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1.		The “Million Dollar Homepage” as a Decaying Digital Artifact (law.harvard.edu)
		447 points by sjmurdoch on July 23, 2017 \| 151 comments
2.		Computational Linear Algebra (fast.ai)
		537 points by julianj on July 23, 2017 \| 55 comments
3.		A Practical Guide to Tree-Based Learning Algorithms (sadanand-singh.github.io)
		300 points by sadanand4singh on July 23, 2017 \| 20 comments
4.		Status update from the Reproducible Builds project (debian.org)
		322 points by lamby on July 23, 2017 \| 86 comments
5.		Printed Solar Panels for Less Than $10 a Square Metre (newcastle.edu.au)
		252 points by dakna on July 23, 2017 \| 83 comments
6.		Yellowstone Bears Eat 40K Moths a Day in August (yellowstonepark.com)
		239 points by curtis on July 22, 2017 \| 118 comments
7.		How Wi-Fi Works (verizoninternet.com)
		308 points by sharjeelsayed on July 23, 2017 \| 92 comments
8.		Satellites Taking Pictures of Rockets Carrying More Satellites (planet.com)
		214 points by privong on July 22, 2017 \| 46 comments
9.		Using Hilbert Curves to 100% Zelda (merovius.de)
		164 points by Merovius on July 22, 2017 \| 61 comments
10.		Give in to Procrastination and Stop Prefetching (2013) [pdf] (csail.mit.edu)
		118 points by lainon on July 23, 2017 \| 26 comments
11.		MIT's Pathway to Fusion Energy [video] (youtube.com)
		129 points by mozumder on July 23, 2017 \| 34 comments
12.		Thanks to Venmo, We Now All Know How Cheap Our Friends Are (nytimes.com)
		159 points by gk1 on July 23, 2017 \| 377 comments
13.		The Odin Project – Learn Web Development for Free (theodinproject.com)
		150 points by CoffeeOnWrite on July 23, 2017 \| 64 comments
14.		Redis on Acid: 0.5M ops/sec, 1ms latency and ACID compliance (redislabs.com)
		155 points by dvirsky on July 23, 2017 \| 53 comments
15.		Rocket Propellant from Lunar Soil (wickmanspacecraft.com)
		72 points by vpribish on July 23, 2017 \| 42 comments
16.		GoblinCore-64: Scalable, open architecture for data intensive HPC (tdl.org)
		72 points by ingve on July 22, 2017 \| 2 comments
17.		VPN crackdown ‘unthinkable’ trial by firewall for China’s research world (scmp.com)
		124 points by Sami_Lehtinen on July 23, 2017 \| 143 comments
18.		Fast MySQL Backup and Restore Using Mydumper and Myloader (wplobster.com)
		66 points by lyri787w on July 23, 2017 \| 23 comments
19.		German energy company wants to build flow batteries in old natural gas caverns (arstechnica.com)
		86 points by Tomte on July 23, 2017 \| 18 comments
20.		Maine growers cultivate gourmet mushrooms (mainebiz.biz)
		56 points by Mz on July 22, 2017 \| 1 comment
21.		Performance Visualization for Elixir apps (iacobson.net)
		102 points by iacobson on July 23, 2017
22.		Artificial Intelligence, Poker, and Regret (medium.com/remistudios)
		120 points by matco11 on July 23, 2017 \| 21 comments
23.		Many of the best Scrabble players are Thais who don't speak English (2014) (thestar.com.my)
		48 points by Tomte on July 21, 2017 \| 16 comments
24.		GitLab 9.4 Released with Related Issues and Web Application Monitoring (about.gitlab.com)
		96 points by jfreax on July 22, 2017 \| 19 comments
25.		Ink: React for interactive command-line apps (github.com/vadimdemedes)
		129 points by ingve on July 23, 2017 \| 42 comments
26.		Is Productivity Growth Becoming Irrelevant? (ineteconomics.org)
		140 points by mpweiher on July 23, 2017 \| 78 comments
27.		Show HN: A simple SSH VPN client (github.com/ivanilves)
		113 points by ivanilves on July 23, 2017 \| 26 comments
28.		The Colditz Glider (wikipedia.org)
		47 points by todayiamme on July 23, 2017 \| 7 comments
29.		How do I know if I'm good at programming? (danielslater.net)
		200 points by danielslater on July 23, 2017 \| 141 comments
30.		Sugar-sweetened drinks with protein rich meal affect metabolism (biomedcentral.com)
		131 points by nreece on July 23, 2017 \| 168 comments
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