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1. An account of a serious medical emergency on a transoceanic flight (feminem.org)
832 points by bshep on Sept 3, 2016 | 288 comments
2. How to Tell a Mother Her Child Is Dead (nytimes.com)
694 points by niyazpk on Sept 3, 2016 | 199 comments
3. People in Los Angeles Are Getting Rid Of Their Cars (buzzfeed.com)
234 points by andrewfromx on Sept 3, 2016 | 243 comments
4. The neurology of self-awareness (edge.org)
189 points by type0 on Sept 3, 2016 | 98 comments
5. Paris climate deal: US and China announce ratification (bbc.com)
250 points by smb06 on Sept 3, 2016 | 120 comments
6. 500 Byte Images: The Haiku Vector Icon Format (leahhanson.us)
265 points by luu on Sept 3, 2016 | 81 comments
7. The Math Myth (econlib.org)
318 points by forloop on Sept 3, 2016 | 313 comments
8. A computer engineer has tracked down the first Apollo guidance computer (gadget.co.za)
194 points by a_w on Sept 3, 2016 | 35 comments
9. Startups turning to a funding tactic used by oil and gas companies in the 1900s (qz.com)
150 points by endswapper on Sept 2, 2016 | 38 comments
10. Latest Intel, AMD chips won't support Windows versions earlier than Windows 10 (theregister.co.uk)
180 points by infodroid on Sept 3, 2016 | 212 comments
11. DEFCON 23 Uber Badge Replica (co9.io)
63 points by erbbysam on Sept 2, 2016 | 4 comments
12. Remembering Vernon Adams, creator of KDE's user-interface font Oxygen (lwn.net)
196 points by zobzu on Sept 3, 2016 | 11 comments
13. Git 2.10 has been released (github.com/blog)
205 points by dwaxe on Sept 3, 2016 | 36 comments
14. How Spy Tech Firms Let Governments See Everything on a Smartphone (nytimes.com)
165 points by xacaxulu on Sept 3, 2016 | 59 comments
15. In the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom (smithsonianmag.com)
66 points by benbreen on Sept 2, 2016 | 27 comments
16. How Fake Money Saved Brazil (2010) (npr.org)
162 points by mrb on Sept 3, 2016 | 119 comments
17. Nano to remain in GNU (lists.gnu.org)
145 points by Ianvdl on Sept 3, 2016 | 65 comments
18. Show HN: Grumbles.js – Detects when your users swear out loud (knpw.rs)
91 points by kpthunder on Sept 3, 2016 | 45 comments
19. Does Chinese Civilization Come from Ancient Egypt? (foreignpolicy.com)
82 points by DanielBMarkham on Sept 3, 2016 | 61 comments
20. Florida programmer arrested for gaining unauthorized access to kernel.org (justice.gov)
116 points by ashitlerferad on Sept 3, 2016 | 64 comments
21. EFF to Court: Government Must Inform People That It’s Accessing Their Data (eff.org)
158 points by DiabloD3 on Sept 3, 2016 | 13 comments
22. The Hunt for 928 or Has Anyone Seen This Spy Plane? (1999) (otherhand.org)
67 points by swatkat on Sept 2, 2016 | 12 comments
23. LoweBot (lowesinnovationlabs.com)
101 points by adenadel on Sept 3, 2016 | 35 comments
24. Greatest of All Time: Lifestyles of the rich and famous Roman athletes (2010) (laphamsquarterly.org)
61 points by acheron on Sept 3, 2016 | 27 comments
25. Modern science and Chinese philosophy tell us about how we think (2014) (nautil.us)
69 points by dnetesn on Sept 3, 2016 | 9 comments
26. RCA engineers envisioned automated electronic highways by 1975 (ieee.org)
42 points by helloworld on Sept 3, 2016 | 32 comments
27. Using molecular codes, plants cry for help, ward off bugs (2013) (nautil.us)
71 points by brahmwg on Sept 3, 2016 | 29 comments
28. Solutions to Integer Overflow (regehr.org)
86 points by deafcalculus on Sept 3, 2016 | 49 comments
29. Memento at the W3C (w3.org)
84 points by mpweiher on Sept 3, 2016 | 7 comments
30. Dam Project Threatens to Submerge Thousands of Years of Turkish History (nytimes.com)
42 points by kafkaesq on Sept 3, 2016 | 18 comments

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