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1.		Eve: Programming designed for humans (witheve.com)
		1070 points by ibdknox on Oct 28, 2016 \| 374 comments
2.		Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getting sick (latimes.com)
		745 points by whitepoplar on Oct 28, 2016 \| 1021 comments
3.		Google AI invents its own cryptographic algorithm (arstechnica.co.uk)
		519 points by wallflower on Oct 28, 2016 \| 162 comments
4.		A very valuable vulnerability (daemonology.net)
		315 points by cperciva on Oct 28, 2016 \| 48 comments
5.		Secret Management with Vault (seatgeek.com)
		209 points by josegonzalez on Oct 28, 2016 \| 59 comments
6.		New technique would reveal the basis for machine-learning systems’ decisions (sciencebulletin.org)
		115 points by renafowler on Oct 28, 2016 \| 32 comments
7.		Incident Report: Inadvertent Private Repository Disclosure (github.com/blog)
		187 points by jamesfryman on Oct 28, 2016 \| 41 comments
8.		Ask HN: Any other blind devs interested in working on dev tools for the blind?
		530 points by blinddev on Oct 28, 2016 \| 133 comments
9.		Continuous MySQL backup validation: Restoring backups (facebook.com)
		104 points by jivid on Oct 28, 2016 \| 27 comments
10.		Pre-Safe Sound: Playing ‘pink noise’ in the split second before impact (2015) (mercedes-benz.com)
		345 points by rosstex on Oct 28, 2016 \| 156 comments
11.		Let researchers try new paths (nature.com)
		74 points by jaoued on Oct 28, 2016 \| 27 comments
12.		The Ruins of Dead Social Networks (2011) (theatlantic.com)
		72 points by benbreen on Oct 27, 2016 \| 24 comments
13.		Stan Ulam, John von Neumann, and the Monte Carlo Method (1987) [pdf] (lanl.gov)
		77 points by Vannatter on Oct 28, 2016 \| 19 comments
14.		Defending against Rowhammer in the Linux kernel (lwn.net)
		118 points by ldayley on Oct 28, 2016 \| 45 comments
15.		Newly Redesigned Boston.gov Just Went Open Source (routefifty.com)
		103 points by rmason on Oct 28, 2016 \| 23 comments
16.		How to De-Risk a Startup (codingvc.com)
		240 points by lpolovets on Oct 27, 2016 \| 37 comments
17.		Could an astronaut’s corpse bring new life to another world? (astronomy.com)
		117 points by benbreen on Oct 26, 2016 \| 73 comments
18.		Charts That Scare Wall Street (bloomberg.com)
		194 points by JumpCrisscross on Oct 28, 2016 \| 85 comments
19.		Swiss rail operator to sell bitcoins at its ticket machines (reuters.com)
		139 points by huhtenberg on Oct 28, 2016 \| 37 comments
20.		The bizarre role reversal of Apple and Microsoft (backchannel.com)
		227 points by steven on Oct 28, 2016 \| 210 comments
21.		How to Get Fired Using Switch Statements and Statement Expressions (robertelder.org)
		237 points by mirceasoaica on Oct 28, 2016 \| 41 comments
22.		Common swifts can stay aloft for up to 10 months (nytimes.com)
		122 points by mhb on Oct 27, 2016 \| 51 comments
23.		Zcash begins (z.cash)
		209 points by carlchenet on Oct 28, 2016 \| 175 comments
24.		Wall Street's Frantic Push to Hire Coders (bloomberg.com)
		170 points by applecore on Oct 28, 2016 \| 186 comments
25.		Microsoft offers Apple users $650 off to trade a MacBook for a Surface (techcrunch.com)
		234 points by hackerkid on Oct 28, 2016 \| 114 comments
26.		Magic Leap goes to Finland in pursuit of VR and AR talent (techcrunch.com)
		99 points by SkarredGhost on Oct 28, 2016 \| 63 comments
27.		Engines of Evidence – A Conversation with Judea Pearl (edge.org)
		103 points by clumsysmurf on Oct 28, 2016 \| 23 comments
28.		New MacBook Pro Is Not a Laptop for Developers Anymore (devteam.space)
		519 points by alexeysemeney on Oct 28, 2016 \| 775 comments
29.		George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’ (electrek.co)
		330 points by gatsby on Oct 28, 2016 \| 473 comments
30.		Twitter Has an Old Media Problem, Here’s a Solution (nytimes.com)
		66 points by hvo on Oct 28, 2016 \| 62 comments
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