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1. WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio (deepmind.com)
627 points by benanne on Sept 8, 2016 | 145 comments
2. How to Write a Spelling Corrector (norvig.com)
401 points by colobas on Sept 8, 2016 | 126 comments
3. How to Test Drive Your Business Idea Before Quitting Your Job (ladder.io)
446 points by stefanmancevski on Sept 8, 2016 | 87 comments
4. Sophisticated OS X Backdoor Discovered (securelist.com)
385 points by cyphersanctus on Sept 8, 2016 | 144 comments
5. Visual Studio Code 1.5 (visualstudio.com)
379 points by out_of_protocol on Sept 8, 2016 | 258 comments
6. A bite of Python (redhat.com)
334 points by ashitlerferad on Sept 8, 2016 | 162 comments
7. VotePlz – The Easiest Way to Vote (voteplz.org)
238 points by zachlatta on Sept 8, 2016 | 311 comments
8. 500 Lines or Less – A Python Interpreter Written in Python (aosabook.org)
183 points by gkst on Sept 8, 2016 | 45 comments
9. Google to acquire Apigee (googleblog.com)
210 points by ctdean on Sept 8, 2016 | 80 comments
10. The Fierce, Forgotten Library Wars of the Ancient World (atlasobscura.com)
105 points by diodorus on Sept 7, 2016 | 24 comments
11. The OPM Data Breach [pdf] (house.gov)
162 points by daveloyall on Sept 8, 2016 | 120 comments
12. Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) Darpa Funding (fbo.gov)
134 points by Dim25 on Sept 8, 2016 | 40 comments
13. Evidence Rebuts Chomsky's Theory of Language Learning (scientificamerican.com)
149 points by doppp on Sept 8, 2016 | 95 comments
14. Show HN: Materia – A modern dev environment to build mobile and web applications (getmateria.com)
127 points by mehdim on Sept 8, 2016 | 43 comments
15. Japan home to 541,000 young recluses (japantimes.co.jp)
163 points by mattnumbe on Sept 8, 2016 | 240 comments
16. “Dear Mark. I am writing this to inform you that I shall not comply” (aftenposten.no)
660 points by Sainth on Sept 8, 2016 | 202 comments
17. Google and Box Announce Partnership (googleforwork.blogspot.com)
130 points by akrolsmir on Sept 8, 2016 | 61 comments
18. InfluxDB 1.0 GA Released: A Retrospective and What’s Next (influxdata.com)
136 points by pauldix on Sept 8, 2016 | 79 comments
19. The End of Headphone Jacks, the Rise of DRM (eff.org)
457 points by dwaxe on Sept 8, 2016 | 336 comments
20. Mailtrain Newsletter #8 – Bundled MTA (mailtrain.org)
81 points by andris9 on Sept 8, 2016 | 36 comments
21. Nintendo Soars as Super Mario Mobile Game Comes to the iPhone (bloomberg.com)
181 points by adventured on Sept 8, 2016 | 144 comments
22. Proposal of a new concurrency model for Ruby 3 [pdf] (atdot.net)
188 points by tenderlove on Sept 8, 2016 | 87 comments
23. Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by Its Hosts (nytimes.com)
131 points by brentm on Sept 8, 2016 | 382 comments
24. Browser Fingerprinting (sites.google.com)
146 points by dedalus on Sept 8, 2016 | 43 comments
25. ‘Freddie Mercury was a prodigy’: Rockstar's Panchgani bandmates remember ‘Bucky’ (scroll.in)
123 points by tintinnabula on Sept 7, 2016 | 38 comments
26. Show HN: cookies.js, making cookies a delight to work with on the front-end (github.com/franciscop)
122 points by franciscop on Sept 8, 2016 | 46 comments
27. Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”? (2014) (stackoverflow.com)
324 points by retox on Sept 8, 2016 | 54 comments
28. Show HN: Find a movie to watch the lazy way (lazydayapp.com)
77 points by fjabre on Sept 8, 2016 | 41 comments
29. What's next for Apache OpenOffice (lwn.net)
74 points by cesarb on Sept 8, 2016 | 70 comments
30. There Are No Truffles in Truffle Oil (2014) (priceonomics.com)
166 points by obi1kenobi on Sept 8, 2016 | 184 comments

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