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1.		Earth on AWS – Open geospatial data (amazon.com)
		663 points by thecodeboy on Nov 5, 2017 \| 89 comments
2.		Does anyone remember websites? (tttthis.com)
		895 points by dfps on Nov 5, 2017 \| 365 comments
3.		Alpha Go Zero: How and Why It Works (hibal.org)
		354 points by Mageek on Nov 4, 2017 \| 109 comments
4.		Craniopagus Twins Share a Brain and See Out of Each Others Eyes (cbc.ca)
		355 points by Osiris30 on Nov 5, 2017 \| 141 comments
5.		Profiling Go (integralist.co.uk)
		167 points by 0x4542 on Nov 4, 2017 \| 8 comments
6.		28-year-old makes millions buying from Walmart, selling on Amazon (msn.com)
		392 points by kolbe on Nov 5, 2017 \| 193 comments
7.		Strategy: How to Develop, Structure and Shape a Winning System (chrisbolman.com)
		224 points by bolmn on Nov 5, 2017 \| 29 comments
8.		“One Damn Slide After Another”: PowerPoint at Every Occasion for Speech (2016) (computationalculture.net)
		187 points by panic on Nov 5, 2017 \| 109 comments
9.		Lessons of an MIT Education (tamu.edu)
		355 points by funkylexoo on Nov 5, 2017 \| 247 comments
10.		How Netflix works: the stuff that happens when you hit Play (medium.com/refraction-tech-everything)
		195 points by sds111 on Nov 5, 2017 \| 57 comments
11.		Fengari: Lua for the Browser (fengari.io)
		97 points by mabynogy on Nov 4, 2017 \| 27 comments
12.		If you type the letter “i” and it autocorrects to an “A” with a symbol (support.apple.com)
		270 points by doxinho on Nov 5, 2017 \| 249 comments
13.		Paradise Papers: New leak from offshore finance firm (icij.org)
		647 points by _abnl on Nov 5, 2017 \| 432 comments
14.		Show HN: GAN Playground – Play with Generative Adversarial Neural Nets In-Browser (reiinakano.github.io)
		97 points by reiinakano on Nov 5, 2017 \| 14 comments
15.		A man who built a plane on his Mumbai rooftop (bbc.com)
		139 points by dnyanesh on Nov 5, 2017 \| 52 comments
16.		Critical and Significant Dates (2013) (skeena.net)
		47 points by Tomte on Nov 4, 2017 \| 3 comments
17.		Show HN: PySchemes – A library for validating data structures in Python (github.com/shivylp)
		94 points by shivaprasad on Nov 5, 2017 \| 34 comments
18.		Guy Fawkes night’s oddest traditions are due to a 1606 law (2014) (theconversation.com)
		98 points by pepys on Nov 5, 2017 \| 51 comments
19.		Lightmod – A beginner-friendly, all-in-one tool for full stack Clojure (sekao.net)
		152 points by malloryerik on Nov 5, 2017 \| 25 comments
20.		Hunting Mushrooms, and What Makes Some Glow in the Dark (nytimes.com)
		55 points by DrScump on Nov 4, 2017 \| 28 comments
21.		Facebook and Google Are Actually Net States. And They Rule the World (wired.com)
		149 points by kensai on Nov 5, 2017 \| 35 comments
22.		The Dramatically Different World of ’70s Dating Ads (atlasobscura.com)
		95 points by pepys on Nov 4, 2017 \| 19 comments
23.		Pentagon Releases Marine General Held at Guantanamo (wsj.com)
		94 points by JumpCrisscross on Nov 5, 2017 \| 50 comments
24.		Funding Open Source: How Webpack Reached $400k+/year (medium.com/open-collective)
		118 points by naspeh on Nov 5, 2017 \| 58 comments
25.		Cosmic radiation exposure and persistent cognitive dysfunction (nature.com)
		64 points by pwg on Nov 5, 2017 \| 36 comments
26.		Slovenia's love affair with a salamander (2016) (newyorker.com)
		50 points by bryanrasmussen on Nov 5, 2017 \| 1 comment
27.		Gut Microbes Can Shape Responses to Cancer Immunotherapy (scientificamerican.com)
		84 points by daegloe on Nov 5, 2017 \| 10 comments
28.		Go at Digital Ocean (speakerdeck.com)
		189 points by dcu on Nov 5, 2017 \| 103 comments
29.		Ask HN: How do you manage multiple learning projects?
		161 points by jansho on Nov 5, 2017 \| 78 comments
30.		Visiting Lord's Bridge: The Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory Near Cambridge (vla22.dreamwidth.org)
		25 points by fanf2 on Nov 5, 2017 \| 5 comments
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