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1.		Tesla Wins Contract to Help Power the California Grid (bloomberg.com)
		540 points by adventured on Sept 16, 2016 \| 212 comments
2.		Investing for Geeks (kalzumeus.com)
		797 points by gk1 on Sept 16, 2016 \| 457 comments
3.		Faking your death (linkedin.com)
		384 points by panic on Sept 16, 2016 \| 214 comments
4.		We Don’t Simply Get Remote Jobs, We Join Remote Teams (remotebase.io)
		347 points by stockkid on Sept 15, 2016 \| 178 comments
5.		Municipal ISP forced to shut off fiber-to-the-home Internet after court ruling (arstechnica.com)
		330 points by johnhenry on Sept 16, 2016 \| 171 comments
6.		Twitter: It is too late for it to become the giant people expected (economist.com)
		222 points by noir-york on Sept 16, 2016 \| 253 comments
7.		Why the Apple II ProDOS 2.4 Release Is the OS News of the Year (textfiles.com)
		298 points by bootload on Sept 16, 2016 \| 117 comments
8.		The man behind the million dollar homepage 11 years later (bbc.com)
		231 points by bartkappenburg on Sept 16, 2016 \| 131 comments
9.		Bash 4.4 released (lists.gnu.org)
		240 points by okket on Sept 16, 2016 \| 79 comments
10.		Uber's billion-dollar losses expose the fragile state of the on-demand economy (qz.com)
		160 points by lxm on Sept 16, 2016 \| 215 comments
11.		China launches second trial space station (bbc.com)
		167 points by RyanMcGreal on Sept 16, 2016 \| 80 comments
12.		EU Court: Open WiFi Operator Not Liable for Pirate Users (torrentfreak.com)
		185 points by chewymouse on Sept 16, 2016 \| 24 comments
13.		R for Data Science (had.co.nz)
		230 points by hadley on Sept 16, 2016 \| 70 comments
14.		The bumpy road towards iPhone 5c NAND mirroring (arxiv.org)
		129 points by praving5 on Sept 15, 2016 \| 64 comments
15.		React Game Kit (github.com/formidablelabs)
		124 points by clessg on Sept 15, 2016 \| 45 comments
16.		Some questions about Docker and rkt (jvns.ca)
		187 points by deafcalculus on Sept 16, 2016 \| 86 comments
17.		Ask HN: Is it possible for someone to not be cut out for software engineering?
		183 points by conflicted_dev on Sept 16, 2016 \| 186 comments
18.		Show HN: GraphicsJS, New Powerful Free Open-Source JavaScript Graphics Library (graphicsjs.org)
		124 points by andreykh on Sept 15, 2016 \| 43 comments
19.		Microsoft is using Minecraft to vie for kids’ brain space and schools’ dollars (backchannel.com)
		116 points by steven on Sept 16, 2016 \| 84 comments
20.		BRIN Indexes in Postgres 9.5 (sortable.com)
		147 points by craigkerstiens on Sept 15, 2016 \| 30 comments
21.		Esoteric Topics in Computer Programming (2002) (archive.org)
		126 points by pmoriarty on Sept 16, 2016 \| 87 comments
22.		Product clones using WebTorrent (github.com/diegorbaquero)
		61 points by diegorbaquero on Sept 15, 2016 \| 7 comments
23.		Astronomers capture best view ever of disintegrating comet (sciencebulletin.org)
		68 points by upen on Sept 16, 2016 \| 7 comments
24.		React Router v4 FAQ (github.com/reacttraining)
		159 points by clessg on Sept 16, 2016 \| 181 comments
25.		SolarSinter: Using Solar and Sand for 3D printing on site (markuskayser.com)
		81 points by bifrost on Sept 15, 2016 \| 16 comments
26.		How to take a picture of the Milky Way (covingtoninnovations.com)
		76 points by breck on Sept 16, 2016 \| 36 comments
27.		Room 641A (wikipedia.org)
		207 points by mimsee on Sept 16, 2016 \| 75 comments
28.		String Theory’s Strange Second Life (quantamagazine.org)
		77 points by jonbaer on Sept 16, 2016 \| 29 comments
29.		Why I Don't Use React Router (jkk.github.io)
		122 points by jkkramer on Sept 16, 2016 \| 75 comments
30.		On Not Reading (chronicle.com)
		95 points by samclemens on Sept 13, 2016 \| 91 comments
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