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1.		Trix: A rich text editor for everyday writing (github.com/basecamp)
		510 points by kqdreger on Oct 19, 2015 \| 130 comments
2.		Ogo, a new take on personal transportation (ogotechnology.com)
		588 points by prawn on Oct 19, 2015 \| 182 comments
3.		First chapter of Kernighan and Donovan's new Go book [pdf] (gopl.io)
		356 points by rexignis on Oct 19, 2015 \| 227 comments
4.		OpenSSH for Windows update (msdn.com)
		305 points by ghurlman on Oct 19, 2015 \| 138 comments
5.		MagicStack: Python syntax highlighter for Sublime Text and Atom (github.com/magicstack)
		130 points by 1st1 on Oct 19, 2015 \| 29 comments
6.		React Desktop – React UI Components for OS X El Capitan and Windows 10 (github.com/gabrielbull)
		207 points by dalailambda on Oct 18, 2015 \| 73 comments
7.		AngelList and Y Combinator Continue To Shake The Trees (semilshah.com)
		129 points by semilshah on Oct 19, 2015 \| 8 comments
8.		How Can We Achieve Age Diversity in Silicon Valley? (medium.com/backchannel)
		420 points by steven on Oct 19, 2015 \| 502 comments
9.		MariaDB 10.1 can do 1M queries per second (mariadb.org)
		154 points by bratao on Oct 19, 2015 \| 73 comments
10.		X-Ray Scans Expose Chip-And-Pin Card Hack (wired.com)
		185 points by miralabs on Oct 19, 2015 \| 118 comments
11.		Earliest Known Draft of King James Bible Is Found, Scholar Says (nytimes.com)
		106 points by samclemens on Oct 18, 2015 \| 104 comments
12.		Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone (mitadmissions.org)
		115 points by jimsojim on Oct 18, 2015 \| 13 comments
13.		Facebook iOS App Scrapes Your Clipboard? (un-excogitate.org)
		237 points by chillaxtian on Oct 19, 2015 \| 124 comments
14.		The Donut Hustle (theplayerstribune.com)
		214 points by zavulon on Oct 19, 2015 \| 47 comments
15.		Exterminate All Operating System Abstractions (1996) [pdf] (cs.berkeley.edu)
		99 points by vezzy-fnord on Oct 18, 2015 \| 48 comments
16.		A Little Gear That Could Reshape the Jet Engine (bloomberg.com)
		116 points by nether on Oct 19, 2015 \| 78 comments
17.		Qualys Security Advisory – LibreSSL (seclists.org)
		115 points by dfc on Oct 19, 2015 \| 85 comments
18.		Parkinson's patients 'walk and talk again' after receiving cancer drug in trial (independent.co.uk)
		112 points by AndrewDucker on Oct 19, 2015 \| 37 comments
19.		Beware “mathiness”: Algebra and data to reinforce ideological preconceptions (johnkay.com)
		89 points by nkurz on Oct 19, 2015 \| 69 comments
20.		Steel – Open-source command-line password manager (steelpasswordmanager.org)
		69 points by nvr82 on Oct 19, 2015 \| 43 comments
21.		Reader macros in Common Lisp (gist.github.com)
		80 points by wtbob on Oct 19, 2015 \| 34 comments
22.		iOS Apps Using Private APIs (sourcedna.com)
		195 points by tptacek on Oct 19, 2015 \| 79 comments
23.		Evolving Lacing Patterns for Bicycle Wheels (matsemann.com)
		131 points by alexggordon on Oct 19, 2015 \| 19 comments
24.		Memory Layouts for Binary Search – V2 (cglab.ca)
		83 points by nkurz on Oct 19, 2015 \| 10 comments
25.		Wikipedia is significantly amplifying the impact of Open Access publications (lse.ac.uk)
		101 points by lermontov on Oct 19, 2015 \| 3 comments
26.		Memory Is Holding Up the Moore's Law Progression of Processing Power (2014) (vice.com)
		46 points by apsec112 on Oct 19, 2015 \| 22 comments
27.		The venture capital business in Asia is beginning to rival that in North America (bloomberg.com)
		48 points by whitenoice on Oct 19, 2015 \| 12 comments
28.		Show HN: Microphone – Self-Announcing .NET Services on Top of Consul (github.com/rogeralsing)
		54 points by RogerAlsing on Oct 19, 2015 \| 6 comments
29.		Much of the technology in the NY subway hasn't been updated in over 100 years (businessinsider.com)
		102 points by dankohn1 on Oct 18, 2015 \| 90 comments
30.		Prohibition was primarily the work of one pressure group (vox.com)
		91 points by jsnider3 on Oct 19, 2015 \| 168 comments
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