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1.		DuckDuckGo vs Google (fourweekmba.com)
		1140 points by gcuofano on Sept 20, 2017 \| 536 comments
2.		A new kind of map: it’s about time (mapbox.com)
		968 points by uptown on Sept 20, 2017 \| 201 comments
3.		How to hack a turned-off computer, or running unsigned code in Intel ME (blackhat.com)
		769 points by edejong on Sept 20, 2017 \| 240 comments
4.		Snowflake macro photography (2013) (chaoticmind75.blogspot.com)
		517 points by runesoerensen on Sept 20, 2017 \| 67 comments
5.		US solar plant costs fall another 30 per cent in one year (reneweconomy.com.au)
		460 points by doener on Sept 19, 2017 \| 167 comments
6.		MindWeb – A Computer Science Bachelor Curriculum (mindweb.network)
		331 points by foob on Sept 20, 2017 \| 62 comments
7.		Equifax linked customers to my fake phishing version of their site by accident (twitter.com/thesquashsh)
		499 points by ceejayoz on Sept 20, 2017 \| 189 comments
8.		Swift 4.0 Released (swift.org)
		386 points by runesoerensen on Sept 20, 2017 \| 140 comments
9.		Google Is Close to Buying HTC Assets to Bolster Hardware (bloomberg.com)
		270 points by mcone on Sept 20, 2017 \| 202 comments
10.		China Bans Bitcoin Executives from Leaving Country, Miners “Preparing for Worst” (trustnodes.com)
		322 points by adamnemecek on Sept 20, 2017 \| 260 comments
11.		GraphQL Patent Infringement Issues (github.com/facebook)
		301 points by brodock on Sept 19, 2017 \| 124 comments
12.		Real-Time Global Illumination by Precomputed Local Reconstruction (aalto.fi)
		215 points by ingve on Sept 20, 2017 \| 87 comments
13.		Consciousness Goes Deeper Than We Think (scientificamerican.com)
		226 points by mathgenius on Sept 19, 2017 \| 175 comments
14.		AR.js: Efficient Augmented Reality for the Web (github.com/jeromeetienne)
		226 points by uptown on Sept 20, 2017 \| 34 comments
15.		Apple: Heap Overflow in AppleBCMWLANCore Driver (chromium.org)
		137 points by 0x0 on Sept 20, 2017 \| 67 comments
16.		Inception Drive: A Compact, Infinitely Variable Transmission for Robotics (ieee.org)
		136 points by mcspecter on Sept 20, 2017 \| 52 comments
17.		Automotive Grade Linux Platform Debuts on the 2018 Toyota Camry (automotivelinux.org)
		130 points by doener on Sept 19, 2017 \| 110 comments
18.		Show HN: Calcflow, an open-source complex maths visualization tool in VR (github.com/matryx)
		117 points by ottomanbob on Sept 20, 2017 \| 36 comments
19.		Non-determinism: a sublanguage rather than a monad (okmij.org)
		97 points by panic on Sept 20, 2017 \| 73 comments
20.		Transactionally Staged Job Drains in Postgres (brandur.org)
		115 points by johns on Sept 20, 2017 \| 31 comments
21.		Fixing the ‘Brain Damage’ Caused by the I.P.O. Process (nytimes.com)
		137 points by KKKKkkkk1 on Sept 19, 2017 \| 78 comments
22.		Why Keccak is not ARX (keccak.team)
		87 points by fanf2 on Sept 19, 2017 \| 42 comments
23.		Benefits of Napping in Healthy Adults (2009) [pdf] (wiley.com)
		88 points by _culy on Sept 20, 2017 \| 38 comments
24.		The Struggle with Where the Sidewalks Won't Go (bittersoutherner.com)
		169 points by samsolomon on Sept 20, 2017 \| 299 comments
25.		Show HN: Redox Rust OS – v0.3.3 release (github.com/redox-os)
		232 points by jackpot51 on Sept 20, 2017 \| 76 comments
26.		The Ballad of the Green Beret (lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com)
		119 points by smacktoward on Sept 19, 2017 \| 43 comments
27.		French chef asks to be stripped of three Michelin stars (theguardian.com)
		137 points by kafkaesq on Sept 20, 2017 \| 128 comments
28.		A Brain Built from Atomic Switches Can Learn (quantamagazine.org)
		124 points by burkaman on Sept 20, 2017 \| 20 comments
29.		First quantum computers need smart software (nature.com)
		70 points by agronaut on Sept 20, 2017 \| 38 comments
30.		Toshiba picks Bain Capital as preferred memory unit buyer (nikkei.com)
		69 points by ytch on Sept 20, 2017 \| 38 comments
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