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1.		Victory for Net Neutrality in Europe (juliareda.eu)
		547 points by jrepin on Aug 30, 2016 \| 174 comments
2.		Google Takes on Uber with New Ride-Share Service (wsj.com)
		596 points by coloneltcb on Aug 30, 2016 \| 461 comments
3.		SEC awards $22M to Monsanto whistleblower (reuters.com)
		285 points by rch on Aug 30, 2016 \| 119 comments
4.		AWS S3 open source alternative written in Go (minio.io)
		405 points by krishnasrinivas on Aug 30, 2016 \| 131 comments
5.		Jessica Livingston: How to Build the Future (ycombinator.com)
		290 points by sama on Aug 30, 2016 \| 84 comments
6.		Infrastructure for Deep Learning (openai.com)
		278 points by yigitdemirag on Aug 30, 2016 \| 67 comments
7.		Paddle: Baidu's open source deep learning framework (github.com/baidu)
		230 points by thinxer on Aug 30, 2016 \| 19 comments
8.		Gonorrhea Is Becoming Untreatable, U.N. Health Officials Warn (npr.org)
		212 points by bootload on Aug 30, 2016 \| 183 comments
9.		Chinese CA WoSign faces revocation after possibly issuing fake certificates (percya.com)
		272 points by tombrossman on Aug 30, 2016 \| 110 comments
10.		FSU research team makes Zika drug breakthrough (fsu.edu)
		147 points by nikunjk on Aug 30, 2016 \| 21 comments
11.		Google+ Redesigned (plus.google.com)
		194 points by uptown on Aug 30, 2016 \| 273 comments
12.		Born to Rest (harvardmagazine.com)
		153 points by paulpauper on Aug 30, 2016 \| 149 comments
13.		California bans ITT tech from accepting new students (latimes.com)
		293 points by emeraldd on Aug 30, 2016 \| 312 comments
14.		Facebook recommended that a psychiatrist’s patients friend each other (fusion.net)
		346 points by deep_attention on Aug 30, 2016 \| 220 comments
15.		Commission says Ireland granted undue tax benefits of up to €13B to Apple (rte.ie)
		417 points by Oletros on Aug 30, 2016 \| 419 comments
16.		Doc2text – Detect text blocks and OCR poorly scanned PDFs in bulk (github.com/jlsutherland)
		161 points by jlsutherland on Aug 30, 2016 \| 19 comments
17.		A Brief History of the College Textbook Pricing Racket (atlasobscura.com)
		137 points by yitchelle on Aug 30, 2016 \| 93 comments
18.		“Baffling” “signal” “from HD 164595” is probably none of the above (setiathome.berkeley.edu)
		234 points by dak1 on Aug 30, 2016 \| 41 comments
19.		The CIA’s Venture-Capital Firm, Like Its Sponsor, Operates in the Shadows (wsj.com)
		104 points by petethomas on Aug 30, 2016 \| 41 comments
20.		Former Sequoia partners: The Midwest is the future of startups (venturebeat.com)
		175 points by vollmarj on Aug 30, 2016 \| 260 comments
21.		Startup accused of scamming employees scrubs its online presence (techcrunch.com)
		208 points by smb06 on Aug 30, 2016 \| 52 comments
22.		The Greater Honeyguide, a Bird That Understands Humans (audubon.org)
		92 points by breitling on Aug 29, 2016 \| 11 comments
23.		Talk of a Split from Docker (thenewstack.io)
		323 points by iamthemuffinman on Aug 30, 2016 \| 204 comments
24.		Decoupled Neural Interfaces Using Synthetic Gradients (deepmind.com)
		130 points by yigitdemirag on Aug 29, 2016 \| 26 comments
25.		Browser Bloat (1996) (miken.com)
		118 points by laktak on Aug 29, 2016 \| 82 comments
26.		Hardening Compiler Flags for NixOS (mayflower.de)
		113 points by ivank on Aug 30, 2016 \| 32 comments
27.		Hacked: Investigating an Intrusion on My Server (frantzmiccoli.com)
		100 points by frantzmiccoli on Aug 29, 2016 \| 36 comments
28.		Ruminations on D: An Interview with Walter Bright (dlang.org)
		156 points by Halienja on Aug 30, 2016 \| 78 comments
29.		Babili: An ES6+ aware minifier based on Babel (babeljs.io)
		94 points by hzoo on Aug 30, 2016 \| 44 comments
30.		Job Descriptions Should Be Better (professorbeekums.com)
		121 points by beekums on Aug 30, 2016 \| 65 comments
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