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781.

Kickstarter Focuses Its Mission on Altruism Over Profit (nytimes.com)

92 points by dpflan on Sep 21, 2015 | 23 comments

782.

Shock in the Shower (1997) (esdjournal.com)

92 points by jms on Sep 19, 2015 | 22 comments

783.

Ni – A language influenced by Smalltalk written in Nim (goran.krampe.se)

92 points by mpweiher on Sep 17, 2015 | 20 comments

784.

DARPA helicopter can feel for the ground below to ensure a safe landing (alphr.com)

92 points by bane on Sep 15, 2015 | 16 comments

785.

Who killed Ashraf Marwan, described as the 20th century’s greatest spy? (theguardian.com)

92 points by Thevet on Sep 19, 2015 | 10 comments

786.

Big Tech Has Become Too Powerful (nytimes.com)

91 points by jrowley on Sep 19, 2015 | 87 comments

787.

What Makes Uber Run (fastcompany.com)

91 points by doppp on Sep 9, 2015 | 67 comments

788.

Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (1978) [pdf] (web.stanford.edu)

91 points by beefman on Sep 7, 2015 | 57 comments

789.

Computing 10,000x more efficiently (2010) [pdf] (gwern.net)

91 points by Moshe_Silnorin on Sep 11, 2015 | 47 comments

790.

A password hash storage scheme that prevents efficient password cracking (github.com)

91 points by monort on Sep 16, 2015 | 37 comments

791.

How We Support 1,650 Customers with One Representative (blog.statuspage.io)

91 points by duaneb on Sep 9, 2015 | 19 comments

792.

Ceaser – CSS easing animation tool (matthewlein.com)

91 points by dazpaz on Sep 4, 2015 | 15 comments

793.

Show HN: My father's letters as a diplomatic courier from 1960-66 (billbrowndearmom.weebly.com)

91 points by will_brown on Sep 7, 2015 | 14 comments

794.

Edward Snowden promotes global treaty to curtail surveillance (cbc.ca)

91 points by jsnathan on Sep 27, 2015 | 12 comments

795.

Error by Systema Software exposes millions of insurance data records (databreaches.net)

90 points by wojer on Sep 21, 2015 | 54 comments

796.

Moving to FreeBSD (textplain.net)

90 points by vezzy-fnord on Sep 20, 2015 | 47 comments

797.

The chicken that lived for 18 months without a head (bbc.co.uk)

90 points by SimplyUseless on Sep 10, 2015 | 41 comments

798.

Norris Numbers (teamten.com)

90 points by ingve on Sep 9, 2015 | 26 comments

799.

We're heading Straight for AOL 2.0 (jacquesmattheij.com)

90 points by Rondom on Sep 8, 2015 | 24 comments

800.

Under the Hood of the Amazon EC2 Container Service (allthingsdistributed.com)

90 points by signaler on Sep 4, 2015 | 23 comments

801.

Porting Linux to a new processor architecture, Part 2 (lwn.net)

90 points by vezzy-fnord on Sep 15, 2015 | 6 comments

802.

Rules for Open Source Success (hintjens.com)

89 points by c-rack on Sep 22, 2015 | 85 comments

803.

A Linux botnet is launching crippling DDoS attacks in excess of 150Gbps (pcworld.com)

89 points by testrun on Sep 30, 2015 | 84 comments

804.

Google and Microsoft make patent peace (zdnet.com)

89 points by tanglesome on Sep 30, 2015 | 56 comments

805.

Perl secret operators and constants (search.cpan.org)

89 points by fofoni on Sep 29, 2015 | 45 comments

806.

EU-U.S. Data Sharing Deal Can't Be Trusted, Top Court Aide Says (bloomberg.com)

89 points by sveme on Sep 23, 2015 | 29 comments

807.

How a Boeing Sales Flop Became the World's Hottest Secondhand Jetliner (bloomberg.com)

88 points by jwegan on Sep 4, 2015 | 69 comments

808.

A customer explains how Oracle tried to strong-arm it into a cloud sale (businessinsider.com.au)