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1.		RethinkDB is shutting down (rethinkdb.com)
		1674 points by neumino on Oct 6, 2016 \| 441 comments
2.		Google Noto Fonts (google.com)
		1217 points by bpierre on Oct 6, 2016 \| 304 comments
3.		Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious (aeon.co)
		447 points by rfreytag on Oct 6, 2016 \| 217 comments
4.		Jack Dorsey Is Losing Control of Twitter (bloomberg.com)
		283 points by miraj on Oct 6, 2016 \| 196 comments
5.		What SMART Stats Tell Us About Hard Drives (backblaze.com)
		262 points by ingve on Oct 6, 2016 \| 68 comments
6.		Physicists Create World’s First Time Crystal (technologyreview.com)
		277 points by hrgeek on Oct 6, 2016 \| 126 comments
7.		‘Security Fatigue’ Can Cause Computer Users to Feel Hopeless and Act Recklessly (nist.gov)
		213 points by molecule on Oct 6, 2016 \| 170 comments
8.		Twitter Shares Slump After Report Says Google Won’t Make a Bid (bloomberg.com)
		256 points by JumpCrisscross on Oct 6, 2016 \| 251 comments
9.		An Open Letter From Elizabeth Holmes (theranos.com)
		287 points by alva on Oct 5, 2016 \| 206 comments
10.		Designing a SaaS Database for Scale with Postgres (citusdata.com)
		241 points by mixmastamyk on Oct 6, 2016 \| 54 comments
11.		Why Writers Are the Worst Procrastinators (theatlantic.com)
		163 points by agarden on Oct 6, 2016 \| 83 comments
12.		My Experience Running Development at a Startup (antjanus.com)
		182 points by antjanus on Oct 6, 2016 \| 40 comments
13.		Unix as IDE (sanctum.geek.nz)
		237 points by yarapavan on Oct 6, 2016 \| 209 comments
14.		Udacity open-sources additional driving data (techcrunch.com)
		208 points by olivercameron on Oct 6, 2016 \| 29 comments
15.		Replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phone catches fire on Southwest plane (theverge.com)
		222 points by ssclafani on Oct 5, 2016 \| 184 comments
16.		A parallel recommendation engine in Julia (juliacomputing.com)
		139 points by one-more-minute on Oct 6, 2016 \| 29 comments
17.		Code of Silence (theintercept.com)
		253 points by w1ntermute on Oct 6, 2016 \| 53 comments
18.		Snapchat Parent Working on IPO That Could Value Company at $25B or More (wsj.com)
		108 points by coloneltcb on Oct 6, 2016 \| 98 comments
19.		The High Sierra forest is dying, and you can't count the loss in dead trees (latimes.com)
		139 points by Mz on Oct 6, 2016 \| 104 comments
20.		Ask a Female Engineer: Interviewing and Company Culture (themacro.com)
		161 points by craigcannon on Oct 6, 2016 \| 301 comments
21.		RethinkDB and Compose: Where Next (compose.com)
		131 points by andrewbarba on Oct 6, 2016 \| 26 comments
22.		Training Recurrent Neural Networks [pdf] (utoronto.ca)
		88 points by e19293001 on Oct 6, 2016 \| 8 comments
23.		Show HN: Patat – Terminal-based presentations using Pandoc (github.com/jaspervdj)
		167 points by jaspervdj on Oct 6, 2016 \| 13 comments
24.		EBay acquires visual search engine Corrigon for less than $30M (techcrunch.com)
		56 points by dustinmoris on Oct 5, 2016 \| 5 comments
25.		Solvespace – parametric 2d/3d CAD (github.com/solvespace)
		128 points by trymas on Oct 6, 2016 \| 40 comments
26.		Qt Quick Controls 2.1 and Beyond (qt.io)
		131 points by bpierre on Oct 6, 2016 \| 89 comments
27.		Ancient Cannabis 'Burial Shroud' Discovered in Desert Oasis (nationalgeographic.com)
		58 points by benbreen on Oct 4, 2016 \| 39 comments
28.		Thought Experiments in Mathematics: Gabriel's Horn (fermatslibrary.com)
		60 points by mgdo on Oct 6, 2016 \| 39 comments
29.		Systemd programming, 30 months later (lwn.net)
		168 points by mynameislegion on Oct 6, 2016 \| 182 comments
30.		The fight over transparency in the meat industry (nytimes.com)
		158 points by triplesec on Oct 6, 2016 \| 177 comments
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