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1. Designing and Building Stockfighter, Our Programming Game (kalzumeus.com)
365 points by jsnell on Aug 20, 2015 | 155 comments
2. LLVM Foundation Granted 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Status (llvm.org)
227 points by ingve on Aug 20, 2015 | 47 comments
3. Imba – A new programming language for the web (imba.io)
319 points by judofyr on Aug 20, 2015 | 171 comments
4. Banksy Dismaland Show Revealed at Weston's Tropicana (bbc.com)
207 points by kurren on Aug 20, 2015 | 79 comments
5. How Zapier Went from Zero to 600k Users (groovehq.com)
192 points by gk1 on Aug 20, 2015 | 39 comments
6. Show HN: Git-remote-dropbox – use Dropbox as a true Git server (anishathalye.com)
174 points by anishathalye on Aug 19, 2015 | 60 comments
7. The Post-YC Slump (samaltman.com)
328 points by moritzplassnig on Aug 20, 2015 | 169 comments
8. Debugging Lisp, Part 5 (malisper.me)
131 points by jorams on Aug 20, 2015 | 10 comments
9. Analysis of PS4's security and the state of hacking (cturt.github.io)
210 points by jsnell on Aug 20, 2015 | 47 comments
10. Lessons Learned from Reading Post Mortems (danluu.com)
156 points by ingve on Aug 20, 2015 | 25 comments
11. Show HN: Nihongo – Study Japanese using authentic text from games, songs, etc. (nihongo-app.com)
139 points by chrisvasselli on Aug 20, 2015 | 101 comments
12. Twitter Falls Below IPO Price as Concerns Mount Over CEO, Growth (bloomberg.com)
194 points by adventured on Aug 20, 2015 | 202 comments
13. CefSharp – Embedded Chromium for .NET (github.com/cefsharp)
69 points by tilt on Aug 19, 2015 | 25 comments
14. Bonsai: Bulletproof contracts, simple e-signing, escrow for freelancers (hellobonsai.com)
152 points by tilt on Aug 20, 2015 | 40 comments
15. Sublime Text's Plugin API: It's Python, Sort Of (floobits.com)
92 points by ggreer on Aug 19, 2015 | 44 comments
16. Test versions of IE from 6 through 11 and Microsoft Edge using virtual machines (modern.ie)
212 points by mfontani on Aug 20, 2015 | 121 comments
17. Show HN: SpaCy – Build tomorrow's language technology products with Python (spacy.io)
93 points by syllogism on Aug 20, 2015 | 10 comments
18. The curious case of whistled languages and their lack of left-brain dominance (arstechnica.com)
65 points by shawndumas on Aug 20, 2015 | 16 comments
19. The War on Drugs and Prison Growth: Limited importance and legislative options [pdf] (harvardjol.com)
91 points by yummyfajitas on Aug 20, 2015 | 171 comments
20. Build Your Own Git UI for Mac with GitUpKit (github.com/git-up)
76 points by swisspol on Aug 20, 2015 | 15 comments
21. Will Hollywood's Whining Thwart Better TPP Copyright Rules? (eff.org)
80 points by walterbell on Aug 20, 2015 | 31 comments
22. Create Your Own CPU on an FPGA (embeddedmicro.com)
118 points by kardashev on Aug 20, 2015 | 20 comments
23. Coding new pentagon tiling (wolfram.com)
46 points by soofy on Aug 19, 2015
24. Tig: text-mode interface for Git (nitro.dk)
118 points by skeuomorf on Aug 20, 2015 | 30 comments
25. What is opensource and why do I feel so guilty? (2012) [video] (byfat.xxx)
61 points by phowat on Aug 20, 2015 | 47 comments
26. Google's Toughest Search Is for a Business Model (2002) (nytimes.com)
85 points by ghosh on Aug 20, 2015 | 47 comments
27. Finland considers basic income to reform welfare system (bbc.com)
256 points by pierre-renaux on Aug 20, 2015 | 233 comments
28. Dependency parse tree visualization (spacy.io)
72 points by altro on Aug 20, 2015 | 25 comments
29. Writing code that writes code – Hack Codegen (facebook.com)
68 points by zeroonetwothree on Aug 20, 2015 | 26 comments
30. HTTP/2 technology demo (http2demo.io)
165 points by LeZuse on Aug 20, 2015 | 96 comments

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