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1.		How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users (discordapp.com)
		802 points by b1naryth1ef on July 11, 2017 \| 251 comments
2.		ECMAScript 2017 Language Specification (ecma-international.org)
		600 points by samerbuna on July 11, 2017 \| 241 comments
3.		Math education: It’s not about numbers, it’s about learning how to think (nwaonline.com)
		565 points by CarolineW on July 11, 2017 \| 330 comments
4.		Cloudflare’s fight with a “patent troll” could alter the game (techcrunch.com)
		723 points by Stanleyc23 on July 11, 2017 \| 274 comments
5.		Students Are Better Off Without a Laptop in the Classroom (scientificamerican.com)
		425 points by thearn4 on July 11, 2017 \| 243 comments
6.		3D scanning by dipping into a liquid (sdu.edu.cn)
		350 points by jakobegger on July 11, 2017 \| 117 comments
7.		Toward a Reasonably Secure Laptop (qubes-os.org)
		344 points by doener on July 11, 2017 \| 100 comments
8.		Joe Hruska, founder and CEO of RescueTime (YC W08), has died (rescuetime.com)
		468 points by robby1066 on July 10, 2017 \| 47 comments
9.		SFO near miss might have triggered aviation disaster (mercurynews.com)
		481 points by milesf on July 11, 2017 \| 414 comments
10.		How To Go Viral By Using Fake Reddit Likes (hack-pr.com)
		444 points by scribu on July 10, 2017 \| 189 comments
11.		Pentagon Tiling Proof Solves Century-Old Math Problem (quantamagazine.org)
		191 points by petethomas on July 11, 2017 \| 42 comments
12.		Exotic Data Structures (2011) (concatenative.org)
		293 points by panic on July 11, 2017 \| 24 comments
13.		The History of GeoWorks, Microsoft Windows’ Upstart ’90s Competitor (2016) (atlasobscura.com)
		148 points by FollowSteph3 on July 11, 2017 \| 64 comments
14.		SAFEs are not bad for entrepreneurs (blog.ycombinator.com)
		157 points by janober on July 11, 2017 \| 112 comments
15.		Using Tesseract OCR with Python (pyimagesearch.com)
		195 points by jonbaer on July 11, 2017 \| 47 comments
16.		Saying Sorry When Things Go Wrong [pdf] (nhsla.com)
		121 points by DanBC on July 11, 2017 \| 59 comments
17.		Google bans its ads on sites that use annoying ‘pop-unders’ (techcrunch.com)
		158 points by janober on July 11, 2017 \| 72 comments
18.		Paying Professors: Inside Google’s Academic Influence Campaign (wsj.com)
		161 points by NN88 on July 11, 2017 \| 91 comments
19.		A Huge Diamond Mine That Helped Build The Soviet Union (2014) (gizmodo.com)
		126 points by mitul_45 on July 11, 2017 \| 57 comments
20.		Transit Detection of a Starshade at the Inner Lagrange Point of an Exoplanet (arxiv.org)
		106 points by sanxiyn on July 11, 2017 \| 66 comments
21.		Sizing Up Servers: Intel's Skylake-SP Xeon versus AMD's EPYC 7000 (anandtech.com)
		144 points by zdw on July 11, 2017 \| 43 comments
22.		Evolution of the Lego Logo (logodesignlove.com)
		140 points by NaOH on July 10, 2017 \| 27 comments
23.		Bind broker (tedunangst.com)
		90 points by donmcc on July 11, 2017 \| 11 comments
24.		Introducing Gradient Ventures (gradient.google)
		125 points by framschwartz on July 11, 2017 \| 28 comments
25.		Show HN: BotEngine – Easy tool for creating chatbots (botengine.ai)
		124 points by ajaskiewicz on July 11, 2017 \| 59 comments
26.		Show HN: Hosted JavaScript dependency tree graphs for GitHub READMEs (github.com/fiatjaf)
		56 points by fiatjaf on July 11, 2017 \| 6 comments
27.		Memory Usage Inside the CLR (mattwarren.org)
		87 points by matthewwarren on July 10, 2017 \| 13 comments
28.		Apple and Google embody two alternative models of capitalism (theatlantic.com)
		158 points by nthuser on July 11, 2017 \| 117 comments
29.		MIOpen: AMD's Machine Intelligence Library (github.com/rocmsoftwareplatform)
		131 points by jonbaer on July 11, 2017 \| 22 comments
30.		Show HN: Xcessiv – Fully managed web application for automated machine learning (github.com/reiinakano)
		108 points by reiinakano on July 11, 2017 \| 5 comments
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