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1.		Brain training exercises might just make you better at brain training exercises (bps.org.uk)
		523 points by ingve on Oct 7, 2016 \| 211 comments
2.		IP Spoofing (popcount.org)
		513 points by majke on Oct 7, 2016 \| 132 comments
3.		A Brief History of Who Ruined Burning Man (burningman.org)
		443 points by jseliger on Oct 7, 2016 \| 241 comments
4.		Farm grows vegetables in a desert using sun and seawater (newscientist.com)
		543 points by rmason on Oct 7, 2016 \| 184 comments
5.		Graph-Powered Machine Learning at Google (googleblog.com)
		371 points by tim_sw on Oct 7, 2016 \| 66 comments
6.		Shenzhen I/O (zachtronics.com)
		456 points by yumaikas on Oct 7, 2016 \| 131 comments
7.		Reflections of an “Old” Programmer (bennorthrop.com)
		493 points by speckz on Oct 6, 2016 \| 325 comments
8.		Hurricane Matthew Visualization (ventusky.com)
		310 points by ValG on Oct 7, 2016 \| 37 comments
9.		Fall cleaning: Optimizing V8 memory consumption (v8project.blogspot.com)
		152 points by ivank on Oct 7, 2016 \| 39 comments
10.		Foundations of Data Science [pdf] (cornell.edu)
		419 points by Anon84 on Oct 7, 2016 \| 122 comments
11.		Mark Zuckerberg's virtual reality demo [video] (facebook.com)
		286 points by vyrotek on Oct 7, 2016 \| 140 comments
12.		As DNA reveals its secrets, scientists are assembling a new picture of humanity (statnews.com)
		109 points by yawz on Oct 7, 2016 \| 30 comments
13.		RethinkDB, SageMath, Andreessen-Horowitz, Basecamp and Open Source Software (sagemath.blogspot.com)
		331 points by williamstein on Oct 7, 2016 \| 120 comments
14.		Tim Berners-Lee just gave us an opening to stop DRM in Web standards (defectivebydesign.org)
		318 points by mynameislegion on Oct 7, 2016 \| 214 comments
15.		OVH to establish North American headquarters and first U.S. data center (virginia.gov)
		187 points by ers35 on Oct 7, 2016 \| 94 comments
16.		Lawsuit: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer led illegal purge of male workers (mercurynews.com)
		425 points by lxm on Oct 7, 2016 \| 368 comments
17.		Suiron – Machine Learning for RC Cars (github.com/kendricktan)
		156 points by adamnemecek on Oct 7, 2016 \| 59 comments
18.		RethinkDB needs a new home (docs.google.com)
		302 points by chrisabrams on Oct 7, 2016 \| 97 comments
19.		U.S. government accuses Russia of hacking campaign to influence elections (washingtonpost.com)
		168 points by runesoerensen on Oct 7, 2016 \| 335 comments
20.		Keegan – Personal photo coach (regaind.io)
		179 points by p4bl0 on Oct 7, 2016 \| 137 comments
21.		Mylan overcharged Medicaid for EpiPen for years, despite warnings (statnews.com)
		132 points by helloworld on Oct 7, 2016 \| 125 comments
22.		Microsoft Stream (stream.microsoft.com)
		202 points by polskibus on Oct 7, 2016 \| 88 comments
23.		Failures in NIST’s ECC standards [pdf] (cr.yp.to)
		66 points by lisper on Oct 7, 2016 \| 18 comments
24.		Battlecode – AI Programming Competition (battlecode.org)
		143 points by dgellow on Oct 7, 2016 \| 36 comments
25.		Show HN: Insight AI – 7 week fellowship for scientists and engineers (insightdata.ai)
		81 points by jakek on Oct 7, 2016 \| 28 comments
26.		Type-Safe Unions in C++ and Rust (genbattle.bitbucket.org)
		148 points by Tatyanazaxarova on Oct 7, 2016 \| 136 comments
27.		Backpage Raided, CEO Arrested on Sex-Trafficking Charges (abcnews.go.com)
		172 points by btimil on Oct 7, 2016 \| 287 comments
28.		Netflix and Ch-Ch-Chilly (backchannel.com)
		189 points by geodel on Oct 7, 2016 \| 29 comments
29.		NewLisp (newlisp.org)
		120 points by qwertyuiop924 on Oct 6, 2016 \| 142 comments
30.		The smallest transistor reported to date (sciencebulletin.org)
		109 points by upen on Oct 7, 2016 \| 43 comments
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