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1.		Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail (cpbotha.net)
		649 points by cpbotha on Aug 8, 2016 \| 365 comments
2.		Confirmed: Walmart buys Jet.com for $3B in cash (techcrunch.com)
		429 points by brandonlipman on Aug 8, 2016 \| 254 comments
3.		A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (2012) (acm.org)
		444 points by akkartik on Aug 8, 2016 \| 341 comments
4.		Image Kernels explained visually (setosa.io)
		363 points by phodo on Aug 8, 2016 \| 47 comments
5.		Street food chef's stall becomes world's first to earn Michelin star (mirror.co.uk)
		349 points by wallflower on Aug 7, 2016 \| 150 comments
6.		Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods (2013) (somethingsimilar.com)
		386 points by kiyanwang on Aug 8, 2016 \| 133 comments
7.		How my open source hobby project became my job: 10 years of OptaPlanner (optaplanner.org)
		246 points by ge0ffrey on Aug 7, 2016 \| 40 comments
8.		It’s hard work printing nothing (tedunangst.com)
		179 points by protomyth on Aug 8, 2016 \| 74 comments
9.		Quadrooter: New Vulnerabilities Affecting Over 900M Android Devices [pdf] (checkpoint.com)
		175 points by ge0rg on Aug 8, 2016 \| 124 comments
10.		Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift?
		360 points by schappim on Aug 7, 2016 \| 514 comments
11.		Why do CPUs have multiple cache levels? (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
		309 points by panic on Aug 8, 2016 \| 121 comments
12.		TLS Everywhere, not https: URIs (2015) (w3.org)
		207 points by schallertd on Aug 8, 2016 \| 91 comments
13.		Ecological Wealth of Nations (footprintnetwork.org)
		152 points by schallertd on Aug 8, 2016 \| 131 comments
14.		CuratedAI: A literary magazine written by machines, for people (curatedai.com)
		117 points by ryan_j_naughton on Aug 8, 2016 \| 23 comments
15.		Reverse Engineering Quadcopter Protocols (mmelchior.wordpress.com)
		95 points by DanBC on Aug 8, 2016 \| 6 comments
16.		How Teletext and Ceefax are coming back from the dead (techradar.com)
		122 points by ingve on Aug 8, 2016 \| 64 comments
17.		The Update Framework (theupdateframework.github.io)
		140 points by ashitlerferad on Aug 8, 2016 \| 30 comments
18.		Printable 1:24000 topographic maps for the entire US (natgeomaps.com)
		141 points by david-given on Aug 8, 2016 \| 37 comments
19.		Show HN: Publish blog post with a simple Git push (github.com/snehesht)
		96 points by snehesht on Aug 7, 2016 \| 63 comments
20.		Why I'm not a big fan of Scrum (okigiveup.net)
		483 points by keso on Aug 8, 2016 \| 380 comments
21.		Metropolis Algorithm and Bayesian posterior sampling (efavdb.com)
		84 points by efavdb on Aug 8, 2016 \| 14 comments
22.		Protecting Netflix Viewing Privacy at Scale (netflix.com)
		91 points by samber on Aug 8, 2016 \| 32 comments
23.		A New Explanation for One of the Strangest Occurrences in Nature: Ball Lightning (nautil.us)
		107 points by dnetesn on Aug 8, 2016 \| 52 comments
24.		The Magic Bureaucrat and His Riverside Miracle (99percentinvisible.org)
		80 points by jcbeard on Aug 8, 2016 \| 26 comments
25.		Fat Protocols (usv.com)
		66 points by jackgavigan on Aug 8, 2016 \| 15 comments
26.		Fear and Loathing in Linux, or Who Needs /etc/motd (2010) (archive.org)
		137 points by akkartik on Aug 8, 2016 \| 77 comments
27.		Vulnerability Update: libarchive (hardenedbsd.org)
		66 points by utternerd on Aug 8, 2016 \| 20 comments
28.		SSH with Facebook Auth (scaleft.com)
		51 points by rchiniquy on Aug 7, 2016 \| 17 comments
29.		Computing machinery and intelligence (1950) (loebner.net)
		75 points by drikerf on Aug 8, 2016 \| 13 comments
30.		Show HN: JSON.is (json.is)
		100 points by zackbloom on Aug 8, 2016 \| 57 comments
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