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1.		AMD Discloses Initial Zen 2 Details (wikichip.org)
		446 points by throwaway2048 on Nov 18, 2018 \| 197 comments
2.		‘Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat’ Is a Love Letter to Amateur Cooks (theatlantic.com)
		415 points by tomhoward on Nov 18, 2018 \| 130 comments
3.		GoAWK: an AWK interpreter written in Go (benhoyt.com)
		228 points by f2f on Nov 17, 2018 \| 88 comments
4.		Unscii – a bitmapped Unicode font for blocky graphics (pelulamu.net)
		325 points by detuur on Nov 18, 2018 \| 49 comments
5.		Show HN: Don't code your UI, draw it (github.com/karanchahal)
		302 points by karanchahal on Nov 18, 2018 \| 141 comments
6.		Practical Typography (practicaltypography.com)
		261 points by beefhash on Nov 17, 2018 \| 61 comments
7.		Ask HN: What's the hardest problem you've ever solved?
		464 points by jamestimmins on Nov 17, 2018 \| 422 comments
8.		The Remarkable Brain Waves of High Level Meditators [video] (kottke.org)
		343 points by kawera on Nov 18, 2018 \| 175 comments
9.		What Car Thieves Think of the Club (2010) (freakonomics.com)
		146 points by caminante on Nov 18, 2018 \| 125 comments
10.		Cycle.js – A functional and reactive JavaScript framework for predictable code (cycle.js.org)
		206 points by octosphere on Nov 18, 2018 \| 57 comments
11.		Virus Explorer – visualize and compare viruses in 3D models (hhmi.org)
		95 points by mlejva on Nov 17, 2018 \| 6 comments
12.		OpenZFS vs. Btrfs and other file systems (2017) (ixsystems.com)
		165 points by stargrave on Nov 18, 2018 \| 223 comments
13.		An Oral History of Laurel Canyon, the 60s and 70s Music Mecca (2015) (vanityfair.com)
		33 points by tintinnabula on Nov 16, 2018 \| 16 comments
14.		The Coming Crisis in Home Computers (1983) (nytimes.com)
		130 points by indigodaddy on Nov 18, 2018 \| 180 comments
15.		Ask HN: Blind programmers, what can I do to make my code easier for you?
		202 points by ioquatix on Nov 18, 2018 \| 43 comments
16.		Building your own shell using Rust (joshmcguigan.com)
		216 points by boyter on Nov 18, 2018 \| 52 comments
17.		How the World's Most Difficult Bouldering Problems Get Made (2015) (outsideonline.com)
		135 points by cribbles on Nov 18, 2018 \| 70 comments
18.		On Rigorous Error Handling (250bpm.com)
		67 points by rumcajz on Nov 17, 2018 \| 56 comments
19.		Rust and SPARK: Software Reliability for Everyone (2017) (electronicdesign.com)
		140 points by oherrala on Nov 18, 2018 \| 25 comments
20.		Why the world needs deep generalists, not specialists (medium.com/swlh)
		237 points by aytekin on Nov 18, 2018 \| 126 comments
21.		Chess World Championship: Stockfish live-analyzing game 7 (sesse.net)
		119 points by tosh on Nov 18, 2018 \| 115 comments
22.		WebSockets – A Conceptual Deep-Dive (ably.io)
		178 points by yannikyeo on Nov 18, 2018 \| 11 comments
23.		Why I’m Giving $1.8B for College Financial Aid (nytimes.com)
		185 points by wallflower on Nov 18, 2018 \| 159 comments
24.		The Complicated Legacy of Stewart Brand’s “Whole Earth Catalog” (newyorker.com)
		54 points by mitchbob on Nov 18, 2018 \| 21 comments
25.		The World’s Loudest Sound (2014) (kottke.org)
		126 points by wallflower on Nov 18, 2018 \| 41 comments
26.		China Steps Up Trade Secret Theft from US Companies (latimes.com)
		265 points by spoiledtechie on Nov 18, 2018 \| 194 comments
27.		Extending optionals in Swift (swiftbysundell.com)
		69 points by zacwood on Nov 18, 2018 \| 18 comments
28.		Genetic Programming in Clojure (sulami.github.io)
		83 points by sulami on Nov 17, 2018 \| 23 comments
29.		Shaved Heads, Snipped Tubes, Imperial Marines and Dope Fiends: On Synanon (2013) (cabinetmagazine.org)
		73 points by lermontov on Nov 16, 2018 \| 27 comments
30.		Here are the 'cyber 9/11' scenarios that really worry the experts (cnbc.com)
		110 points by SREinSF on Nov 18, 2018 \| 77 comments
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