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1.		M.I.T. Plans College for Artificial Intelligence, Backed by $1B (nytimes.com)
		560 points by superfx on Oct 15, 2018 \| 164 comments
2.		Twilio to Acquire Sendgrid (twilio.com)
		633 points by coloneltcb on Oct 15, 2018 \| 184 comments
3.		How I’ve Attracted the First 500 Paid Users for My SaaS (inkdrop.info)
		925 points by spiffytech on Oct 15, 2018 \| 135 comments
4.		A True Story (wikipedia.org)
		525 points by benbreen on Oct 15, 2018 \| 72 comments
5.		The highest paid workers in Silicon Valley are product managers (2016) (qz.com)
		479 points by jxub on Oct 14, 2018 \| 351 comments
6.		Study shows massive insect loss (washingtonpost.com)
		372 points by pgrote on Oct 15, 2018 \| 198 comments
7.		Survey of YC female founders on sexual harassment, coercion by angels and VCs (blog.ycombinator.com)
		540 points by coloneltcb on Oct 15, 2018 \| 435 comments
8.		Removing Old Versions of TLS (blog.mozilla.org)
		217 points by edmorley on Oct 15, 2018 \| 91 comments
9.		Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?
		717 points by mirianbert on Oct 15, 2018 \| 171 comments
10.		How to Manage Connections Efficiently in Postgres, or Any Database (brandur.org)
		265 points by bgentry on Oct 15, 2018 \| 32 comments
11.		Air pollution linked to “huge” reduction in intelligence (unenvironment.org)
		444 points by crunchiebones on Oct 15, 2018 \| 175 comments
12.		A Framework for Intelligence and Cortical Function Based on Grid Cells (biorxiv.org)
		125 points by doener on Oct 15, 2018 \| 29 comments
13.		RaptorJIT 1.0: Lua implementation for high-perf low-level system programming (github.com/raptorjit)
		156 points by ingve on Oct 15, 2018 \| 31 comments
14.		Smart Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google's Nest Hand Over Data (forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster)
		178 points by edejong on Oct 14, 2018 \| 79 comments
15.		Alternative code styles (swalladge.id.au)
		230 points by _7ffc on Oct 15, 2018 \| 102 comments
16.		HDMI Light V2: Open-Hardware FPGA-Based Clone of Philips Ambilight (2014) (esar.org.uk)
		170 points by walterbell on Oct 15, 2018 \| 33 comments
17.		Grad Student Solved a Fundamental Quantum Computing Problem (wired.com)
		186 points by eaguyhn on Oct 14, 2018 \| 21 comments
18.		SoftBank Gives Startups Billions of Reasons to Hold Off IPOs (wsj.com)
		100 points by dsr12 on Oct 15, 2018 \| 62 comments
19.		Using /proc to get a process' current stack trace (ops.tips)
		190 points by cirowrc on Oct 15, 2018 \| 66 comments
20.		Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work (2006) [pdf] (usc.edu)
		122 points by eBombzor on Oct 15, 2018 \| 50 comments
21.		A Long Peek into Reinforcement Learning (lilianweng.github.io)
		147 points by shry4ns on Oct 15, 2018 \| 7 comments
22.		Show HN: Physically Based Rendering – Online Edition (pbr-book.org)
		297 points by wjakob on Oct 15, 2018 \| 42 comments
23.		Modernizing Transport Security (googleblog.com)
		124 points by edmorley on Oct 15, 2018 \| 37 comments
24.		IPv6 breaks the 25% barrier (google.com)
		289 points by AndrewDucker on Oct 15, 2018 \| 137 comments
25.		RISC-V: More Than a Core (semiengineering.com)
		135 points by walterbell on Oct 15, 2018 \| 34 comments
26.		Former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason on what the roller-coaster ride felt like (nymag.com)
		183 points by lxm on Oct 14, 2018 \| 49 comments
27.		Enabling Decentralized Private Computation (iacr.org)
		119 points by petethomas on Oct 15, 2018 \| 4 comments
28.		Why Doctors Reject Tools That Make Their Jobs Easier (scientificamerican.com)
		199 points by dsr12 on Oct 15, 2018 \| 126 comments
29.		Show HN: I Built a Metasearch Engine with React, Redux, Express and TypeScript (github.com/joshuascript)
		79 points by _yljl on Oct 15, 2018 \| 42 comments
30.		A Look at Game Streaming Tech in the Browser (parsecgaming.com)
		136 points by _wugy on Oct 15, 2018 \| 68 comments
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