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1. Breakthrough solar cell captures CO2 and sunlight, produces burnable fuel (uic.edu)
595 points by Mz on July 30, 2016 | 147 comments
2. America uses stealthy submarines to hack other countries’ systems (washingtonpost.com)
363 points by Jerry2 on July 30, 2016 | 113 comments
3. Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here (scientificamerican.com)
586 points by doener on July 30, 2016 | 331 comments
4. Habits of highly mathematical people (medium.com/jeremyjkun)
429 points by CarolineW on July 29, 2016 | 110 comments
5. Example-Driven Development (wilfred.me.uk)
157 points by jsnell on July 30, 2016 | 38 comments
6. Barliman: Prototype of a smart text editor (github.com/webyrd)
164 points by adamnemecek on July 30, 2016 | 57 comments
7. The Long Chase (lightspeedmagazine.com)
98 points by monort on July 30, 2016 | 10 comments
8. Differential dataflow roadmap (github.com/frankmcsherry)
88 points by dmit on July 30, 2016 | 4 comments
9. Ratas – A hierarchical timer wheel (snellman.net)
79 points by panic on July 30, 2016 | 12 comments
10. Ireland jails three top bankers over 2008 banking meltdown (reuters.com)
229 points by randomname2 on July 30, 2016 | 146 comments
11. Doing Bayesian Data Analysis On the GPU: Examples (github.com/uncomplicate)
112 points by dragandj on July 30, 2016 | 28 comments
12. Fact Follows Fiction: Real Bridges Based on Euro Banknote Artwork (99percentinvisible.org)
74 points by adamnemecek on July 30, 2016 | 14 comments
13. Dark Web OSINT with Python and OnionScan: Part One (automatingosint.com)
88 points by zcutlip on July 30, 2016 | 7 comments
14. Looking back on the Great Leap Forward (historytoday.com)
140 points by randomname2 on July 30, 2016 | 82 comments
15. Decomposing a function into its even and odd parts (plover.com)
89 points by ingve on July 30, 2016 | 24 comments
16. Brewing Up a myStorm FPGA board on the kitchen table (folknologylabs.wordpress.com)
65 points by monsonite on July 30, 2016 | 27 comments
17. What It’s Like to Live in the World’s Most Polluted City (nationalgeographic.com)
139 points by kamaal on July 29, 2016 | 76 comments
18. Vik Muniz Painstakingly Reconstructs the Backs of Famous Paintings (hyperallergic.com)
71 points by prismatic on July 30, 2016 | 16 comments
19. Restoring an unusual vintage clock display (tinkerings.org)
70 points by mmastrac on July 30, 2016 | 14 comments
20. Looking back on Swift 3 and ahead to Swift 4 (swift.org)
156 points by dalbin on July 29, 2016 | 63 comments
21. FreeBSD Myths (freebsd.org)
152 points by type0 on July 30, 2016 | 78 comments
22. GIMP 2.9.4 and our vision for the future (girinstud.io)
166 points by ashitlerferad on July 30, 2016 | 93 comments
23. The Last Florida Indians Will Now Die: The Westward Plight of the Apalachee (oxfordamerican.org)
57 points by samclemens on July 30, 2016 | 72 comments
24. Using Code Snippets in Chrome Developer Tools (alexkras.com)
158 points by akras14 on July 30, 2016 | 42 comments
25. The law depends on compute power (medium.com/jeremyjkun)
91 points by Labo333 on July 30, 2016 | 98 comments
26. Augmented Urban Reality (newyorker.com)
38 points by kawera on July 30, 2016 | 15 comments
27. Building a browser-based test automation server on the Google Cloud Platform (github.com/seleniumbase)
86 points by seleniumbase on July 30, 2016 | 11 comments
28. Show HN: Taxi Wars – Stories from the front line (taxiwars.org)
58 points by taxicabjesus on July 30, 2016 | 10 comments
29. On the Design of Valve’s ‘The Lab’ (visualise.com)
61 points by sprafa on July 29, 2016 | 14 comments
30. Love for TypeScript (github.com/microsoft)
220 points by svieira on July 30, 2016 | 162 comments

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