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1.		Inside a fast CSS engine (hacks.mozilla.org)
		660 points by rbanffy on Aug 22, 2017 \| 141 comments
2.		Chrome Enterprise (blog.google)
		418 points by pgrote on Aug 22, 2017 \| 262 comments
3.		Let Consumers Sue Companies (nytimes.com)
		576 points by jseliger on Aug 22, 2017 \| 269 comments
4.		Show HN: The best time to visit any city
		395 points by ignostic on Aug 22, 2017 \| 118 comments
5.		Hackers nab $500k as Enigma is compromised weeks before its ICO (techcrunch.com)
		307 points by etherti on Aug 22, 2017 \| 240 comments
6.		Why is this C++ code faster than my hand-written assembly (2016) (stackoverflow.com)
		431 points by signa11 on Aug 22, 2017 \| 188 comments
7.		A Brief Survey of Deep Reinforcement Learning (arxiv.org)
		174 points by tim_sw on Aug 22, 2017 \| 3 comments
8.		Initial Hammer2 filesystem implementation (dragonflybsd.org)
		228 points by joeschmoe3 on Aug 21, 2017 \| 68 comments
9.		Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio (current.org)
		279 points by pesenti on Aug 21, 2017 \| 270 comments
10.		UK Government's Payment Infrastructure Is Now Open Source (cloudapps.digital)
		258 points by edent on Aug 22, 2017 \| 101 comments
11.		All 50 startups from Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Demo Day 1 (techcrunch.com)
		235 points by nsparrow on Aug 22, 2017 \| 199 comments
12.		A glut has used-car depreciation accelerating (bloomberg.com)
		174 points by yawz on Aug 22, 2017 \| 364 comments
13.		Sensor tracks who's driving in your neighbourhood (bbc.co.uk)
		140 points by edward on Aug 22, 2017 \| 187 comments
14.		Apple IIe Design Guidelines (1982) [pdf] (apple2scans.net)
		142 points by Aqua_Geek on Aug 22, 2017 \| 34 comments
15.		Show HN: Pdf-Bot, an API/CLI for Generating PDFs Using Headless Chrome (github.com/esbenp)
		235 points by esbenp on Aug 22, 2017 \| 79 comments
16.		Show HN: RNN that generates Game of Thrones text (github.com/zackthoutt)
		143 points by zthoutt on Aug 22, 2017 \| 38 comments
17.		Oni: An IDE powered by Neovim (github.com/extr0py)
		216 points by kermatt on Aug 20, 2017 \| 105 comments
18.		Studying how Firefox can collect additional data in a privacy-preserving way (groups.google.com)
		278 points by GrayShade on Aug 22, 2017 \| 428 comments
19.		Winner-take-all effects in autonomous cars (ben-evans.com)
		89 points by astigsen on Aug 22, 2017 \| 85 comments
20.		Recognizing when two arithmetic expressions are essentially the same (plover.com)
		102 points by gbacon on Aug 22, 2017 \| 36 comments
21.		Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Could Have Caused 2 Years of Darkness (astrobiology.com)
		91 points by okket on Aug 22, 2017 \| 61 comments
22.		Cyborg bacteria outperform plants when turning sunlight into useful compounds (phys.org)
		127 points by dnetesn on Aug 22, 2017 \| 42 comments
23.		Show HN: Idea Generator That Uses YC as Data (ycremix.com)
		132 points by jtraffic on Aug 22, 2017 \| 40 comments
24.		Cracking random number generators (xoroshiro128+) (lemire.me)
		109 points by johndcook on Aug 22, 2017 \| 56 comments
25.		Voyager antenna operator: 'I was the first human to see images from Neptune' (theregister.co.uk)
		96 points by Angostura on Aug 21, 2017 \| 10 comments
26.		Crinkler secrets, 4k intro executable compressor at its best (2010) (code4k.blogspot.com)
		86 points by bane on Aug 21, 2017 \| 4 comments
27.		Typing with pleasure, and low latency (pavelfatin.com)
		141 points by fanf2 on Aug 22, 2017 \| 68 comments
28.		Cuberite – A lightweight, fast and extensible game server for Minecraft (cuberite.org)
		134 points by sphinxc0re on Aug 22, 2017 \| 25 comments
29.		China’s Bitmain dominates Bitcoin mining, wants to cash in on AI (qz.com)
		139 points by amelius on Aug 22, 2017 \| 58 comments
30.		[dupe] Single-Molecule Transistors at Room Temperature (columbia.edu)
		64 points by well_i_never on Aug 22, 2017 \| 20 comments
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