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1.		We've failed: open access is winning and we must change our approach (wiley.com)
		626 points by mathgenius on Sept 16, 2017 \| 377 comments
2.		Eclipse OpenJ9 – Open-source JVM (github.com/eclipse)
		322 points by jsiepkes on Sept 16, 2017 \| 104 comments
3.		Three Years in Identity Theft Hell (bloomberg.com)
		315 points by ColinWright on Sept 16, 2017 \| 187 comments
4.		As Electric Motors Impove, More Things Are Being Electrified (economist.com)
		208 points by jkuria on Sept 16, 2017 \| 76 comments
5.		Alan Kay is still waiting for his dream to come true (fastcompany.com)
		337 points by sohkamyung on Sept 15, 2017 \| 288 comments
6.		Western Digital Ships 12 TB WD Gold HDD: 8 Platters and Helium (anandtech.com)
		168 points by el_duderino on Sept 16, 2017 \| 108 comments
7.		Why Dropbox decided to build its own infrastructure and network (techcrunch.com)
		317 points by zachperret on Sept 16, 2017 \| 152 comments
8.		Wind energy used to mine cryptocurrency to fund climate research (julianoliver.com)
		206 points by kawera on Sept 16, 2017 \| 66 comments
9.		Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989) (utexas.edu)
		383 points by tosh on Sept 16, 2017 \| 112 comments
10.		Michel Foucault in Death Valley: A Boom Interview with Simeon Wade (boomcalifornia.com)
		57 points by samclemens on Sept 15, 2017 \| 22 comments
11.		To treat back pain, look to the brain not the spine (aeon.co)
		212 points by kawera on Sept 16, 2017 \| 140 comments
12.		Watching Larry Ellison Become Larry Ellison (2014) (steveblank.com)
		143 points by tosh on Sept 16, 2017 \| 46 comments
13.		Court OKs child porn prosecution of minors distributing pictures of themselves (washingtonpost.com)
		260 points by ikeboy on Sept 15, 2017 \| 302 comments
14.		Electric vehicle price is rising, but cost-per-mile is falling (arstechnica.com)
		65 points by jseliger on Sept 16, 2017 \| 49 comments
15.		Sleeping barber problem (wikipedia.org)
		119 points by Sami_Lehtinen on Sept 16, 2017 \| 27 comments
16.		Cost of iPhone X in 1957 (bradford-delong.com)
		279 points by lsh123 on Sept 16, 2017 \| 167 comments
17.		The Unlikely Return of Cat Stevens (newyorker.com)
		117 points by ScottBurson on Sept 16, 2017 \| 59 comments
18.		Unicore: A new Unikernel project (xen.org)
		107 points by ingve on Sept 16, 2017 \| 22 comments
19.		Europilot: A toolkit for Euro Truck Simulator to develop self-driving algorithms (github.com/marshq)
		254 points by daftshady on Sept 16, 2017 \| 39 comments
20.		Equifax Releases Details on Cybersecurity Incident, Announces Personnel Changes (equifax.com)
		180 points by diggernet on Sept 15, 2017 \| 178 comments
21.		Amazon Is Hungry and Coming for Cable Channels (nbcnews.com)
		84 points by Mz on Sept 16, 2017 \| 37 comments
22.		AllenNLP – An open-source NLP research library, built on PyTorch (allennlp.org)
		194 points by varunagrawal on Sept 16, 2017 \| 25 comments
23.		The Realities of Being a FOSS Maintainer (caddy.community)
		215 points by jwcrux on Sept 16, 2017 \| 120 comments
24.		Improbably Frequent Lottery Winners (cjr.org)
		197 points by peterkshultz on Sept 16, 2017 \| 97 comments
25.		Scilab – Open source software for numerical computation (scilab.org)
		139 points by zuron7 on Sept 16, 2017 \| 45 comments
26.		Njalla – A privacy aware domain registration service (njal.la)
		65 points by Tomte on Sept 16, 2017 \| 12 comments
27.		Linear Algebra for AI (github.com/fastai)
		318 points by stablemap on Sept 16, 2017 \| 37 comments
28.		Patching is hard; so what? (cryptographyengineering.com)
		120 points by runesoerensen on Sept 15, 2017 \| 61 comments
29.		New oscillator system in Zenith mechanical watches (hodinkee.com)
		167 points by nichodges on Sept 16, 2017 \| 63 comments
30.		PenTesting Active Directory Environments (2016) (varonis.com)
		40 points by wolframio on Sept 16, 2017 \| 2 comments
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