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1.		Why I’m Suing the US Government (bunniestudios.com)
		1855 points by ivank on July 21, 2016 \| 307 comments
2.		Master Plan, Part Deux (tesla.com)
		1851 points by arturogarrido on July 21, 2016 \| 677 comments
3.		A Beginner's Guide to Understanding Convolutional Neural Networks (adeshpande3.github.io)
		367 points by kilimchoi on July 21, 2016 \| 29 comments
4.		Introducing Stack Overflow Documentation Beta (stackoverflow.com)
		481 points by sklivvz1971 on July 21, 2016 \| 128 comments
5.		Edward Snowden's New Research Aims to Keep Smartphones from Betraying Owners (theintercept.com)
		296 points by secfirstmd on July 21, 2016 \| 150 comments
6.		Sculpture of Housing Prices Ripping San Francisco Apart (dougmccune.com)
		389 points by dougmccune on July 21, 2016 \| 207 comments
7.		Practical Guide to Bare Metal C++ (gitbooks.io)
		291 points by adamnemecek on July 21, 2016 \| 83 comments
8.		Show HN: Riko – A Python stream processing engine modeled after Yahoo! Pipes (github.com/nerevu)
		283 points by reubano on July 21, 2016 \| 67 comments
9.		Zenzizenzizenzic (wikipedia.org)
		258 points by vinchuco on July 21, 2016 \| 89 comments
10.		Police asked 3D printing lab to recreate a dead man’s fingers to unlock phone (fusion.net)
		166 points by theandrewbailey on July 21, 2016 \| 83 comments
11.		Superformula (wikipedia.org)
		176 points by GuiA on July 21, 2016 \| 65 comments
12.		Ruby Web Dev The Other Way (rwdtow.stdout.in)
		199 points by gfortaine on July 21, 2016 \| 61 comments
13.		Alleged founder of world’s largest BitTorrent distribution site arrested (arstechnica.com)
		378 points by fcambus on July 20, 2016 \| 347 comments
14.		A practical proposal for migrating to safe long sessions on the web (developers.google.com)
		101 points by kinlan on July 21, 2016 \| 78 comments
15.		Ask HN: Interview tomorrow – How to learn whether an org is “healthy”?
		191 points by mud_dauber on July 21, 2016 \| 122 comments
16.		Programming Language Rankings: June 2016 (redmonk.com)
		251 points by adamnemecek on July 21, 2016 \| 188 comments
17.		HSBC Currency Traders Got Greedy on Christmas (bloomberg.com)
		173 points by dsri on July 20, 2016 \| 57 comments
18.		Fuzzing with AFL is an Art (moyix.blogspot.com)
		109 points by moyix on July 21, 2016 \| 7 comments
19.		The Science of the Missing Gravitational Waves (nautil.us)
		91 points by pmcpinto on July 21, 2016 \| 41 comments
20.		The End of Microservices (lightstep.com)
		258 points by reimertz on July 21, 2016 \| 145 comments
21.		Show HN: A console-based editor with Lua support, based on antirez's project (github.com/skx)
		85 points by stevekemp on July 21, 2016 \| 29 comments
22.		How I built an app with 500,000 users in 5 days on a $100 server (medium.com/unboxd)
		423 points by kiyanwang on July 21, 2016 \| 168 comments
23.		Mormon Tycoon Wants to Build Mega-Utopia in Vermont (bloomberg.com)
		178 points by mkempe on July 21, 2016 \| 210 comments
24.		SciPy 2016: “Data Science is Software” tutorial (isaacslavitt.com)
		148 points by callmekit on July 21, 2016
25.		PagerDuty Names Jennifer Tejada CEO (forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad)
		98 points by ultrasaurus on July 21, 2016 \| 38 comments
26.		Flying Aquila: Early lessons from the first full-scale test flight (facebook.com)
		65 points by _cwia on July 21, 2016 \| 41 comments
27.		Use LetsEncrypt and CloudFlare to secure any Heroku app for free (github.com/substrakt)
		142 points by maxehmookau on July 21, 2016 \| 41 comments
28.		Unstructured Datatypes in Postgres – Hstore vs. JSON vs. JSONB (citusdata.com)
		157 points by craigkerstiens on July 20, 2016 \| 43 comments
29.		Introducing Google Cloud Natural Language API, Speech API and New Data Center (googleblog.com)
		224 points by ppoutonnet on July 20, 2016 \| 49 comments
30.		A new wave of startups that rewards the individuals generating value (nytimes.com)
		149 points by JumpCrisscross on July 21, 2016 \| 79 comments
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