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1.		Google Is Eating Our Mail (tablix.org)
		1931 points by saintamh on April 26, 2019 \| 685 comments
2.		TurboTax Hides Its Free File Page from Search Engines (propublica.org)
		881 points by danso on April 26, 2019 \| 262 comments
3.		Slack S-1 (sec.gov)
		593 points by bardworx on April 26, 2019 \| 453 comments
4.		When setting an environment variable gives you a 40x speedup (stanford.edu)
		505 points by CaliforniaKarl on April 26, 2019 \| 131 comments
5.		Facebook's Email-Harvesting Practice Is Under Investigation in N.Y. (bloomberg.com)
		334 points by kerng on April 26, 2019 \| 98 comments
6.		Can Uber ever make money? (economist.com)
		287 points by lxm on April 26, 2019 \| 412 comments
7.		Base Web, Uber’s New Design System for Building Websites in React (uber.com)
		266 points by sgolestane on April 26, 2019 \| 148 comments
8.		Technical Challenges Developing a Distributed SQL Database (yugabyte.com)
		237 points by sickeythecat on April 26, 2019 \| 34 comments
9.		Impact of a Night of Sleep Deprivation on Novice Developers’ Performance (2018) (arxiv.org)
		324 points by gyre007 on April 26, 2019 \| 206 comments
10.		Show HN: Sauron – A web framework in Rust that adheres to the Elm architecture (github.com/ivanceras)
		305 points by ivanceras on April 26, 2019 \| 97 comments
11.		Open-sourcing F14 for memory-efficient hash tables (fb.com)
		225 points by ot on April 26, 2019 \| 45 comments
12.		Much of the “science” used in design is bullshit (2014) (mjparnell.com)
		330 points by spking on April 26, 2019 \| 137 comments
13.		How to Read a Schematic (sparkfun.com)
		302 points by jlturner on April 26, 2019 \| 82 comments
14.		Name one thing in this photo (twitter.com/melip0ne)
		568 points by explore on April 24, 2019 \| 174 comments
15.		Stepping Away from Sass (cathydutton.co.uk)
		211 points by spking on April 25, 2019 \| 155 comments
16.		Many people are getting rare cancers in a small Georgia town (atlantamagazine.com)
		168 points by echelon on April 26, 2019 \| 93 comments
17.		After Pentagon Ends Contract, Top-Secret Scientists Group Vows To Carry On (npr.org)
		161 points by Meerax on April 26, 2019 \| 40 comments
18.		Researchers propose a new interdisciplinary subfield called “Machine Behaviour” (nature.com)
		95 points by blh75 on April 26, 2019 \| 48 comments
19.		RePalm – Hardware Emulation of PalmOS (dmitry.gr)
		175 points by zdw on April 26, 2019 \| 37 comments
20.		VPN services blocked in Sri Lanka as information controls tighten (netblocks.org)
		127 points by infodocket on April 25, 2019 \| 59 comments
21.		Behind the Yakuza: documenting the women of Japan’s mafia (2018) (dazeddigital.com)
		159 points by sjamella on April 25, 2019 \| 36 comments
22.		Principles and Techniques of Data Science (ds100.org)
		347 points by charlysl on April 26, 2019 \| 20 comments
23.		WatchMe – Watch for Changes on a Page (github.com/vsoch)
		182 points by Bilters on April 26, 2019 \| 35 comments
24.		Unseen Clockwork Orange 'Follow-Up' by Anthony Burgess Unearthed (bbc.com)
		108 points by jonbaer on April 25, 2019 \| 17 comments
25.		Lisp Operating System (2015) (metamodular.com)
		173 points by antipropaganda on April 25, 2019 \| 61 comments
26.		A former lead designer of Gmail fixes Gmail with a Chrome extension (fastcompany.com)
		253 points by georgecmu on April 26, 2019 \| 117 comments
27.		Welcome to Shanghai, the capital of the future (theglobeandmail.com)
		191 points by pseudolus on April 26, 2019 \| 227 comments
28.		Ecuador legalized gangs and murder rates plummeted (vox.com)
		160 points by nwatson on April 24, 2019 \| 69 comments
29.		Private Space Launch Firms in China Race to Orbit (ieee.org)
		73 points by starmanaj on April 26, 2019 \| 28 comments
30.		About Our Galaxy Fold Teardown (ifixit.org)
		155 points by Garbage on April 26, 2019 \| 90 comments
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