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1.		Security alerts on GitHub (github.com/blog)
		697 points by stablemap on Nov 16, 2017 \| 100 comments
2.		Startup Ideas (blog.ycombinator.com)
		614 points by kcorbitt on Nov 16, 2017 \| 453 comments
3.		RISC-V port merged into Linux 4.15 (groups.google.com)
		296 points by rwmj on Nov 16, 2017 \| 72 comments
4.		Concise Electronics for Geeks (2010) (coredump.cx)
		481 points by nbmh on Nov 15, 2017 \| 49 comments
5.		Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (2012) (toothycat.net)
		241 points by reimertz on Nov 16, 2017 \| 115 comments
6.		JavaScript. The Core: 2nd Edition (dmitrysoshnikov.com)
		413 points by wmonk on Nov 16, 2017 \| 91 comments
7.		The FCC has repealed a 42-year-old rule blocking broadcast media mergers (washingtonpost.com)
		368 points by uptown on Nov 16, 2017 \| 155 comments
8.		An On-Device Deep Neural Network for Face Detection (machinelearning.apple.com)
		187 points by olivercameron on Nov 16, 2017 \| 50 comments
9.		Learn just enough Linux to get things done (alexpetralia.com)
		353 points by shrikant on Nov 16, 2017 \| 133 comments
10.		Why Education Startups Do Not Succeed (2011) (avichal.com)
		356 points by ALee on Nov 16, 2017 \| 141 comments
11.		I still love Kierkegaard (aeon.co)
		189 points by lermontov on Nov 15, 2017 \| 143 comments
12.		FCC plans to vote to overturn U.S. net neutrality rules in December (reuters.com)
		327 points by mido22 on Nov 16, 2017 \| 137 comments
13.		Carl Sagan Warned the World About Nuclear Winter (smithsonianmag.com)
		160 points by anarbadalov on Nov 16, 2017 \| 119 comments
14.		Amazon Sellers Brood as States Come Calling for Taxes (nytimes.com)
		160 points by ingve on Nov 16, 2017 \| 199 comments
15.		Chrome OS exploit: WebAsm, Site Isolation, crosh, crash reporter, cryptohomed (chromium.org)
		222 points by _ugfj on Nov 16, 2017 \| 66 comments
16.		Bayesian ranking of items with up and downvotes or 5 star ratings (2015) (julesjacobs.github.io)
		159 points by mooreds on Nov 16, 2017 \| 24 comments
17.		Puffs: Parsing Untrusted File Formats Safely (github.com/google)
		200 points by ingve on Nov 16, 2017 \| 102 comments
18.		Leonardo Da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3M, Shattering Auction Records (nytimes.com)
		202 points by aaronbrethorst on Nov 16, 2017 \| 143 comments
19.		Citus Cloud 2, Postgres, and Scaling Without Compromise (citusdata.com)
		110 points by bgentry on Nov 16, 2017 \| 40 comments
20.		Towards Linux Kernel Memory Safety (arxiv.org)
		144 points by lainon on Nov 16, 2017 \| 95 comments
21.		The Coin Flip: A Fundamentally Unfair Proposition? (2009) (ucsb.edu)
		128 points by scandox on Nov 16, 2017 \| 108 comments
22.		A source of knowledge for Language Server Protocol implementations (langserver.org)
		129 points by 0x4542 on Nov 16, 2017 \| 59 comments
23.		Understanding LSTM and its diagrams (medium.com/mlreview)
		125 points by adamnemecek on Nov 15, 2017 \| 10 comments
24.		Vis – A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions (github.com/martanne)
		170 points by wooby on Nov 16, 2017 \| 39 comments
25.		Why Ageism Never Gets Old (newyorker.com)
		212 points by eludwig on Nov 16, 2017 \| 262 comments
26.		A Sampling of Anti-Decompilation Techniques (ret2.io)
		120 points by swalsh on Nov 16, 2017 \| 32 comments
27.		New Orleans man locked up nearly 8 years awaiting trial, then case gets tossed (theadvocate.com)
		250 points by balderdash on Nov 16, 2017 \| 115 comments
28.		Leela Zero – Go engine with no human-provided knowledge (github.com/gcp)
		142 points by pmontra on Nov 16, 2017 \| 47 comments
29.		On Being Midwestern: The Burden of Normality (iasc-culture.org)
		140 points by samclemens on Nov 16, 2017 \| 319 comments
30.		A Beginner’s Guide to Optimizing Pandas Code for Speed (upside.com)
		104 points by chasedehan on Nov 16, 2017 \| 14 comments
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