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1. The French Number – Connect to a random French person and talk about anything (thefrenchnumber.fr)
263 points by davinov on Aug 28, 2016 | 141 comments
2. Docker not ready for primetime (goodstuff.im)
490 points by erlend_sh on Aug 28, 2016 | 281 comments
3. How I built a Slack bot to help me find an apartment in San Francisco (dataquest.io)
366 points by rmason on Aug 28, 2016 | 88 comments
4. KickSat: open source spacecraft project (github.com/kicksat)
193 points by jimsojim on Aug 28, 2016 | 49 comments
5. There are no particles, there are only fields (2012) (arxiv.org)
294 points by monort on Aug 28, 2016 | 199 comments
6. GitHub Code Search – Programmers' Goldmine (jakubdziworski.github.io)
393 points by knivek on Aug 28, 2016 | 56 comments
7. The Price of Solar Is Declining to Unprecedented Lows (scientificamerican.com)
276 points by tedsanders on Aug 28, 2016 | 164 comments
8. FreeSense: Indoor Human Identification with WiFi Signals (arxiv.org)
161 points by brakmic on Aug 28, 2016 | 40 comments
9. A Russian Family Was Isolated for 40 Years, Unaware of WWII (2013) (smithsonianmag.com)
279 points by betolink on Aug 28, 2016 | 83 comments
10. An Interesting SETI Candidate in Hercules (centauri-dreams.org)
189 points by phreeza on Aug 28, 2016 | 46 comments
11. Why bad scientific code beats code following “best practices” (2014) (yosefk.com)
283 points by ingve on Aug 28, 2016 | 261 comments
12. The piracy paradox at Udemy (2015) (troyhunt.com)
172 points by walterbell on Aug 28, 2016 | 78 comments
13. Run Chrome apps in Electron (github.com/koush)
105 points by simonpure on Aug 27, 2016 | 28 comments
14. Show HN: A Bot to Deploy to AWS, Digital Ocean Etc. (deploybot.com)
129 points by LukeFitzpatrick on Aug 28, 2016 | 39 comments
15. A Surveillance Master Dissects a Murder from the Sky [video] (bloomberg.com)
128 points by awl130 on Aug 27, 2016 | 74 comments
16. Amazon EC2 Beta (2006) (amazon.com)
119 points by Jarred on Aug 27, 2016 | 68 comments
17. Ask HN: What's the best library for making cross-platform UIs?
223 points by rer on Aug 28, 2016 | 221 comments
18. Farmers Plant Beehive Guard Posts to Repel Elephants (99percentinvisible.org)
109 points by samsolomon on Aug 28, 2016 | 8 comments
19. RE:DOM – Tiny DOM library (redom.js.org)
112 points by pkstn on Aug 28, 2016 | 78 comments
20. What It Takes for an Independent Record Store to Survive Now (pitchfork.com)
73 points by pmcpinto on Aug 28, 2016 | 26 comments
21. How Fuhu went bankrupt (latimes.com)
86 points by klenwell on Aug 28, 2016 | 37 comments
22. WhatsApp – Opting out of new terms doesn’t stop Facebook taking information (independent.co.uk)
191 points by breitling on Aug 28, 2016 | 99 comments
23. Decoding the Civil War (zooniverse.org)
55 points by Hooke on Aug 27, 2016 | 4 comments
24. The origins of the Nazis’ secret horse breeding project (longreads.com)
47 points by Hooke on Aug 28, 2016 | 40 comments
25. Ursula K. Le Guin, “the emissary from Orsinia,” challenges expectations (loa.org)
68 points by lermontov on Aug 27, 2016 | 47 comments
26. Mapping the Mercantilist World Economy (ericrossacademic.wordpress.com)
90 points by colinprince on Aug 28, 2016 | 3 comments
27. User-friendly language for programming efficient simulations (news.mit.edu)
88 points by muhic on Aug 28, 2016 | 17 comments
28. Ask HN: What kind of projects should I build for a front-end portfolio?
115 points by Calist0 on Aug 28, 2016 | 57 comments
29. Opera server breach incident (opera.com)
73 points by Garbage on Aug 28, 2016 | 17 comments
30. “To a Top Scientist at Woomera Rocket Range, South Australia” (2009) (lettersofnote.com)
95 points by CarolineW on Aug 28, 2016 | 8 comments

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