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1.		Spain Fines Facebook Over Tracking Users Without Consent (tomshardware.com)
		645 points by thg on Sept 14, 2017 \| 193 comments
2.		Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security (troyhunt.com)
		612 points by louis-paul on Sept 14, 2017 \| 305 comments
3.		Windows for Linux Nerds (jessfraz.com)
		615 points by geostyx on Sept 13, 2017 \| 381 comments
4.		I don’t know who the Web Audio API is designed for (mecheye.net)
		388 points by gulbanana on Sept 13, 2017 \| 178 comments
5.		Autonomous Robots Plant, Tend, and Harvest Entire Crop of Barley (ieee.org)
		348 points by bansheehash on Sept 13, 2017 \| 143 comments
6.		Building a working game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life (codegolf.stackexchange.com)
		512 points by Xophmeister on Sept 14, 2017 \| 46 comments
7.		Artificial Intelligence Uses Videogame Footage to Recreate Game Engine (gatech.edu)
		254 points by ingve on Sept 13, 2017 \| 63 comments
8.		Equihax (krypt3ia.wordpress.com)
		396 points by mzs on Sept 14, 2017 \| 202 comments
9.		MacOS 10.12.6 Source (opensource.apple.com)
		324 points by tosh on Sept 14, 2017 \| 218 comments
10.		There Are Only Four Billion Floats, So Test Them All (2014) (randomascii.wordpress.com)
		329 points by tosh on Sept 14, 2017 \| 50 comments
11.		S3 was down (amazon.com)
		359 points by rabidonrails on Sept 14, 2017 \| 176 comments
12.		Nestlé Takes Majority Stake in Blue Bottle (nytimes.com)
		188 points by joshcarr on Sept 14, 2017 \| 139 comments
13.		Organizers have unionized 5,000 contract workers at Apple, Facebook, Yahoo (bloomberg.com)
		295 points by spking on Sept 14, 2017 \| 438 comments
14.		Startup wants to build tools for lawyers to speed up legal services (washingtonpost.com)
		234 points by thelock85 on Sept 14, 2017 \| 101 comments
15.		How to compare two functions for equivalence, as in (λx.2*x) == (λx.x+x)? (stackoverflow.com)
		176 points by tosh on Sept 14, 2017 \| 63 comments
16.		A Peek Inside a 400G Cisco Network Chip (nextplatform.com)
		176 points by protomyth on Sept 14, 2017 \| 32 comments
17.		Java Reflection, 1000x Faster (norswap.com)
		139 points by norswap on Sept 13, 2017 \| 55 comments
18.		Managed SSL for Google App Engine (googleblog.com)
		162 points by lklig on Sept 14, 2017 \| 51 comments
19.		Polari: the dead language of gay British men (theconversation.com)
		165 points by Phithagoras on Sept 13, 2017 \| 68 comments
20.		The Man Behind Windows PowerShell (heavybit.com)
		167 points by sbrown12 on Sept 14, 2017 \| 128 comments
21.		Energy Efficiency Across Programming Languages (sites.google.com)
		188 points by foob on Sept 14, 2017 \| 139 comments
22.		Deprecated Linux networking commands and their replacements (dougvitale.wordpress.com)
		211 points by nailer on Sept 13, 2017 \| 64 comments
23.		Cassini's “Grand Finale” Will Be a Blaze of Glory (scientificamerican.com)
		140 points by okket on Sept 14, 2017 \| 51 comments
24.		Cost goals met, the DoE is moving on to address grid reliability in solar (arstechnica.com)
		166 points by vasili111 on Sept 14, 2017 \| 90 comments
25.		Wilson’s Algorithm (ocks.org)
		212 points by bemmu on Sept 14, 2017 \| 15 comments
26.		How Eve Players Pulled Off the Biggest Betrayal in Its History (kotaku.com)
		263 points by bdr on Sept 14, 2017 \| 182 comments
27.		Building the DOM faster: speculative parsing, async, defer and preload (hacks.mozilla.org)
		149 points by nachtigall on Sept 14, 2017 \| 20 comments
28.		InfluxDB now supports Prometheus remote reads and writes natively (influxdata.com)
		101 points by pauldix on Sept 14, 2017 \| 33 comments
29.		The Customization Curve (blog.ycombinator.com)
		78 points by janober on Sept 14, 2017 \| 29 comments
30.		Interesting commands for the Linux shell (lopezferrando.com)
		372 points by victorlf on Sept 14, 2017 \| 129 comments
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