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1.		Volkswagen’s Diesel Fraud Makes Critic of Secret Code a Prophet (nytimes.com)
		474 points by nkurz on Sept 24, 2015 \| 227 comments
2.		Give Google Contributor a try: Pay to remove ads (mattcutts.com)
		549 points by espadrine on Sept 24, 2015 \| 453 comments
3.		Glowforge launches consumer-grade laser cutter (glowforge.com)
		493 points by mlmilleratmit on Sept 24, 2015 \| 205 comments
4.		John Carmack on Developing the Netflix App for Oculus (netflix.com)
		345 points by vquemener on Sept 24, 2015 \| 157 comments
5.		Crystal, iOS ad blocker, to accept money to let ads through (wsj.com)
		306 points by NN88 on Sept 24, 2015 \| 193 comments
6.		Reasons to love SQLAlchemy (pajhome.org.uk)
		188 points by edward on Sept 24, 2015 \| 99 comments
7.		Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus uses less memory (venturebeat.com)
		249 points by devNoise on Sept 24, 2015 \| 117 comments
8.		Oculus’ New $99 Samsung Gear VR Makes Serious Virtual Reality Affordable (techcrunch.com)
		166 points by tksohishi on Sept 24, 2015 \| 101 comments
9.		Goodbye, Native Mobile Apps (atavist.com)
		240 points by johnzimmerman on Sept 24, 2015 \| 127 comments
10.		How much of your audience is fake? (bloomberg.com)
		166 points by fauigerzigerk on Sept 24, 2015 \| 92 comments
11.		Years You Have Left to Live, Probably (flowingdata.com)
		230 points by ingve on Sept 24, 2015 \| 84 comments
12.		Cyber Sleuths Track Hacker to China’s Military (wsj.com)
		104 points by vinnyglennon on Sept 24, 2015 \| 51 comments
13.		The brains of lonely people respond more negatively to social stimuli (wsj.com)
		140 points by acsillag on Sept 24, 2015 \| 98 comments
14.		The Cost Of Interruptions: They Waste More Time Than You Think (npr.org)
		138 points by evilsimon on Sept 24, 2015 \| 49 comments
15.		The $9 CHIP Computer Is Shipping (makezine.com)
		157 points by dcschelt on Sept 24, 2015 \| 53 comments
16.		Vim setup for Go (github.com/fatih)
		130 points by hit8run on Sept 24, 2015 \| 33 comments
17.		Why I’m not enabling Bitcode (medium.com/fredericjacobs)
		123 points by sinak on Sept 24, 2015 \| 90 comments
18.		Don't expose the docker socket, even to a container (lvh.io)
		133 points by lvh on Sept 24, 2015 \| 101 comments
19.		Perplexing Pluto: New ‘Snakeskin’ Image and More from New Horizons (nasa.gov)
		95 points by r721 on Sept 24, 2015 \| 13 comments
20.		Django 1.9 alpha 1 released (djangoproject.com)
		156 points by tweakz on Sept 24, 2015 \| 106 comments
21.		A first look at the OS the Chinese government wants to replace Windows (qz.com)
		114 points by bane on Sept 24, 2015 \| 78 comments
22.		The prisoners fighting wildfires in California (bbc.co.uk)
		92 points by darrhiggs on Sept 24, 2015 \| 43 comments
23.		More Startup Metrics (a16z.com)
		96 points by dshankar on Sept 24, 2015 \| 2 comments
24.		Bell inequality violation finally done right (scottaaronson.com)
		109 points by rvern on Sept 24, 2015 \| 46 comments
25.		NZ Flag Referendum – Pseudorandom Numbers in Legislation (notstatschat.tumblr.com)
		70 points by polemic on Sept 24, 2015 \| 19 comments
26.		Obama administration quietly explored ways to bypass smartphone encryption (washingtonpost.com)
		194 points by apawloski on Sept 24, 2015 \| 123 comments
27.		Forecasting is a talent – luckily it can be learned (economist.com)
		44 points by edward on Sept 24, 2015 \| 35 comments
28.		Deal allowing tech companies to transfer data between US and EU is invalid (arstechnica.com)
		49 points by Atlas on Sept 23, 2015 \| 14 comments
29.		USS Robin – A Victorious U.S. Carrier That Didn’t Exist (armchairgeneral.com)
		67 points by vinnyglennon on Sept 24, 2015 \| 14 comments
30.		Show HN: MIDI.space – WebMIDI and Audio Mashup for Finger Drumming (midi.space)
		50 points by mustardamus on Sept 23, 2015 \| 8 comments
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