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1. CS Unplugged: Computer Science Without a Computer (csunplugged.org)
403 points by avinassh on Sept 4, 2015 | 87 comments
2. Lost C64 Games: Daffy Duck – 1992 Hi-Tec (gamesthatwerent.com)
177 points by ingve on Sept 4, 2015 | 46 comments
3. Call Me Maybe: MariaDB Galera Cluster (aphyr.com)
293 points by akerl_ on Sept 4, 2015 | 97 comments
4. How Secure Channels Attempted to Intimidate a Critic and Failed Spectacularly (popehat.com)
253 points by tptacek on Sept 4, 2015 | 26 comments
5. Procedural Dungeon Generation Algorithm (gamasutra.com)
198 points by ingve on Sept 4, 2015 | 47 comments
6. St. Petersburg paradox (wikipedia.org)
144 points by gmac on Sept 4, 2015 | 74 comments
7. Under the Hood of the Amazon EC2 Container Service (allthingsdistributed.com)
90 points by signaler on Sept 4, 2015 | 23 comments
8. The Alternate Universe of Soviet Arcade Games (atlasobscura.com)
114 points by lermontov on Sept 4, 2015 | 30 comments
9. Detecting an asymmetric Curve25519 backdoor in RSA key generation algorithms (samvartaka.github.io)
96 points by mukyu on Sept 4, 2015 | 11 comments
10. An Analysis of China’s “Great Cannon” (usenix.org)
98 points by sasvari on Sept 4, 2015 | 4 comments
11. W^X policy violation affects Windows drivers compiled in VS 2013 and previous (codeinsecurity.wordpress.com)
106 points by mmastrac on Sept 4, 2015 | 26 comments
12. The Weight (theplayerstribune.com)
145 points by pmcpinto on Sept 4, 2015 | 16 comments
13. Show HN: Libsoundio 1.0.0 – cross-platform audio input and output (libsound.io)
129 points by AndyKelley on Sept 4, 2015 | 41 comments
14. Monads in Scheme (okmij.org)
104 points by amirouche on Sept 4, 2015 | 15 comments
15. Linguistic Harbingers of Betrayal (vene.ro)
102 points by wanderingmarker on Sept 4, 2015 | 13 comments
16. Happy Birthday Monkey Island (grumpygamer.com)
266 points by alblue on Sept 4, 2015 | 119 comments
17. Ada Lovelace: Enchantress of abstraction (nature.com)
58 points by mkempe on Sept 4, 2015 | 20 comments
18. Rosalind, a platform for learning bioinformatics and programming (rosalind.info)
57 points by aarestad on Sept 4, 2015 | 4 comments
19. Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business (backblaze.com)
476 points by discreditable on Sept 4, 2015 | 267 comments
20. Picoc: A very small C interpreter for scripting (github.com/zsaleeba)
80 points by alecco on Sept 4, 2015 | 28 comments
21. The Mystery of Devil's Kettle Falls (mnn.com)
165 points by oskenso on Sept 4, 2015 | 89 comments
22. Perl 6 hands-on tutorial – A small introduction to a big language [pdf] (jnthn.net)
111 points by kbenson on Sept 4, 2015 | 94 comments
23. Learn by Implementation: K-Nearest Neighbor (depiesml.wordpress.com)
57 points by vonnik on Sept 4, 2015 | 5 comments
24. DPDK: Data Plane Development Kit (dpdk.org)
47 points by pjf on Sept 4, 2015 | 4 comments
25. OOSMOS – The Object-Oriented State Machine Operating System (oosmos.com)
43 points by zzglenm on Sept 4, 2015 | 8 comments
26. Responsive CSS grid, reordered with native HTML5 drag and drop (clippings.github.io)
155 points by seer on Sept 4, 2015 | 32 comments
27. Really Random Number Generator (makezine.com)
104 points by aburan28 on Sept 4, 2015 | 67 comments
28. How JetBrains Lost Years of Customer Loyalty in Just a Few Hours (bytecrafter.blogspot.com)
430 points by rograndom on Sept 4, 2015 | 490 comments
29. Parkinsons-Like Neurodegenerative Disease Linked to Prion (acs.org)
65 points by cryoshon on Sept 4, 2015 | 25 comments
30. How a Boeing Sales Flop Became the World's Hottest Secondhand Jetliner (bloomberg.com)
88 points by jwegan on Sept 4, 2015 | 69 comments

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