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1. The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs (metafluff.com)
984 points by robin_reala on July 21, 2017 | 537 comments
2. The Decline of Investment in San Francisco Startups (tomtunguz.com)
255 points by kawera on July 21, 2017 | 392 comments
3. A hacker stole $31M of Ether – how it happened, and what it means for Ethereum (freecodecamp.org)
520 points by HaseebQ on July 21, 2017 | 414 comments
4. 80-year Harvard study has been showing how to live a healthy and happy life (news.harvard.edu)
442 points by t23 on July 20, 2017 | 166 comments
5. Pass: A standard Unix password manager (passwordstore.org)
406 points by jaybosamiya on July 21, 2017 | 199 comments
6. Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures (hanselman.com)
359 points by riqbal on July 21, 2017 | 233 comments
7. Claude Shannon: How a Genius Thinks, Works, and Lives (medium.com/the-mission)
362 points by seycombi on July 21, 2017 | 100 comments
8. Hedge Fund Uses Algae to Reap 21% Return (bloomberg.com)
211 points by chollida1 on July 21, 2017 | 117 comments
9. Show HN: $200 Solar Self-Sufficiency  Without Your Landlord Noticing (medium.com/nikodunk)
491 points by nikodunk on July 21, 2017 | 182 comments
10. Emacs and Magit (lwn.net)
274 points by tangue on July 21, 2017 | 174 comments
11. Teaching Robots to Understand Semantic Concepts (googleblog.com)
137 points by rey12rey on July 21, 2017 | 14 comments
12. As California’s labor shortage grows, farmers replace workers with robots (latimes.com)
181 points by mcspecter on July 21, 2017 | 165 comments
13. Judge Rules Milwaukee Flouted U.S. Constitution in Response to Pokemon Go Craze (hollywoodreporter.com)
131 points by protomyth on July 21, 2017 | 74 comments
14. Show HN: End-to-end deep learning experimentation platform for Tensorflow (github.com/polyaxon)
151 points by xboost on July 21, 2017 | 21 comments
15. Show HN: Mesh IDE – a code editor that feels like a spreadsheet (github.com/chrispsn)
199 points by chrispsn on July 21, 2017 | 30 comments
16. “We currently have no plans to support Xwayland” (nvidia.com)
181 points by ollien on July 21, 2017 | 307 comments
17. A Rare-Book Thief Who Looted College Libraries in the ’80s (atlasobscura.com)
107 points by ilamont on July 21, 2017 | 26 comments
18. Iron Yard code school to close all campuses (theironyard.com)
127 points by superhumanuser on July 21, 2017 | 124 comments
19. Paying people to preserve forests seems to work (arstechnica.com)
112 points by jseliger on July 21, 2017 | 36 comments
20. Extreme Commuting (nytimes.com)
183 points by wallflower on July 21, 2017 | 297 comments
21. How Did Anyone Do Math in Roman Numerals? (washingtoncitypaper.com)
188 points by iamjeff on July 21, 2017 | 149 comments
22. Coq-based synthesis of Scala programs which are correct-by-construction [pdf] (cnam.fr)
134 points by pharrington on July 21, 2017 | 25 comments
23. Buried tools and pigments tell a history of humans in Australia for 65,000 years (theconversation.com)
91 points by iamjeff on July 21, 2017 | 50 comments
24. NTLM Hash Leaks: Ancient Microsoft Design Flaw (dylankatz.com)
78 points by wolframio on July 21, 2017 | 22 comments
25. Pure Go implementation of the NaCL set of APIs (github.com/kevinburke)
108 points by kevinburke on July 21, 2017 | 19 comments
26. Azure Stack Running in an Azure VM (azurestack.blog)
63 points by darmour_msft on July 21, 2017 | 11 comments
27. Mechanical Turing Machine in Wood (2015) (live.com)
61 points by breck on July 21, 2017 | 20 comments
28. Making Music and Art Through Machine Learning (blog.ycombinator.com)
86 points by craigcannon on July 21, 2017 | 43 comments
29. 19th-Century Lithuanians Who Smuggled Books to Save Their Language (atlasobscura.com)
75 points by lermontov on July 21, 2017 | 31 comments
30. The Weird Signal (upr.edu)
62 points by r721 on July 21, 2017 | 13 comments

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