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1.		Firefox Focus – A new private browser for iOS and Android (blog.mozilla.org)
		684 points by happy-go-lucky on Aug 18, 2017 \| 335 comments
2.		E-commerce will evolve next month as Amazon loses the 1-Click patent (thirtybees.com)
		602 points by themaveness on Aug 18, 2017 \| 223 comments
3.		Docker Is Raising Funding at $1.3B Valuation (bloomberg.com)
		321 points by moritzplassnig on Aug 18, 2017 \| 275 comments
4.		Introducing WAL-G: Faster Disaster Recovery for Postgres (citusdata.com)
		217 points by craigkerstiens on Aug 18, 2017 \| 65 comments
5.		HelenOS: portable microkernel-based multiserver operating system (helenos.org)
		201 points by ingve on Aug 18, 2017 \| 67 comments
6.		Former Harvard Money Manager Is Launching a Digital-Currency Hedge Fund (bloomberg.com)
		143 points by panarky on Aug 18, 2017 \| 98 comments
7.		Opioid makers made payments to one in 12 U.S. doctors (brown.edu)
		270 points by metheus on Aug 18, 2017 \| 98 comments
8.		Try Out Rust IDE Support in Visual Studio Code (rust-lang.org)
		265 points by Rusky on Aug 18, 2017 \| 82 comments
9.		Computer Age Statistical Inference: Algorithms, Evidence and Data Science (stanford.edu)
		183 points by Schiphol on Aug 17, 2017 \| 27 comments
10.		Life and death in Apple’s forbidden city (theguardian.com)
		164 points by clumsysmurf on Aug 18, 2017 \| 81 comments
11.		Afraid of Makefiles? Don't be (matthias-endler.de)
		502 points by tdurden on Aug 17, 2017 \| 272 comments
12.		NBC’s Snapchat news show gains 29+ million viewers in its first month (techcrunch.com)
		131 points by janober on Aug 18, 2017 \| 79 comments
13.		My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015) (wired.com)
		166 points by traviswingo on Aug 18, 2017 \| 135 comments
14.		Why the Brain Needs More Downtime (2013) (scientificamerican.com)
		436 points by tim_sw on Aug 18, 2017 \| 106 comments
15.		Where the Wild Things Go: The remarkable travel itineraries of animals (nautil.us)
		91 points by dnetesn on Aug 18, 2017
16.		YouTube admits 'wrong call' over deletion of Syrian war crime videos (middleeasteye.net)
		241 points by jacobr on Aug 18, 2017 \| 138 comments
17.		Getting an Amiga 1000 Online (amigalove.com)
		127 points by erickhill on Aug 18, 2017 \| 41 comments
18.		Show HN: Product Graveyard – Commemorating the most memorable dead products (productgraveyard.com)
		265 points by ndduong on Aug 17, 2017 \| 126 comments
19.		The Art of Teaching Math and Science (quantamagazine.org)
		120 points by digital55 on Aug 18, 2017 \| 10 comments
20.		Towards a JavaScript Binary AST (yoric.github.io)
		310 points by Yoric on Aug 18, 2017 \| 205 comments
21.		OpenAI Baselines: ACKTR and A2C (blog.openai.com)
		75 points by janober on Aug 18, 2017 \| 6 comments
22.		Neural Nets Can Learn Function Type Signatures from Binaries [pdf] (usenix.org)
		213 points by bmc7505 on Aug 18, 2017 \| 43 comments
23.		Python code to generate text using a pretrained character-based RNN (github.com/minimaxir)
		75 points by jjwiseman on Aug 18, 2017 \| 10 comments
24.		An Electronic Voting Firm Exposes 1.8M Chicagoans (upguard.com)
		173 points by mcone on Aug 18, 2017 \| 73 comments
25.		Security Keys (imperialviolet.org)
		218 points by ikeboy on Aug 18, 2017 \| 137 comments
26.		GitHub CEO Chris Wanstrath To Step Down After Finding Replacement (forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad)
		264 points by ahmedfromtunis on Aug 18, 2017 \| 49 comments
27.		Why Elixir (2014) (theerlangelist.com)
		150 points by brudgers on Aug 17, 2017 \| 57 comments
28.		Reasonable Scala Compiler (github.com/twitter)
		183 points by adamnemecek on Aug 18, 2017 \| 154 comments
29.		John Scalzi: Being Poor (2005) (scalzi.com)
		262 points by brudgers on Aug 17, 2017 \| 237 comments
30.		Naming things (2015) [pdf] (duke.edu)
		157 points by petethomas on Aug 18, 2017 \| 57 comments
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