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1.		Baby Steps: Slowly Porting Musl to Rust (adamperry.me)
		287 points by pygy_ on June 12, 2016 \| 176 comments
2.		A Simple Content-Based Recommendation Engine in Python (untrod.com)
		139 points by numlocked on June 11, 2016 \| 9 comments
3.		The End of Reflection (nytimes.com)
		177 points by kawera on June 12, 2016 \| 123 comments
4.		All the lonely people (ucobserver.org)
		307 points by miraj on June 12, 2016 \| 199 comments
5.		‘Worms’ or bust: Britain’s most tenacious indie games company (arstechnica.com)
		129 points by doppp on June 12, 2016 \| 51 comments
6.		Implementing your own recommender systems in Python (cambridgecoding.com)
		211 points by DrLegend on June 12, 2016 \| 24 comments
7.		Why not string theory? Because enough is enough (backreaction.blogspot.com)
		189 points by Santosh83 on June 11, 2016 \| 117 comments
8.		Overview of Running an Online Game for 3 Years (hookrace.net)
		197 points by def- on June 10, 2016 \| 35 comments
9.		Online ambient atmosphere generator for roleplay games (defonic.ovh)
		139 points by lanerea on June 12, 2016 \| 32 comments
10.		Open-source geo is really something right now (postlight.com)
		128 points by japhyr on June 12, 2016 \| 14 comments
11.		Natural Language for Developers (wit.ai)
		183 points by Perados on June 12, 2016 \| 56 comments
12.		Image Dithering: Eleven Algorithms and Source Code (tannerhelland.com)
		199 points by nkron on June 12, 2016 \| 61 comments
13.		Distributed Systems in Haskell (yager.io)
		171 points by philippelh on June 12, 2016 \| 18 comments
14.		Walmart Canada stops accepting Visa cards (walmartcanada.ca)
		274 points by jackgavigan on June 12, 2016 \| 324 comments
15.		Snowden reveals GCHQ spy programme with link to Scottish police (thenational.scot)
		245 points by ghosh on June 12, 2016 \| 63 comments
16.		Toronto is poised to become a producer of tech startups (techcrunch.com)
		205 points by jonathanehrlich on June 12, 2016 \| 286 comments
17.		A SoundCloud client in React and Redux (robinwieruch.de)
		253 points by rwieruch on June 12, 2016 \| 69 comments
18.		Introducing Runway, a distributed systems design tool (medium.com/salesforce-open-source)
		153 points by adamnemecek on June 12, 2016 \| 10 comments
19.		Building a SuperH-compatible CPU from scratch [video] (youtube.com)
		102 points by jsnell on June 12, 2016 \| 24 comments
20.		How to spy on a Ruby program (jvns.ca)
		229 points by bartbes on June 12, 2016 \| 27 comments
21.		Perceptrons – the most basic form of a neural network (appliedgo.net)
		116 points by kawera on June 12, 2016 \| 19 comments
22.		Thoughts on Algolia vs. Solr and Elasticsearch (opensourceconnections.com)
		101 points by softwaredoug on June 10, 2016 \| 32 comments
23.		Machine learning for financial prediction (robotwealth.com)
		214 points by Matetricks on June 12, 2016 \| 82 comments
24.		Why do they love electric cars in Norway? (bbc.co.uk)
		78 points by m-i-l on June 10, 2016 \| 77 comments
25.		Backpropagation explicitly showing all the calculations for a full sized network [pdf] (archive.org)
		67 points by mkagenius on June 12, 2016 \| 1 comment
26.		Feck: Swearing from the first F to the 21st C (irishtimes.com)
		63 points by diodorus on June 12, 2016 \| 13 comments
27.		BFD (Bidirectional Forwarding Detection) in OpenBSD [pdf] (openbsd.org)
		70 points by notaplumber on June 12, 2016 \| 14 comments
28.		Go stack traces and the errors package (cheney.net)
		145 points by bootload on June 12, 2016 \| 89 comments
29.		The Squirrel Programming Language (squirrel-lang.org)
		72 points by cia48621793 on June 12, 2016 \| 50 comments
30.		Replacing Celery with Elixir in a Python Project (klibert.pl)
		163 points by klibertp on June 12, 2016 \| 44 comments
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