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1. Stack Overflow Outage Postmortem (stackstatus.net)
862 points by gbrayut on July 20, 2016 | 316 comments
2. When a crow dies, the other crows investigate the cause of death (2015) (nationalgeographic.com)
626 points by reimertz on July 20, 2016 | 228 comments
3. Git for Windows accidentally creates NTFS alternate data streams (latkin.org)
349 points by latkin on July 20, 2016 | 176 comments
4. Native encryption added to ZFS on Linux (github.com/zfsonlinux)
280 points by turrini on July 20, 2016 | 140 comments
5. Building an Open Core Company: Interview with GitLab's CEO (about.gitlab.com)
290 points by Siecje on July 20, 2016 | 139 comments
6. Reducing Adobe Flash Usage in Firefox (blog.mozilla.org)
235 points by _jomo on July 20, 2016 | 115 comments
7. On the fly SSL registration and renewal inside Nginx with Let's Encrypt (github.com/gui)
234 points by snaky on July 20, 2016 | 46 comments
8. Gmail.js – JavaScript API for Gmail (github.com/kartiktalwar)
202 points by rodrigocoelho on July 20, 2016 | 49 comments
9. Stick a Fork in Ethereum (elaineou.com)
250 points by themgt on July 19, 2016 | 183 comments
10. Five million Danish ID numbers sent to Chinese firm by mistake (thelocal.dk)
184 points by mbanzon on July 20, 2016 | 79 comments
11. Fresh work on the mathematics of bicycles in motion (nature.com)
165 points by maximz on July 20, 2016 | 95 comments
12. Fewer Allergies: A Possible Upside of Thumb Sucking and Nail Biting (health.harvard.edu)
114 points by dpflan on July 20, 2016 | 40 comments
13. Stealing Facebook access_tokens using CSRF in device login flow (josipfranjkovic.com)
127 points by franjkovic on July 19, 2016 | 82 comments
14. Google Cuts Its Giant Electricity Bill with DeepMind-Powered AI (bloomberg.com)
233 points by runesoerensen on July 20, 2016 | 79 comments
15. Twitter now lets anyone request a verified account (theverge.com)
160 points by protomyth on July 19, 2016 | 129 comments
16. Japan Will Make Its Last VCR This Month (mentalfloss.com)
139 points by lisper on July 20, 2016 | 131 comments
17. Inside the Obama Tech Surge as It Hacks the Pentagon and VA (backchannel.com)
162 points by brensudol on July 20, 2016 | 142 comments
18. Dataflow as database (github.com/frankmcsherry)
86 points by mrry on July 20, 2016 | 10 comments
19. Kivy: Develop multi-touch enabled Python apps (kivy.org)
185 points by tonteldoos on July 20, 2016 | 45 comments
20. BuntDB – Fast, embeddable, in-memory key/value database for Go with geospatial (github.com/tidwall)
96 points by tidwall on July 19, 2016 | 13 comments
21. Show HN: I connected my house lights to video games (stavros.io)
127 points by stavros on July 20, 2016 | 31 comments
22. Windows Hello face recognition is vulnerable to the Jedi mind trick (microsoft.com)
103 points by edburdo on July 20, 2016 | 36 comments
23. Show HN: Lint for HTTP (github.com/vfaronov)
138 points by vfaronov on July 19, 2016 | 12 comments
24. Court restricts U.S. Navy use of whale-killing sonar (wired.com)
95 points by ourmandave on July 20, 2016 | 34 comments
25. Skype finalizes its move to the cloud, ignores the elephant in the room (arstechnica.com)
155 points by runesoerensen on July 20, 2016 | 125 comments
26. How to Keep a Journal (theparisreview.org)
138 points by lermontov on July 16, 2016 | 62 comments
27. Very Long Proofs (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
86 points by pron on July 20, 2016 | 56 comments
28. Dollar Shave Club and the Disruption of Everything (stratechery.com)
237 points by dwaxe on July 20, 2016 | 200 comments
29. Use cases for ES6 proxies (devbryce.com)
83 points by inian on July 19, 2016 | 32 comments
30. Pokémon Go data usage draws attention of House Energy and Commerce Committee [pdf] (house.gov)
155 points by envy2 on July 20, 2016 | 159 comments

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