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1. How I Built a Custom Camper Van (2015) (syntheti.cc)
751 points by pvsukale3 on Aug 29, 2016 | 340 comments
2. The Myth of RAM (2014) (ilikebigbits.com)
593 points by ddlatham on Aug 29, 2016 | 277 comments
3. Academic Torrents: A distributed system for sharing enormous datasets (academictorrents.com)
552 points by iamjeff on Aug 29, 2016 | 95 comments
4. Hunter S. Thompson on Finding Your Purpose (1958) (tranquilmonkey.com)
525 points by zeeshanm on Aug 29, 2016 | 257 comments
5. Rotoscoped Animation of Filmed Parkour (moral.net.au)
452 points by ropable on Aug 29, 2016 | 49 comments
6. Gene Wilder Has Died (bbc.com)
379 points by cpymchn on Aug 29, 2016 | 118 comments
7. Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup (medium.com/pennykim)
1311 points by davidkhess on Aug 29, 2016 | 558 comments
8. Zig: a system language which prioritizes optimality, safety, and readability (ziglang.org)
237 points by vmorgulis on Aug 28, 2016 | 218 comments
9. Principles for Programming Languages for Learners (acm.org)
225 points by akkartik on Aug 29, 2016 | 109 comments
10. SRL – Simple Regex Language (simple-regex.com)
279 points by maxpert on Aug 29, 2016 | 133 comments
11. How a Technical Co-Founder Spends His Time (jdlm.info)
245 points by JohnHammersley on Aug 29, 2016 | 60 comments
12. Warned of a Crash, Startups in Silicon Valley Narrow Their Focus (nytimes.com)
230 points by my_first_acct on Aug 29, 2016 | 174 comments
13. The first autonomous, entirely soft robot (news.harvard.edu)
189 points by krnekdo on Aug 29, 2016 | 44 comments
14. Seven Puzzles You Think You Must Not Have Heard Correctly (2006) [pdf] (dartmouth.edu)
303 points by support_ribbons on Aug 29, 2016 | 207 comments
15. A giant pyramid hidden inside a mountain (bbc.com)
176 points by Cozumel on Aug 29, 2016 | 52 comments
16. Advanced Deanonymization Attacks (whonix.org)
139 points by ashitlerferad on Aug 29, 2016 | 30 comments
17. Btree vs. LSM (github.com/wiredtiger)
129 points by pbhowmic on Aug 29, 2016 | 40 comments
18. DTrace and Python (github.com/pyconsk)
129 points by myautsai on Aug 29, 2016 | 20 comments
19. Can smiling make you happier? (slate.com)
105 points by nate on Aug 29, 2016 | 58 comments
20. Pythran: a Python to C++ compiler with a focus on scientific computing (pythonhosted.org)
107 points by vmorgulis on Aug 28, 2016 | 64 comments
21. Maquette – Pure and simple virtual DOM library (maquettejs.org)
79 points by tilt on Aug 29, 2016 | 30 comments
22. Sierra Gets Creative (filfre.net)
139 points by ColinCochrane on Aug 29, 2016 | 51 comments
23. Google Cast is now built-in to Chrome (googleblog.com)
240 points by jdimov10 on Aug 29, 2016 | 148 comments
24. Major next steps for fusion energy based on the spherical tokamak design (pppl.gov)
83 points by jonbaer on Aug 29, 2016 | 57 comments
25. The Fall of a High-End Wine Scammer (bloomberg.com)
100 points by kspaans on Aug 28, 2016 | 57 comments
26. 90% of software developers in the US work outside Silicon Valley (qz.com)
152 points by cpeterso on Aug 29, 2016 | 79 comments
27. How connected cars are turning into revenue-generating machines (techcrunch.com)
52 points by lxm on Aug 28, 2016 | 28 comments
28. The Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age (theguardian.com)
93 points by okket on Aug 29, 2016 | 19 comments
29. Play along with NSA: The RAFTER unintentional radio emissions how-to (phasenoise.livejournal.com)
97 points by wolframio on Aug 29, 2016 | 26 comments
30. Optimizing matrix multiplication in C (attractivechaos.wordpress.com)
82 points by attractivechaos on Aug 28, 2016 | 32 comments

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