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1.		Firefox 57.0 Released (mozilla.org)
		1692 points by l2dy on Nov 14, 2017 \| 813 comments
2.		The fake Facebook profile industry (radio-canada.ca)
		795 points by imartin2k on Nov 14, 2017 \| 258 comments
3.		Using SVG as image placeholders (medium.com/jmperezperez)
		983 points by FriedPickles on Nov 14, 2017 \| 134 comments
4.		There are over a billion outdated Android devices in use (danluu.com)
		530 points by josephscott on Nov 14, 2017 \| 465 comments
5.		WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers (blog.mozilla.org)
		574 points by subir on Nov 14, 2017 \| 339 comments
6.		Augmented reality with Python and OpenCV (bitesofcode.wordpress.com)
		291 points by galloafro on Nov 14, 2017 \| 22 comments
7.		Developer preview of TensorFlow Lite (googleblog.com)
		358 points by runesoerensen on Nov 14, 2017 \| 77 comments
8.		“It is never a compiler error” (plover.com)
		289 points by zeveb on Nov 14, 2017 \| 272 comments
9.		Introducing Twitter premium APIs (blog.twitter.com)
		245 points by stablemap on Nov 14, 2017 \| 139 comments
10.		Ask HN: What are best tools for web scraping?
		502 points by pydox on Nov 14, 2017 \| 228 comments
11.		Real-time dynamics of CRISPR visualized by high-speed atomic force microscopy (nature.com)
		136 points by kjhughes on Nov 14, 2017 \| 12 comments
12.		Ask HN: What are some interesting papers in CS for a beginner?
		534 points by avinassh on Nov 14, 2017 \| 91 comments
13.		Trade school, not 4-year college, is a better bet to solve the US income gap (cnbc.com)
		292 points by SQL2219 on Nov 14, 2017 \| 281 comments
14.		How Discord Resizes 150M Images Every Day with Go and C++ (discordapp.com)
		303 points by b1naryth1ef on Nov 14, 2017 \| 145 comments
15.		Fedora 27 released (fedoramagazine.org)
		287 points by gtirloni on Nov 14, 2017 \| 143 comments
16.		Show HN: Datasette – Create and publish an API for SQLite databases (simonwillison.net)
		269 points by simonw on Nov 14, 2017 \| 44 comments
17.		The evolution of eyes (nationalgeographic.com)
		152 points by sajid on Nov 14, 2017 \| 36 comments
18.		Elasticsearch 6.0.0 GA released (elastic.co)
		192 points by haakon on Nov 14, 2017 \| 86 comments
19.		How to Get Rich Playing Video Games Online (newyorker.com)
		226 points by Dowwie on Nov 14, 2017 \| 194 comments
20.		Node.js v9.2.0 (nodejs.org)
		151 points by bricss on Nov 14, 2017 \| 73 comments
21.		Phoenix WebSockets under a Microscope (zorbash.com)
		157 points by zorbash on Nov 13, 2017 \| 24 comments
22.		Cornell Natural Language Visual Reasoning Dataset (cornell.edu)
		159 points by indescions_2017 on Nov 14, 2017 \| 5 comments
23.		Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the U.S. (blog.mozilla.org)
		225 points by dallamaneni on Nov 14, 2017 \| 147 comments
24.		The Apple Watch can detect hypertension and sleep apnea, a new study suggests (techcrunch.com)
		227 points by helloworld on Nov 14, 2017 \| 177 comments
25.		Discovering a Blue Ocean Idea (capitalandgrowth.org)
		104 points by jkuria on Nov 14, 2017 \| 33 comments
26.		New Tech Incubators Put Finances First (wsj.com)
		69 points by jkuria on Nov 14, 2017 \| 33 comments
27.		Beijing Sinnet says it will buy Amazon Web Services’ China business (wsj.com)
		135 points by Bockit on Nov 14, 2017 \| 60 comments
28.		The Story of a New Brain (logicmag.io)
		57 points by Hooke on Nov 13, 2017 \| 13 comments
29.		Red Hat Introduces Arm Server Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (redhat.com)
		156 points by cpeterso on Nov 14, 2017 \| 45 comments
30.		ACID transactions in a globally distributed database (fauna.com)
		123 points by jchanimal on Nov 14, 2017 \| 40 comments
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