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1.		Books Programmers Don't Really Read (2008) (billthelizard.com)
		375 points by jotto on Oct 14, 2016 \| 159 comments
2.		A single byte write opened a root execution exploit (haxx.se)
		320 points by adunk on Oct 14, 2016 \| 58 comments
3.		GitLab reinstates list of servers that have malware (about.gitlab.com)
		452 points by dwaxe on Oct 15, 2016 \| 93 comments
4.		Ask HN: How to get started with machine learning?
		950 points by georgehdd on Oct 15, 2016 \| 125 comments
5.		Using GPUs to Speed Through the 1.2B Record Taxi Dataset (mapd.com)
		203 points by jtsymonds on Oct 15, 2016 \| 47 comments
6.		How the Textsecure Protocol Works (alexkyte.me)
		153 points by LForLambda on Oct 15, 2016 \| 76 comments
7.		What has happened down here is the winds have changed (andrewgelman.com)
		325 points by mafribe on Oct 15, 2016 \| 176 comments
8.		Walmart Paid Its People More to Get Cleaner Stores and Higher Sales (nytimes.com)
		219 points by finid on Oct 15, 2016 \| 241 comments
9.		Operations for software developers for beginners (jvns.ca)
		154 points by ingve on Oct 15, 2016 \| 20 comments
10.		GitHub censored my research data (gwillem.gitlab.io)
		361 points by doctorshady on Oct 15, 2016 \| 192 comments
11.		Towards deep symbolic reinforcement learning (acolyer.org)
		130 points by mpweiher on Oct 15, 2016 \| 13 comments
12.		KiCad: A commitment to freedom (cern.ch)
		223 points by cheiVia0 on Oct 15, 2016 \| 83 comments
13.		The Ops Identity Crisis (susanjfowler.com)
		161 points by aberoham on Oct 15, 2016 \| 93 comments
14.		AmigaDOS Command Reference (amigaos.net)
		71 points by doener on Oct 14, 2016 \| 27 comments
15.		Maths becomes biology's magic number (bbc.co.uk)
		72 points by nmstoker on Oct 14, 2016 \| 36 comments
16.		Restoring YC's Xerox Alto day 10: New boards, running programs, mouse problems (righto.com)
		88 points by dwaxe on Oct 15, 2016 \| 13 comments
17.		Design and Implementation of a 256-Core BrainFuck Computer [pdf] (csail.mit.edu)
		125 points by Katydid on Oct 15, 2016 \| 104 comments
18.		Deep learning can debug biology (20n.com)
		119 points by saurabh20n on Oct 15, 2016 \| 11 comments
19.		Vanadium – Create distributed applications that can run anywhere (v.io)
		124 points by chuhnk on Oct 15, 2016 \| 50 comments
20.		C2 wiki closed for remodeling (c2.com)
		100 points by weinzierl on Oct 15, 2016 \| 68 comments
21.		Introducing Zaius, Google and Rackspace’s Open Server Running IBM Power9 (googleblog.com)
		116 points by kungfudoi on Oct 15, 2016 \| 24 comments
22.		Programming with Punched Cards (2005) [pdf] (columbia.edu)
		52 points by shubhamjain on Oct 15, 2016 \| 22 comments
23.		Windowing Systems by Example: 9 – Coup de Grace (trackze.ro)
		75 points by adamnemecek on Oct 15, 2016 \| 11 comments
24.		Sanic – Python 3.5+ web server that's written to go fast (github.com/channelcat)
		227 points by shakna on Oct 15, 2016 \| 69 comments
25.		Civ VI 'AI Battle Royale' on Twitch (civilization.com)
		79 points by sdebrule on Oct 14, 2016 \| 24 comments
26.		Inside the Secret Society of Wall Street's Top In-House Lawyers (bloomberg.com)
		74 points by geodel on Oct 15, 2016 \| 19 comments
27.		Mathematical Limits to Software Estimation (2013) (scribblethink.org)
		63 points by lifeisstillgood on Oct 15, 2016 \| 13 comments
28.		There is a blind spot in AI research (nature.com)
		98 points by _lm_ on Oct 15, 2016 \| 51 comments
29.		How to Use t-SNE Effectively (distill.pub)
		84 points by allenleee on Oct 15, 2016 \| 15 comments
30.		Span – An abstraction over all types of memory available to .NET programs (github.com/dotnet)
		103 points by gokhan on Oct 15, 2016 \| 17 comments
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