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1. HTML5 Version of the Tron:Legacy Boardroom Scene (robscanlon.com)
701 points by PleaseHelpMe on Aug 6, 2017 | 66 comments
2. Cheap Beijing Flights With a Dangerous Catch (seat31b.com)
604 points by msh on Aug 6, 2017 | 248 comments
3. “Rest and vest”: engineers who get paid and barely work (businessinsider.com)
487 points by SQL2219 on Aug 6, 2017 | 318 comments
4. 1950s New York City’s ‘Mad Bomber’ (damninteresting.com)
233 points by vinnyglennon on Aug 6, 2017 | 80 comments
5. CHIP-8 in Common Lisp (stevelosh.com)
157 points by tosh on Aug 6, 2017 | 20 comments
6. How do you find integer solutions to x/(y + z) + y/(x + z) + z/(x + y) = 4? (quora.com)
446 points by jordigh on Aug 6, 2017 | 94 comments
7. Kids Pass Just Reminded Us How Hard Responsible Disclosure Is (troyhunt.com)
281 points by ohjeez on Aug 5, 2017 | 89 comments
8. Millennials returning to Puerto Rico, launching startups (nytimes.com)
150 points by albertogui on Aug 6, 2017 | 74 comments
9. Why nature prefers hexagons (nautil.us)
101 points by kermatt on Aug 5, 2017 | 62 comments
10. Talla – An Erlang Implementation of Tor [video] (ccc.de)
180 points by jacquesm on Aug 6, 2017 | 9 comments
11. The NOVA filesystem (lwn.net)
131 points by JoshTriplett on Aug 6, 2017 | 27 comments
12. A library of React components to make SVG maps using d3-geo and topojson (react-simple-maps.io)
107 points by cristinapoiata on Aug 5, 2017 | 13 comments
13. A Mysterious Military Spy Plane Has Been Flying Circles Over Seattle for Days (thedrive.com)
160 points by pera on Aug 5, 2017 | 88 comments
14. Where Tcl and Tk Went Wrong (2010) (dedasys.com)
131 points by smacktoward on Aug 6, 2017 | 109 comments
15. Parametric Study of a Genetic Algorithm (2003) [pdf] (genetic-programming.org)
66 points by happy-go-lucky on Aug 6, 2017 | 20 comments
16. The Louisiana Environmental Apocalypse Road Trip (longreads.com)
123 points by kawera on Aug 6, 2017 | 79 comments
17. Getting Started in Star Lisp (1991) [pdf] (csail.mit.edu)
63 points by tosh on Aug 6, 2017 | 7 comments
18. Where’s My Depth First Search Machine Learning? (medium.com/old_sound)
76 points by gnad on Aug 6, 2017 | 13 comments
19. Show HN: Serverless Code Editor framework for any programming language (github.com/jockdarock)
57 points by jockdarock on Aug 5, 2017 | 11 comments
20. Maurice Sendak Picture Book Discovered (publishersweekly.com)
67 points by brudgers on Aug 6, 2017 | 12 comments
21. SDF Public Access Unix System (wikipedia.org)
94 points by tosh on Aug 6, 2017 | 29 comments
22. How New York's Roosevelt Island Sucks Away Summer Trash Stink (npr.org)
102 points by transcranial on Aug 6, 2017 | 30 comments
23. Dinosaur and Lisp (vito.sdf.org)
81 points by tosh on Aug 6, 2017 | 3 comments
24. Generating Random Numbers from a Specific Distribution by Inverting the CDF (demofox.org)
66 points by Atrix256 on Aug 5, 2017 | 10 comments
25. Show HN: Twitch Plays Doom
113 points by dddanmar on Aug 6, 2017 | 41 comments
26. A Baccarat Binge Helped Launder the Bangladesh Cyberheist (bloomberg.com)
59 points by rayuela on Aug 3, 2017 | 4 comments
27. Ghana’s first satellite now orbiting earth (techcrunch.com)
148 points by jessiemcr on Aug 6, 2017 | 61 comments
28. Breakthrough: solid-state alkaline batteries a viable alternative to lithium-ion (nytimes.com)
100 points by WheelsAtLarge on Aug 6, 2017 | 30 comments
29. The structure of a GCC back end (kristerw.blogspot.com)
104 points by ingve on Aug 6, 2017
30. Manifold Garden (Escheresque Puzzle Game) Teaser (manifold.garden)
51 points by SonOfLilit on Aug 6, 2017 | 16 comments

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