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1.		A Lost World of Shipwrecks Is Found (nytimes.com)
		372 points by NaOH on Nov 12, 2016 \| 64 comments
2.		Blueprint – A React UI toolkit for the web (blueprintjs.com)
		603 points by ika on Nov 12, 2016 \| 203 comments
3.		Why did ProtonMail vanish from Google search results for months? (techcrunch.com)
		345 points by based2 on Nov 11, 2016 \| 199 comments
4.		Why is machine learning ‘hard’? (stanford.edu)
		327 points by Dawny33 on Nov 12, 2016 \| 88 comments
5.		Amazon sells out of the NES Classic Edition in less than a minute (techcrunch.com)
		272 points by smaili on Nov 11, 2016 \| 250 comments
6.		Quant Job Interview Questions (2009) [pdf] (kent.edu)
		358 points by dmmalam on Nov 12, 2016 \| 145 comments
7.		How We Knew It Was Time to Leave the Cloud (about.gitlab.com)
		379 points by sytse on Nov 12, 2016 \| 262 comments
8.		Show HN: Writing an HTTP server in Prolog (jamesbvaughan.com)
		238 points by jamesbvaughan on Nov 12, 2016 \| 70 comments
9.		Reasons not to use Uber (stallman.org)
		544 points by deepakkarki on Nov 12, 2016 \| 361 comments
10.		Nvidia on new self-driving system: “basically 5 years ahead and coming in 2017” (electrek.co)
		177 points by stesch on Nov 12, 2016 \| 168 comments
11.		Show HN: Gridmaster – A Code School for Learning Spreadsheets (gridmaster.io)
		188 points by bryanbraun on Nov 12, 2016 \| 63 comments
12.		Show HN: A Web-to-RSS Parser in Common Lisp (bitbucket.org/tux_)
		125 points by rhabarba on Nov 12, 2016 \| 76 comments
13.		UEFI boot: how does that actually work, then? (2014) (happyassassin.net)
		164 points by luu on Nov 11, 2016 \| 51 comments
14.		Infineon chip solves Rubik’s Cube in 637 milliseconds (sciencebulletin.org)
		103 points by upen on Nov 11, 2016 \| 45 comments
15.		Finland plans to replace classic school subjects with broader “topics” (2015) (theconversation.com)
		178 points by akbarnama on Nov 12, 2016 \| 81 comments
16.		A river of lost souls runs through western Colorado (washingtonpost.com)
		99 points by wormold on Nov 12, 2016 \| 84 comments
17.		Celery 4.0 (celeryproject.org)
		181 points by mlissner on Nov 12, 2016 \| 50 comments
18.		A Scientist Who Helped Amy Adams Talk to Aliens in “Arrival” (nautil.us)
		122 points by dnetesn on Nov 12, 2016 \| 31 comments
19.		Codehash.db – A public database for software and firmware hashes (github.com/rootkovska)
		111 points by andrewdavidwong on Nov 12, 2016 \| 29 comments
20.		Deep Learning with Generative Adverserial Networks – ICLR 2017 Discoveries (amundtveit.com)
		49 points by amund on Nov 12, 2016 \| 2 comments
21.		How to accept Bitcoin payments without running a full node (incoherency.co.uk)
		101 points by john111 on Nov 12, 2016 \| 26 comments
22.		Apple is doubling down on open source (techrepublic.com)
		109 points by happy-go-lucky on Nov 12, 2016 \| 88 comments
23.		World of Commodore 2016 (tpug.ca)
		68 points by doener on Nov 12, 2016 \| 40 comments
24.		Rook – Open, Cloud Native, and Universal Distributed Storage in Alpha (github.com/rook)
		84 points by philips on Nov 12, 2016 \| 13 comments
25.		Ask HN: I will quit my job as a PM to join a coding bootcamp. Am I crazy?
		155 points by tigertheory on Nov 12, 2016 \| 214 comments
26.		Clifford Algebra: A visual introduction (2014) (slehar.wordpress.com)
		111 points by mcbits on Nov 12, 2016 \| 24 comments
27.		Show HN: Hearthstone-like card game builder for humans (dulst.com)
		44 points by KaoruAoiShiho on Nov 12, 2016 \| 20 comments
28.		Slow email replies cause serious anxiety (bbc.com)
		82 points by ohjeez on Nov 12, 2016 \| 67 comments
29.		Can We Escape from Time? (nybooks.com)
		76 points by Hooke on Nov 11, 2016 \| 34 comments
30.		A road map collection that could help researchers (nationalgeographic.com)
		75 points by Thevet on Nov 12, 2016 \| 11 comments
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