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1.		Analyzing Cryptocurrencies Using PostgreSQL (timescale.com)
		521 points by akulkarni on June 28, 2017 \| 185 comments
2.		Take Naps at Work (nytimes.com)
		523 points by aarohmankad on June 28, 2017 \| 277 comments
3.		An easter egg for one user: Luke Skywalker (einaregilsson.com)
		798 points by einaregilsson on June 28, 2017 \| 134 comments
4.		Show HN: Hackerhunt – categorised curation of Show HN submissions (hackerhunt.co)
		335 points by degif on June 28, 2017 \| 65 comments
5.		Flawed reporting about WhatsApp (theguardian.com)
		354 points by Calvin02 on June 28, 2017 \| 122 comments
6.		Sorting 2 Tons of Lego, Many Questions, Results (jacquesmattheij.com)
		322 points by darwhy on June 28, 2017 \| 205 comments
7.		Is it unethical for me to not tell my employer I've automated my job? (workplace.stackexchange.com)
		685 points by Ajedi32 on June 28, 2017 \| 523 comments
8.		2D Syntax (racket-lang.org)
		371 points by mr_tyzik on June 28, 2017 \| 86 comments
9.		Vim Tutorial as an Adventure Game (vim-adventures.com)
		285 points by KirinDave on June 28, 2017 \| 59 comments
10.		Canada's top court backs order for Google to remove firm's website from searches (cbc.ca)
		257 points by executive on June 28, 2017 \| 231 comments
11.		Ask HN: What are the best books on modern computer graphics?
		294 points by BigJono on June 28, 2017 \| 76 comments
12.		A Jordan Bookseller’s 24-Hour ‘Emergency Room for the Mind’ (atlasobscura.com)
		159 points by palerdot on June 28, 2017 \| 10 comments
13.		Americans don’t need more degrees, they need training (venturebeat.com)
		264 points by sylvainkalache on June 28, 2017 \| 201 comments
14.		Redesigning Google News (blog.google)
		198 points by sndean on June 28, 2017 \| 154 comments
15.		Why App Speed Matters: Revenue (fly.io)
		171 points by jpsaccount on June 28, 2017 \| 53 comments
16.		Writing Parsers Like it is 2017 [pdf] (langsec.org)
		205 points by JoshTriplett on June 28, 2017 \| 49 comments
17.		The internet as existential threat (raphkoster.com)
		152 points by zephyrfalcon on June 28, 2017 \| 121 comments
18.		Stanford Code From Cars That Entered DARPA Grand Challenges (sourceforge.net)
		147 points by tempw on June 28, 2017 \| 19 comments
19.		How can Ethereum systematically scale better? (medium.com/fehrsam)
		199 points by transitorykris on June 28, 2017 \| 161 comments
20.		Search across every word from 25 years of the Simpsons (benschmidt.org)
		103 points by samclemens on June 28, 2017 \| 35 comments
21.		Is it possible to host Facebook on AWS? (sqlizer.io)
		198 points by vinnyglennon on June 28, 2017 \| 154 comments
22.		Wood pulp extract stronger than carbon fiber or Kevlar (2012) (newatlas.com)
		146 points by jtraffic on June 28, 2017 \| 39 comments
23.		Typecasting: The Use and Misuse of Period Typography in Movies (2001) (marksimonson.com)
		143 points by matthberg on June 28, 2017 \| 44 comments
24.		History of Lisp Editing (github.com/shaunlebron)
		157 points by lemming on June 27, 2017 \| 94 comments
25.		Is the business of scientific publishing bad for science? (theguardian.com)
		170 points by a_w on June 27, 2017 \| 64 comments
26.		Goodbye Mozilla (chrislord.net)
		182 points by nachtigall on June 28, 2017 \| 140 comments
27.		USPS loses millions each year on local delivery of mail from abroad (2014) (washingtonpost.com)
		151 points by acjohnson55 on June 28, 2017 \| 161 comments
28.		Field Notes from my Dementia (lithub.com)
		122 points by samclemens on June 26, 2017 \| 28 comments
29.		ThinScript, an experimental programming language that can compile to WebAssembly (github.com/evanw)
		119 points by pjmlp on June 28, 2017 \| 76 comments
30.		EPA Official Accused of Helping Monsanto ‘Kill’ Cancer Study (bloomberg.com)
		209 points by objections on June 28, 2017 \| 98 comments
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