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1.		AT&T reaches deal to buy Time Warner for more than $80B (reuters.com)
		343 points by danm07 on Oct 22, 2016 \| 171 comments
2.		A Professor Who Was Right About Index Funds All Along (bloomberg.com)
		287 points by carlosgg on Oct 22, 2016 \| 213 comments
3.		When a Chinese PhD Student Meets a German Supervisor [pdf] (uni-konstanz.de)
		170 points by RainforestCx on Oct 22, 2016 \| 134 comments
4.		When Your Screen Breaks in the Himalayas (tombh.co.uk)
		229 points by tombh on Oct 22, 2016 \| 55 comments
5.		2017 Rust Roadmap (github.com/aturon)
		332 points by muizelaar on Oct 22, 2016 \| 197 comments
6.		Freeablo – An open-source Diablo engine (freeablo.org)
		247 points by bane on Oct 22, 2016 \| 28 comments
7.		Japan’s koseki system: dull, uncaring but efficient (japantimes.co.jp)
		222 points by Thevet on Oct 22, 2016 \| 123 comments
8.		1177 BC – The Year Civilization Collapsed [video] (youtube.com)
		280 points by dmlhllnd on Oct 22, 2016 \| 67 comments
9.		Show HN: TCP over sound on Android (github.com/quiet)
		179 points by brian-armstrong on Oct 21, 2016 \| 62 comments
10.		Netflix Denominator – Portably control DNS clouds using Java or bash (github.com/netflix)
		97 points by heavenlyhash on Oct 22, 2016 \| 13 comments
11.		A Cloud-Scale Acceleration Architecture: FPGAs in Microsoft’s Datacenters (microsoft.com)
		112 points by eDameXxX on Oct 21, 2016 \| 51 comments
12.		Simulating a Xerox Alto with the ContrAlto Simulator: Games and Smalltalk (righto.com)
		62 points by kens on Oct 22, 2016
13.		Using the KVM API (lwn.net)
		87 points by ingve on Oct 22, 2016 \| 8 comments
14.		Comparison with Other Frameworks (vuejs.org)
		256 points by wanderer42 on Oct 22, 2016 \| 147 comments
15.		Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving (nongnu.org)
		209 points by martianh on Oct 22, 2016 \| 91 comments
16.		Thousands of California soldiers forced to repay enlistment bonuses (latimes.com)
		250 points by ftrflyr on Oct 22, 2016 \| 143 comments
17.		Mirai Botnet Linked to Dyn DNS DDoS Attacks (flashpoint-intel.com)
		119 points by ashitlerferad on Oct 22, 2016 \| 106 comments
18.		GOST cryptography – Russian Federation’s cryptographic algorithms (cypherpunks.ru)
		84 points by stargrave on Oct 21, 2016 \| 65 comments
19.		How to Accept Over-Engineering for What It Really Is (medium.com/fagnerbrack)
		168 points by fagnerbrack on Oct 22, 2016 \| 108 comments
20.		ZMODEM (wikipedia.org)
		132 points by turrini on Oct 22, 2016 \| 99 comments
21.		LibVMI: virtual machine introspection (libvmi.com)
		90 points by ingve on Oct 22, 2016 \| 9 comments
22.		[dupe] Tardigrade protein helps human DNA withstand radiation (nature.com)
		133 points by based2 on Oct 22, 2016 \| 28 comments
23.		The Missing Link: Explaining ELF Static Linking, Semantically [pdf] (cam.ac.uk)
		61 points by ingve on Oct 22, 2016 \| 2 comments
24.		How to avoid runtime errors on drones using SPARK (2015) (adacore.com)
		53 points by 0srv on Oct 22, 2016 \| 23 comments
25.		Category Theory for the Working Hacker [video] (infoq.com)
		128 points by louthy on Oct 22, 2016 \| 40 comments
26.		GENUI Acquires Mechanical Keyboard Switch Maker CHERRY (legitreviews.com)
		62 points by hrez on Oct 22, 2016 \| 29 comments
27.		DNSChain – A blockchain-based DNS and HTTP server (github.com/okturtles)
		92 points by callaars on Oct 22, 2016 \| 15 comments
28.		How to Make a Computer Operating System (github.com/samypesse)
		143 points by hitr on Oct 22, 2016 \| 8 comments
29.		Optimizing .*: Details of Vectorization and Metaprogramming (juliabloggers.com)
		59 points by leephillips on Oct 22, 2016 \| 9 comments
30.		Aberfan: The mistake that cost a village its children (bbc.co.uk)
		131 points by Patient0 on Oct 22, 2016 \| 57 comments
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