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1.		Seymour Papert has died (media.mit.edu)
		820 points by j4mie on Aug 1, 2016 \| 137 comments
2.		Why we lost Uber as a user (postgresql.org)
		1234 points by areski on Aug 1, 2016 \| 285 comments
3.		Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)
		534 points by whoishiring on Aug 1, 2016 \| 941 comments
4.		Surprises of the Faraday Cage (siam.org)
		388 points by leephillips on Aug 1, 2016 \| 66 comments
5.		Germany offers up to €30k for 6 months of working on OSS (prototypefund.de)
		512 points by haraball on Aug 1, 2016 \| 150 comments
6.		YouTube's road to HTTPS (youtube-eng.blogspot.com)
		282 points by seanwatson on Aug 1, 2016 \| 93 comments
7.		Salesforce buys word processing app Quip for $750M (techcrunch.com)
		272 points by rhc2104 on Aug 1, 2016 \| 175 comments
8.		Uber to Sell China Business to Rival Didi After Losing Billions (bloomberg.com)
		396 points by igonvalue on Aug 1, 2016 \| 186 comments
9.		Why I stopped hacking the Amazon Dash button and learned to solder (medium.com/ecaron)
		253 points by ecaron on July 31, 2016 \| 124 comments
10.		Millennium Tower is tilting, sinking (curbed.com)
		268 points by lelf on Aug 1, 2016 \| 180 comments
11.		Gh-ost: GitHub's online schema migration tool for MySQL (githubengineering.com)
		226 points by samlambert on Aug 1, 2016 \| 30 comments
12.		The vanishing civility: The game of jerks, bozos and assholes (stactivist.com)
		173 points by azuajef on Aug 1, 2016 \| 194 comments
13.		FCC Reaches Settlement with TP-Link in Wi-Fi Router Investigation (fcc.gov)
		134 points by pentago on Aug 1, 2016 \| 67 comments
14.		Django 1.10 released (djangoproject.com)
		227 points by hrayr on Aug 1, 2016 \| 119 comments
15.		Is Earthly life premature from a cosmic perspective? (phys.org)
		111 points by dnetesn on Aug 1, 2016 \| 171 comments
16.		Enhancing Download Protection in Firefox (blog.mozilla.org)
		91 points by ehPReth on Aug 1, 2016 \| 37 comments
17.		Reverse engineering and removing Pokémon GO’s certificate pinning (eaton-works.com)
		145 points by mkane848 on Aug 1, 2016 \| 58 comments
18.		The hidden base that could have ended the world (bbc.com)
		197 points by yitchelle on Aug 1, 2016 \| 94 comments
19.		Raw footage of the Japanese games industry (gamasutra.com)
		238 points by Mauricio_ on Aug 1, 2016 \| 16 comments
20.		Harnessing the Immune System to Fight Cancer (nytimes.com)
		171 points by e15ctr0n on July 31, 2016 \| 30 comments
21.		Tips from the Pragmatic Programmer (2000) (pragprog.com)
		165 points by gasull on Aug 1, 2016 \| 72 comments
22.		Netflix Billing Migration to AWS – Part III (netflix.com)
		124 points by samber on Aug 1, 2016 \| 69 comments
23.		A Regular Expression Matcher (2007) (princeton.edu)
		132 points by _acme on Aug 1, 2016 \| 34 comments
24.		List of IPython Notebooks by Peter Norvig (norvig.com)
		234 points by tu7001 on July 31, 2016 \| 12 comments
25.		Late Bronze Age Shipwreck Excavation (nauticalarch.org)
		53 points by onderkalaci on Aug 1, 2016 \| 23 comments
26.		Closed city (wikipedia.org)
		84 points by lelf on Aug 1, 2016 \| 27 comments
27.		‘Bitcoin Browser’ Brave Raises $4.5M, Readies for 1.0 Launch (bitcoin.com)
		158 points by 3eto on Aug 1, 2016 \| 123 comments
28.		How to use your full brain when writing code (chrismm.com)
		218 points by innerspirit on Aug 1, 2016 \| 72 comments
29.		Olympic executives cash in on a ‘Movement’ that keeps athletes poor (washingtonpost.com)
		247 points by vmateixeira on Aug 1, 2016 \| 213 comments
30.		Franz Liszt: Musician, Celebrity, Superstar (theguardian.com)
		72 points by tintinnabula on Aug 1, 2016 \| 42 comments
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