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1. Windows Bridge for iOS (github.com/microsoft)
417 points by jmsaunders on Aug 6, 2015 | 142 comments
2. From a million miles away, NASA camera shows moon crossing face of Earth (nasa.gov)
437 points by dnetesn on Aug 6, 2015 | 153 comments
3. Tesla unveils new car-charging robo-snake (washingtonpost.com)
401 points by daegloe on Aug 6, 2015 | 197 comments
4. Privacy Badger – Block spying ads and invisible trackers (eff.org)
322 points by swartzcr on Aug 6, 2015 | 109 comments
5. Insufficient Sleep Is a Public Health Epidemic (cdc.gov)
302 points by dpflan on Aug 6, 2015 | 223 comments
6. Prove Raft Correct (github.com/uwplse)
173 points by jtgi on Aug 6, 2015 | 27 comments
7. Fuzzing a DNS parser written in Go (cloudflare.com)
165 points by jgrahamc on Aug 6, 2015 | 39 comments
8. Training a Neural Net to Generate CSS (gwern.net)
176 points by Moshe_Silnorin on Aug 5, 2015 | 31 comments
9. Freight Startups Attract Silicon Valley’s Attention (wsj.com)
127 points by shahryc on Aug 6, 2015 | 51 comments
10. MIT claims to have found a “language universal” that ties all languages together (arstechnica.co.uk)
181 points by jonbaer on Aug 6, 2015 | 94 comments
11. EFF Guide to Street Level Surveillance (eff.org)
166 points by aestetix on Aug 6, 2015 | 26 comments
12. Improving Equity Compensation at Coinbase (medium.com/barmstrong)
93 points by jorde on Aug 6, 2015 | 41 comments
13. Making Netflix.com Faster (netflix.com)
158 points by _zhqs on Aug 5, 2015 | 75 comments
14. Patching Rails Performance (heroku.com)
102 points by strzalek on Aug 6, 2015 | 26 comments
15. A Beginner’s Guide to Restricted Boltzmann Machines (deeplearning4j.org)
90 points by vonnik on Aug 6, 2015 | 11 comments
16. Standard Treasury Acquired by Silicon Valley Bank (zactownsend.com)
106 points by BukhariH on Aug 6, 2015 | 31 comments
17. A Submerged Monolith Near Sicily: Evidence for Mesolithic Human Activity (sciencedirect.com)
91 points by Petiver on Aug 6, 2015 | 43 comments
18. Building Resilient Services with Go (fogcreek.com)
110 points by GarethX on Aug 6, 2015 | 19 comments
19. Pulsar: Concurrent framework for Python (quantmind.github.io)
95 points by kermatt on Aug 6, 2015 | 29 comments
20. OCaml Compiler Hacking: how to add a primitive (cedeela.fr)
76 points by edwintorok on Aug 6, 2015 | 30 comments
21. New Trans-Pacific Partnership Leak Means ‘Significant Overhaul’ for Canadian Law (vice.com)
160 points by walterbell on Aug 6, 2015 | 94 comments
22. The Humble Programmer (c2.com)
131 points by anacleto on Aug 6, 2015 | 64 comments
23. How experts stay safe at the Black Hat security conference (usatoday.com)
128 points by shahryc on Aug 6, 2015 | 76 comments
24. National Raisin Reserve (wikipedia.org)
100 points by dpflan on Aug 6, 2015 | 40 comments
25. Printer's key (wikipedia.org)
66 points by senorgusto on Aug 6, 2015 | 15 comments
26. Why Red Means Red in Almost Every Language (nautil.us)
97 points by dnetesn on Aug 6, 2015 | 66 comments
27. NSA tried Stuxnet cyber-attack on North Korea five years ago but failed (theguardian.com)
73 points by shahryc on Aug 6, 2015 | 28 comments
28. To combat falling ratings, TV networks are increasing ads up to 10% (businessinsider.com)
87 points by bane on Aug 6, 2015 | 120 comments
29. Leaked Uber financials from 2012 to 2014 (recode.net)
98 points by lxm on Aug 6, 2015 | 101 comments
30. A curated list of data science blogs (github.com/rushter)
176 points by istinspring on Aug 6, 2015 | 26 comments

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