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1.		Google fixes nearly decade-old Linux kernel TCP bug (bitsup.blogspot.com)
		355 points by tim_sw on Sept 27, 2015 \| 46 comments
2.		Mobile browser traffic is 2X bigger than app traffic, and growing faster (venturebeat.com)
		231 points by AnbeSivam on Sept 27, 2015 \| 136 comments
3.		VOC: A transpiler that converts Python bytecode into Java bytecode (github.com/pybee)
		121 points by Lofkin on Sept 27, 2015 \| 49 comments
4.		Windows Drops Bing in China for Baidu (windows.com)
		139 points by mgalka on Sept 27, 2015 \| 65 comments
5.		Procedural City Generation in Python (josauder.github.io)
		240 points by eatonphil on Sept 27, 2015 \| 19 comments
6.		A Puzzle Book That Drove England to Madness (hazlitt.net)
		146 points by ohjeez on Sept 27, 2015 \| 30 comments
7.		The Newly Discovered Tablet V of the Epic of Gilgamesh (ancient.eu)
		174 points by diodorus on Sept 27, 2015 \| 28 comments
8.		Nix the Tricks: Math tricks defeat understanding (nixthetricks.com)
		139 points by tokenadult on Sept 27, 2015 \| 84 comments
9.		Constructing a spectrometer using a CD (cmu.edu)
		84 points by gwern on Sept 27, 2015 \| 9 comments
10.		Lyft Moves Customer Support Team to Nashville to Combat High-Priced SF Market (techcrunch.com)
		102 points by mtviewdave on Sept 27, 2015 \| 85 comments
11.		I mine for 100-year-old jeans (theguardian.com)
		108 points by edward on Sept 26, 2015 \| 25 comments
12.		Twitter's Tips for Making Software Engineers More Efficient (ieee.org)
		96 points by michakinlabi on Sept 26, 2015 \| 38 comments
13.		Gates funded Terrapower inks deal with China’s CNNC to build fast reactor (neutronbytes.com)
		94 points by blondie9x on Sept 27, 2015 \| 33 comments
14.		Haskell and floppy disks in Norwegian government (gundersen.net)
		154 points by fegu on Sept 27, 2015 \| 59 comments
15.		Natural Language Basics with TextBlob (decontextualize.com)
		69 points by sloria on Sept 27, 2015 \| 23 comments
16.		TempleOS: x86_64 HolyC Compiler/Assembler/Unassembler [video] (youtube.com)
		110 points by adamnemecek on Sept 27, 2015 \| 77 comments
17.		Leading mathematician launches arXiv 'overlay' journal (nature.com)
		93 points by DavidSJ on Sept 27, 2015 \| 20 comments
18.		Why the Human Brain Project Went Wrong and How to Fix It (scientificamerican.com)
		93 points by wrongc0ntinent on Sept 27, 2015 \| 61 comments
19.		Modernizing the BSD Networking Stack [pdf] (netbsd.org)
		75 points by jsnell on Sept 27, 2015 \| 9 comments
20.		Where are the missing gravitational waves? (theconversation.com)
		77 points by versteegen on Sept 27, 2015 \| 39 comments
21.		Should Your Specification Language Be Typed? (1999) [pdf] (research.microsoft.com)
		45 points by pron on Sept 27, 2015 \| 21 comments
22.		Show HN: Caramel – a modern syntax for the lambda calculus (github.com/maiavictor)
		130 points by LightMachine on Sept 27, 2015 \| 22 comments
23.		Microservice Discovery with SkyDNS (getadmiral.com)
		57 points by fastest963 on Sept 27, 2015 \| 23 comments
24.		Show HN: A Lisp compiler and environment in Go (github.com/gsp-lang)
		76 points by eatonphil on Sept 27, 2015 \| 20 comments
25.		Against Method (wikipedia.org)
		133 points by MichaelAO on Sept 27, 2015 \| 59 comments
26.		Nix Build of GHC to Run Haskell on Android (github.com/wavewave)
		48 points by smilliken on Sept 26, 2015 \| 5 comments
27.		Doit: bringing the power of build-tools to execute any kind of task (pydoit.org)
		54 points by auxym on Sept 27, 2015 \| 10 comments
28.		U.S. Energy Mapping System (eia.gov)
		37 points by teh_klev on Sept 27, 2015 \| 15 comments
29.		A Man Who Invents Languages for a Living (npr.org)
		66 points by evo_9 on Sept 27, 2015 \| 6 comments
30.		Dex UI: futuristic interface built with openFrameworks (nnkd.org)
		69 points by rnhmjoj on Sept 27, 2015 \| 16 comments
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