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1.		Jessica Livingston (paulgraham.com)
		1740 points by urs on Nov 16, 2015 \| 307 comments
2.		Pandora to Buy Rdio Assets for $75M, Rdio Files Ch.11, Will Shutter Service (techcrunch.com)
		374 points by MarlonPro on Nov 16, 2015 \| 254 comments
3.		The Advertising Bubble (idlewords.com)
		551 points by vorador on Nov 16, 2015 \| 325 comments
4.		Modern Java – A Guide to Java 8 (github.com/winterbe)
		404 points by aronhunt470 on Nov 16, 2015 \| 197 comments
5.		Walmart’s $10 Smartphone Has Better Specs Than the Original iPhone (vice.com)
		279 points by bane on Nov 15, 2015 \| 199 comments
6.		Xv6 (wikipedia.org)
		350 points by jdmoreira on Nov 14, 2015 \| 47 comments
7.		The most popular curl download – by a malware (haxx.se)
		195 points by robin_reala on Nov 16, 2015 \| 52 comments
8.		Python C API, PyPy and the road into the future (lostinjit.blogspot.com)
		178 points by mattip on Nov 16, 2015 \| 55 comments
9.		18F's Micro-Purchase Experiment: Why I Bid $1 (brendansudol.com)
		233 points by brensudol on Nov 15, 2015 \| 135 comments
10.		The bug that almost killed Google's Pac-Man doodle (medium.com/backchannel)
		219 points by steven on Nov 16, 2015 \| 77 comments
11.		Humans are not unitary individuals but superorganisms (bbc.com)
		197 points by cjg on Nov 16, 2015 \| 81 comments
12.		Sct – set color temperature (tedunangst.com)
		150 points by ingve on Nov 16, 2015 \| 53 comments
13.		SVG Mask Artwork of the Intel 4004 (4004.com)
		126 points by kevinchen on Nov 16, 2015 \| 47 comments
14.		NNSA, Nvidia to create an open-source Fortran compiler front-end for LLVM (llnl.gov)
		134 points by ingve on Nov 16, 2015 \| 75 comments
15.		Physics Forests (ethz.ch)
		197 points by archgoon on Nov 16, 2015 \| 31 comments
16.		Zenefits launches free payroll software for small businesses (zenefits.com)
		187 points by henryl on Nov 16, 2015 \| 62 comments
17.		Anyone Can Learn to Code an LSTM-RNN (Part 1: RNN) (iamtrask.github.io)
		125 points by williamtrask on Nov 16, 2015 \| 14 comments
18.		Writing a Compiler by Proving It Correct (liamoc.net)
		139 points by kachnuv_ocasek on Nov 15, 2015 \| 10 comments
19.		California’s DNA Law Violates Privacy Protections Guaranteed by State (eff.org)
		103 points by pavornyoh on Nov 16, 2015 \| 53 comments
20.		Client-Side Encryption: The Right Security Model for the Cloud (balboa.io)
		82 points by squidlogic on Nov 16, 2015 \| 27 comments
21.		FastMail: Shutting down our XMPP chat service (fastmail.com)
		186 points by kevinchen on Nov 16, 2015 \| 122 comments
22.		Study finds improved self-regulation in kindergartners who wait a year to enroll (stanford.edu)
		98 points by fluxic on Nov 15, 2015 \| 104 comments
23.		Why do we still not know what's inside the pyramids? (bbc.com)
		98 points by siderly on Nov 14, 2015 \| 86 comments
24.		Facebook and the Media Have an Increasingly Landlord-Tenant Style Relationship (fortune.com)
		82 points by e15ctr0n on Nov 16, 2015 \| 32 comments
25.		A distributed, tag-based pub-sub service for modern web applications (github.com/nanopack)
		67 points by sdomino on Nov 16, 2015 \| 32 comments
26.		Show HN: Nixar – New design of Linux command line (nixar.work)
		130 points by askucher on Nov 15, 2015 \| 62 comments
27.		Debt Market Distortions Go Global as Nothing Makes Sense Anymore (bloomberg.com)
		109 points by randomname2 on Nov 16, 2015 \| 48 comments
28.		Improved secondary indexing with new query capabilities for Cassandra (github.com/xedin)
		60 points by henridf on Nov 16, 2015
29.		Human-in-the-loop computing is the future (computerworld.com)
		48 points by yzmtf2008 on Nov 15, 2015 \| 23 comments
30.		When I stopped hearing the voices in my head (theguardian.com)
		73 points by DanBC on Nov 15, 2015 \| 69 comments
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