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1.		NSO Group's iPhone Zero-Days used against a UAE Human Rights Defender (citizenlab.org)
		1055 points by dropalltables on Aug 25, 2016 \| 242 comments
2.		“How do I choose not to share my account information with Facebook?” (whatsapp.com)
		539 points by SnaKeZ on Aug 25, 2016 \| 308 comments
3.		Amazon Vehicles (amazon.com)
		472 points by kjhughes on Aug 25, 2016 \| 246 comments
4.		Facebook AI Research Team Open Source DeepMask and SharpMask (facebook.com)
		366 points by natthub on Aug 25, 2016 \| 83 comments
5.		FreeNAS: Open Source Storage Operating System (freenas.org)
		275 points by phantom_oracle on Aug 25, 2016 \| 176 comments
6.		BlackBox (blackbox.cool)
		394 points by gregorymichael on Aug 25, 2016 \| 126 comments
7.		HackedThat: Breaking in to a hardened server via the back door (polynome.co)
		271 points by bradleybuda on Aug 25, 2016 \| 66 comments
8.		Use It Too Much and Lose It? The Effect of Working Hours on Cognitive Ability [pdf] (melbourneinstitute.com)
		179 points by analyst74 on Aug 25, 2016 \| 43 comments
9.		ITT is no longer allowed to enroll students who rely on federal loans and grants (washingtonpost.com)
		204 points by inputcoffee on Aug 25, 2016 \| 130 comments
10.		Arguments against JSON-driven development (okigiveup.net)
		257 points by afroisalreadyin on Aug 25, 2016 \| 294 comments
11.		How Startup Options and Ownership Work (a16z.com)
		254 points by lxm on Aug 25, 2016 \| 96 comments
12.		How to make Slack less bad for you (robertheaton.com)
		171 points by hardmath123 on Aug 25, 2016 \| 138 comments
13.		Using attrs for everything in Python (twistedmatrix.com)
		246 points by stavros on Aug 25, 2016 \| 101 comments
14.		What’s New in C# 7.0 (msdn.microsoft.com)
		322 points by runesoerensen on Aug 25, 2016 \| 268 comments
15.		Giant ‘Arrows’ Seen From Space Point to a Vanished World (nationalgeographic.com)
		202 points by Thevet on Aug 24, 2016 \| 49 comments
16.		Mezzano – An operating system written in Common Lisp (github.com/froggey)
		213 points by arm on Aug 25, 2016 \| 63 comments
17.		The Macaroni in ‘Yankee Doodle’ Is Not What You Think (atlasobscura.com)
		142 points by samclemens on Aug 24, 2016 \| 72 comments
18.		The One Second Dash (ridiculousfish.com)
		135 points by dmit on Aug 24, 2016 \| 18 comments
19.		How We Designed Our Interview Process (readme.io)
		144 points by gkoberger on Aug 25, 2016 \| 79 comments
20.		Language contains human biases, and so will machines trained on language corpora (freedom-to-tinker.com)
		124 points by r721 on Aug 24, 2016 \| 53 comments
21.		Massimo Pigliucci on Stoicism (fivebooks.com)
		87 points by magda_wang on Aug 24, 2016 \| 12 comments
22.		Learning from Imbalanced Classes (svds.com)
		108 points by bradaallen on Aug 25, 2016 \| 12 comments
23.		Scientists Watch Thoughts Form in the Brain (scientificamerican.com)
		165 points by Cozumel on Aug 25, 2016 \| 86 comments
24.		University of Chicago: ‘We Do Not Support So-Called Trigger Warnings’ (time.com)
		439 points by ourmandave on Aug 25, 2016 \| 422 comments
25.		Essential Electron (jlord.us)
		184 points by kawera on Aug 25, 2016 \| 114 comments
26.		ME Analyzer – Intel Engine Firmware Analysis Tool (github.com/platomav)
		80 points by walterbell on Aug 24, 2016 \| 13 comments
27.		How Parents Harnessed the Power of Social Media to Challenge EpiPen Prices (nytimes.com)
		72 points by pavornyoh on Aug 25, 2016 \| 90 comments
28.		The IBM System/360: the first modular, general-purpose computer (sourcegraph.com)
		105 points by lindax on Aug 25, 2016 \| 37 comments
29.		Bad predictions about the internet (newstatesman.com)
		78 points by prismatic on Aug 25, 2016 \| 59 comments
30.		Farming Invented Twice in the Middle East, Genomes Study Reveals (scientificamerican.com)
		61 points by benbreen on Aug 22, 2016 \| 26 comments
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