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1.		Stack Overflow Outage Postmortem (stackstatus.net)
		862 points by gbrayut on July 20, 2016 \| 316 comments
2.		When a crow dies, the other crows investigate the cause of death (2015) (nationalgeographic.com)
		626 points by reimertz on July 20, 2016 \| 228 comments
3.		Git for Windows accidentally creates NTFS alternate data streams (latkin.org)
		349 points by latkin on July 20, 2016 \| 176 comments
4.		Native encryption added to ZFS on Linux (github.com/zfsonlinux)
		280 points by turrini on July 20, 2016 \| 140 comments
5.		Building an Open Core Company: Interview with GitLab's CEO (about.gitlab.com)
		290 points by Siecje on July 20, 2016 \| 139 comments
6.		Reducing Adobe Flash Usage in Firefox (blog.mozilla.org)
		235 points by _jomo on July 20, 2016 \| 115 comments
7.		On the fly SSL registration and renewal inside Nginx with Let's Encrypt (github.com/gui)
		234 points by snaky on July 20, 2016 \| 46 comments
8.		Gmail.js – JavaScript API for Gmail (github.com/kartiktalwar)
		202 points by rodrigocoelho on July 20, 2016 \| 49 comments
9.		Stick a Fork in Ethereum (elaineou.com)
		250 points by themgt on July 19, 2016 \| 183 comments
10.		Five million Danish ID numbers sent to Chinese firm by mistake (thelocal.dk)
		184 points by mbanzon on July 20, 2016 \| 79 comments
11.		Fresh work on the mathematics of bicycles in motion (nature.com)
		165 points by maximz on July 20, 2016 \| 95 comments
12.		Fewer Allergies: A Possible Upside of Thumb Sucking and Nail Biting (health.harvard.edu)
		114 points by dpflan on July 20, 2016 \| 40 comments
13.		Stealing Facebook access_tokens using CSRF in device login flow (josipfranjkovic.com)
		127 points by franjkovic on July 19, 2016 \| 82 comments
14.		Google Cuts Its Giant Electricity Bill with DeepMind-Powered AI (bloomberg.com)
		233 points by runesoerensen on July 20, 2016 \| 79 comments
15.		Twitter now lets anyone request a verified account (theverge.com)
		160 points by protomyth on July 19, 2016 \| 129 comments
16.		Japan Will Make Its Last VCR This Month (mentalfloss.com)
		139 points by lisper on July 20, 2016 \| 131 comments
17.		Inside the Obama Tech Surge as It Hacks the Pentagon and VA (backchannel.com)
		162 points by brensudol on July 20, 2016 \| 142 comments
18.		Dataflow as database (github.com/frankmcsherry)
		86 points by mrry on July 20, 2016 \| 10 comments
19.		Kivy: Develop multi-touch enabled Python apps (kivy.org)
		185 points by tonteldoos on July 20, 2016 \| 45 comments
20.		BuntDB – Fast, embeddable, in-memory key/value database for Go with geospatial (github.com/tidwall)
		96 points by tidwall on July 19, 2016 \| 13 comments
21.		Show HN: I connected my house lights to video games (stavros.io)
		127 points by stavros on July 20, 2016 \| 31 comments
22.		Windows Hello face recognition is vulnerable to the Jedi mind trick (msdn.microsoft.com)
		103 points by edburdo on July 20, 2016 \| 36 comments
23.		Show HN: Lint for HTTP (github.com/vfaronov)
		138 points by vfaronov on July 19, 2016 \| 12 comments
24.		Court restricts U.S. Navy use of whale-killing sonar (wired.com)
		95 points by ourmandave on July 20, 2016 \| 34 comments
25.		Skype finalizes its move to the cloud, ignores the elephant in the room (arstechnica.com)
		155 points by runesoerensen on July 20, 2016 \| 125 comments
26.		How to Keep a Journal (theparisreview.org)
		138 points by lermontov on July 16, 2016 \| 62 comments
27.		Very Long Proofs (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
		86 points by pron on July 20, 2016 \| 56 comments
28.		Dollar Shave Club and the Disruption of Everything (stratechery.com)
		237 points by dwaxe on July 20, 2016 \| 200 comments
29.		Use cases for ES6 proxies (devbryce.com)
		83 points by inian on July 19, 2016 \| 32 comments
30.		Pokémon Go data usage draws attention of House Energy and Commerce Committee [pdf] (house.gov)
		155 points by envy2 on July 20, 2016 \| 159 comments
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