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1981.

Dense bitpacking (writing.londonstartuptech.com)

34 points by hywel on Aug 8, 2015 | 36 comments

1982.

Functional Fixedness (en.wikipedia.org)

34 points by dedalus on Aug 2, 2015 | 26 comments

1983.

Exposure to Ideologically Diverse Information on Facebook (research.facebook.com)

34 points by fgeorgy on Aug 12, 2015 | 24 comments

1984.

Ask HN: Is This Enough to Get a Job? ()

34 points by ipbyrne on Aug 13, 2015 | 24 comments

1985.

Computer Scientists Find Mass Extinctions Can Accelerate Evolution (news.utexas.edu)

34 points by r721 on Aug 14, 2015 | 23 comments

1986.

Show HN: Cookoo – Whistle Counter for Pressure Cookers (s-gv.github.io)

34 points by sagargv on Aug 15, 2015 | 18 comments

1987.

You Can Load a Die, but You Can’t Bias a Coin (2002) [pdf] (stat.columbia.edu)

34 points by leephillips on Aug 16, 2015 | 18 comments

1988.

The Story of Kudzu, the Vine That Never Truly Ate the South (smithsonianmag.com)

34 points by acdanger on Aug 24, 2015 | 18 comments

1989.

In Dependencies We Trust: How vulnerable are dependencies in software modules? (researchgate.net)

34 points by ximeng on Aug 8, 2015 | 16 comments

1990.

A blast in Tianjin sets off an explosion online (economist.com)

34 points by jeo1234 on Aug 19, 2015 | 16 comments

1991.

A Sprawl of Ghost Homes in Aging Tokyo Suburbs (nytimes.com)

34 points by pm24601 on Aug 24, 2015 | 16 comments

1992.

Scroll down to see how time flies (maximiliankiener.com)

34 points by humbertomn on Aug 19, 2015 | 15 comments

1993.

Show HN: Writing modern C unit tests with Criterion (github.com)

34 points by Snaipe on Aug 31, 2015 | 13 comments

1994.

Ask HN: Recommend books for a software developer opening a business ()

34 points by JamesReeves1988 on Aug 23, 2015 | 12 comments

1995.

Surfing the Internet from My TRS-80 Model 100 (arstechnica.com)

34 points by cpeterso on Aug 5, 2015 | 11 comments

1996.

At Silicon Valley Bank, risky tech startups are lucrative business (latimes.com)

34 points by shahryc on Aug 8, 2015 | 11 comments

1997.

Linguistic Harbingers of Betrayal: A Case Study on an Online Strategy Game [pdf] (vene.ro)

34 points by cpeterso on Aug 11, 2015 | 11 comments

1998.

What is Concrete? (gizmodo.com)

34 points by mikecarlton on Aug 10, 2015 | 10 comments

1999.

JVMLS 2015 – Multi-Language Runtime [video] (youtube.com)

34 points by chrisseaton on Aug 12, 2015 | 10 comments

2000.

DeepSound: Steganography tool to hide secret data into audio files (jpinsoft.net)

34 points by adamnemecek on Aug 14, 2015 | 10 comments

2001.

How Symmetry Shapes Laws of Physics [video] (quantamagazine.org)

34 points by treefire86 on Aug 13, 2015 | 8 comments

2002.

UDP flood DDoS attacks against XT nodes

34 points by Andrew_Quentin on Aug 29, 2015 | 8 comments

2003.

Show HN: Import CSV and JSON into PostgreSQL the Easy Way (github.com)

34 points by morgenkaffee on Aug 25, 2015 | 7 comments

2004.

DeepMind: inside Google's super-brain (wired.co.uk)

34 points by edward on Aug 25, 2015 | 6 comments

2005.

Packet Capture, Injection, and Analysis with Gopacket (devdungeon.com)

34 points by jdkanani on Aug 17, 2015 | 5 comments

2006.

The abandoned college campuses of Second Life (fusion.net)

34 points by wgx on Aug 18, 2015 | 5 comments

2007.

Xodia – An AI Bot Battle (credenz.info)

34 points by xennygrimmato on Aug 24, 2015 | 5 comments

2008.

Astronaut Selection Program (astronauts.nasa.gov)

34 points by danso on Aug 29, 2015 | 5 comments

2009.

Doradus – A graph-based data model, advanced indexing and search for Cassandra (github.com)

34 points by kylequest on Aug 29, 2015 | 5 comments

2010.

Allocation Adventures: The Buddy Allocator (bitsquid.blogspot.com)

34 points by ingve on Aug 5, 2015 | 4 comments