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1. YC Fellowship (blog.ycombinator.com)
998 points by mattkrisiloff on July 20, 2015 | 378 comments
2. Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home (gainesville.com)
922 points by cnnrjcbsn on July 20, 2015 | 136 comments
3. Dropdowns Should Be the UI of Last Resort (lukew.com)
535 points by mathattack on July 20, 2015 | 234 comments
4. Dragula: Simple drag and drop (github.com/bevacqua)
339 points by bevacqua on July 20, 2015 | 52 comments
5. A Man Who Flies Around the World for Free (rollingstone.com)
288 points by aaronbrethorst on July 20, 2015 | 173 comments
6. Sorry to burst your bubble (economist.com)
219 points by lxm on July 19, 2015 | 182 comments
7. Coin Card Teardown (bitsofcents.com)
171 points by monkeypod on July 20, 2015 | 116 comments
8. Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner Announce $100M Initiative to Seek ET (scientificamerican.com)
288 points by saticmotion on July 20, 2015 | 226 comments
9. Vulnerability in Microsoft Font Driver Could Allow Remote Code Execution (microsoft.com)
172 points by mortenlarsen on July 20, 2015 | 49 comments
10. Under the Hood of Amazon EC2 Container Service (allthingsdistributed.com)
136 points by werner on July 20, 2015 | 34 comments
11. Google, the Wassenaar arrangement, and vulnerability research (googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)
137 points by _jomo on July 20, 2015 | 57 comments
12. Frequency Counting Algorithms Over Data Streams (micvog.com)
86 points by mvogiatzis on July 20, 2015 | 9 comments
13. Announcing TypeScript 1.5 (msdn.com)
248 points by pingec on July 20, 2015 | 85 comments
14. A history of backdoors (cryptographyengineering.com)
88 points by mariuz on July 20, 2015 | 8 comments
15. Procedurally generated HTML5 3D world with day/night cycle (endtime.at)
165 points by zabast on July 20, 2015 | 36 comments
16. Password Hashing Competition winner and special recognitions (groups.google.com)
89 points by earthrise on July 20, 2015 | 21 comments
17. Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Available for Download (msdn.com)
263 points by runesoerensen on July 20, 2015 | 120 comments
18. Comet lander falls silent, scientists fear it has moved (reuters.com)
82 points by anigbrowl on July 20, 2015 | 6 comments
19. Code Golf at Google (zmxv.com)
86 points by antichaos on July 19, 2015 | 34 comments
20. Monads in JavaScript (curiosity-driven.org)
102 points by eatonphil on July 20, 2015 | 125 comments
21. The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (oeis.org)
63 points by colinprince on July 20, 2015 | 19 comments
22. Daniel Kahneman: ‘What would I eliminate if I had a magic wand? Overconfidence’ (theguardian.com)
125 points by aaronchall on July 20, 2015 | 65 comments
23. Call9 (YC S15) Delivers On-Demand Doctors in Emergency Situations (techcrunch.com)
81 points by katm on July 20, 2015 | 85 comments
24. The Long, Strange Trip to Pluto, and How NASA Nearly Missed It (nytimes.com)
59 points by bentaber on July 20, 2015 | 4 comments
25. Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked (krebsonsecurity.com)
208 points by albedoa on July 20, 2015 | 353 comments
26. Growing a Language (1998) [video] (youtube.com)
49 points by pvorb on July 20, 2015 | 10 comments
27. Doas – Dedicated OpenBSD application subexecutor (tedunangst.com)
94 points by ingve on July 20, 2015 | 34 comments
28. Content Is King (1996) (archive.org)
48 points by ops7eng5 on July 20, 2015 | 28 comments
29. Richard Feynman on the Challenger disaster (1986) [video] (youtube.com)
94 points by richardfeynman on July 20, 2015 | 27 comments
30. Show HN: ZomboDB – Postgres extension for indexes backed by Elasticsearch (github.com/zombodb)
88 points by nstart on July 20, 2015 | 17 comments

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