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1. Newegg vs. Patent Trolls: When We Win, You Win (newegg.com)
704 points by nkurz on July 29, 2015 | 151 comments
2. GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation (wsj.com)
569 points by icpmacdo on July 29, 2015 | 389 comments
3. GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the word 'retard' (github.com/nixxquality)
542 points by necessity on July 29, 2015 | 801 comments
4. How Google Translate squeezes deep learning onto a phone (googleresearch.blogspot.com)
403 points by xwintermutex on July 29, 2015 | 92 comments
5. Take-home interviews (triplebyte.com)
271 points by socmoth on July 29, 2015 | 285 comments
6. Microsoft’s new small print – how your personal data is abused (edri.org)
348 points by rvern on July 29, 2015 | 181 comments
7. Amazon details its plan for how drones can fly safely over U.S. skies (washingtonpost.com)
189 points by mhb on July 29, 2015 | 234 comments
8. First Round 10 Year Project (firstround.com)
202 points by sergeant3 on July 29, 2015 | 77 comments
9. Pilots Say That the F-16-Cessna Crash Illustrates a Civil-Military Difference (theatlantic.com)
181 points by curtis on July 28, 2015 | 95 comments
10. SSL tools we wish we'd known about earlier (certsimple.com)
217 points by nailer on July 29, 2015 | 57 comments
11. RubySpec is Reborn (eregon.github.io)
135 points by chrisseaton on July 29, 2015 | 19 comments
12. Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today (windows.com)
308 points by Garbage on July 29, 2015 | 384 comments
13. Blockspring: Do anything in a spreadsheet (a16z.com)
170 points by robzyb on July 29, 2015 | 78 comments
14. Show HN: Walk around unusual geometries (parametricity.com)
149 points by ihm on July 29, 2015 | 34 comments
15. Releasing jsfunfuzz and DOMFuzz (squarefree.com)
118 points by dbaupp on July 29, 2015 | 14 comments
16. Show HN: File.io – Ephemeral file sharing (file.io)
155 points by ca98am79 on July 29, 2015 | 89 comments
17. Database expert on why NoSQL mattered – and SQL still matters (medium.com/s-c-a-l-e)
132 points by jasondc on July 28, 2015 | 37 comments
18. Binary in JavaScript (danthedev.com)
128 points by codecurve on July 28, 2015 | 29 comments
19. YC Startup School Radio, Episode 1: Alexis Ohanian and Kaz Nejatian (blog.ycombinator.com)
83 points by loyalelectron on July 28, 2015 | 37 comments
20. How to smuggle $1K into North Korea (politico.com)
167 points by admp on July 29, 2015 | 81 comments
21. Flux Architecture Visual Cheatsheet (danmaz74.me)
137 points by ihenvyr on July 29, 2015 | 43 comments
22. Facebook Ordered by Hamburg Regulator to Allow Pseudonyms (bloomberg.com)
147 points by adventured on July 29, 2015 | 130 comments
23. Fragments of a wing washed up on Reunion could be wreckage from MH370 (telegraph.co.uk)
182 points by curtis on July 29, 2015 | 60 comments
24. Secret TPP Talks Continue as the Deal Grows More Controversial (eff.org)
166 points by ghosh on July 29, 2015 | 61 comments
25. Nóirín Plunkett has died (apache.org)
211 points by daenney on July 29, 2015 | 48 comments
26. Google Straps Aclima Sensors to Street View Cars to Map Air Pollution (techcrunch.com)
79 points by Zweihander on July 29, 2015 | 24 comments
27. The Factory of Ideas: Working at Bell Labs [video] (youtube.com)
88 points by hwstar on July 29, 2015 | 23 comments
28. Modals in React (reactjsnews.com)
93 points by zackify on July 29, 2015 | 34 comments
29. The Limitations of the Ethernet CRC and TCP/IP Checksums for Error Detection (noahdavids.org)
42 points by luu on July 29, 2015 | 20 comments
30. Focusing on Developer Happiness with Humane Development (fogcreek.com)
93 points by GarethX on July 29, 2015 | 27 comments

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