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1.		Mozilla’s Send makes it easy to send a file from one person to another (theverge.com)
		598 points by Tomte on Aug 3, 2017 \| 318 comments
2.		Operation Luigi: How I hacked my friend without her noticing (defaultnamehere.tumblr.com)
		728 points by adamch on Aug 3, 2017 \| 162 comments
3.		Inside Patreon, the economic engine of internet culture (theverge.com)
		400 points by panic on Aug 3, 2017 \| 413 comments
4.		Exa, a modern replacement for ls (exa.website)
		740 points by r0muald on Aug 3, 2017 \| 403 comments
5.		Summer Reading List (blog.ycombinator.com)
		470 points by craigcannon on Aug 3, 2017 \| 272 comments
6.		Monsanto leaks suggest it tried to ‘kill’ cancer research about weed killer (baumhedlundlaw.com)
		353 points by givan on Aug 3, 2017 \| 120 comments
7.		Stack Overflow Sunsetting Documentation (stackoverflow.com)
		378 points by ingve on Aug 3, 2017 \| 210 comments
8.		Indictment of Marcus Hutchins aka "Malwaretech" (documentcloud.org)
		309 points by ryanlol on Aug 3, 2017 \| 195 comments
9.		How I implemented my own crypto (loup-vaillant.fr)
		380 points by loup-vaillant on Aug 3, 2017 \| 386 comments
10.		Falling lithium-ion battery prices to drive rapid storage uptake (pv-magazine-usa.com)
		138 points by okket on Aug 3, 2017 \| 177 comments
11.		300M Freely Downloadable Pwned Passwords (troyhunt.com)
		318 points by urahara on Aug 3, 2017 \| 177 comments
12.		PET scans show many Alzheimer’s patients may not actually have the disease (washingtonpost.com)
		158 points by DrScump on Aug 2, 2017 \| 65 comments
13.		Instagram daily use surpasses Snapchat (techcrunch.com)
		186 points by rahulshiv on Aug 3, 2017 \| 97 comments
14.		Larry Page Deposition in Uber vs. Waymo (scribd.com)
		186 points by heshamg on Aug 2, 2017 \| 205 comments
15.		Squaring Venture Capital Valuations with Reality (ssrn.com)
		133 points by zapoist on Aug 2, 2017 \| 46 comments
16.		Transitioning entirely to neural machine translation (facebook.com)
		136 points by darwhy on Aug 3, 2017 \| 45 comments
17.		Hacker News News Feed for the Mac Touch Bar (github.com/mrmekon)
		143 points by littlestymaar on Aug 3, 2017 \| 146 comments
18.		Japan’s labor market is tight, and higher wages may be needed to retain workers (bloomberg.com)
		120 points by SirLJ on Aug 3, 2017 \| 134 comments
19.		Rust RFC 2094: non-lexical lifetimes (github.com/rust-lang)
		156 points by JoshTriplett on Aug 2, 2017 \| 66 comments
20.		Insiders say Google was interested in buying Snap for at least $30B last year (businessinsider.com)
		211 points by SirLJ on Aug 3, 2017 \| 96 comments
21.		Tinker with a Neural Network (2016) (tensorflow.org)
		92 points by sonabinu on Aug 3, 2017 \| 3 comments
22.		How Canada became an education superpower (bbc.com)
		240 points by iamjdg on Aug 3, 2017 \| 262 comments
23.		‘This’ in JavaScript (zellwk.com)
		170 points by zellwk on Aug 3, 2017 \| 97 comments
24.		Texas Uses More Energy Than Any Other State (texasmonthly.com)
		90 points by sremani on Aug 3, 2017 \| 136 comments
25.		Dumbo: CIA system to take over webcams, microphones (wikileaks.org)
		280 points by givan on Aug 3, 2017 \| 90 comments
26.		Firefly – An open-source $5 DIY hardware wallet (firefly.city)
		130 points by enricotal on Aug 2, 2017 \| 36 comments
27.		Researcher Who Stopped WannaCry Ransomware Detained in US After Def Con (vice.com)
		567 points by Shinkirou on Aug 3, 2017 \| 254 comments
28.		AD – A Javascript implementation of common Active Directory tasks (github.com/dthree)
		79 points by robinj6 on Aug 3, 2017 \| 19 comments
29.		Tesla Burns Through Record Cash to Bring the Model 3 to Market (bloomberg.com)
		179 points by bipr0 on Aug 3, 2017 \| 208 comments
30.		NTSB Issues Investigative Update on San Francisco Airport Near Miss (ntsb.gov)
		117 points by helper on Aug 3, 2017 \| 117 comments
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