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1261.

Are PhD Students Irrational? (lareviewofbooks.org)

75 points by jseliger on Aug 30, 2016 | 71 comments

1262.

Saving Canada's only desert (dw.com)

75 points by nkurz on Aug 14, 2016 | 69 comments

1263.

Space: A sudden light (economist.com)

75 points by jimsojim on Aug 28, 2016 | 48 comments

1264.

Proxima Centauri has a Earth-like planet (phys.org)

75 points by lrondanini on Aug 13, 2016 | 40 comments

1265.

Gradle 3.0 Release Notes (docs.gradle.org)

75 points by vbezhenar on Aug 16, 2016 | 37 comments

1266.

Show HN: SecretCrypt – Keeping secrets in plain sight (zemanta.github.io)

75 points by nsaje on Aug 23, 2016 | 35 comments

1267.

Managing Apt Repos in S3 Using Lambda (webscale.plumbing)

75 points by daenney on Aug 7, 2016 | 29 comments

1268.

The $100 muon detector (symmetrymagazine.org)

75 points by jonbaer on Aug 20, 2016 | 27 comments

1269.

“Death of Satoshi Nakamoto” [pdf] (sec.gov)

75 points by pope_nope on Aug 27, 2016 | 25 comments

1270.

Show HN: Realtime, self-hosted monitoring for Node.js inspired by GitHub Status (github.com)

75 points by rwilinski on Aug 17, 2016 | 19 comments

1271.

Raising Money Online – Advice for Startups (themacro.com)

75 points by craigcannon on Aug 31, 2016 | 18 comments

1272.

Life as an anxious scientist (dynamicecology.wordpress.com)

75 points by elsherbini on Aug 14, 2016 | 17 comments

1273.

Computing machinery and intelligence (1950) (loebner.net)

75 points by drikerf on Aug 8, 2016 | 13 comments

1274.

Intel L3-cache slice partitioning visualisation (brainsmoke.github.io)

75 points by ingve on Aug 13, 2016 | 4 comments

1275.

Scaling Rails to 125,000 Requests per Minute on Heroku (zeemee.engineering)

74 points by pritambarhate on Aug 12, 2016 | 70 comments

1276.

A free/open computer on a card that you swap in and out of a 3D printed laptop (boingboing.net)

74 points by MilnerRoute on Aug 5, 2016 | 66 comments

1277.

2016 H1B Visa Reports: Top 100 H1B Visa Sponsors (myvisajobs.com)

74 points by bing_dai on Aug 26, 2016 | 49 comments

1278.

Ask HN: Chances for mature newbie

74 points by Bumsonfire on Aug 5, 2016 | 39 comments

1279.

The Future of Planet Mozilla (exple.tive.org)

74 points by e15ctr0n on Aug 17, 2016 | 35 comments

1280.

Using nghttp2 to work around Nginx HTTP/2 bugs (blog.crashed.org)

74 points by okket on Aug 7, 2016 | 26 comments

1281.

The cost of small modules (nolanlawson.com)

74 points by okket on Aug 15, 2016 | 24 comments

1282.

Running a D game in the browser (code.alaiwan.org)

74 points by Halienja on Aug 4, 2016 | 15 comments

1283.

The Secrets of the Wood Wide Web (newyorker.com)

74 points by drainge on Aug 7, 2016 | 11 comments

1284.

Python on Pebble (gist.github.com)

74 points by nhumrich on Aug 21, 2016 | 11 comments

1285.

Visualizing Clusters of Clickbait Headlines Using Spark, Word2vec, and Plotly (minimaxir.com)

74 points by minimaxir on Aug 16, 2016 | 6 comments

1286.

Text analysis of Trump's tweets shows he writes only the (angrier) Android half (varianceexplained.org)

74 points by nthitz on Aug 10, 2016 | 1 comments

1287.

Uncovering the truth about the British empire and the Mau Mau uprising (theguardian.com)