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1.		SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation (wsj.com)
		565 points by dcgudeman on Dec 18, 2018 \| 338 comments
2.		Glitter bomb tricks parcel thieves (bbc.com)
		952 points by tartoran on Dec 18, 2018 \| 886 comments
3.		Show HN: Fully-automatic image background removal tool (remove.bg)
		640 points by groe on Dec 17, 2018 \| 108 comments
4.		Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After Internal Confrontation (theintercept.com)
		592 points by uptown on Dec 17, 2018 \| 356 comments
5.		Dotsies (2012) (dotsies.org)
		460 points by severine on Dec 18, 2018 \| 194 comments
6.		I need to copy 2000+ DVDs in 3 days. What are my options? (reddit.com)
		393 points by huhtenberg on Dec 15, 2018 \| 191 comments
7.		Reasons Python Sucks (hackerfactor.com)
		405 points by BerislavLopac on Dec 18, 2018 \| 535 comments
8.		How Alexa knows “peanut butter” is one shopping-list item, not two (amazon.com)
		246 points by georgecarlyle76 on Dec 18, 2018 \| 140 comments
9.		What a Newfound Kingdom Means for the Tree of Life (quantamagazine.org)
		262 points by dnetesn on Dec 18, 2018 \| 69 comments
10.		Analyzing Hacker News book suggestions in Python (towardsdatascience.com)
		264 points by MLpractitioner on Dec 18, 2018 \| 60 comments
11.		Why we should care about the Nate Silver vs. Nassim Taleb Twitter war (towardsdatascience.com)
		318 points by oska on Dec 18, 2018 \| 200 comments
12.		Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval System (2000) [pdf] (stanford.edu)
		152 points by rayvy on Dec 18, 2018 \| 71 comments
13.		Stop Learning Frameworks (sizovs.net)
		515 points by ingve on Dec 18, 2018 \| 294 comments
14.		NAACP returns Facebook donation, calls for boycott on Tuesday (axios.com)
		188 points by tareqak on Dec 17, 2018 \| 145 comments
15.		Show HN: DPAGE – build and publish webpages on the decentralized internet (dpage.io)
		161 points by brisky on Dec 18, 2018 \| 30 comments
16.		Show HN: Bubblin – Bandcamp for books (bubblin.io)
		138 points by marvindanig on Dec 18, 2018 \| 88 comments
17.		Show HN: Goldpinger – Visualize Kubernetes cluster connectivity (github.com/bloomberg)
		158 points by seeker89 on Dec 18, 2018 \| 20 comments
18.		Implementing VisiCalc (2015) (rmf.vc)
		90 points by franzb on Dec 17, 2018 \| 18 comments
19.		How the hell have you done it? (1961) (lettersofnote.com)
		118 points by merrier on Dec 18, 2018 \| 13 comments
20.		Why you should learn F# (dusted.codes)
		272 points by aloisdg on Dec 18, 2018 \| 174 comments
21.		Ambient Cruelty (reallifemag.com)
		145 points by kawera on Dec 17, 2018 \| 70 comments
22.		Dependent Haskell (serokell.io)
		137 points by Serokell on Dec 17, 2018 \| 88 comments
23.		Advent of Code Python Solutions, Explained (michaelfogleman.com)
		134 points by fogleman on Dec 18, 2018 \| 17 comments
24.		The Spacing Effect: How to Improve Learning and Maximize Retention (fs.blog)
		136 points by yarapavan on Dec 18, 2018 \| 34 comments
25.		Bastard Tetris (fph.altervista.org)
		146 points by geocar on Dec 17, 2018 \| 35 comments
26.		A Dictionary of Gestures (spectator.us)
		63 points by secondary on Dec 17, 2018 \| 4 comments
27.		On Ghost Users and Messaging Backdoors (cryptographyengineering.com)
		97 points by kandarpck on Dec 18, 2018 \| 55 comments
28.		Firing Frankness (mondaynote.com)
		183 points by shawndumas on Dec 18, 2018 \| 168 comments
29.		Blue Apron becomes a penny stock, trading under $1 for the first time (businessinsider.com)
		192 points by pseudolus on Dec 18, 2018 \| 327 comments
30.		On Having No Head: Cognition Throughout Biological Systems (2016) (nih.gov)
		98 points by DimiD on Dec 17, 2018 \| 10 comments
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