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1.		The Dropbox hack is real (troyhunt.com)
		1313 points by joshschreuder on Aug 31, 2016 \| 539 comments
2.		Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard (facebook.com)
		819 points by jamesgpearce on Aug 31, 2016 \| 156 comments
3.		Rclone: rsync for cloud storage (rclone.org)
		467 points by dcu on Aug 31, 2016 \| 129 comments
4.		How a Japanese cucumber farmer is using deep learning and TensorFlow (cloud.google.com)
		423 points by karmel on Aug 31, 2016 \| 127 comments
5.		Amazon Launchpad for Startups (amazon.com)
		275 points by ankit84 on Aug 31, 2016 \| 82 comments
6.		Textures.js – SVG patterns for Data Visualization (riccardoscalco.github.io)
		359 points by iheredia on Aug 31, 2016 \| 32 comments
7.		France: Open Access Law Adopted (openaire.eu)
		266 points by okket on Aug 31, 2016 \| 57 comments
8.		Speech Is 3x Faster Than Typing for English and Mandarin on Mobile Devices (stanford.edu)
		175 points by rezist808 on Aug 31, 2016 \| 128 comments
9.		Stitch – A small Python library for writing reproducible reports in Markdown (pystitch.github.io)
		178 points by okket on Aug 31, 2016 \| 18 comments
10.		Google's login page accepts a vulnerable GET parameter (aidanwoods.com)
		325 points by ivank on Aug 31, 2016 \| 128 comments
11.		Robin Hood Hashing should be the default hash table implementation (2013) (sebastiansylvan.com)
		220 points by doomrobo on Aug 31, 2016 \| 53 comments
12.		Grateful Dead Fan Timothy Tyler Has Been Granted Clemency (liveforlivemusic.com)
		222 points by WhitneyLand on Aug 31, 2016 \| 211 comments
13.		Scientists find 3.7B-year-old fossil, oldest yet (phys.org)
		136 points by Cozumel on Aug 31, 2016 \| 39 comments
14.		SES-10 Launching to Orbit on SpaceX's Flight-Proven Falcon 9 Rocket (ses.com)
		200 points by loourr on Aug 31, 2016 \| 80 comments
15.		Olduse.net: a 30-year delayed Usenet feed (olduse.net)
		125 points by daveloyall on Aug 31, 2016 \| 33 comments
16.		Graduate Students, the Laborers of Academia (newyorker.com)
		115 points by jseliger on Aug 31, 2016 \| 91 comments
17.		Safe Retirement Spending Using TensorFlow (streeteye.com)
		180 points by RockyMcNuts on Aug 31, 2016 \| 76 comments
18.		Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari – How data will destroy human freedom (theguardian.com)
		100 points by jordn on Aug 31, 2016 \| 29 comments
19.		Pebble 4.0 Apps and Firmware Released (getpebble.com)
		137 points by PetitPrince on Aug 31, 2016 \| 73 comments
20.		Show HN: Use Meetup.com Data to Find Your Ideal City (cole-maclean.github.io)
		104 points by ponderingHplus on Aug 31, 2016 \| 34 comments
21.		The Story of the First Microprocessors (ieee.org)
		103 points by jonbaer on Aug 31, 2016 \| 20 comments
22.		PRU tips: Understanding the BeagleBone's built-in microcontrollers (righto.com)
		102 points by dwaxe on Aug 31, 2016 \| 37 comments
23.		Building a Scalable Postgres Metrics Backend Using the Citus Extension (citusdata.com)
		96 points by mmcgrana on Aug 31, 2016 \| 10 comments
24.		Record-Breaking Galaxy Cluster Discovered (nasa.gov)
		90 points by okket on Aug 30, 2016 \| 26 comments
25.		Raising Money Online – Advice for Startups (themacro.com)
		75 points by craigcannon on Aug 31, 2016 \| 18 comments
26.		A new algorithm for smoother 360 video viewing (facebook.com)
		119 points by jamesgpearce on Aug 31, 2016 \| 16 comments
27.		The story of how WoSign gave me an SSL certificate for GitHub (schrauger.com)
		153 points by schrauger on Aug 31, 2016 \| 25 comments
28.		On Two Views of Computation in Computer Science (pressron.wordpress.com)
		107 points by pron on Aug 31, 2016 \| 187 comments
29.		How Mathematicians Cut Cake (priceonomics.com)
		98 points by jonbaer on Aug 30, 2016 \| 43 comments
30.		[dupe] Dropbox employee’s password reuse led to theft of 60M+ user credentials (techcrunch.com)
		294 points by lxm on Aug 31, 2016 \| 101 comments
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