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1.		Fake Linus Torvalds' Key Found in the Wild, No More Short-IDs (lkml.org)
		701 points by demiol on Aug 16, 2016 \| 127 comments
2.		Optimism (github.com/raganwald)
		617 points by finnigja on Aug 16, 2016 \| 160 comments
3.		Intel Licenses ARM Technology to Boost Foundry Business (bloomberg.com)
		317 points by shawkinaw on Aug 16, 2016 \| 119 comments
4.		Go 1.7 is released (golang.org)
		545 points by techietim on Aug 15, 2016 \| 133 comments
5.		Sam Altman talks with Mark Zuckerberg about how to build the future [video] (themacro.com)
		341 points by jameshk on Aug 16, 2016 \| 250 comments
6.		Looking at your program’s structure in Go 1.7 (pauladamsmith.com)
		238 points by tptacek on Aug 16, 2016 \| 53 comments
7.		Colorized man pages (boredzo.org)
		358 points by ingve on Aug 16, 2016 \| 98 comments
8.		Pesticide link to long-term wild bee decline in 18 year study (bbc.co.uk)
		191 points by chestnut-tree on Aug 16, 2016 \| 99 comments
9.		Nanorobots That Can Travel Down the Bloodstream and Precisely Target Tumors (sciencenewsjournal.com)
		204 points by azazqadir on Aug 16, 2016 \| 88 comments
10.		Twitch is acquiring popular video game community and software maker Curse (techcrunch.com)
		166 points by rch on Aug 16, 2016 \| 103 comments
11.		Google Duo, a simple 1-to-1 video calling app (googleblog.blogspot.com)
		311 points by thm on Aug 16, 2016 \| 364 comments
12.		Dropbox Is in Talks with Advisers for Possible 2017 IPO (bloomberg.com)
		167 points by surement on Aug 16, 2016 \| 174 comments
13.		The traits of a proficient programmer (oreilly.com)
		305 points by kiyanwang on Aug 16, 2016 \| 136 comments
14.		Age differences in learning from an insufficient representation of uncertainty (nature.com)
		200 points by danieltillett on Aug 16, 2016 \| 88 comments
15.		The SEC has temporarily halted trading of Neuromama Ltd. (bloomberg.com)
		175 points by peterjliu on Aug 15, 2016 \| 132 comments
16.		This Is Your Life in Silicon Valley (medium.com/subes01)
		480 points by jaytaylor on Aug 16, 2016 \| 173 comments
17.		How America Converted Its 1980 Olympic Village into a Prison (atlasobscura.com)
		146 points by thisjustinm on Aug 16, 2016 \| 82 comments
18.		Correcting Intel's Deep Learning Benchmark Mistakes (nvidia.com)
		141 points by Smerity on Aug 16, 2016 \| 37 comments
19.		A Magnetic Wormhole (2015) (nature.com)
		106 points by jotux on Aug 16, 2016 \| 72 comments
20.		Ideas for getting started in the Linux kernel (labbott.name)
		207 points by ashitlerferad on Aug 16, 2016 \| 45 comments
21.		Higher-order abstract syntax (wikipedia.org)
		76 points by adamnemecek on Aug 16, 2016 \| 19 comments
22.		Show HN: New time and daylight application (chronozone.xyz)
		150 points by dassreis on Aug 16, 2016 \| 34 comments
23.		Debian turns 23 (debian.org)
		271 points by fcambus on Aug 16, 2016 \| 52 comments
24.		Intro to Multicriteria Optimization (sigopt.com)
		69 points by Zephyr314 on Aug 16, 2016 \| 44 comments
25.		Scientists found Zenkerella, one of the most ancient and mysterious mammals (washingtonpost.com)
		77 points by stanleydrew on Aug 16, 2016 \| 22 comments
26.		How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions? (ssrn.com)
		77 points by Dowwie on Aug 15, 2016 \| 27 comments
27.		Snowden: Hack of an NSA server is not unprecedented, publication of the take is (twitter.com/snowden)
		387 points by ajdlinux on Aug 16, 2016 \| 229 comments
28.		The Power of Company Mottoes (mondaynote.com)
		47 points by jcurbo on Aug 15, 2016 \| 16 comments
29.		The Confusion of Variational Autoencoders (jaan.io)
		52 points by jaan on Aug 15, 2016 \| 11 comments
30.		OpenAI Team Update (openai.com)
		86 points by jakozaur on Aug 16, 2016 \| 14 comments
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