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1. Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B (bloomberg.com)
1687 points by whatok on June 16, 2017 | 824 comments
2. The Calibre Content Server (calibre-ebook.com)
314 points by dabber on June 16, 2017 | 140 comments
3. Supercharge your Computer Vision models with the TensorFlow Object Detection API (googleblog.com)
350 points by janober on June 16, 2017 | 59 comments
4. Startup School 2017 Presentations (startupschool.org)
322 points by src on June 16, 2017 | 96 comments
5. Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced (standardebooks.org)
441 points by robin_reala on June 16, 2017 | 96 comments
6. A Startup Making Paper Out of Stone, Not Trees (bloomberg.com)
276 points by T-A on June 16, 2017 | 173 comments
7. American Chipmakers Had a Toxic Problem, Then They Outsourced It (bloomberg.com)
288 points by clumsysmurf on June 15, 2017 | 130 comments
8. How I Stole a User's Siacoin (mtlynch.io)
292 points by mtlynch on June 16, 2017 | 71 comments
9. New Evidence That All Stars Are Born in Pairs (cfa.harvard.edu)
165 points by okket on June 16, 2017 | 105 comments
10. Org-mode reference card [pdf] (orgmode.org)
153 points by lordofuniverse on June 16, 2017 | 28 comments
11. Switching to the Mutt Email Client (nullprogram.com)
263 points by ingve on June 16, 2017 | 241 comments
12. Twitter, but for Math, with Toots (ams.org)
175 points by aqsalose on June 15, 2017 | 29 comments
13. Air Force budget reveals how much SpaceX undercuts launch prices (arstechnica.com)
198 points by Analemma_ on June 15, 2017 | 126 comments
14. Walmart to Buy Bonobos, Men’s Wear Company, for $310M (nytimes.com)
164 points by robbiemitchell on June 16, 2017 | 134 comments
15. Towards a Better Notation for Mathematics (2010) [pdf] (files.wordpress.com)
81 points by stared on June 16, 2017 | 32 comments
16. Polynesian people used a kind of binary number system 600 years ago (2013) (nature.com)
190 points by ghewgill on June 16, 2017 | 115 comments
17. Justin Kan Raises $10M for New Legal Startup (techcrunch.com)
161 points by imjk on June 16, 2017 | 98 comments
18. Palm-sized Apple II Computer (vintageisthenewold.com)
88 points by pgarcia on June 16, 2017 | 35 comments
19. Show HN: uMOOC, an online tutoring platform for Harvard's CS50 and MIT's 6.00.1 (umooc.org)
92 points by ralmidani on June 15, 2017 | 34 comments
20. How the .NET Runtime Loads a Type (mattwarren.org)
170 points by matthewwarren on June 15, 2017 | 55 comments
21. C.S. Lewis's Greatest Fiction: Telling Kids They’d Like Turkish Delight (2015) (atlasobscura.com)
180 points by amflare on June 15, 2017 | 125 comments
22. Things that Idris improves things over Haskell (deque.blog)
221 points by deque-blog on June 14, 2017 | 154 comments
23. Attacks on Encrypted Databases [pdf] (iacr.org)
106 points by blacksmythe on June 16, 2017 | 26 comments
24. Open source deep learning models that programmers can download and run first try (github.com/samdeeplearning)
181 points by pplonski86 on June 16, 2017 | 39 comments
25. Memristor – The missing circuit element (1971) [pdf] (cpmt.org)
84 points by dayve on June 15, 2017 | 26 comments
26. A Technique for Drawing Directed Graphs (1993) [pdf] (graphviz.org)
68 points by ColinWright on June 16, 2017 | 11 comments
27. Don't Leave Coredumps on Web Servers (hboeck.de)
87 points by hannob on June 15, 2017 | 32 comments
28. Chinese scientists test quantum entanglement over unprecedented distance (scientificamerican.com)
138 points by javascript-this on June 16, 2017 | 78 comments
29. A Sociology of the Smartphone (longreads.com)
67 points by anjalik on June 15, 2017 | 18 comments
30. Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2014) (arxiv.org)
98 points by adamnemecek on June 15, 2017 | 61 comments

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