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1.		WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio (deepmind.com)
		627 points by benanne on Sept 8, 2016 \| 145 comments
2.		How to Write a Spelling Corrector (norvig.com)
		401 points by colobas on Sept 8, 2016 \| 126 comments
3.		How to Test Drive Your Business Idea Before Quitting Your Job (ladder.io)
		446 points by stefanmancevski on Sept 8, 2016 \| 87 comments
4.		Sophisticated OS X Backdoor Discovered (securelist.com)
		385 points by cyphersanctus on Sept 8, 2016 \| 144 comments
5.		Visual Studio Code 1.5 (visualstudio.com)
		379 points by out_of_protocol on Sept 8, 2016 \| 258 comments
6.		A bite of Python (redhat.com)
		334 points by ashitlerferad on Sept 8, 2016 \| 162 comments
7.		VotePlz – The Easiest Way to Vote (voteplz.org)
		238 points by zachlatta on Sept 8, 2016 \| 311 comments
8.		500 Lines or Less – A Python Interpreter Written in Python (aosabook.org)
		183 points by gkst on Sept 8, 2016 \| 45 comments
9.		Google to acquire Apigee (googleblog.com)
		210 points by ctdean on Sept 8, 2016 \| 80 comments
10.		The Fierce, Forgotten Library Wars of the Ancient World (atlasobscura.com)
		105 points by diodorus on Sept 7, 2016 \| 24 comments
11.		The OPM Data Breach [pdf] (house.gov)
		162 points by daveloyall on Sept 8, 2016 \| 120 comments
12.		Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) Darpa Funding (fbo.gov)
		134 points by Dim25 on Sept 8, 2016 \| 40 comments
13.		Evidence Rebuts Chomsky's Theory of Language Learning (scientificamerican.com)
		149 points by doppp on Sept 8, 2016 \| 95 comments
14.		Show HN: Materia – A modern dev environment to build mobile and web applications (getmateria.com)
		127 points by mehdim on Sept 8, 2016 \| 43 comments
15.		Japan home to 541,000 young recluses (japantimes.co.jp)
		163 points by mattnumbe on Sept 8, 2016 \| 240 comments
16.		“Dear Mark. I am writing this to inform you that I shall not comply” (aftenposten.no)
		660 points by Sainth on Sept 8, 2016 \| 202 comments
17.		Google and Box Announce Partnership (googleforwork.blogspot.com)
		130 points by akrolsmir on Sept 8, 2016 \| 61 comments
18.		InfluxDB 1.0 GA Released: A Retrospective and What’s Next (influxdata.com)
		136 points by pauldix on Sept 8, 2016 \| 79 comments
19.		The End of Headphone Jacks, the Rise of DRM (eff.org)
		457 points by dwaxe on Sept 8, 2016 \| 336 comments
20.		Mailtrain Newsletter #8 – Bundled MTA (mailtrain.org)
		81 points by andris9 on Sept 8, 2016 \| 36 comments
21.		Nintendo Soars as Super Mario Mobile Game Comes to the iPhone (bloomberg.com)
		181 points by adventured on Sept 8, 2016 \| 144 comments
22.		Proposal of a new concurrency model for Ruby 3 [pdf] (atdot.net)
		188 points by tenderlove on Sept 8, 2016 \| 87 comments
23.		Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by Its Hosts (nytimes.com)
		131 points by brentm on Sept 8, 2016 \| 382 comments
24.		Browser Fingerprinting (sites.google.com)
		146 points by dedalus on Sept 8, 2016 \| 43 comments
25.		‘Freddie Mercury was a prodigy’: Rockstar's Panchgani bandmates remember ‘Bucky’ (scroll.in)
		123 points by tintinnabula on Sept 7, 2016 \| 38 comments
26.		Show HN: cookies.js, making cookies a delight to work with on the front-end (github.com/franciscop)
		122 points by franciscop on Sept 8, 2016 \| 46 comments
27.		Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”? (2014) (stackoverflow.com)
		324 points by retox on Sept 8, 2016 \| 54 comments
28.		Show HN: Find a movie to watch the lazy way (lazydayapp.com)
		77 points by fjabre on Sept 8, 2016 \| 41 comments
29.		What's next for Apache OpenOffice (lwn.net)
		74 points by cesarb on Sept 8, 2016 \| 70 comments
30.		There Are No Truffles in Truffle Oil (2014) (priceonomics.com)
		166 points by obi1kenobi on Sept 8, 2016 \| 184 comments
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