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1.		Massachusetts Bans Employers from Asking Applicants About Previous Pay (nytimes.com)
		1195 points by OhHeyItsE on Aug 2, 2016 \| 760 comments
2.		Inside font-rs, a font renderer written in Rust (medium.com/raphlinus)
		430 points by beefsack on Aug 2, 2016 \| 115 comments
3.		Judge wipes out patent troll’s $625M verdict against Apple (arstechnica.com)
		387 points by nkurz on Aug 2, 2016 \| 104 comments
4.		Show HN: Noms – A new decentralized database based on ideas from Git (medium.com/aboodman)
		508 points by ahl on Aug 2, 2016 \| 167 comments
5.		What’s Next for Multi-Process Firefox (blog.mozilla.org)
		355 points by cpeterso on Aug 2, 2016 \| 240 comments
6.		How to Read a Book [pdf] (umich.edu)
		444 points by robschia on Aug 2, 2016 \| 140 comments
7.		Yahoo probes possible huge data breach (bbc.co.uk)
		184 points by JohnHammersley on Aug 2, 2016 \| 52 comments
8.		How to Write a Novel (themillions.com)
		238 points by samclemens on Aug 2, 2016 \| 112 comments
9.		Verizon: We Can't Become Dumb Pipes (mondaynote.com)
		252 points by taylorbuley on Aug 2, 2016 \| 283 comments
10.		Show HN: Sharingbuttons.io – Fast and easy social media sharing buttons (sharingbuttons.io)
		350 points by mxstbr on Aug 2, 2016 \| 95 comments
11.		.NET Framework 4.6.2 (msdn.microsoft.com)
		223 points by Avalaxy on Aug 2, 2016 \| 155 comments
12.		Cracking the Adventure Time cipher (aaronrandall.com)
		241 points by aaronrandall on Aug 1, 2016 \| 24 comments
13.		iOS 10 to Feature Stronger “Limit Ad Tracking” Control (fpf.org)
		153 points by cpeterso on Aug 2, 2016 \| 43 comments
14.		Show HN: Amium – A better way to collaborate (amium.com)
		168 points by yurisagalov on Aug 2, 2016 \| 57 comments
15.		Alan Kay on AI, Apple and Future (factordaily.com)
		198 points by pm2016 on Aug 2, 2016 \| 107 comments
16.		Show HN: Neural network trained to generate GitHub repository names (colinmorris.github.io)
		145 points by halfeatenscone on Aug 2, 2016 \| 49 comments
17.		Server Side TLS (wiki.mozilla.org)
		233 points by benologist on Aug 1, 2016 \| 37 comments
18.		Show HN: Learn Functional Programming Using Haskell (lambdaschool.com)
		220 points by xwowsersx on Aug 2, 2016 \| 90 comments
19.		How foreign governments spy using PowerPoint and Twitter (washingtonpost.com)
		152 points by peter_tonoli on Aug 2, 2016 \| 76 comments
20.		Terraform 0.7 released (hashicorp.com)
		177 points by Kaedon on Aug 2, 2016 \| 60 comments
21.		Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2016 (backblaze.com)
		181 points by ehPReth on Aug 2, 2016 \| 57 comments
22.		Printing with conventional rotary presses will create cheaper electronics (economist.com)
		67 points by xbryanx on Aug 2, 2016 \| 11 comments
23.		BitFinex down due to Bitcoin security breach - 120k BTC stolen (reddit.com)
		226 points by STRML on Aug 2, 2016 \| 138 comments
24.		Microsoft forks Unreal Engine 4 and ports it to Universal Windows Platform (unrealengine.com)
		157 points by htaunay on Aug 2, 2016 \| 115 comments
25.		Summary of Donella Meadows' “Thinking in Systems” (2009) (consciouscapitalism.typepad.com)
		95 points by musha68k on Aug 2, 2016 \| 25 comments
26.		Rust on BBC micro:bit (github.com/simonsapin)
		206 points by robin_reala on Aug 2, 2016 \| 41 comments
27.		The History of Email (eager.io)
		111 points by zackbloom on Aug 1, 2016 \| 21 comments
28.		Sentiment Analysis – Improving Bayesian Methods (github.com/kennycason)
		83 points by KennyCason on Aug 1, 2016 \| 16 comments
29.		The headless web (kinlan.me)
		91 points by kinlan on Aug 1, 2016 \| 22 comments
30.		Tom Hanks on Typewriters (nytimes.com)
		126 points by keiferski on Aug 2, 2016 \| 90 comments
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