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1.		Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video] (spacex.com)
		2123 points by tilt on Sept 27, 2016 \| 1046 comments
2.		Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp Users in Germany (nytimes.com)
		658 points by mh-cx on Sept 27, 2016 \| 427 comments
3.		Leaflet 1.0 – A JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps (leafletjs.com)
		628 points by freyfogle on Sept 27, 2016 \| 99 comments
4.		YouTube Go: YouTube reimagined for the next generation of YouTube viewers (googleblog.com)
		338 points by scommab on Sept 27, 2016 \| 212 comments
5.		Patent troll tales: Lee Cheng, Newegg (unpatent.co)
		311 points by izqui on Sept 27, 2016 \| 170 comments
6.		First 'three person baby' born using new method (bbc.co.uk)
		206 points by _airh on Sept 27, 2016 \| 175 comments
7.		Realm Mobile Platform – Realtime Sync Plus Fully Open Source Database (realm.io)
		222 points by mlschmitt23 on Sept 27, 2016 \| 75 comments
8.		Google’s Neural Machine Translation System (arxiv.org)
		236 points by fitzwatermellow on Sept 27, 2016 \| 97 comments
9.		Why I'm Not a React Native Developer (arielelkin.github.io)
		362 points by nootopian on Sept 27, 2016 \| 307 comments
10.		Show HN: An Open Retro RPG Game Maker in Python (github.com/ericoporto)
		215 points by a1o on Sept 27, 2016 \| 27 comments
11.		Guy Sims Fitch, a Fake Writer Invented by the US Government (gizmodo.com)
		152 points by lermontov on Sept 27, 2016 \| 40 comments
12.		Proof without words: Cubes and Squares (fermatslibrary.com)
		143 points by luisb on Sept 27, 2016 \| 30 comments
13.		Evidence That Computer Science Grades Are Not Bimodal [pdf] (toronto.edu)
		146 points by moyix on Sept 27, 2016 \| 140 comments
14.		Requests for Startups Refreshed (blog.ycombinator.com)
		175 points by craigcannon on Sept 27, 2016 \| 125 comments
15.		Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS (groups.google.com)
		271 points by bpierre on Sept 27, 2016 \| 330 comments
16.		FreeRTOS meets Rust (hashmismatch.net)
		157 points by cpeterso on Sept 27, 2016 \| 12 comments
17.		Show HN: I built a MySQL storage engine which is InnoDB compatible (upscaledb.com)
		106 points by cruppstahl on Sept 27, 2016 \| 30 comments
18.		Microsoft and Bank of America collaborate with Azure Blockchain as a Service (news.microsoft.com)
		131 points by spydum on Sept 27, 2016 \| 70 comments
19.		A novel brewing process via controlled hydrodynamic cavitation (arxiv.org)
		116 points by 1_listerine_pls on Sept 27, 2016 \| 33 comments
20.		Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications (2010) (szeliski.org)
		112 points by kercker on Sept 27, 2016 \| 21 comments
21.		Show HN: Printed Books from WhatsApp with Python and LaTeX (beckman.io)
		114 points by bkmn on Sept 26, 2016 \| 28 comments
22.		[dupe] How OpenGL works: software rendering in 500 lines of code (github.com/ssloy)
		133 points by WoodenChair on Sept 26, 2016 \| 11 comments
23.		People who can’t afford Teslas are using car-sharing networks to pay for them (qz.com)
		119 points by lxm on Sept 27, 2016 \| 97 comments
24.		Essentials of Standard ML Modules (1996) [pdf] (psu.edu)
		92 points by eatonphil on Sept 27, 2016 \| 11 comments
25.		Mercury found to be tectonically active (nasa.gov)
		134 points by azazqadir on Sept 27, 2016 \| 45 comments
26.		32 Years of Metafont [pdf] (stanford.edu)
		96 points by taeric on Sept 26, 2016 \| 19 comments
27.		Is developer compensation becoming bimodal? (danluu.com)
		271 points by ingve on Sept 27, 2016 \| 299 comments
28.		Axial stack battery design could unlock the era of supersonic electric airliners (newatlas.com)
		86 points by adius on Sept 27, 2016 \| 104 comments
29.		Announcing Azure Command-Line Interface 2.0 Preview (azure.microsoft.com)
		174 points by itaysk on Sept 27, 2016 \| 159 comments
30.		What HP Must Do to Make Amends for Its Self-Destructing Printers (eff.org)
		230 points by CapitalistCartr on Sept 27, 2016 \| 170 comments
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