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1.		A Javascript journey with only six characters (jazcash.com)
		567 points by Jazcash on Oct 8, 2016 \| 112 comments
2.		Artificial Intelligence Lecture Videos (ocw.mit.edu)
		540 points by BucketSort on Oct 8, 2016 \| 49 comments
3.		How We Built the World’s Prettiest Auto-Generated Transit Maps (medium.com/transit-app)
		432 points by ant6n on Oct 7, 2016 \| 60 comments
4.		Silkworms that eat carbon nanotubes and graphene spin tougher silk (acs.org)
		237 points by sndean on Oct 7, 2016 \| 70 comments
5.		Image unshredder by simulated annealing (2015) (nayuki.io)
		253 points by nayuki on Oct 8, 2016 \| 56 comments
6.		TIS-100 – Tessellated Intelligence System (zachtronics.com)
		195 points by doener on Oct 8, 2016 \| 82 comments
7.		A gentle introduction to Prolog (2013) (bernardopires.com)
		221 points by mihau on Oct 8, 2016 \| 128 comments
8.		Paul Erdős: a life that added up to something (1996) (osu.edu)
		246 points by michaelhoffman on Oct 7, 2016 \| 64 comments
9.		HTML Kong (xn--8ws00zhy3a.com)
		209 points by spicytunacone on Oct 8, 2016 \| 30 comments
10.		Just shut up and let your devs concentrate, advises Joel Spolsky (geekwire.com)
		315 points by rmason on Oct 8, 2016 \| 197 comments
11.		Fully Countering Trusting Trust Through Diverse Double-Compiling (2009) (dwheeler.com)
		88 points by micaeked on Oct 8, 2016 \| 53 comments
12.		Mylan to Settle EpiPen Overpricing Case for $465M (nytimes.com)
		104 points by helloworld on Oct 7, 2016 \| 83 comments
13.		Remotely accessing an IP address inside a target computer is a search (washingtonpost.com)
		119 points by CapitalistCartr on Oct 8, 2016 \| 20 comments
14.		Monks Who Spent Years Turning Themselves into Mummies While Alive (atlasobscura.com)
		125 points by Thevet on Oct 8, 2016 \| 103 comments
15.		Ask HN: Learning to code, without a computer?
		205 points by givinguflac on Oct 8, 2016 \| 185 comments
16.		U.S. pressed to disclose secret court's order on Yahoo email search (reuters.com)
		138 points by mikecarlton on Oct 8, 2016 \| 14 comments
17.		Latency numbers every programmer should know (2012) (gist.github.com)
		224 points by okket on Oct 8, 2016 \| 42 comments
18.		Show HN: Live control a robot running around my house (runmyrobot.com)
		162 points by tkl on Oct 8, 2016 \| 32 comments
19.		CIA ‘Siren Servers’ can predict social uprisings 3-5 days in advance (sociable.co)
		160 points by andrewke on Oct 8, 2016 \| 91 comments
20.		Szl, a Tcl-inspired embeddable language (github.com/dimkr)
		65 points by dimkr1 on Oct 8, 2016 \| 19 comments
21.		Quora has blocked me because it doesn't think Theodore Ts'o is my real name (plus.google.com)
		213 points by dredmorbius on Oct 8, 2016 \| 143 comments
22.		Eagle: Tcl interpreter implemented in CLR (eagle.to)
		80 points by blacksqr on Oct 8, 2016 \| 33 comments
23.		How should mathematics be taught to non-mathematicians? (2012) (gowers.wordpress.com)
		141 points by poindontcare on Oct 8, 2016 \| 86 comments
24.		Platform as a Service team takes even-handed approach to meetings (gds.blog.gov.uk)
		54 points by idlemind on Oct 7, 2016 \| 36 comments
25.		PDB – ANSI-C to PostScript compiler (1993) (iecc.com)
		58 points by 1ris on Oct 8, 2016 \| 11 comments
26.		Quantum Tokens for Digital Signatures (arxiv.org)
		43 points by CapitalistCartr on Oct 7, 2016 \| 6 comments
27.		WoSign Incidents Report Update [pdf] (wosign.com)
		113 points by xnyhps on Oct 8, 2016 \| 74 comments
28.		On the Analogy Between Mind/Brain and Software/Hardware (1992) (massline.org)
		40 points by wsgeorge on Oct 8, 2016 \| 34 comments
29.		Refusal to recognize the rise of independent contractors is hurting the economy (techcrunch.com)
		111 points by endswapper on Oct 8, 2016 \| 146 comments
30.		How the CIA Watched Over the Destruction of Gary Webb (2014) (theintercept.com)
		137 points by iamjeff on Oct 8, 2016 \| 44 comments
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