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1. Researchers reach human parity in conversational speech recognition (microsoft.com)
468 points by jonbaer on Oct 18, 2016 | 155 comments
2. Google Flights will now tell you when fares will increase (techcrunch.com)
435 points by jonbaer on Oct 18, 2016 | 163 comments
3. How breakpoints are set (majantali.net)
396 points by luu on Oct 18, 2016 | 66 comments
4. Phasing Out SHA-1 on the Public Web (blog.mozilla.org)
197 points by kungfudoi on Oct 18, 2016 | 101 comments
5. The Government’s Addiction to ‘Secret Law’ (nytimes.com)
426 points by af16090 on Oct 18, 2016 | 153 comments
6. Shame on Y Combinator (marco.org)
1280 points by MattBearman on Oct 18, 2016 | 1321 comments
7. Air India Taking Advantage of Tailwinds (flightradar24.com)
361 points by obi1kenobi on Oct 18, 2016 | 130 comments
8. Don’t let your anger persist (julian.com)
312 points by julianshapiro on Oct 17, 2016 | 165 comments
9. Leo Beranek, an engineer who helped build Arpanet, has died (nytimes.com)
290 points by sew on Oct 18, 2016 | 29 comments
10. Introducing Nomulus: an open source top-level domain name registry (googleblog.com)
202 points by kungfudoi on Oct 18, 2016 | 48 comments
11. Node v6.9.0 (LTS) (nodejs.org)
309 points by dabber on Oct 18, 2016 | 90 comments
12. Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Stealing Your Mobile Traffic” (alexkras.com)
342 points by akras14 on Oct 18, 2016 | 195 comments
13. The Linux Foundation Unites the JavaScript Community for Open Web Development (js.foundation)
265 points by fagnerbrack on Oct 18, 2016 | 129 comments
14. Apple hires CMU professor as director of AI research to smarten up Siri (techcrunch.com)
170 points by doppp on Oct 17, 2016 | 66 comments
15. Virtual Forest (virtualforest.io)
198 points by habi on Oct 18, 2016 | 60 comments
16. Deep work in practice: reimagining my workflow for radically less distraction (alexdenning.com)
220 points by sevenironcows on Oct 18, 2016 | 72 comments
17. My observations during the explosion at Trinity (1945) (fermatslibrary.com)
153 points by luisb on Oct 18, 2016 | 46 comments
18. Doudou Linux – For children from 2 to 12 years old (doudoulinux.org)
168 points by _xcfe on Oct 18, 2016 | 94 comments
19. JDK 9 release schedule (java.net)
159 points by erl on Oct 18, 2016 | 160 comments
20. Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds (bloomberg.com)
273 points by antouank on Oct 18, 2016 | 396 comments
21. Scrypt is Maximally Memory-Hard (iacr.org)
147 points by cperciva on Oct 18, 2016 | 74 comments
22. Fusion – One-stop prototyping service for PCBs (seeedstudio.com)
130 points by elijahparker on Oct 18, 2016 | 52 comments
23. Mirai Botnets (level3.com)
108 points by _jomo on Oct 18, 2016 | 36 comments
24. Show HN: Swip.js, a library to create multi device experiments (github.com/paulsonnentag)
152 points by brackcurly on Oct 18, 2016 | 17 comments
25. Mercurial 4.0 Sprint Notes (groups.google.com)
148 points by steveklabnik on Oct 18, 2016 | 127 comments
26. Awesome .NET – A collection of .NET libraries, tools, frameworks, and software (github.com/quozd)
198 points by gk1 on Oct 18, 2016 | 30 comments
27. AI•ON: Artificial Intelligence Open Network (ai-on.org)
151 points by cocoflunchy on Oct 18, 2016 | 17 comments
28. Postgres Count Performance (citusdata.com)
153 points by rdegges on Oct 18, 2016 | 31 comments
29. Lego-Like Wall Produces Acoustic Holograms (sciencebulletin.org)
55 points by upen on Oct 17, 2016 | 5 comments
30. Dropping Linux capabilities to improve container security (redhat.com)
175 points by cheiVia0 on Oct 18, 2016 | 52 comments

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