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1. Hack: A typeface designed for source code (sourcefoundry.org)
521 points by erickhill on Aug 29, 2015 | 243 comments
2. Windows Certificate Manager does not display the complete trust list (hexatomium.github.io)
390 points by svenfaw on Aug 29, 2015 | 100 comments
3. Linear Algebra: What matrices are (nolaymanleftbehind.wordpress.com)
262 points by lormayna on Aug 29, 2015 | 83 comments
4. FCC considering a proposal to lock down devices with a “modular wireless radio” (libreplanet.org)
211 points by thejosh on Aug 29, 2015 | 133 comments
5. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com)
130 points by shadowfiend on Aug 29, 2015 | 23 comments
6. Why telephone keypads are arranged the way they are (datagenetics.com)
104 points by squeakynick on Aug 29, 2015 | 46 comments
7. Android-x86 Project – Run Android on Your PC (android-x86.org)
140 points by cblte on Aug 29, 2015 | 45 comments
8. First South Americans Were Australian Aborigines (1999) (bbc.co.uk)
59 points by ptio on Aug 29, 2015 | 22 comments
9. Glitter – Dead-simple boilerplate for OpenGL (github.com/polytonic)
68 points by Polytonic on Aug 29, 2015 | 16 comments
10. NASA starts year-long isolation to prepare astronauts for Mars (bbc.com)
98 points by anigbrowl on Aug 29, 2015 | 15 comments
11. Uber hires two security researchers to improve car technology (reuters.com)
67 points by chermanowicz on Aug 28, 2015 | 30 comments
12. Efficient Tabular Storage (matthewrocklin.com)
62 points by ah- on Aug 28, 2015 | 9 comments
13. Reliably measuring IQ through commercial puzzle games (sciencedirect.com)
93 points by davidiach on Aug 29, 2015 | 60 comments
14. Genode – Operating System Framework (genode.org)
92 points by neodypsis on Aug 29, 2015 | 23 comments
15. Megagames: Giant board games for hundreds of people in the same room (independent.co.uk)
71 points by jsnell on Aug 29, 2015 | 17 comments
16. Remembering When Driverless Elevators Drew Skepticism (npr.org)
110 points by piyushmakhija on Aug 28, 2015 | 129 comments
17. Aquameta Layer 0: Meta – Writable System Catalog for PostgreSQL (aquameta.com)
50 points by erichanson on Aug 29, 2015 | 10 comments
18. YouTube is preparing to launch two subscription services (theverge.com)
75 points by _7h4m on Aug 29, 2015 | 62 comments
19. Parallelism, Concurrency, and Asynchrony in Perl 6 [video] (youtube.com)
54 points by bulknews on Aug 28, 2015 | 4 comments
20. MARS-500 (wikipedia.org)
49 points by sethbannon on Aug 29, 2015 | 14 comments
21. Methods Videos Are Making Science Smarter (newyorker.com)
50 points by retupmoc01 on Aug 29, 2015 | 10 comments
22. The Supervolcano Under Yellowstone Is Alive and Kicking (nautil.us)
58 points by DarkContinent on Aug 29, 2015 | 50 comments
23. Re: OpenBSD MIPS32 Support (swarthmore.edu)
61 points by protomyth on Aug 29, 2015 | 40 comments
24. The Cannabis Chemist [video] (fivethirtyeight.com)
57 points by ryan_j_naughton on Aug 29, 2015 | 5 comments
25. Doradus – A graph-based data model, advanced indexing and search for Cassandra (github.com/dell-oss)
34 points by kylequest on Aug 29, 2015 | 5 comments
26. The End of Rationalism: An Interview with John Ralston Saul (2001) (scottlondon.com)
67 points by walterbell on Aug 29, 2015 | 43 comments
27. Deringing in DCT via overshoot and clipping (pornel.net)
39 points by ot on Aug 29, 2015 | 7 comments
28. Writing code that writes code with Hack Codegen (facebook.com)
32 points by ctice on Aug 29, 2015 | 4 comments
29. The ncurses licensing saga (invisible-island.net)
75 points by Somasis on Aug 29, 2015 | 20 comments
30. As self-driving cars come to more states, regulators take a back seat (washingtonpost.com)
30 points by grej on Aug 28, 2015 | 13 comments

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