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1.		Dropbox: Creating a Modern OCR Pipeline Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning (dropbox.com)
		160 points by wwarner 3 hours ago \| hide \| 52 comments
2.		Writing a basic x86-64 JIT compiler from scratch in stock Python (csl.name)
		11 points by csl 36 minutes ago \| hide \| discuss
3.		Low-cost, non-invasive melanoma detector wins award (jamesdysonaward.org)
		190 points by ductionist 6 hours ago \| hide \| 30 comments
4.		Niagara Falls without water in 1969 (niagarafrontier.com)
		56 points by howrude 2 hours ago \| hide \| 13 comments
5.		How We Deliver Global SSL with Let's Encrypt (fly.io)
		40 points by jnunemaker 1 hour ago \| hide \| discuss
6.		.IO domain name reliability issues and how we’re working around them (getstream.io)
		176 points by sbierwagen 3 hours ago \| hide \| 108 comments
7.		TensorForce 0.3: End-to-end computation graphs for reinforcement learning (reinforce.io)
		63 points by k_f 5 hours ago \| hide \| discuss
8.		Skyrim rendered in text (medium.com)
		245 points by ellinokon 9 hours ago \| hide \| 56 comments
9.		Russian Peasant Multiplication (virtualspecies.com)
		60 points by sayham28 4 hours ago \| hide \| 14 comments
10.		The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business (theatlantic.com)
		503 points by Firebrand 14 hours ago \| hide \| 188 comments
11.		Using neural networks to detect car crashes in dashcam footage (insightdatascience.com)
		74 points by gk1 6 hours ago \| hide \| 16 comments
12.		Can Ford Turn Itself into a Tech Company? (nytimes.com)
		12 points by georgecmu 1 hour ago \| hide \| 8 comments
13.		Sean Parker unloads on Facebook “exploiting” human psychology (axios.com)
		367 points by jbuild 7 hours ago \| hide \| 149 comments
14.		Two new books about the history of paper (chicagotribune.com)
		11 points by well_i_never 1 hour ago \| hide \| 1 comment
15.		Bitcoin's Enormous Energy Costs May Prove to Be Its Biggest Risk (bloomberg.com)
		49 points by pdog 5 hours ago \| hide \| 35 comments
16.		The Ghost of Cognition Past, or Thinking Like an Algorithm (bldgblog.com)
		19 points by fwdbureau 3 hours ago \| hide \| 2 comments
17.		Pliny the Elder, “The Natural History”, Book I (79) (tufts.edu)
		31 points by peterburkimsher 5 hours ago \| hide \| 23 comments
18.		Announcing Kured, a Kubernetes Reboot Daemon (weave.works)
		40 points by awh0 4 hours ago \| hide \| 5 comments
19.		Coherent Line Drawing (github.com)
		43 points by ssarcandy 6 hours ago \| hide \| 4 comments
20.		Learning Go by porting a medium-sized web back end from Python (benhoyt.com)
		212 points by benhoyt 14 hours ago \| hide \| 158 comments
21.		'Zombie ant' brains left intact by fungal parasite (phys.org)
		161 points by dnetesn 13 hours ago \| hide \| 78 comments
22.		As epidemic rages, ER study finds opioids no better than Advil and Tylenol (arstechnica.com)
		116 points by rbanffy 5 hours ago \| hide \| 104 comments
23.		The rise and fall of Limux (lwn.net)
		102 points by bitcharmer 10 hours ago \| hide \| 69 comments
24.		Driverless shuttle in Las Vegas gets in fender bender within an hour (techcrunch.com)
		76 points by watchdogtimer 10 hours ago \| hide \| 105 comments
25.		Vault 8 – Source code and analysis for CIA software projects (wikileaks.org)
		68 points by degenerate 3 hours ago \| hide \| 30 comments
26.		US government approves 'killer' mosquitoes to fight disease (nature.com)
		60 points by hourislate 2 hours ago \| hide \| 85 comments
27.		Louis CK accused by five women of sexual misconduct in new report (theguardian.com)
		6 points by troydavis 14 minutes ago \| hide \| discuss
28.		Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light of Equifax hack (techcrunch.com)
		946 points by Varcht 22 hours ago \| hide \| 427 comments
29.		I bought a Switch from Nintendo and they threatened me with legal action (headmelted.com)
		326 points by headmelted 9 hours ago \| hide \| 300 comments
30.		Drchrono is looking for Python/Django engineers to help us fix healthcare
		3 hours ago \| hide
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