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Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book (surface.com)

91 points by fumar on Oct 6, 2015 | 2 comments

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Volkswagen Emissions Investigation Zeroes in on Two Engineers (wsj.com)

90 points by petethomas on Oct 5, 2015 | 92 comments

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Why ancient Rome matters to the modern world (theguardian.com)

90 points by anigbrowl on Oct 8, 2015 | 87 comments

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Government Open Source Office deal set to provide major savings (collaboraoffice.com)

90 points by buovjaga on Oct 20, 2015 | 67 comments

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How Facebook knows who you might be dating online (bbc.co.uk)

90 points by iamben on Oct 15, 2015 | 59 comments

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What Experts Love and Hate About CDNs (maxcdn.com)

90 points by kawera on Oct 22, 2015 | 47 comments

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Huge Backlog of Ships Waiting to Pass Through the Panama Canal (gcaptain.com)

90 points by protomyth on Oct 24, 2015 | 44 comments

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Amazon Kinesis Firehose – Simple and Scalable Data Ingestion (aws.amazon.com)

90 points by hepha1979 on Oct 7, 2015 | 30 comments

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Segment (YC S11) Raises $27M for Its “One API to Rule Them All” (techcrunch.com)

90 points by jimsojim on Oct 9, 2015 | 26 comments

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Wendelstein 7-X – a fusion reactor with a twist (news.sciencemag.org)

90 points by lobster_johnson on Oct 23, 2015 | 22 comments

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Cyber Squirrel 1 Disrupting at the highest levels (cybersquirrel1.com)

90 points by sajal83 on Oct 27, 2015 | 20 comments

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GADTs Meet Their Match [pdf] (research.microsoft.com)

90 points by luu on Oct 9, 2015 | 11 comments

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‘Beyond disgusting,’ says journalist Matthew Keys of his hacking conviction (washingtonpost.com)

89 points by ourmandave on Oct 8, 2015 | 138 comments

884.

Why Cats Were Hated in Medieval Europe (medievalists.net)

89 points by diodorus on Oct 5, 2015 | 78 comments

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Beware “mathiness”: Algebra and data to reinforce ideological preconceptions (johnkay.com)

89 points by nkurz on Oct 19, 2015 | 69 comments

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Why some NoSQL DBs only let you perform transactions on a single data item (dbmsmusings.blogspot.com)

89 points by tim_sw on Oct 30, 2015 | 55 comments

887.

How a Battery Cut Microsoft Datacenter Costs by a Quarter (theplatform.net)

89 points by victorbojica on Oct 11, 2015 | 43 comments

888.

Kim Dotcom reveals more about his blockchain-inspired alternative Internet (mashable.com)

89 points by ascorbic on Oct 31, 2015 | 40 comments

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I killed my startup hours before closing a seed round (tamccann.com)

89 points by rmason on Oct 23, 2015 | 39 comments

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$0.55 per watt from SolarCity’s new solar panel (extremetech.com)

89 points by ck2 on Oct 4, 2015 | 36 comments

891.

Life on Earth may have begun 300M years earlier than previously thought (theguardian.com)

89 points by wrongc0ntinent on Oct 19, 2015 | 30 comments

892.

Carbon: The Next Generation of Weebly (weebly.com)

89 points by jdori on Oct 1, 2015 | 15 comments

893.

Fonts in Use (fontsinuse.com)

89 points by rangibaby on Oct 23, 2015 | 14 comments

894.

Fixing the core memory in a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe (righto.com)

89 points by kens on Oct 18, 2015 | 13 comments

895.

Ask HN: How can you tell if you are insane?

88 points by qwertyFish on Oct 11, 2015 | 88 comments

896.

Ruby gaining a safe navigation operator: '.?' (bugs.ruby-lang.org)

88 points by micaeloliveira on Oct 26, 2015 | 82 comments

897.

How Videogames Are Saving the Symphony Orchestra (wsj.com)

88 points by ihuman on Oct 13, 2015 | 61 comments

898.

UI Screen Graphics: The Martian [video] (territorystudio.com)

88 points by ingve on Oct 14, 2015 | 41 comments

899.

The San Francisco Drug Economy (priceonomics.com)

88 points by ryan_j_naughton on Oct 7, 2015 | 32 comments

900.

The Story of BuiltWith (medium.com)

88 points by tortilla on Oct 4, 2015 | 25 comments