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1. WordSafety – Check a name for unwanted meanings in foreign languages (wordsafety.com)
431 points by randall on Aug 25, 2015 | 276 comments
2. State of the Common Lisp Ecosystem (eudoxia.me)
199 points by dwc on Aug 25, 2015 | 104 comments
3. Literary Magazines for Socialists Funded by the CIA, Ranked (theawl.com)
176 points by samclemens on Aug 25, 2015 | 133 comments
4. Haskell for Mac (haskellformac.com)
297 points by grayprog on Aug 25, 2015 | 179 comments
5. Show HN: Ear training using midi.js (tonedear.com)
230 points by dncrane on Aug 25, 2015 | 34 comments
6. Python, Machine Learning, and Language Wars. A Highly Subjective Point of View (sebastianraschka.com)
167 points by Lofkin on Aug 24, 2015 | 93 comments
7. A new Stephen Hawking presentation about black holes (washingtonpost.com)
169 points by ColinCochrane on Aug 25, 2015 | 95 comments
8. Will Your Hardware Startup Make Money? (medium.com/boltvc)
209 points by tigrella on Aug 25, 2015 | 82 comments
9. Angular 1 and Angular 2 integration: the path to seamless upgrade (angularjs.blogspot.com)
202 points by hswolff on Aug 25, 2015 | 100 comments
10. Facebook ‘Spam King’ Guilty for Sending 27M Messages (bloomberg.com)
102 points by tchalla on Aug 25, 2015 | 86 comments
11. A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography [pdf] (stanford.edu)
134 points by windhamdavid on Aug 25, 2015 | 23 comments
12. Silicon Brain: 100,000 ARM cores [video] (youtube.com)
119 points by DiabloD3 on Aug 25, 2015 | 54 comments
13. When hardware Kickstarters ship (koalasafe.com)
169 points by steven_pack on Aug 25, 2015 | 87 comments
14. As Coursera Evolves, Colleges Stay On and Investors Buy In (chronicle.com)
132 points by jyosim4 on Aug 25, 2015 | 86 comments
15. UK surveillance “worse than 1984” says new UN privacy chief (arstechnica.co.uk)
313 points by fukusa on Aug 25, 2015 | 229 comments
16. Debian GNU/Hurd Status Update [pdf] (debian.org)
121 points by Tsiolkovsky on Aug 25, 2015 | 54 comments
17. Traceroute (scripts.mit.edu)
130 points by evandrix on Aug 25, 2015 | 45 comments
18. Writing a Linux Kernel Module — Part 3: Buttons and LEDs (derekmolloy.ie)
116 points by OrangeTux on Aug 25, 2015 | 12 comments
19. Chebyshev Approximation (embeddedrelated.com)
204 points by alexcasalboni on Aug 25, 2015 | 60 comments
20. 50 years ago today the word “hypertext” was introduced (gigaom.com)
119 points by epsylon on Aug 25, 2015 | 15 comments
21. Writ – Opinionated, classless styles for semantic HTML (cmcenroe.me)
150 points by citizenk on Aug 25, 2015 | 61 comments
22. Towards Neural Network-based Reasoning (arxiv.org)
134 points by lucidrains on Aug 25, 2015 | 23 comments
23. How a Volcanic Eruption in 1815 Darkened the World but Colored the Arts (nytimes.com)
69 points by danso on Aug 25, 2015 | 4 comments
24. The Holocaust epigenetics study was over-interpreted (epgntxeinstein.tumblr.com)
92 points by tokenadult on Aug 25, 2015 | 37 comments
25. How Sick Is the Stock Market? (bloombergview.com)
116 points by gedrap on Aug 25, 2015 | 116 comments
26. Fun with time travel: retroactive data structures in Python (github.com/csvoss)
79 points by puremachinery on Aug 25, 2015 | 8 comments
27. Learn X in Y minutes – Tcl (learnxinyminutes.com)
94 points by notduncansmith on Aug 25, 2015 | 64 comments
28. Parents' Math Anxiety Is Contagious to Their Kids (nytimes.com)
83 points by euske on Aug 25, 2015 | 75 comments
29. What It Looks Like to Use the Internet for the First Time (vice.com)
82 points by danso on Aug 25, 2015 | 31 comments
30. Photos at Microsoft Corp (1979) (sound-photo.com)
200 points by colinprince on Aug 25, 2015 | 83 comments

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