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1.		The French Number – Connect to a random French person and talk about anything (thefrenchnumber.fr)
		263 points by davinov on Aug 28, 2016 \| 141 comments
2.		Docker not ready for primetime (goodstuff.im)
		490 points by erlend_sh on Aug 28, 2016 \| 281 comments
3.		How I built a Slack bot to help me find an apartment in San Francisco (dataquest.io)
		366 points by rmason on Aug 28, 2016 \| 88 comments
4.		KickSat: open source spacecraft project (github.com/kicksat)
		193 points by jimsojim on Aug 28, 2016 \| 49 comments
5.		There are no particles, there are only fields (2012) (arxiv.org)
		294 points by monort on Aug 28, 2016 \| 199 comments
6.		GitHub Code Search – Programmers' Goldmine (jakubdziworski.github.io)
		393 points by knivek on Aug 28, 2016 \| 56 comments
7.		The Price of Solar Is Declining to Unprecedented Lows (scientificamerican.com)
		276 points by tedsanders on Aug 28, 2016 \| 164 comments
8.		FreeSense: Indoor Human Identification with WiFi Signals (arxiv.org)
		161 points by brakmic on Aug 28, 2016 \| 40 comments
9.		A Russian Family Was Isolated for 40 Years, Unaware of WWII (2013) (smithsonianmag.com)
		279 points by betolink on Aug 28, 2016 \| 83 comments
10.		An Interesting SETI Candidate in Hercules (centauri-dreams.org)
		189 points by phreeza on Aug 28, 2016 \| 46 comments
11.		Why bad scientific code beats code following “best practices” (2014) (yosefk.com)
		283 points by ingve on Aug 28, 2016 \| 261 comments
12.		The piracy paradox at Udemy (2015) (troyhunt.com)
		172 points by walterbell on Aug 28, 2016 \| 78 comments
13.		Run Chrome apps in Electron (github.com/koush)
		105 points by simonpure on Aug 27, 2016 \| 28 comments
14.		Show HN: A Bot to Deploy to AWS, Digital Ocean Etc. (deploybot.com)
		129 points by LukeFitzpatrick on Aug 28, 2016 \| 39 comments
15.		A Surveillance Master Dissects a Murder from the Sky [video] (bloomberg.com)
		128 points by awl130 on Aug 27, 2016 \| 74 comments
16.		Amazon EC2 Beta (2006) (amazon.com)
		119 points by Jarred on Aug 27, 2016 \| 68 comments
17.		Ask HN: What's the best library for making cross-platform UIs?
		223 points by rer on Aug 28, 2016 \| 221 comments
18.		Farmers Plant Beehive Guard Posts to Repel Elephants (99percentinvisible.org)
		109 points by samsolomon on Aug 28, 2016 \| 8 comments
19.		RE:DOM – Tiny DOM library (redom.js.org)
		112 points by pkstn on Aug 28, 2016 \| 78 comments
20.		What It Takes for an Independent Record Store to Survive Now (pitchfork.com)
		73 points by pmcpinto on Aug 28, 2016 \| 26 comments
21.		How Fuhu went bankrupt (latimes.com)
		86 points by klenwell on Aug 28, 2016 \| 37 comments
22.		WhatsApp – Opting out of new terms doesn’t stop Facebook taking information (independent.co.uk)
		191 points by breitling on Aug 28, 2016 \| 99 comments
23.		Decoding the Civil War (zooniverse.org)
		55 points by Hooke on Aug 27, 2016 \| 4 comments
24.		The origins of the Nazis’ secret horse breeding project (longreads.com)
		47 points by Hooke on Aug 28, 2016 \| 40 comments
25.		Ursula K. Le Guin, “the emissary from Orsinia,” challenges expectations (loa.org)
		68 points by lermontov on Aug 27, 2016 \| 47 comments
26.		Mapping the Mercantilist World Economy (ericrossacademic.wordpress.com)
		90 points by colinprince on Aug 28, 2016 \| 3 comments
27.		User-friendly language for programming efficient simulations (news.mit.edu)
		88 points by muhic on Aug 28, 2016 \| 17 comments
28.		Ask HN: What kind of projects should I build for a front-end portfolio?
		115 points by Calist0 on Aug 28, 2016 \| 57 comments
29.		Opera server breach incident (opera.com)
		73 points by Garbage on Aug 28, 2016 \| 17 comments
30.		“To a Top Scientist at Woomera Rocket Range, South Australia” (2009) (lettersofnote.com)
		95 points by CarolineW on Aug 28, 2016 \| 8 comments
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