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1.		Classical music generation with recurrent neural networks (hexahedria.com)
		443 points by hexahedria on Aug 8, 2015 \| 120 comments
2.		BEAM languages, Hindley–Milner type systems, and new technologies (medium.com/this-is-not-a-monad-tutorial)
		202 points by pyotrgalois on Aug 8, 2015 \| 86 comments
3.		Japanese mini Segway “WalkCar” (catchynet.com)
		225 points by lisper on Aug 8, 2015 \| 133 comments
4.		A collection of postmortems (github.com/danluu)
		152 points by luu on Aug 8, 2015 \| 16 comments
5.		Deconcentration of Attention: Addressing the Complexity of Software (2012) (deconcentration-of-attention.com)
		97 points by miles on Aug 8, 2015 \| 24 comments
6.		When would you choose Erlang? (2013) (troutwine.us)
		109 points by rubyn00bie on Aug 8, 2015 \| 37 comments
7.		Fiber Optic Bliss (loomcom.com)
		132 points by uptown on Aug 7, 2015 \| 101 comments
8.		Krill: A terminal feed reader supporting RSS and Twitter (github.com/p-e-w)
		69 points by qfx3 on Aug 8, 2015 \| 19 comments
9.		Ask HN: Books with a high signal to noise ratio?
		260 points by thewarrior on Aug 8, 2015 \| 200 comments
10.		Five Years of Being a Full-Time Indie Game Developer (paradeofrain.com)
		140 points by danso on Aug 8, 2015 \| 70 comments
11.		Crossrail: The End of the Beginning (londonreconnections.com)
		83 points by edward on Aug 7, 2015 \| 11 comments
12.		IBM Adds Medical Images to Watson, Buying Merge Healthcare for $1B (nytimes.com)
		101 points by tchalla on Aug 8, 2015 \| 43 comments
13.		The Disappearance of the World’s Greatest Free Diver (newyorker.com)
		97 points by Thevet on Aug 8, 2015 \| 54 comments
14.		Credit cards used on cvsphoto.com may have been compromised (cvsphoto.com)
		79 points by TechRemarker on Aug 8, 2015 \| 57 comments
15.		Type-checked matrix operations in Rust (jadpole.github.io)
		79 points by jcla1 on Aug 8, 2015 \| 19 comments
16.		Ask HN: Best resources on webapp security?
		165 points by zipfle on Aug 8, 2015 \| 42 comments
17.		Essentially contested concept (wikipedia.org)
		60 points by networked on Aug 8, 2015 \| 11 comments
18.		The dwarves of Auschwitz (2013) (theguardian.com)
		67 points by samsolomon on Aug 8, 2015 \| 11 comments
19.		Speeding up non-vectorizable code with Cython (isaacslavitt.com)
		37 points by callmekit on Aug 8, 2015 \| 3 comments
20.		Introducing the Blend font vulnerability (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
		41 points by daveloyall on Aug 7, 2015 \| 23 comments
21.		Fry's Electronics owns and operates a rare 747SP (planespotters.net)
		75 points by bmir-alum-007 on Aug 8, 2015 \| 111 comments
22.		Digital Bodleian Library (ox.ac.uk)
		52 points by nsns on Aug 8, 2015 \| 2 comments
23.		Plate IQ (YC S15) Turns Paper Invoices into Predictive Insights (techcrunch.com)
		56 points by twakefield on Aug 8, 2015 \| 7 comments
24.		The website is unknown – How DNS works (howdns.works)
		177 points by dbrgn on Aug 8, 2015 \| 28 comments
25.		Reminiscences of Grothendieck and His School (2010) [pdf] (ams.org)
		47 points by valera_rozuvan on Aug 8, 2015 \| 4 comments
26.		Python metaclasses (ivansmirnov.io)
		55 points by aldanor on Aug 8, 2015 \| 29 comments
27.		Sidecar Puts Passengers Aside, Pivots to a Mostly-Deliveries Company (forbes.com/sites/ellenhuet)
		47 points by lxm on Aug 8, 2015 \| 15 comments
28.		How many lives does a doctor save? (80000hours.org)
		57 points by robertwiblin on Aug 8, 2015 \| 56 comments
29.		How a troubled past turned a Soviet engineer into a valuable spy (theatlantic.com)
		30 points by curtis on Aug 8, 2015 \| 7 comments
30.		In Dependencies We Trust: How vulnerable are dependencies in software modules? (researchgate.net)
		34 points by ximeng on Aug 8, 2015 \| 16 comments
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