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1.		Catching the Great American Eclipse at 35,000 Feet (alaskaair.com)
		455 points by kylebarron on Aug 25, 2017 \| 116 comments
2.		Whatruns: Identify technologies used on any website (whatruns.com)
		430 points by mcone on Aug 25, 2017 \| 233 comments
3.		I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
		284 points by proberts on Aug 25, 2017 \| 403 comments
4.		Beginners Guide to Vulkan (khronos.org)
		248 points by deafcalculus on Aug 25, 2017 \| 74 comments
5.		Mental processes of chess masters revealed how people become experts (2016) [pdf] (pdx.edu)
		265 points by lainon on Aug 25, 2017 \| 61 comments
6.		VW engineering executive sentenced to 40-month prison term in diesel case (reuters.com)
		288 points by rmason on Aug 25, 2017 \| 217 comments
7.		Decommissioned mobile devices as cheap energy-efficient compute nodes (usenix.org)
		160 points by blacksmythe on Aug 25, 2017 \| 72 comments
8.		Rules for new FPGA designers (zipcpu.com)
		190 points by jsnell on Aug 24, 2017 \| 74 comments
9.		Designing a Tree Diff Algorithm Using Dynamic Programming and A* (thume.ca)
		230 points by yminsky on Aug 25, 2017 \| 21 comments
10.		Cooling the Earth with a cloud of small spacecraft near the inner Lagrange point (pnas.org)
		216 points by abecedarius on Aug 25, 2017 \| 248 comments
11.		Windy.com (windy.com)
		580 points by davesque on Aug 24, 2017 \| 103 comments
12.		An ancient Babylonian tablet may contain the first evidence of trigonometry (sciencemag.org)
		141 points by sohkamyung on Aug 25, 2017 \| 26 comments
13.		The prior can generally only be understood in the context of the likelihood (arxiv.org)
		94 points by selimthegrim on Aug 25, 2017 \| 20 comments
14.		Same day ACH: moving payments faster in the USA (nacha.org)
		150 points by fanf2 on Aug 25, 2017 \| 165 comments
15.		How ACH works: A developer perspective (2014) (gusto.com)
		364 points by alpb on Aug 25, 2017 \| 219 comments
16.		How to Write Your Own Compiler (2009) (polito.it)
		246 points by yinso on Aug 25, 2017 \| 42 comments
17.		Practicing Elixir or any programming language (ericdouglas.github.io)
		173 points by ericdouglas on Aug 24, 2017 \| 58 comments
18.		What do you get if you publish a paper in a highly-ranked journal? (blogs.sciencemag.org)
		122 points by ilamont on Aug 25, 2017 \| 82 comments
19.		Clarity Icons: open source icons (vmware.github.io)
		217 points by johnewo on Aug 24, 2017 \| 41 comments
20.		As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check (nytimes.com)
		265 points by kawera on Aug 25, 2017 \| 277 comments
21.		Epistle 3 (marclaidlaw.com)
		470 points by verroq on Aug 25, 2017 \| 177 comments
22.		In-Depth View of Wave Computing’s DPU Architecture, Systems (nextplatform.com)
		62 points by rbanffy on Aug 25, 2017 \| 9 comments
23.		Good News for Young Strivers: Networking Is Overrated (nytimes.com)
		176 points by wallflower on Aug 24, 2017 \| 108 comments
24.		Teacher builds $50M a year business with learning materials (ocregister.com)
		186 points by lxm on Aug 24, 2017 \| 14 comments
25.		'Environmental Nightmare' After Thousands of Atlantic Salmon Escape Fish Farm (npr.org)
		163 points by merraksh on Aug 25, 2017 \| 180 comments
26.		Pybind11 — Seamless operability between C++11 and Python (github.com/pybind)
		135 points by tony on Aug 25, 2017 \| 117 comments
27.		The U.S. is risking an academic brain drain (axios.com)
		201 points by lxm on Aug 25, 2017 \| 197 comments
28.		Alaska’s Permafrost Is Thawing (nytimes.com)
		209 points by DiabloD3 on Aug 25, 2017 \| 139 comments
29.		Measuring Reproducibility in Computer Systems Research [pdf] (arizona.edu)
		41 points by hrasyid on Aug 25, 2017 \| 5 comments
30.		Launch HN: NextDrop Technologies (YC S17) – Water Marketplace for Urban India
		114 points by anusridharan on Aug 25, 2017 \| 54 comments
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