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1. Tabby's star is dimming at an incredible rate (sciencealert.com)
375 points by ChuckMcM on Aug 6, 2016 | 171 comments
2. Superblocks: how Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars (vox.com)
435 points by based2 on Aug 6, 2016 | 232 comments
3. A x64 OS #1: UEFI (kazlauskas.me)
224 points by based2 on Aug 6, 2016 | 66 comments
4. Show HN: Set of trained deep learning models for computer vision (github.com/fchollet)
127 points by _ntka on Aug 6, 2016 | 15 comments
5. IBM Watson correctly diagnoses a form of leukemia (siliconangle.com)
271 points by adamnemecek on Aug 6, 2016 | 76 comments
6. DLS, the digital logic simulator game (makingartstudios.itch.io)
121 points by jsnell on Aug 6, 2016 | 35 comments
7. Minds Turned to Ash: Burnout is more than working too hard (1843magazine.com)
349 points by xhrpost on Aug 5, 2016 | 95 comments
8. The brain's reward circuitry regulates immunity (nature.com)
136 points by danielmorozoff on Aug 6, 2016 | 34 comments
9. Sheriff Raids House to Find Anonymous Blogger Who Called Him Corrupt (theintercept.com)
299 points by guiambros on Aug 6, 2016 | 77 comments
10. Lithium-air batteries: Their time has come (economist.com)
134 points by mdani on Aug 6, 2016 | 87 comments
11. Throughput vs. Latency and Lock-Free vs. Wait-Free (concurrencyfreaks.blogspot.com)
146 points by ingve on Aug 6, 2016 | 31 comments
12. Saving social media for posterity (nytimes.com)
44 points by mattdennewitz on Aug 6, 2016 | 14 comments
13. The Code: A declassified hostage rescue story (2015) (theverge.com)
62 points by wglb on Aug 6, 2016 | 8 comments
14. Show HN: Make Slack Bots in Java (github.com/ramswaroop)
81 points by ramswaroop on Aug 6, 2016 | 25 comments
15. PlayStation Vita Exploit Reverse Engineering Challenge (yifan.lu)
113 points by gdk on Aug 6, 2016 | 11 comments
16. Carnegie Mellon’s Mayhem AI Wins DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge (techcrunch.com)
166 points by ebakan on Aug 5, 2016 | 26 comments
17. API providing threat analysis of any given IP address (fraudguard.io)
121 points by dontbesalty on Aug 6, 2016 | 77 comments
18. From Linear Models to Machine Learning (draft) [pdf] (ucdavis.edu)
151 points by sonabinu on Aug 6, 2016 | 23 comments
19. Eskil – a GUI front end to diff (tcl.tk)
76 points by networked on Aug 6, 2016 | 30 comments
20. Latest to Quit Google’s Self-Driving Car Unit: Top Roboticist (nytimes.com)
131 points by Qworg on Aug 5, 2016 | 93 comments
21. Airbnb Files to Raise $850M at $30B Valuation (bloomberg.com)
169 points by tekacs on Aug 6, 2016 | 171 comments
22. High-Fidelity Quantum Logic Gates (aps.org)
64 points by gk1 on Aug 6, 2016 | 10 comments
23. The Mesmerizing Math of a Wind Turbine on Fire (wired.com)
59 points by stared on Aug 5, 2016 | 27 comments
24. Making Rust Fly with MIR [video] (air.mozilla.org)
99 points by bluejekyll on Aug 5, 2016 | 11 comments
25. Implementation of various string similarity and distance algorithms in Java (github.com/tdebatty)
88 points by based2 on Aug 6, 2016 | 27 comments
26. Car Thieves Arrested After Using Laptop and Malware to Steal More Than 30 Jeeps (abc13.com)
131 points by Jerry2 on Aug 6, 2016 | 81 comments
27. 7-Elevens Are Becoming Lifelines for Japan's Elderly (citylab.com)
120 points by wallflower on Aug 5, 2016 | 45 comments
28. Desktop privacy & security of web browsers on Linux part 1: concepts and theory (nexlab.net)
76 points by nextime on Aug 6, 2016 | 11 comments
29. Salsa20 design [pdf] (cr.yp.to)
58 points by lucb1e on Aug 5, 2016 | 22 comments
30. Bitfinex Interim Update (bitfinex.com)
48 points by Heliosmaster on Aug 6, 2016 | 36 comments

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