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1.		Watsi launches universal health coverage, funded by YC Research (watsi.org)
		564 points by chaseadam17 on Sept 4, 2017 \| 281 comments
2.		Writing a SQLite clone from scratch in C (cstack.github.io)
		574 points by ingve on Sept 4, 2017 \| 146 comments
3.		Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper (scientificamerican.com)
		451 points by ph0rque on Sept 4, 2017 \| 356 comments
4.		The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris (dtrace.org)
		485 points by elvinyung on Sept 4, 2017 \| 267 comments
5.		“Google: it is time to return to not being evil” (vivaldi.com)
		739 points by _lbaq on Sept 4, 2017 \| 237 comments
6.		Tell me what your company does (medium.com/kasperkubica)
		478 points by HappyKasper on Sept 4, 2017 \| 189 comments
7.		Lessons I Wish I Had Learned Before Teaching Differential Equations (1997) [pdf] (williams.edu)
		308 points by capocannoniere on Sept 3, 2017 \| 108 comments
8.		HomeBrew Analytics – top 1000 packages installed over last year (brew.sh)
		318 points by sairamkunala on Sept 3, 2017 \| 165 comments
9.		Z3 – The Zork CPU (opencores.org)
		167 points by mnem on Sept 4, 2017 \| 11 comments
10.		TLS in Linux 4.13 kernel (github.com/torvalds)
		231 points by agumonkey on Sept 3, 2017 \| 57 comments
11.		Fish are eating lots of plastic (washingtonpost.com)
		181 points by petethomas on Sept 3, 2017 \| 114 comments
12.		The Story of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures Album Cover (2015) (scientificamerican.com)
		182 points by crawdog on Sept 4, 2017 \| 38 comments
13.		The N-Queens completion problem is NP-hard (atlasobscura.com)
		122 points by t23 on Sept 4, 2017 \| 49 comments
14.		Flat UI Elements Attract Less Attention and Cause Uncertainty (nngroup.com)
		354 points by nicc on Sept 4, 2017 \| 171 comments
15.		Binary data visualization (codisec.com)
		196 points by dmit on Sept 3, 2017 \| 26 comments
16.		16% of the code on the average site belongs to Facebook (medium.com/benregenspan)
		190 points by TazeTSchnitzel on Sept 4, 2017 \| 51 comments
17.		Introduction to HTML Components (mecheye.net)
		284 points by Jasper_ on Sept 4, 2017 \| 143 comments
18.		Ask HN: Resources for building a programming language?
		239 points by kevinSuttle on Sept 4, 2017 \| 83 comments
19.		Run your own OAuth2 server (ory.am)
		235 points by machete143 on Sept 4, 2017 \| 80 comments
20.		Pliny the Elder May Have Been Found 2,000 Years Later (haaretz.com)
		180 points by Cozumel on Sept 3, 2017 \| 38 comments
21.		Automated Crowdturfing Attacks and Defenses in Online Review Systems (arxiv.org)
		88 points by bartkappenburg on Sept 4, 2017 \| 21 comments
22.		A Japanese Pen Maker Anticipated the Fountain-Pen Renaissance (bloomberg.com)
		155 points by nlolks on Sept 4, 2017 \| 121 comments
23.		China's Central Bank Bans ICOs (techcrunch.com)
		326 points by hgdsraj on Sept 4, 2017 \| 373 comments
24.		Ask HN: What audio resources can improve my technical skills during my commute?
		200 points by bberrry on Sept 4, 2017 \| 93 comments
25.		Chinese Man Sentenced to Prison for Selling VPN Software (whatsonweibo.com)
		165 points by campuscodi on Sept 4, 2017 \| 62 comments
26.		Roll Your Own Bitcoin Exchange in Haskell (michaelburge.us)
		137 points by MichaelBurge on Sept 4, 2017 \| 10 comments
27.		HSBC is killing my business, piece by piece (medium.com/photonstorm)
		739 points by larsiusprime on Sept 4, 2017 \| 280 comments
28.		Learning Python Without Library Overload (chrisconlan.com)
		139 points by happy-go-lucky on Sept 4, 2017 \| 76 comments
29.		Bitcoin Tumbles as PBOC Declares Initial Coin Offerings Illegal (bloomberg.com)
		166 points by qu4ntumturk on Sept 4, 2017 \| 104 comments
30.		It’s time to balance the power between workers and employers (washingtonpost.com)
		215 points by stablemap on Sept 4, 2017 \| 208 comments
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