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1.		Congress votes to make open government data the default in the United States (e-pluribusunum.org)
		1130 points by danso on Dec 23, 2018 \| 154 comments
2.		Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?
		629 points by vchernobyl on Dec 23, 2018 \| 601 comments
3.		Ask HN: Favorite nonfiction books of 2018?
		842 points by jestinjoy1 on Dec 23, 2018 \| 332 comments
4.		How to Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (2002) [pdf] (ic.ac.uk)
		254 points by mtmail on Dec 22, 2018 \| 55 comments
5.		Speedy Web Compiler – A Rust port of Babel and Closure Compiler (github.com/swc-project)
		382 points by kn8 on Dec 23, 2018 \| 125 comments
6.		Ultima Online spent years developing a system that was destroyed by players (gametyrant.com)
		249 points by foggyToads on Dec 23, 2018 \| 189 comments
7.		Scanning books at 250 pages a minute (2008) (u-tokyo.ac.jp)
		199 points by jacquesm on Dec 23, 2018 \| 51 comments
8.		Binctr: Static, unprivileged, self-contained containers as executable binaries (github.com/genuinetools)
		294 points by GordonS on Dec 23, 2018 \| 112 comments
9.		The Wavefunction Collapse Algorithm Explained (robertheaton.com)
		304 points by janvdberg on Dec 23, 2018 \| 44 comments
10.		The Machine Learning Race Is Really a Data Race (sloanreview.mit.edu)
		208 points by lxm on Dec 22, 2018 \| 78 comments
11.		A $1.2B law to boost US quantum tech (technologyreview.com)
		232 points by jonbaer on Dec 23, 2018 \| 83 comments
12.		The Der Spiegel journalist who messed with the wrong small town (spectator.us)
		222 points by jackfoxy on Dec 22, 2018 \| 147 comments
13.		Neural networks in JavaScript – free 19-part course (scrimba.com)
		329 points by mrborgen on Dec 23, 2018 \| 69 comments
14.		Node.js Fundamentals: Web Server Without Dependencies (bloomca.me)
		192 points by bloomca on Dec 23, 2018 \| 41 comments
15.		Can We Really Inherit Trauma? (nytimes.com)
		72 points by DoreenMichele on Dec 23, 2018 \| 36 comments
16.		Why American cities are weirdly shaped (economist.com)
		159 points by pseudolus on Dec 23, 2018 \| 162 comments
17.		Adapton: Programming Language Abstractions for Incremental Computation (adapton.org)
		106 points by jxub on Dec 23, 2018 \| 11 comments
18.		Orange Livebox ADSL modems are leaking their WiFi credentials (badpackets.net)
		148 points by wolvtech on Dec 23, 2018 \| 61 comments
19.		Google Takes Down Artstation Android App for Explicit Content (artstation.com)
		291 points by apersona on Dec 23, 2018 \| 204 comments
20.		Portal: Personal Onion Router to Assure Liberty (github.com/grugq)
		61 points by DyslexicAtheist on Dec 23, 2018 \| 23 comments
21.		Chip Industry's Fundamental Shifts in 2018 (semiengineering.com)
		69 points by Lind5 on Dec 22, 2018 \| 10 comments
22.		Foundations for Efficient and Expressive Differentiable Programming [pdf] (nips.cc)
		80 points by espeed on Dec 23, 2018 \| 14 comments
23.		Schedule – 35th Chaos Communication Congress (ccc.de)
		170 points by rurban on Dec 23, 2018 \| 48 comments
24.		Turning GraphQL diagrams to mock back end (graphqleditor.com)
		60 points by aexol on Dec 22, 2018 \| 11 comments
25.		Let’s Try t-SNE (observablehq.com)
		77 points by mbostock on Dec 21, 2018 \| 13 comments
26.		Can AI Predict the Next Area to Gentrify? (citylab.com)
		77 points by laurex on Dec 20, 2018 \| 34 comments
27.		Robert Heinlein and the Harsh Politics of Science Fiction (2013) (patrickmccray.com)
		74 points by benbreen on Dec 23, 2018 \| 84 comments
28.		Depression, Self-Identity and Reality: Living in a Story Created by Facebook (medium.com/privateid-blog)
		106 points by borjamoya on Dec 22, 2018 \| 44 comments
29.		TensorFlow Lite is for mobile and embedded devices (tensorflow.org)
		101 points by tosh on Dec 22, 2018 \| 22 comments
30.		Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?
		238 points by digianarchist on Dec 23, 2018 \| 397 comments
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