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1.		LastPass autofill exploit (detectify.com)
		1008 points by detectify on July 27, 2016 \| 420 comments
2.		ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Donations Lead to Significant Gene Discovery (alsa.org)
		481 points by obeone on July 27, 2016 \| 102 comments
3.		The Rust Platform (aturon.github.io)
		362 points by anp on July 27, 2016 \| 250 comments
4.		YC’s Summer Reading (themacro.com)
		323 points by craigcannon on July 27, 2016 \| 180 comments
5.		Mercedes-Benz shows off the first fully electric heavy urban transport truck (techcrunch.com)
		268 points by felixbraun on July 27, 2016 \| 198 comments
6.		Bringing ChakraCore to Linux and OS X (windows.com)
		264 points by bevacqua on July 27, 2016 \| 120 comments
7.		Ask HN: Anonymous person sent proof of SSH access to our production server
		450 points by throwaway0727 on July 27, 2016 \| 231 comments
8.		Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco (1995) (nybooks.com)
		235 points by azuajef on July 27, 2016 \| 173 comments
9.		Show HN: Accelerating SHA256 by 100x in Golang on ARM (minio.io)
		156 points by y4m4b4 on July 27, 2016 \| 86 comments
10.		Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival (techcrunch.com)
		382 points by adalyz on July 27, 2016 \| 437 comments
11.		Facebook Posts Strong Profit and Revenue Growth (wsj.com)
		171 points by kartD on July 27, 2016 \| 194 comments
12.		Solving the Dating Problem with the SENPAI Protocol [pdf] (csail.mit.edu)
		305 points by obi1kenobi on July 27, 2016 \| 108 comments
13.		LexVec, a word embedding model written in Go that outperforms word2vec (github.com/alexandres)
		131 points by atrudeau on July 27, 2016 \| 43 comments
14.		Inside Tesla's gigantic Gigafactory (bbc.co.uk)
		201 points by jsingleton on July 27, 2016 \| 94 comments
15.		Why poetry is good for the rational mind (newhumanist.org.uk)
		155 points by kawera on July 27, 2016 \| 42 comments
16.		What makes music sound “good?” (princeton.edu)
		186 points by grimgrin on July 27, 2016 \| 71 comments
17.		How to escape lock-in with a multi-cloud stack (googleblog.com)
		145 points by mikecb on July 26, 2016 \| 67 comments
18.		Dune: Safe User-Level Access to Privileged CPU Features [pdf] (stanford.edu)
		66 points by ingve on July 26, 2016 \| 6 comments
19.		Salary transparency at Stack Overflow (stackoverflow.com)
		334 points by ocoster on July 27, 2016 \| 282 comments
20.		What Happened to Howard Stern? (nytimes.com)
		145 points by nautilus on July 27, 2016 \| 80 comments
21.		Xen exploitation part 2: XSA-148, from guest to host (quarkslab.com)
		87 points by adamnemecek on July 27, 2016 \| 13 comments
22.		What is the roundest country? (gciruelos.com)
		120 points by gciruelos on July 27, 2016 \| 44 comments
23.		Hijacking YouTube to transmit your data (banmeihack.wordpress.com)
		98 points by adamnemecek on July 26, 2016 \| 43 comments
24.		Philae Lander: “It’s time for me to say goodbye” (twitter.com/philae2014)
		254 points by aurhum on July 27, 2016 \| 47 comments
25.		How Exhaustion Became a Status Symbol (newrepublic.com)
		114 points by Petiver on July 26, 2016 \| 40 comments
26.		Vizio acquired by LeEco for $2B (theverge.com)
		96 points by lxm on July 27, 2016 \| 21 comments
27.		Platform wars: the final score (ben-evans.com)
		120 points by lxm on July 27, 2016 \| 125 comments
28.		Zero Knowledge Protocols without Magic (cossacklabs.com)
		65 points by cossacklabs on July 27, 2016 \| 19 comments
29.		At World’s Largest Hedge Fund, Sex, Fear and Video Surveillance (nytimes.com)
		167 points by kafkaesq on July 27, 2016 \| 75 comments
30.		Compile OCaml to JavaScript, use ReactJS, bindings to ReactJS, several examples (github.com/fxfactorial)
		82 points by e_d_g_a_r on July 27, 2016 \| 29 comments
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