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1. 4WD vs. AWD. What's the Difference? (outsideonline.com)
404 points by hackuser on Aug 27, 2016 | 201 comments
2. Why should children program? A review of Seymour Papert's Mindstorms (dannas.github.io)
171 points by dannas on Aug 27, 2016 | 105 comments
3. Breaking a myth: Data shows you don’t actually need a co-founder (techcrunch.com)
380 points by greenspot on Aug 27, 2016 | 166 comments
4. In rich and poor countries, researchers turn to Sci-Hub (sciencemag.org)
330 points by guiambros on Aug 27, 2016 | 134 comments
5. Amazon is piloting teams with a 30-hour workweek (washingtonpost.com)
362 points by djacobs on Aug 26, 2016 | 284 comments
6. Movfuscator – A single-instruction C compiler (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
191 points by vasili111 on Aug 27, 2016 | 53 comments
7. HTTP Observatory: analyze your website and review available methods to secure it (github.com/mozilla)
128 points by based2 on Aug 27, 2016 | 16 comments
8. Fluid Simulation (with WebGL demo) (jamie-wong.com)
196 points by robertelder on Aug 27, 2016 | 27 comments
9. Short-selling as a way to profit from security vulnerabilities (bloomberg.com)
181 points by ISL on Aug 27, 2016 | 114 comments
10. Why China won’t own next-generation manufacturing (washingtonpost.com)
178 points by endswapper on Aug 27, 2016 | 193 comments
11. Z3 SMT solver interactive tutorial (rise4fun.com)
114 points by vmorgulis on Aug 27, 2016 | 14 comments
12. New class of galaxy has been discovered, made almost entirely of dark matter (washingtonpost.com)
288 points by daegloe on Aug 26, 2016 | 139 comments
13. Show HN: In-view.js – Get notified when DOM elements enter or exit the viewport (github.com/camwiegert)
118 points by Heqx on Aug 27, 2016 | 62 comments
14. Maru OS becomes an open source project (opensourceforu.com)
97 points by rakibtg on Aug 27, 2016 | 26 comments
15. SpaceX's Dragon cargo ship splashes down in Pacific (phys.org)
113 points by dnetesn on Aug 27, 2016 | 20 comments
16. Colombia’s Milestone in World Peace (nytimes.com)
108 points by _mhyx on Aug 26, 2016 | 71 comments
17. Ntfy: A utility for sending notifications (github.com/dschep)
226 points by snehesht on Aug 27, 2016 | 45 comments
18. In Mathematics, Mistakes Aren’t What They Used to Be (2015) (nautil.us)
105 points by dnetesn on Aug 27, 2016 | 54 comments
19. Programmer, interrupted (2013) (gamasutra.com)
106 points by joshka on Aug 27, 2016 | 44 comments
20. Majority of mathematicians hail from 24 scientific ‘families’ (nature.com)
171 points by philip1209 on Aug 27, 2016 | 83 comments
21. Uber's Failure in Japan (disruptingjapan.com)
170 points by jmadsen on Aug 27, 2016 | 135 comments
22. Why Nearly Every Film Ends by Saying It’s Fiction (slate.com)
152 points by yurisagalov on Aug 27, 2016 | 83 comments
23. What Slack might learn from its Open Source alternative (mattermost.org)
219 points by caiobegotti on Aug 27, 2016 | 94 comments
24. John Ellenby, Visionary Who Helped Create Early Laptop, Dies at 75 (nytimes.com)
68 points by NaOH on Aug 27, 2016 | 15 comments
25. Wolverines: The Future of Search and Rescue (outsideonline.com)
66 points by curtis on Aug 26, 2016 | 11 comments
26. Keep a Changelog (keepachangelog.com)
137 points by vdfs on Aug 26, 2016 | 45 comments
27. How Fins Evolved into Hands and Feet (theatlantic.com)
65 points by Hooke on Aug 25, 2016 | 9 comments
28. G.E., the 124-Year-Old Software Start-Up (nytimes.com)
115 points by petethomas on Aug 27, 2016 | 130 comments
29. IM2CAD – Reconstruct a scene that is as similar as possible to a photograph (arxiv.org)
86 points by EvgeniyZh on Aug 27, 2016 | 6 comments
30. A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To (cooltrainer.org)
201 points by vasili111 on Aug 27, 2016 | 177 comments

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