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1.		The lost letters of the English alphabet (omgfacts.com)
		526 points by 2dvisio on Jan 16, 2017 \| 195 comments
2.		Stealing passwords from McDonald's users (finnwea.com)
		544 points by _ugfj on Jan 16, 2017 \| 164 comments
3.		Gene Cernan has died (nasa.gov)
		409 points by cletusw on Jan 16, 2017 \| 172 comments
4.		A Visa for founders, engineers and investors willing to join France (lafrenchtech.com)
		625 points by tbassetto on Jan 16, 2017 \| 712 comments
5.		Easy XMPP: What are we doing here? (jabber.org)
		378 points by psiconaut on Jan 16, 2017 \| 165 comments
6.		Dovecot audit complete (wiki.mozilla.org)
		303 points by richardboegli on Jan 15, 2017 \| 80 comments
7.		An Explainer on Unix’s Most Notorious Code Comment (thenewstack.io)
		173 points by inopinatus on Jan 15, 2017 \| 31 comments
8.		Google reveals its servers all contain custom security silicon (theregister.co.uk)
		363 points by chris-at on Jan 16, 2017 \| 125 comments
9.		Established education providers v new contenders (economist.com)
		140 points by dhruvp on Jan 16, 2017 \| 53 comments
10.		The first humans arrived in North America a lot earlier than believed (umontreal.ca)
		191 points by baalcat on Jan 16, 2017 \| 71 comments
11.		Modern Tech inside an Amish Horse-Drawn Buggy (caranddriver.com)
		191 points by justanman on Jan 16, 2017 \| 107 comments
12.		China has built the world’s largest bullet-train network (economist.com)
		257 points by sohkamyung on Jan 16, 2017 \| 241 comments
13.		Exposing Digital Photography (2015) (digitalphotography.exposed)
		232 points by itsyogesh on Jan 16, 2017 \| 40 comments
14.		SrsLTE: Open Source 3GPP LTE Library (github.com/srslte)
		146 points by BuuQu9hu on Jan 16, 2017 \| 15 comments
15.		Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views (astronaut.io)
		429 points by KeatonDunsford on Jan 16, 2017 \| 136 comments
16.		WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy (github.com/jlantunez)
		188 points by RealGeek on Jan 16, 2017 \| 65 comments
17.		2017 Levchin Prize for Real World Cryptography (linkedin.com)
		141 points by ergot on Jan 16, 2017 \| 30 comments
18.		How many animals can one find in a random image? (wolfram.com)
		116 points by soofy on Jan 15, 2017 \| 27 comments
19.		Git-quick-stats – A simple and efficient way to access various statistics (github.com/arzzen)
		112 points by arzzen on Jan 16, 2017 \| 18 comments
20.		AI Pioneer Wants to Build the Renaissance Machine of the Future (bloomberg.com)
		105 points by andreshb on Jan 16, 2017 \| 28 comments
21.		Show HN: JSON Browse – Fetch, filter and manipulate your JSON inside the browser (jsonbrowse.com)
		138 points by jorde on Jan 16, 2017 \| 26 comments
22.		The importance of neutral null for understanding evolution (nih.gov)
		95 points by jonathansizz on Jan 16, 2017 \| 32 comments
23.		The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder hits the big-data highway (blog.csiro.au)
		126 points by dgtlmoon on Jan 16, 2017 \| 49 comments
24.		Re-Frame: a Reagent Framework for Writing SPAs, in ClojureScript (github.com/day8)
		146 points by jdnier on Jan 16, 2017 \| 30 comments
25.		President Obama's International Visits from 2009 to 2016 (arcgis.com)
		91 points by espek07 on Jan 16, 2017 \| 90 comments
26.		We Reverse Engineered 16K Apps (hackernoon.com)
		154 points by r721 on Jan 16, 2017 \| 45 comments
27.		Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 out now (raspberrypi.org)
		207 points by rbanffy on Jan 16, 2017 \| 100 comments
28.		Physicists taking jobs as Silicon Valley software engineers (wired.com)
		200 points by electic on Jan 16, 2017 \| 173 comments
29.		Wide Impact: Highly Effective Gmail Phishing Technique Being Exploited (wordfence.com)
		130 points by aburan28 on Jan 16, 2017 \| 46 comments
30.		Coroutine iters in Common Lisp (vicsydev.blogspot.com)
		59 points by codr4life on Jan 15, 2017 \| 15 comments
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