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1.		Researchers reach human parity in conversational speech recognition (blogs.microsoft.com)
		468 points by jonbaer on Oct 18, 2016 \| 155 comments
2.		Google Flights will now tell you when fares will increase (techcrunch.com)
		435 points by jonbaer on Oct 18, 2016 \| 163 comments
3.		How breakpoints are set (majantali.net)
		396 points by luu on Oct 18, 2016 \| 66 comments
4.		Phasing Out SHA-1 on the Public Web (blog.mozilla.org)
		197 points by kungfudoi on Oct 18, 2016 \| 101 comments
5.		The Government’s Addiction to ‘Secret Law’ (nytimes.com)
		426 points by af16090 on Oct 18, 2016 \| 153 comments
6.		Shame on Y Combinator (marco.org)
		1280 points by MattBearman on Oct 18, 2016 \| 1321 comments
7.		Air India Taking Advantage of Tailwinds (flightradar24.com)
		361 points by obi1kenobi on Oct 18, 2016 \| 130 comments
8.		Don’t let your anger persist (julian.com)
		312 points by julianshapiro on Oct 17, 2016 \| 165 comments
9.		Leo Beranek, an engineer who helped build Arpanet, has died (nytimes.com)
		290 points by sew on Oct 18, 2016 \| 29 comments
10.		Introducing Nomulus: an open source top-level domain name registry (googleblog.com)
		202 points by kungfudoi on Oct 18, 2016 \| 48 comments
11.		Node v6.9.0 (LTS) (nodejs.org)
		309 points by dabber on Oct 18, 2016 \| 90 comments
12.		Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Stealing Your Mobile Traffic” (alexkras.com)
		342 points by akras14 on Oct 18, 2016 \| 195 comments
13.		The Linux Foundation Unites the JavaScript Community for Open Web Development (js.foundation)
		265 points by fagnerbrack on Oct 18, 2016 \| 129 comments
14.		Apple hires CMU professor as director of AI research to smarten up Siri (techcrunch.com)
		170 points by doppp on Oct 17, 2016 \| 66 comments
15.		Virtual Forest (virtualforest.io)
		198 points by habi on Oct 18, 2016 \| 60 comments
16.		Deep work in practice: reimagining my workflow for radically less distraction (alexdenning.com)
		220 points by sevenironcows on Oct 18, 2016 \| 72 comments
17.		My observations during the explosion at Trinity (1945) (fermatslibrary.com)
		153 points by luisb on Oct 18, 2016 \| 46 comments
18.		Doudou Linux – For children from 2 to 12 years old (doudoulinux.org)
		168 points by _xcfe on Oct 18, 2016 \| 94 comments
19.		JDK 9 release schedule (java.net)
		159 points by erl on Oct 18, 2016 \| 160 comments
20.		Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds (bloomberg.com)
		273 points by antouank on Oct 18, 2016 \| 396 comments
21.		Scrypt is Maximally Memory-Hard (iacr.org)
		147 points by cperciva on Oct 18, 2016 \| 74 comments
22.		Fusion – One-stop prototyping service for PCBs (seeedstudio.com)
		130 points by elijahparker on Oct 18, 2016 \| 52 comments
23.		Mirai Botnets (level3.com)
		108 points by _jomo on Oct 18, 2016 \| 36 comments
24.		Show HN: Swip.js, a library to create multi device experiments (github.com/paulsonnentag)
		152 points by brackcurly on Oct 18, 2016 \| 17 comments
25.		Mercurial 4.0 Sprint Notes (groups.google.com)
		148 points by steveklabnik on Oct 18, 2016 \| 127 comments
26.		Awesome .NET – A collection of .NET libraries, tools, frameworks, and software (github.com/quozd)
		198 points by gk1 on Oct 18, 2016 \| 30 comments
27.		AI•ON: Artificial Intelligence Open Network (ai-on.org)
		151 points by cocoflunchy on Oct 18, 2016 \| 17 comments
28.		Postgres Count Performance (citusdata.com)
		153 points by rdegges on Oct 18, 2016 \| 31 comments
29.		Lego-Like Wall Produces Acoustic Holograms (sciencebulletin.org)
		55 points by upen on Oct 17, 2016 \| 5 comments
30.		Dropping Linux capabilities to improve container security (redhat.com)
		175 points by cheiVia0 on Oct 18, 2016 \| 52 comments
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