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1.		An account of a serious medical emergency on a transoceanic flight (feminem.org)
		832 points by bshep on Sept 3, 2016 \| 288 comments
2.		How to Tell a Mother Her Child Is Dead (nytimes.com)
		694 points by niyazpk on Sept 3, 2016 \| 199 comments
3.		People in Los Angeles Are Getting Rid Of Their Cars (buzzfeed.com)
		234 points by andrewfromx on Sept 3, 2016 \| 243 comments
4.		The neurology of self-awareness (edge.org)
		189 points by type0 on Sept 3, 2016 \| 98 comments
5.		Paris climate deal: US and China announce ratification (bbc.com)
		250 points by smb06 on Sept 3, 2016 \| 120 comments
6.		500 Byte Images: The Haiku Vector Icon Format (leahhanson.us)
		265 points by luu on Sept 3, 2016 \| 81 comments
7.		The Math Myth (econlib.org)
		318 points by forloop on Sept 3, 2016 \| 313 comments
8.		A computer engineer has tracked down the first Apollo guidance computer (gadget.co.za)
		194 points by a_w on Sept 3, 2016 \| 35 comments
9.		Startups turning to a funding tactic used by oil and gas companies in the 1900s (qz.com)
		150 points by endswapper on Sept 2, 2016 \| 38 comments
10.		Latest Intel, AMD chips won't support Windows versions earlier than Windows 10 (theregister.co.uk)
		180 points by infodroid on Sept 3, 2016 \| 212 comments
11.		DEFCON 23 Uber Badge Replica (co9.io)
		63 points by erbbysam on Sept 2, 2016 \| 4 comments
12.		Remembering Vernon Adams, creator of KDE's user-interface font Oxygen (lwn.net)
		196 points by zobzu on Sept 3, 2016 \| 11 comments
13.		Git 2.10 has been released (github.com/blog)
		205 points by dwaxe on Sept 3, 2016 \| 36 comments
14.		How Spy Tech Firms Let Governments See Everything on a Smartphone (nytimes.com)
		165 points by xacaxulu on Sept 3, 2016 \| 59 comments
15.		In the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom (smithsonianmag.com)
		66 points by benbreen on Sept 2, 2016 \| 27 comments
16.		How Fake Money Saved Brazil (2010) (npr.org)
		162 points by mrb on Sept 3, 2016 \| 119 comments
17.		Nano to remain in GNU (lists.gnu.org)
		145 points by Ianvdl on Sept 3, 2016 \| 65 comments
18.		Show HN: Grumbles.js – Detects when your users swear out loud (knpw.rs)
		91 points by kpthunder on Sept 3, 2016 \| 45 comments
19.		Does Chinese Civilization Come from Ancient Egypt? (foreignpolicy.com)
		82 points by DanielBMarkham on Sept 3, 2016 \| 61 comments
20.		Florida programmer arrested for gaining unauthorized access to kernel.org (justice.gov)
		116 points by ashitlerferad on Sept 3, 2016 \| 64 comments
21.		EFF to Court: Government Must Inform People That It’s Accessing Their Data (eff.org)
		158 points by DiabloD3 on Sept 3, 2016 \| 13 comments
22.		The Hunt for 928 or Has Anyone Seen This Spy Plane? (1999) (otherhand.org)
		67 points by swatkat on Sept 2, 2016 \| 12 comments
23.		LoweBot (lowesinnovationlabs.com)
		101 points by adenadel on Sept 3, 2016 \| 35 comments
24.		Greatest of All Time: Lifestyles of the rich and famous Roman athletes (2010) (laphamsquarterly.org)
		61 points by acheron on Sept 3, 2016 \| 27 comments
25.		Modern science and Chinese philosophy tell us about how we think (2014) (nautil.us)
		69 points by dnetesn on Sept 3, 2016 \| 9 comments
26.		RCA engineers envisioned automated electronic highways by 1975 (ieee.org)
		42 points by helloworld on Sept 3, 2016 \| 32 comments
27.		Using molecular codes, plants cry for help, ward off bugs (2013) (nautil.us)
		71 points by brahmwg on Sept 3, 2016 \| 29 comments
28.		Solutions to Integer Overflow (regehr.org)
		86 points by deafcalculus on Sept 3, 2016 \| 49 comments
29.		Memento at the W3C (w3.org)
		84 points by mpweiher on Sept 3, 2016 \| 7 comments
30.		Dam Project Threatens to Submerge Thousands of Years of Turkish History (nytimes.com)
		42 points by kafkaesq on Sept 3, 2016 \| 18 comments
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