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1. Unity Comes to Linux: Experimental Build Now Available (unity3d.com)
377 points by fractalb on Aug 26, 2015 | 129 comments
2. Who Hacked Ashley Madison? (krebsonsecurity.com)
410 points by david_shaw on Aug 26, 2015 | 293 comments
3. M, a personal digital assistant inside Facebook Messenger (wired.com)
324 points by jasonlbaptiste on Aug 26, 2015 | 169 comments
4. A Woman Who Spent Six Years Fighting a Traffic Stop (themarshallproject.org)
284 points by danso on Aug 26, 2015 | 124 comments
5. YC Stats (blog.ycombinator.com)
249 points by macleanjr on Aug 26, 2015 | 135 comments
6. Apple Loses German Top Court Case on Swipe-to-Unlock Patent (bloomberg.com)
250 points by bitzerlander on Aug 26, 2015 | 127 comments
7. How to Onboard Software Engineers (fogcreek.com)
280 points by GarethX on Aug 26, 2015 | 111 comments
8. Potentially Reprogramming Cancer Cells Back to Normal Cells (neurosciencenews.com)
208 points by jaoued on Aug 26, 2015 | 40 comments
9. WebExtensions FAQ (wiki.mozilla.org)
177 points by jtgeibel on Aug 26, 2015 | 126 comments
10. A Russian Family Was Isolated for 40 Years, Unaware of WWII (2013) (smithsonianmag.com)
226 points by sergeant3 on Aug 26, 2015 | 58 comments
11. Secretive fusion company claims reactor breakthrough (news.sciencemag.org)
163 points by sparrowlisted on Aug 26, 2015 | 93 comments
12. An example Python machine learning notebook for newcomers (github.com/rhiever)
174 points by rhiever on Aug 25, 2015 | 15 comments
13. What Does the OS X Activity Monitor’s “Energy Impact” Actually Measure? (blog.mozilla.org)
137 points by nnethercote on Aug 25, 2015 | 65 comments
14. NeXTBSD aka FreeBSD X (slideshare.net)
154 points by tachion on Aug 26, 2015 | 70 comments
15. A heads up display for git (github.com/michaeldfallen)
242 points by michaelallen on Aug 26, 2015 | 60 comments
16. PyPy Vectorization (pypyvecopt.blogspot.com)
99 points by hencq on Aug 26, 2015 | 8 comments
17. Vulcan-74 – A 6502 Retro MegaProject (6502.org)
114 points by cmrdporcupine on Aug 26, 2015 | 25 comments
18. A Computational Introduction to Number Theory and Algebra (shoup.net)
163 points by luu on Aug 26, 2015 | 17 comments
19. How to support PGP encryption in Gmail (conorpp.com)
113 points by conorpp on Aug 26, 2015 | 49 comments
20. How companies make millions off lead-poisoned, poor blacks (washingtonpost.com)
249 points by eplanit on Aug 26, 2015 | 246 comments
21. Why Do Colleges Give Honorary Degrees? (priceonomics.com)
123 points by bpolania on Aug 26, 2015 | 123 comments
22. The Beauty of Clojure (owenrh.me.uk)
217 points by erikcw on Aug 26, 2015 | 170 comments
23. Paxos Made Moderately Complex (paxos.systems)
85 points by sargun on Aug 26, 2015 | 29 comments
24. How security flaws work: the buffer overflow (arstechnica.com)
154 points by guardian5x on Aug 26, 2015 | 45 comments
25. How developers search for code: a case study (research.google.com)
103 points by pramodbiligiri on Aug 26, 2015 | 13 comments
26. Network handover in Google Fi (nicholasarmstrong.com)
107 points by ndrarmst on Aug 26, 2015 | 51 comments
27. 3D printing titanium: Learning to learn from success (pencerw.com)
73 points by pencerw on Aug 26, 2015 | 35 comments
28. Python Extension Proposal 498: Literal String Formatting (python.org)
107 points by ptest1 on Aug 26, 2015 | 97 comments
29. Inside the Fight Over Bitcoin’s Future (newyorker.com)
93 points by donohoe on Aug 26, 2015 | 49 comments
30. Making Ocean Water Drinkable (popularmechanics.com)
75 points by prawn on Aug 26, 2015 | 55 comments

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