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1.		Crushed wood is stronger than steel (nature.com)
		461 points by okket on Feb 8, 2018 \| 172 comments
2.		Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit (bloomberg.com)
		406 points by svtrent on Feb 8, 2018 \| 205 comments
3.		A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript (github.com/captbaritone)
		622 points by tosh on Feb 8, 2018 \| 208 comments
4.		Why Toys? (blog.ycombinator.com)
		468 points by craigcannon on Feb 8, 2018 \| 200 comments
5.		Google is buying Chelsea Market building for over $2B (therealdeal.com)
		358 points by uptown on Feb 8, 2018 \| 246 comments
6.		How to Know When a Child’s Flu Turns Serious (nytimes.com)
		203 points by montrose on Feb 8, 2018 \| 124 comments
7.		Exploring ReasonML and functional programming (reasonmlhub.com)
		211 points by jasim on Feb 8, 2018 \| 63 comments
8.		Y Combinator Is Launching a “Grad School” for Booming Startups (fastcompany.com)
		119 points by katm on Feb 8, 2018 \| 7 comments
9.		An Argument Against Quantum Computers (quantamagazine.org)
		173 points by amaks on Feb 7, 2018 \| 62 comments
10.		Companies from the YC Winter 2018 Batch (blog.ycombinator.com)
		108 points by dsr12 on Feb 8, 2018 \| 50 comments
11.		GrubHub Drivers Ruled Contractors (bloomberg.com)
		168 points by sndean on Feb 8, 2018 \| 161 comments
12.		Scientists find massive reserves of mercury in permafrost (agu.org)
		230 points by carapace on Feb 8, 2018 \| 101 comments
13.		Talk Like a Texan: How Texans Use “Down,” “Out,” “Over,” and “Up” (texasmonthly.com)
		126 points by benbreen on Feb 7, 2018 \| 131 comments
14.		Man who stole $1M bucket of gold details escape from US (nbcnewyork.com)
		167 points by gscott on Feb 7, 2018 \| 81 comments
15.		Engineering Marvel of the Winter Olympics: A Broom (nytimes.com)
		130 points by montrose on Feb 7, 2018 \| 39 comments
16.		The first English professor of mathematics (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		66 points by Hooke on Feb 7, 2018 \| 8 comments
17.		On a small Greek island, practitioners of an ancient whistling language (theoutline.com)
		113 points by tintinnabula on Feb 8, 2018 \| 28 comments
18.		Intense laser experiments provide evidence that light can stop electrons (imperial.ac.uk)
		89 points by joeyespo on Feb 8, 2018 \| 37 comments
19.		Chinese police don high-tech glasses to nab suspects (hongkongfp.com)
		148 points by kevcampb on Feb 8, 2018 \| 148 comments
20.		Torresian crows have learned how to make a meal of cane toads (australiangeographic.com.au)
		115 points by fern12 on Feb 8, 2018 \| 49 comments
21.		Show HN: Dotmesh – A git-like CLI for application states (dotmesh.com)
		107 points by mrmrcoleman on Feb 7, 2018 \| 38 comments
22.		Plagiarism software unveils one of Shakespeare’s sources (nytimes.com)
		88 points by NaOH on Feb 8, 2018 \| 36 comments
23.		U.S. senators ask consumer watchdog head for details on Equifax probe (reuters.com)
		151 points by rectang on Feb 8, 2018 \| 39 comments
24.		A todo list for new ASP.NET Core projects (biarity.gitlab.io)
		150 points by biarity on Feb 8, 2018 \| 63 comments
25.		Julia v0.7.0 Release Notes (github.com/julialang)
		207 points by kmisiunas on Feb 8, 2018 \| 60 comments
26.		Adding Context to CockroachDB’s Article “Your Database Should Work Like a CDN” (danielcompton.net)
		84 points by dantiberian on Feb 8, 2018 \| 9 comments
27.		Launch HN: Medumo (YC W18) prepares patients for surgeries
		61 points by adeelyang on Feb 8, 2018 \| 18 comments
28.		Key iPhone Source Code Gets Posted Online (vice.com)
		261 points by tony101 on Feb 8, 2018 \| 112 comments
29.		Cost-Reduction Roadmap for Residential Solar PV, 2017–2030 (nrel.gov)
		48 points by ph0rque on Feb 8, 2018 \| 24 comments
30.		Progress Continues on Firmware Updates (intel.com)
		53 points by taspeotis on Feb 8, 2018 \| 16 comments
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