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1.		Rental camera gear destroyed by the 2017 eclipse (lensrentals.com)
		599 points by blueintegral on Sept 2, 2017 \| 153 comments
2.		My first fifteen compilers (composition.al)
		387 points by dhanush on Sept 2, 2017 \| 76 comments
3.		Where will artificial general intelligence come from? (docs.google.com)
		389 points by nshr on Sept 2, 2017 \| 240 comments
4.		Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science (cmu.edu)
		290 points by tu7001 on Sept 1, 2017 \| 58 comments
5.		It’s Okay to “Forget” What You Read (medium.com/the-polymath-project)
		275 points by sus_007 on Sept 1, 2017 \| 58 comments
6.		GE discovers that industrial IoT doesn't scale (mailchi.mp)
		208 points by tdrnd on Sept 2, 2017 \| 73 comments
7.		Mathematics of Machine Learning (2016) (ibm.com)
		191 points by jwdunne on Sept 1, 2017 \| 25 comments
8.		Ask HN: What books have made the biggest impact on your mental models?
		692 points by baran on Sept 2, 2017 \| 247 comments
9.		Alphabet Finishes Reorganization with New XXVI Company (bloomberg.com)
		149 points by tareqak on Sept 1, 2017 \| 113 comments
10.		Ask HN: How did you get started in Network Security/Penetration Testing?
		185 points by Txmm on Sept 1, 2017 \| 64 comments
11.		How you can contribute to Firefox 57 success (braniecki.net)
		318 points by Vinnl on Sept 2, 2017 \| 291 comments
12.		Free Data Recovery of Wet Phones and Hard Drives for Hurricane Harvey Victims (drivesaversdatarecovery.com)
		160 points by unkown-unknowns on Sept 2, 2017 \| 30 comments
13.		The real prerequisite for machine learning isn’t math, it’s data analysis (2016) (r-bloggers.com)
		173 points by jdnier on Sept 2, 2017 \| 52 comments
14.		CAPH – High level dataflow programming for FPGAs (univ-bpclermont.fr)
		87 points by edwintorok on Sept 1, 2017 \| 2 comments
15.		Canada's 'Great Trail' Is Finally Connected (atlasobscura.com)
		107 points by jonbaer on Sept 2, 2017 \| 46 comments
16.		Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (1972) [pdf] (sciencemadness.org)
		103 points by Tomte on Sept 2, 2017 \| 19 comments
17.		A deep dive into Bitcoin Core v0.15 (diyhpl.us)
		145 points by okket on Sept 2, 2017 \| 16 comments
18.		Graphs not Grids: How caches are corrupting algorithm designers (2010) (ezyang.com)
		92 points by kuwze on Sept 2, 2017 \| 17 comments
19.		Dalin – A C++ non-blocking network library on Linux (github.com/leohotfn)
		78 points by leohotfn on Sept 2, 2017 \| 50 comments
20.		San Francisco hits 106 degrees, breaking record (sfgate.com)
		209 points by thesmallestcat on Sept 2, 2017 \| 204 comments
21.		Brain foods: the effects of nutrients on brain function (2008) (nih.gov)
		132 points by lainon on Sept 2, 2017 \| 27 comments
22.		Norway tightens IT security to prevent ballot tampering (reuters.com)
		62 points by ingve on Sept 2, 2017 \| 45 comments
23.		Physicists propose new theories of black holes from the very early universe (phys.org)
		55 points by dnetesn on Sept 2, 2017 \| 12 comments
24.		Things Reacters do that Re-framers avoid (purelyfunctional.tv)
		110 points by zonotope on Sept 2, 2017 \| 51 comments
25.		Ask HN: What are your favourite developer blogs?
		302 points by mubaris on Sept 2, 2017 \| 66 comments
26.		The Grave Accent and XSS (davidmurdoch.com)
		67 points by davidmurdoch on Sept 2, 2017 \| 21 comments
27.		Consistent Selenium Testing in Python (chrxs.net)
		61 points by cdubzzz on Sept 2, 2017 \| 25 comments
28.		Human evolution – how do we accommodate new discoveries in our teaching? (sciblogs.co.nz)
		28 points by hownottowrite on Sept 2, 2017
29.		Man Who Refused to Decrypt Hard Drives Still in Prison After Two Years (bleepingcomputer.com)
		251 points by rbanffy on Sept 2, 2017 \| 266 comments
30.		There is no such thing as a free watch [pdf] (jennyodell.com)
		114 points by tosh on Sept 2, 2017 \| 56 comments
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