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1.		Tesla Model S Autopilot Features (teslamotors.com)
		378 points by extesy on Oct 14, 2015 \| 308 comments
2.		Judge: NYC Seizing Thousands of Cars Without Warrants Is Unconstitutional (amny.com)
		278 points by bane on Oct 13, 2015 \| 102 comments
3.		Square files for IPO (squareup.com)
		327 points by nikunjk on Oct 14, 2015 \| 204 comments
4.		Kilogram conflict resolved at last (nature.com)
		294 points by ColinWright on Oct 14, 2015 \| 131 comments
5.		Engineer builds 'working' Thor's hammer that only he can lift (cnet.com)
		243 points by davidiach on Oct 14, 2015 \| 56 comments
6.		Smartcrop.js – content-aware image cropping in JavaScript (github.com/jwagner)
		244 points by rayshan on Oct 14, 2015 \| 28 comments
7.		Internet Companies: Confusing Consumers for Profit (eff.org)
		130 points by DiabloD3 on Oct 14, 2015 \| 56 comments
8.		A conversation with Sussman on AI and asynchronous programming (dustycloud.org)
		181 points by paroneayea on Oct 14, 2015 \| 34 comments
9.		Visual Information Theory (colah.github.io)
		151 points by benkuhn on Oct 14, 2015 \| 21 comments
10.		Comparison – R vs. Python: head to head data analysis (dataquest.io)
		283 points by emre on Oct 14, 2015 \| 195 comments
11.		The Web Authentication Arms Race – A Tale of Two Security Experts (slaks.net)
		140 points by Permit on Oct 14, 2015 \| 20 comments
12.		Let's Learn GraphQL (learngraphql.com)
		166 points by arunoda on Oct 14, 2015 \| 34 comments
13.		Self-tiling tile set (wikipedia.org)
		139 points by vinchuco on Oct 14, 2015 \| 21 comments
14.		Transit: JSON Data Interchange Format (github.com/cognitect)
		164 points by dedalus on Oct 14, 2015 \| 118 comments
15.		What’s new in HAProxy 1.6 (haproxy.com)
		191 points by oldmantaiter on Oct 14, 2015 \| 40 comments
16.		Living with Microsoft C++ Compiler Bugs and Ambiguities (jetbrains.com)
		111 points by ingve on Oct 13, 2015 \| 26 comments
17.		How IBM Stacks Up Power8 Against Xeon Servers (theplatform.net)
		73 points by baazaar on Oct 14, 2015 \| 55 comments
18.		Running Swift code on Android (goyet.com)
		196 points by Ecco on Oct 14, 2015 \| 69 comments
19.		Study: Sitting is no worse than standing without moving (washingtonpost.com)
		115 points by antimora on Oct 14, 2015 \| 56 comments
20.		19th Century Marriage Manuals: Advice for Young Husbands (mimimatthews.com)
		103 points by Avawelles on Oct 13, 2015 \| 102 comments
21.		Suffering Is One Very Long Moment: How Oscar Wilde’s Prison Sentence Changed Him (theparisreview.org)
		58 points by pepys on Oct 13, 2015 \| 1 comment
22.		Deprecating our AJAX crawling scheme (googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
		144 points by antichaos on Oct 14, 2015 \| 77 comments
23.		How Videogames Are Saving the Symphony Orchestra (wsj.com)
		88 points by ihuman on Oct 13, 2015 \| 61 comments
24.		Convolutional neural networks and feature extraction with Python (christianperone.com)
		82 points by perone on Oct 14, 2015 \| 2 comments
25.		How scientists fool themselves and how they can stop (nature.com)
		96 points by DavidSJ on Oct 13, 2015 \| 24 comments
26.		Mattermost 1.0 released – open-source Slack alternative (mattermost.org)
		332 points by shuoli84 on Oct 14, 2015 \| 136 comments
27.		Brian Eno Examines the Ecology of Culture in John Peel Lecture [pdf] (bbc.co.uk)
		55 points by dpflan on Oct 14, 2015 \| 9 comments
28.		“Scarfolk is a town in North West England that did not progress beyond 1979” (scarfolk.blogspot.com)
		132 points by sjclemmy on Oct 14, 2015 \| 21 comments
29.		Show HN: Rune.js – Graphic design systems with SVG in the browser or Node.js (runemadsen.github.io)
		92 points by runemadsen on Oct 14, 2015 \| 17 comments
30.		How MacArthur Geniuses Handle Their Windfalls (nytimes.com)
		70 points by evanb on Oct 14, 2015 \| 65 comments
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