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1. Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail (cpbotha.net)
649 points by cpbotha on Aug 8, 2016 | 365 comments
2. Confirmed: Walmart buys Jet.com for $3B in cash (techcrunch.com)
429 points by brandonlipman on Aug 8, 2016 | 254 comments
3. A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (2012) (acm.org)
444 points by akkartik on Aug 8, 2016 | 341 comments
4. Image Kernels explained visually (setosa.io)
363 points by phodo on Aug 8, 2016 | 47 comments
5. Street food chef's stall becomes world's first to earn Michelin star (mirror.co.uk)
349 points by wallflower on Aug 7, 2016 | 150 comments
6. Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods (2013) (somethingsimilar.com)
386 points by kiyanwang on Aug 8, 2016 | 133 comments
7. How my open source hobby project became my job: 10 years of OptaPlanner (optaplanner.org)
246 points by ge0ffrey on Aug 7, 2016 | 40 comments
8. It’s hard work printing nothing (tedunangst.com)
179 points by protomyth on Aug 8, 2016 | 74 comments
9. Quadrooter: New Vulnerabilities Affecting Over 900M Android Devices [pdf] (checkpoint.com)
175 points by ge0rg on Aug 8, 2016 | 124 comments
10. Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift?
360 points by schappim on Aug 7, 2016 | 514 comments
11. Why do CPUs have multiple cache levels? (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
309 points by panic on Aug 8, 2016 | 121 comments
12. TLS Everywhere, not https: URIs (2015) (w3.org)
207 points by schallertd on Aug 8, 2016 | 91 comments
13. Ecological Wealth of Nations (footprintnetwork.org)
152 points by schallertd on Aug 8, 2016 | 131 comments
14. CuratedAI: A literary magazine written by machines, for people (curatedai.com)
117 points by ryan_j_naughton on Aug 8, 2016 | 23 comments
15. Reverse Engineering Quadcopter Protocols (mmelchior.wordpress.com)
95 points by DanBC on Aug 8, 2016 | 6 comments
16. How Teletext and Ceefax are coming back from the dead (techradar.com)
122 points by ingve on Aug 8, 2016 | 64 comments
17. The Update Framework (theupdateframework.github.io)
140 points by ashitlerferad on Aug 8, 2016 | 30 comments
18. Printable 1:24000 topographic maps for the entire US (natgeomaps.com)
141 points by david-given on Aug 8, 2016 | 37 comments
19. Show HN: Publish blog post with a simple Git push (github.com/snehesht)
96 points by snehesht on Aug 7, 2016 | 63 comments
20. Why I'm not a big fan of Scrum (okigiveup.net)
483 points by keso on Aug 8, 2016 | 380 comments
21. Metropolis Algorithm and Bayesian posterior sampling (efavdb.com)
84 points by efavdb on Aug 8, 2016 | 14 comments
22. Protecting Netflix Viewing Privacy at Scale (netflix.com)
91 points by samber on Aug 8, 2016 | 32 comments
23. A New Explanation for One of the Strangest Occurrences in Nature: Ball Lightning (nautil.us)
107 points by dnetesn on Aug 8, 2016 | 52 comments
24. The Magic Bureaucrat and His Riverside Miracle (99percentinvisible.org)
80 points by jcbeard on Aug 8, 2016 | 26 comments
25. Fat Protocols (usv.com)
66 points by jackgavigan on Aug 8, 2016 | 15 comments
26. Fear and Loathing in Linux, or Who Needs /etc/motd (2010) (archive.org)
137 points by akkartik on Aug 8, 2016 | 77 comments
27. Vulnerability Update: libarchive (hardenedbsd.org)
66 points by utternerd on Aug 8, 2016 | 20 comments
28. SSH with Facebook Auth (scaleft.com)
51 points by rchiniquy on Aug 7, 2016 | 17 comments
29. Computing machinery and intelligence (1950) (loebner.net)
75 points by drikerf on Aug 8, 2016 | 13 comments
30. Show HN: JSON.is (json.is)
100 points by zackbloom on Aug 8, 2016 | 57 comments

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