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1. Mozilla’s Send makes it easy to send a file from one person to another (theverge.com)
598 points by Tomte on Aug 3, 2017 | 318 comments
2. Operation Luigi: How I hacked my friend without her noticing (defaultnamehere.tumblr.com)
728 points by adamch on Aug 3, 2017 | 162 comments
3. Inside Patreon, the economic engine of internet culture (theverge.com)
400 points by panic on Aug 3, 2017 | 413 comments
4. Exa, a modern replacement for ls (exa.website)
740 points by r0muald on Aug 3, 2017 | 403 comments
5. Summer Reading List (blog.ycombinator.com)
470 points by craigcannon on Aug 3, 2017 | 272 comments
6. Monsanto leaks suggest it tried to ‘kill’ cancer research about weed killer (baumhedlundlaw.com)
353 points by givan on Aug 3, 2017 | 120 comments
7. Stack Overflow Sunsetting Documentation (stackoverflow.com)
378 points by ingve on Aug 3, 2017 | 210 comments
8. Indictment of Marcus Hutchins aka "Malwaretech" (documentcloud.org)
309 points by ryanlol on Aug 3, 2017 | 195 comments
9. How I implemented my own crypto (loup-vaillant.fr)
380 points by loup-vaillant on Aug 3, 2017 | 386 comments
10. Falling lithium-ion battery prices to drive rapid storage uptake (pv-magazine-usa.com)
138 points by okket on Aug 3, 2017 | 177 comments
11. 300M Freely Downloadable Pwned Passwords (troyhunt.com)
318 points by urahara on Aug 3, 2017 | 177 comments
12. PET scans show many Alzheimer’s patients may not actually have the disease (washingtonpost.com)
158 points by DrScump on Aug 2, 2017 | 65 comments
13. Instagram daily use surpasses Snapchat (techcrunch.com)
186 points by rahulshiv on Aug 3, 2017 | 97 comments
14. Larry Page Deposition in Uber vs. Waymo (scribd.com)
186 points by heshamg on Aug 2, 2017 | 205 comments
15. Squaring Venture Capital Valuations with Reality (ssrn.com)
133 points by zapoist on Aug 2, 2017 | 46 comments
16. Transitioning entirely to neural machine translation (facebook.com)
136 points by darwhy on Aug 3, 2017 | 45 comments
17. Hacker News News Feed for the Mac Touch Bar (github.com/mrmekon)
143 points by littlestymaar on Aug 3, 2017 | 146 comments
18. Japan’s labor market is tight, and higher wages may be needed to retain workers (bloomberg.com)
120 points by SirLJ on Aug 3, 2017 | 134 comments
19. Rust RFC 2094: non-lexical lifetimes (github.com/rust-lang)
156 points by JoshTriplett on Aug 2, 2017 | 66 comments
20. Insiders say Google was interested in buying Snap for at least $30B last year (businessinsider.com)
211 points by SirLJ on Aug 3, 2017 | 96 comments
21. Tinker with a Neural Network (2016) (tensorflow.org)
92 points by sonabinu on Aug 3, 2017 | 3 comments
22. How Canada became an education superpower (bbc.com)
240 points by iamjdg on Aug 3, 2017 | 262 comments
23. ‘This’ in JavaScript (zellwk.com)
170 points by zellwk on Aug 3, 2017 | 97 comments
24. Texas Uses More Energy Than Any Other State (texasmonthly.com)
90 points by sremani on Aug 3, 2017 | 136 comments
25. Dumbo: CIA system to take over webcams, microphones (wikileaks.org)
280 points by givan on Aug 3, 2017 | 90 comments
26. Firefly – An open-source $5 DIY hardware wallet (firefly.city)
130 points by enricotal on Aug 2, 2017 | 36 comments
27. Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US After Def Con (vice.com)
567 points by Shinkirou on Aug 3, 2017 | 254 comments
28. AD – A Javascript implementation of common Active Directory tasks (github.com/dthree)
79 points by robinj6 on Aug 3, 2017 | 19 comments
29. Tesla Burns Through Record Cash to Bring the Model 3 to Market (bloomberg.com)
179 points by bipr0 on Aug 3, 2017 | 208 comments
30. NTSB Issues Investigative Update on San Francisco Airport Near Miss (ntsb.gov)
117 points by helper on Aug 3, 2017 | 117 comments

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