia.org)
72 points by brudgers on July 18, 2015 | 18 comments
24. On the Foundations of Geometry by Henri Poincaré (1898) (archive.org)
66 points by monort on July 18, 2015 | 13 comments
25. Want a better pitch? Watch Elon Musk’s presentation for the Tesla Powerwall (medium.com/firm-narrative)
133 points by scardine on July 17, 2015 | 37 comments
26. Cassette Revolution: 1980s Tape Tech Is Still Making Noise in Our Digital World (collectorsweekly.com)
41 points by balbaugh on July 18, 2015 | 39 comments
27. Alzheimer's Disease and Musical Memory (oup.com)
44 points by flannery on July 18, 2015 | 10 comments
28. Another Look at Provable Security (uwaterloo.ca)
41 points by jcr on July 18, 2015 | 21 comments
29. BASIC, Second Edition (1964) [pdf] (mirrorservice.org)
46 points by networked on July 17, 2015 | 16 comments
30. D3.js visualization of a lambda calculus (chorasimilarity.github.io)
42 points by miesman on July 18, 2015 | 20 comments

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