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1.		Google’s lawyers are asking to find Oracle’s lawyers in contempt of court (vice.com)
		395 points by ivank on Sept 23, 2016 \| 138 comments
2.		Ripgrep – A new command line search tool (burntsushi.net)
		740 points by anp on Sept 23, 2016 \| 209 comments
3.		Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox (servethehome.com)
		477 points by kungfudoi on Sept 23, 2016 \| 342 comments
4.		Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers after ‘record’ cyberattack (businessinsider.com)
		658 points by bishnu on Sept 23, 2016 \| 440 comments
5.		Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google (cnbc.com)
		267 points by kgwgk on Sept 23, 2016 \| 344 comments
6.		House Passes Employee Stock Options Bill Aimed at Startups (morningconsult.com)
		347 points by endswapper on Sept 23, 2016 \| 224 comments
7.		How to Get a Job in Deep Learning (deepgram.com)
		316 points by stephensonsco on Sept 22, 2016 \| 86 comments
8.		Ask HN: What are the must-read books about economics/finance?
		446 points by curiousgal on Sept 22, 2016 \| 269 comments
9.		Confessions of a Necromancer (hintjens.com)
		313 points by jwildeboer on Sept 23, 2016 \| 65 comments
10.		Facebook Overestimated Key Video Metric for Two Years (wsj.com)
		283 points by tshtf on Sept 22, 2016 \| 150 comments
11.		How does Google know where I am? (security.stackexchange.com)
		262 points by kumarharsh on Sept 23, 2016 \| 148 comments
12.		Haiku Project (haiku-os.org)
		255 points by gscott on Sept 23, 2016 \| 143 comments
13.		iOS 10: Security Weakness Discovered, Backup Passwords Much Easier to Break (elcomsoft.com)
		220 points by cpach on Sept 23, 2016 \| 91 comments
14.		Playpen: The Story of the FBI’s Unprecedented and Illegal Hacking Operation (eff.org)
		176 points by lelf on Sept 22, 2016 \| 55 comments
15.		How Palantir Is Taking Over New York City (gizmodo.com)
		163 points by jonbaer on Sept 23, 2016 \| 106 comments
16.		Original bulletin board thread in which ‘:-)’ was proposed (cmu.edu)
		350 points by ZeljkoS on Sept 23, 2016 \| 146 comments
17.		Cryptpad: Zero Knowledge, Collaborative Real Time Editing (cryptpad.fr)
		137 points by zerognowl on Sept 23, 2016 \| 52 comments
18.		Show HN: How many days until? (days.to)
		156 points by uptown on Sept 23, 2016 \| 74 comments
19.		Gnuplotting – Create scientific plots using gnuplot (gnuplotting.org)
		162 points by type0 on Sept 22, 2016 \| 50 comments
20.		Latacora: Security Programs For Startups (latacora.com)
		98 points by MattRogish on Sept 23, 2016 \| 52 comments
21.		Cruise Automation, GM’s Self-Driving Cars, and the Founders Behind It (fortune.com)
		72 points by artfuldodger on Sept 22, 2016 \| 48 comments
22.		August 2016 Lisp Game Jam Postmortem (stevelosh.com)
		109 points by nodivbyzero on Sept 23, 2016 \| 17 comments
23.		Senate panel authorizes money for Mars mission, shuttle replacement (usatoday.com)
		100 points by mcamaj on Sept 23, 2016 \| 54 comments
24.		Using Gmail with Mutt (smalldata.tech)
		145 points by wheresvic1 on Sept 23, 2016 \| 53 comments
25.		Tesla Software Update 8.0 (tesla.com)
		115 points by alfredxing on Sept 23, 2016 \| 89 comments
26.		A Sunken Bridge the Size of a Continent (hakaimagazine.com)
		113 points by jmadsen on Sept 22, 2016 \| 33 comments
27.		The Moon Illusion, an Unsolved Mystery (lhup.edu)
		118 points by bmease on Sept 23, 2016 \| 42 comments
28.		Y Combinator W17 Blank Application (docs.google.com)
		68 points by markocalvocruz on Sept 23, 2016 \| 25 comments
29.		Poverty and social background remain huge barriers in scientific careers (nature.com)
		118 points by smb06 on Sept 23, 2016 \| 106 comments
30.		Sad reality: It's cheaper to get hacked than build strong IT defenses (theregister.co.uk)
		195 points by jazzyb on Sept 23, 2016 \| 116 comments
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