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Hacker News

1.		The web of names, hashes and UUIDs (joearms.github.io)
		89 points by lelf 3 hours ago \| 36 comments
2.		Xonsh, a Python-ish, Bash-compatible shell language and command prompt (xonsh.org)
		43 points by ngoldbaum 2 hours ago \| 8 comments
3.		Valve's SteamVR solves big problems and poses bigger questions (eurogamer.net)
		90 points by jsnell 4 hours ago \| 12 comments
4.		The Church of TED (nytimes.com)
		32 points by dcre 5 hours ago \| 6 comments
5.		Why Are Carrots Orange? It Is Political (2009) (nextnature.net)
		31 points by edward 2 hours ago \| 3 comments
6.		MatLisp: A library for scientific computation in Common Lisp (github.com)
		49 points by chesterfield 2 hours ago \| 7 comments
7.		Programming is terrible – Lessons learned from a life wasted (2013) [video] (youtube.com)
		93 points by pmoriarty 4 hours ago \| 46 comments
8.		Science Fairs Aren't So Fair (theatlantic.com)
		31 points by klunger 2 hours ago \| 22 comments
9.		The importance of user interface, illustrated by the Go flag package (utoronto.ca)
		100 points by zdw 6 hours ago \| 34 comments
10.		Twitter Gave Meerkat Two Hours’ Notice before Cutting Access (fastcompany.com)
		58 points by byoogle 4 hours ago \| 22 comments
11.		Why Are Geospatial Databases So Hard to Build? (jandrewrogers.com)
		45 points by chippy 5 hours ago \| 11 comments
12.		How to generate a double-precision floating-point number in [0, 1] uniformly (mumble.net)
		15 points by danieldk 1 hour ago \| 15 comments
13.		Making Pinterest HTTPS (pinterest.com)
		48 points by cpeterso 4 hours ago \| 23 comments
14.		Man In The Moonbase (Part 1): Death and Life of the Best Game You Never Played (gamasutra.com)
		20 points by danso 2 hours ago \| discuss
15.		The Best of Material Design, Daily (materialup.com)
		31 points by rohan1024 3 hours ago \| 12 comments
16.		Scrum seems to be mostly about having better alibis (agileoverflow.com)
		56 points by RalfR 5 hours ago \| 25 comments
17.		On Secretly Terrible (Old) Engineers (techcrunch.com)
		5 points by leothekim 44 minutes ago \| 3 comments
18.		Algorithm Clones Facial Expressions and Pastes Them onto Other Faces (medium.com)
		28 points by tim_sw 3 hours ago \| 2 comments
19.		RethinkDB is hiring C++ hackers (rethinkdb.com)
		1 hour ago
20.		Code_swarm: An experiment in organic software visualization (ucdavis.edu)
		11 points by drawkbox 2 hours ago \| 1 comment
21.		Ancient Rome’s Hexagonal Port City (nasa.gov)
		57 points by mkempe 7 hours ago \| 7 comments
22.		Inside the Mad, Mad World of TripAdvisor (outsideonline.com)
		11 points by khc 1 hour ago \| discuss
23.		What Satoshi Didn't Know [video] (youtube.com)
		26 points by xsb 6 hours ago \| 1 comment
24.		Cospaia: For nearly four hundred years, the smallest republic in the world (umbriatouring.it)
		20 points by monort 9 hours ago \| 2 comments
25.		YouTube 10th Anniversary: Competition Puts Site on the Defensive (variety.com)
		10 points by prostoalex 4 hours ago \| 7 comments
26.		How History Forgot Its Role in Public Debate (aeon.co)
		11 points by acsillag 2 hours ago \| discuss
27.		Procedural Altar Generation (ultimaratioregum.co.uk)
		48 points by norswap 8 hours ago \| 7 comments
28.		Exponential Backoff and Jitter (awsarchitectureblog.com)
		72 points by alexbilbie 10 hours ago \| 12 comments
29.		Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens (2009) (ieee.org)
		4 points by lobo_tuerto 1 hour ago \| discuss
30.		Congress may impose license plate reader limits (arstechnica.com)
		18 points by zmanian 5 hours ago \| 6 comments
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