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1.		Disney Open Source (disney.github.io)
		558 points by craigkerstiens on Oct 17, 2016 \| 121 comments
2.		Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut' (bbc.co.uk)
		782 points by dharma1 on Oct 17, 2016 \| 1173 comments
3.		I Won $104M for Blowing the Whistle But Was the Only One Who Went to Jail (melmagazine.com)
		461 points by monsieurpng on Oct 17, 2016 \| 100 comments
4.		The VeraCrypt Audit Results (ostif.org)
		288 points by conductor on Oct 17, 2016 \| 92 comments
5.		Google May Be Stealing Mobile Traffic (alexkras.com)
		533 points by akras14 on Oct 17, 2016 \| 250 comments
6.		“If you get a C or lower, I’ll buy you a present” (nytimes.com)
		304 points by hypertexthero on Oct 17, 2016 \| 138 comments
7.		Why Your Next iPhone Won't Be Ceramic (atomicdelights.com)
		307 points by colinprince on Oct 17, 2016 \| 154 comments
8.		No Man’s Sky – Procedural Content (3dgamedevblog.com)
		236 points by Impossible on Oct 17, 2016 \| 160 comments
9.		Vim for Humans (vimebook.com)
		306 points by 0x54MUR41 on Oct 17, 2016 \| 240 comments
10.		Why Your Excellent Conference Talk Was Rejected (promptworks.com)
		251 points by promptworks on Oct 17, 2016 \| 117 comments
11.		WTF is a container? (techcrunch.com)
		366 points by kawera on Oct 17, 2016 \| 253 comments
12.		Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that helps battle impulsive procrastination (chrome.google.com)
		277 points by _lsjg on Oct 16, 2016 \| 122 comments
13.		China's Shenzhou 11 blasts off on space station mission (bbc.com)
		197 points by bing_dai on Oct 17, 2016 \| 113 comments
14.		Virus stole poison genes from black widow spider (bbc.com)
		202 points by kawera on Oct 17, 2016 \| 38 comments
15.		The Next Wave of Deep Learning Hardware Architectures (nextplatform.com)
		84 points by Katydid on Oct 17, 2016 \| 19 comments
16.		A Tour of Python’s Data Visualization Landscape, Including Ggplot and Altair (dansaber.wordpress.com)
		240 points by kawera on Oct 17, 2016 \| 36 comments
17.		In Investing, It’s When You Start and When You Finish (2011) (nytimes.com)
		181 points by Tomte on Oct 16, 2016 \| 149 comments
18.		Show HN: CSS ICON, an icon set crafted by pure CSS (cssicon.space)
		250 points by wentin on Oct 17, 2016 \| 67 comments
19.		Streaming Messages from Kafka into Redshift in Near Real-Time (yelp.com)
		104 points by shazeline on Oct 17, 2016 \| 10 comments
20.		How to Kill Antibiotic-Resistant ‘Superbugs’ Without Antibiotics (edgylabs.com)
		85 points by Parbeyjr on Oct 17, 2016 \| 37 comments
21.		Quantum computers: 10-fold boost in stability achieved (sciencebulletin.org)
		104 points by upen on Oct 17, 2016 \| 40 comments
22.		Milagro: Distributed Cryptosystem for Cloud Computing (apache.org)
		81 points by blopeur on Oct 17, 2016 \| 10 comments
23.		Samsung Foundry Announces 10nm SoC in Mass-Production (anandtech.com)
		90 points by desdiv on Oct 17, 2016 \| 26 comments
24.		Cheran: A town that threw out police, politicians and gangsters (bbc.com)
		123 points by kawera on Oct 17, 2016 \| 97 comments
25.		CoreOS and Redspread Join to Extend Kubernetes (coreos.com)
		127 points by philips on Oct 17, 2016 \| 12 comments
26.		A Harmony in Living: Happy families are indeed all alike (2011) (laphamsquarterly.org)
		56 points by pepys on Oct 16, 2016 \| 19 comments
27.		LightGBM – A fast, distributed, gradient boosting framework (github.com/microsoft)
		104 points by gwulf on Oct 17, 2016 \| 11 comments
28.		The Medieval Battle That Launched Modern English (getty.edu)
		76 points by diodorus on Oct 17, 2016 \| 33 comments
29.		Thanks for the memory: How cheap RAM changes computing (arstechnica.co.uk)
		98 points by rbanffy on Oct 17, 2016 \| 76 comments
30.		I Am Fully Capable of Entertaining Myself in Prison for Decades If Need Be (theintercept.com)
		275 points by gpresot on Oct 17, 2016 \| 115 comments
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