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1. Show HN: Hacker News Simulator (ycombniator.com)
572 points by orf on Sept 20, 2015 | 163 comments
2. Show HN: %%30%30: A Game (github.com/szhu)
608 points by szhu on Sept 20, 2015 | 89 comments
3. PaperBack – How to store data on a single A4/Letter sheet (ollydbg.de)
255 points by jguegant on Sept 19, 2015 | 114 comments
4. $1 Unistroke Recognizer (washington.edu)
138 points by tambourine_man on Sept 19, 2015 | 41 comments
5. AVG can sell your browsing and search history to advertisers (wired.co.uk)
260 points by SimplyUseless on Sept 20, 2015 | 132 comments
6. Improved Digital Certificate Security (googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)
141 points by mikecarlton on Sept 20, 2015 | 48 comments
7. Drones are taking off in the oil industry, especially in dangerous offshore work (bloomberg.com)
88 points by grej on Sept 20, 2015 | 17 comments
8. Shock in the Shower (1997) (esdjournal.com)
92 points by jms on Sept 19, 2015 | 22 comments
9. Tower purifies a million cubic feet of air per hour (wired.com)
87 points by anigbrowl on Sept 19, 2015 | 44 comments
10. Who killed Ashraf Marwan, described as the 20th century’s greatest spy? (theguardian.com)
92 points by Thevet on Sept 19, 2015 | 10 comments
11. The Night They Drove the Price of Electricity Down (slate.com)
101 points by luu on Sept 19, 2015 | 81 comments
12. Syncer: fast stateful file/disk data syncer written on Go (github.com/stargrave)
56 points by stargrave on Sept 19, 2015 | 30 comments
13. The Hottest Restaurant of 2081 (eater.com)
56 points by benbreen on Sept 20, 2015 | 20 comments
14. Beyond the $1K Genome: DNA ‘Writing’ Comes Next (techcrunch.com)
33 points by jonbaer on Sept 20, 2015 | 16 comments
15. Cruise Raises $12.5M for Self-Driving Cars, Poaches Tesla’s Lead on Autopilot (techcrunch.com)
80 points by replicatorblog on Sept 20, 2015 | 20 comments
16. MLDB – Machine Learning Database (mldb.ai)
103 points by JPKab on Sept 20, 2015 | 10 comments
17. Implementing Levenshtein Automata (fulmicoton.com)
100 points by fulmicoton on Sept 20, 2015 | 8 comments
18. Elephants Shot with Poison Arrows Travel to Humans for Help (thedodo.com)
221 points by ghosh on Sept 20, 2015 | 72 comments
19. Travels From The Monk That Lives in My Phone (boboandchichi.com)
83 points by brudgers on Sept 20, 2015 | 25 comments
20. Bantu expansion shows that habitat alters the route and pace of human dispersals (phys.org)
80 points by curtis on Sept 20, 2015 | 30 comments
21. Rust bare metal on ARM microcontroller (antoinealb.net)
80 points by AndrewDucker on Sept 19, 2015 | 20 comments
22. ARM immediate value encoding (mcdiarmid.org)
83 points by JoshTriplett on Sept 20, 2015 | 41 comments
23. Loading an x64 register, how hard could it be? (c9x.me)
51 points by mpu on Sept 19, 2015 | 17 comments
24. Aerial Construction – Building structures with flying machines (ethz.ch)
64 points by voska on Sept 20, 2015 | 11 comments
25. Parallel Java 2 Library (rit.edu)
30 points by zatkin on Sept 20, 2015 | 4 comments
26. Prison vs. Harvard in an unlikely debate (wsj.com)
56 points by rohunati on Sept 19, 2015 | 13 comments
27. Life in Walter Segal's self-build 'anarchist' estate (theguardian.com)
43 points by markvdb on Sept 20, 2015 | 14 comments
28. Right Approach to Minimal Boot Times (2010) [pdf] (elinux.org)
41 points by vezzy-fnord on Sept 20, 2015 | 5 comments
29. The Death of the Party (nytimes.com)
112 points by mojuba on Sept 20, 2015 | 110 comments
30. Gary Becker's biggest mistake (marginalrevolution.com)
64 points by smollett on Sept 20, 2015 | 13 comments

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