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1.		Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B (bloomberg.com)
		1687 points by whatok on June 16, 2017 \| 824 comments
2.		The Calibre Content Server (calibre-ebook.com)
		314 points by dabber on June 16, 2017 \| 140 comments
3.		Supercharge your Computer Vision models with the TensorFlow Object Detection API (googleblog.com)
		350 points by janober on June 16, 2017 \| 59 comments
4.		Startup School 2017 Presentations (startupschool.org)
		322 points by src on June 16, 2017 \| 96 comments
5.		Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced (standardebooks.org)
		441 points by robin_reala on June 16, 2017 \| 96 comments
6.		A Startup Making Paper Out of Stone, Not Trees (bloomberg.com)
		276 points by T-A on June 16, 2017 \| 173 comments
7.		American Chipmakers Had a Toxic Problem, Then They Outsourced It (bloomberg.com)
		288 points by clumsysmurf on June 15, 2017 \| 130 comments
8.		How I Stole a User's Siacoin (mtlynch.io)
		292 points by mtlynch on June 16, 2017 \| 71 comments
9.		New Evidence That All Stars Are Born in Pairs (cfa.harvard.edu)
		165 points by okket on June 16, 2017 \| 105 comments
10.		Org-mode reference card [pdf] (orgmode.org)
		153 points by lordofuniverse on June 16, 2017 \| 28 comments
11.		Switching to the Mutt Email Client (nullprogram.com)
		263 points by ingve on June 16, 2017 \| 241 comments
12.		Twitter, but for Math, with Toots (ams.org)
		175 points by aqsalose on June 15, 2017 \| 29 comments
13.		Air Force budget reveals how much SpaceX undercuts launch prices (arstechnica.com)
		198 points by Analemma_ on June 15, 2017 \| 126 comments
14.		Walmart to Buy Bonobos, Men’s Wear Company, for $310M (nytimes.com)
		164 points by robbiemitchell on June 16, 2017 \| 134 comments
15.		Towards a Better Notation for Mathematics (2010) [pdf] (files.wordpress.com)
		81 points by stared on June 16, 2017 \| 32 comments
16.		Polynesian people used a kind of binary number system 600 years ago (2013) (nature.com)
		190 points by ghewgill on June 16, 2017 \| 115 comments
17.		Justin Kan Raises $10M for New Legal Startup (techcrunch.com)
		161 points by imjk on June 16, 2017 \| 98 comments
18.		Palm-sized Apple II Computer (vintageisthenewold.com)
		88 points by pgarcia on June 16, 2017 \| 35 comments
19.		Show HN: uMOOC, an online tutoring platform for Harvard's CS50 and MIT's 6.00.1 (umooc.org)
		92 points by ralmidani on June 15, 2017 \| 34 comments
20.		How the .NET Runtime Loads a Type (mattwarren.org)
		170 points by matthewwarren on June 15, 2017 \| 55 comments
21.		C.S. Lewis's Greatest Fiction: Telling Kids They’d Like Turkish Delight (2015) (atlasobscura.com)
		180 points by amflare on June 15, 2017 \| 125 comments
22.		Things that Idris improves things over Haskell (deque.blog)
		221 points by deque-blog on June 14, 2017 \| 154 comments
23.		Attacks on Encrypted Databases [pdf] (iacr.org)
		106 points by blacksmythe on June 16, 2017 \| 26 comments
24.		Open source deep learning models that programmers can download and run first try (github.com/samdeeplearning)
		181 points by pplonski86 on June 16, 2017 \| 39 comments
25.		Memristor – The missing circuit element (1971) [pdf] (cpmt.org)
		84 points by dayve on June 15, 2017 \| 26 comments
26.		A Technique for Drawing Directed Graphs (1993) [pdf] (graphviz.org)
		68 points by ColinWright on June 16, 2017 \| 11 comments
27.		Don't Leave Coredumps on Web Servers (hboeck.de)
		87 points by hannob on June 15, 2017 \| 32 comments
28.		Chinese scientists test quantum entanglement over unprecedented distance (scientificamerican.com)
		138 points by javascript-this on June 16, 2017 \| 78 comments
29.		A Sociology of the Smartphone (longreads.com)
		67 points by anjalik on June 15, 2017 \| 18 comments
30.		Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2014) (arxiv.org)
		98 points by adamnemecek on June 15, 2017 \| 61 comments
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