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1. Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock (hellorhei.com)
681 points by damjanstankovic on Sept 26, 2015 | 103 comments
2. The real anti-Facebook is good old email (wired.com)
255 points by Alex3917 on Sept 26, 2015 | 155 comments
3. Terence Tao solves the Erdős Discrepancy Problem (nature.com)
285 points by jonbaer on Sept 26, 2015 | 27 comments
4. The Greatest Regex Trick Ever (2014) (rexegg.com)
227 points by user_235711 on Sept 26, 2015 | 131 comments
5. Lazy Redis is better Redis (antirez.com)
205 points by mostafah on Sept 26, 2015 | 22 comments
6. “Tsundoku,” the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves (openculture.com)
163 points by ColinWright on Sept 26, 2015 | 83 comments
7. Epistemic learned helplessness (2013) (squid314.livejournal.com)
130 points by ikeboy on Sept 25, 2015 | 56 comments
8. How a $2.7B air-defense system became a 'zombie' program (latimes.com)
86 points by JumpCrisscross on Sept 25, 2015 | 30 comments
9. Stupid Apps and Changing the World (samaltman.com)
118 points by jimsojim on Sept 25, 2015 | 80 comments
10. Emacs Artist Mode (cinsk.org)
118 points by brudgers on Sept 25, 2015 | 26 comments
11. Always bet on text (2014) (graydon2.dreamwidth.org)
156 points by ColinWright on Sept 26, 2015 | 69 comments
12. Utron: Go MVC framework for fast, scalable and robust database-driven web apps (github.com/gernest)
205 points by ingve on Sept 26, 2015 | 19 comments
13. The Secret Structure of the S-Box of [GOST] Streebog, Kuznechik and Stribob (iacr.org)
61 points by tptacek on Sept 26, 2015 | 7 comments
14. U.S.-China Deal to Ban Ivory Trade Is Good News for Elephants (nationalgeographic.com)
62 points by adamnemecek on Sept 26, 2015 | 40 comments
15. Zero-Bullshit Method for Recruiting a Sales Force (a16z.com)
57 points by takinola on Sept 26, 2015 | 24 comments
16. Cuba's Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify, all without the internet (vox.com)
50 points by comrh on Sept 25, 2015 | 48 comments
17. Too often, the government uses its information machinery to try to persuade (washingtonpost.com)
55 points by spking on Sept 26, 2015 | 22 comments
18. Writing a browser extension for three browsers (einaregilsson.com)
58 points by einaregilsson on Sept 25, 2015 | 20 comments
19. Why do PCs load their boot sector at 7C000h linear? (glamenv-septzen.net)
73 points by monopolemagnet on Sept 26, 2015 | 26 comments
20. The Inside Story Behind MS08-067 (technet.com)
102 points by dsr12 on Sept 26, 2015 | 12 comments
21. Gravity-Powered Solar Tracker (notechmagazine.com)
42 points by davesailer on Sept 25, 2015 | 30 comments
22. Gryffin: a large scale web security scanning platform from Yahoo (github.com/yahoo)
55 points by cnbuff410 on Sept 26, 2015 | 4 comments
23. 30 second arithmetic challenge (christianp.github.io)
74 points by 317070 on Sept 25, 2015 | 40 comments
24. Atlassian Planning U.S. IPO (wsj.com)
75 points by sqs on Sept 26, 2015 | 55 comments
25. Prebake: Block EU Cookie Notices with Adblock (prebake.eu)
106 points by rcarmo on Sept 26, 2015 | 77 comments
26. Spinning ring on a table found to behave more like a boomerang than a coin (phys.org)
34 points by dnetesn on Sept 25, 2015 | 2 comments
27. Sid – Static Intrusion Detection for NetBSD (netbsd.org)
58 points by vezzy-fnord on Sept 26, 2015 | 7 comments
28. Gitcolony – The next generation of pull requests (gitcolony.com)
36 points by mfocaraccio on Sept 25, 2015 | 23 comments
29. Mobile Ad Brokers as DDoS Distribution Vectors: A Case Study (cloudflare.com)
37 points by majke on Sept 25, 2015 | 9 comments
30. Clarifications about Redis and Memcached (antirez.com)
191 points by juanfatas on Sept 26, 2015 | 38 comments

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