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1.		Google Dataset Search (toolbox.google.com)
		1035 points by kmax12 on Sept 5, 2018 \| 76 comments
2.		A First Course in Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers (uncw.edu)
		514 points by lainon on Sept 5, 2018 \| 65 comments
3.		How Indian Americans Came to Run Half of All U.S. Motels (nationalgeographic.com)
		384 points by walterbell on Sept 5, 2018 \| 236 comments
4.		‘Five Eyes’ Nations Quietly Demand Government Access to Encrypted Data (nytimes.com)
		478 points by aaronharnly on Sept 5, 2018 \| 227 comments
5.		The #1 Office Perk? Natural Light (hbr.org)
		591 points by Ianvdl on Sept 5, 2018 \| 334 comments
6.		Elastic files for an IPO (sec.gov)
		326 points by foolano on Sept 5, 2018 \| 139 comments
7.		Is the Lean Startup Dead? (steveblank.com)
		432 points by axelfontaine on Sept 5, 2018 \| 236 comments
8.		The Tools I Use to Write Books (thorstenball.com)
		472 points by misternugget on Sept 4, 2018 \| 97 comments
9.		YouTube and Netflix ‘Throttled’ by Carriers (bloomberg.com)
		390 points by jonbaer on Sept 5, 2018 \| 220 comments
10.		Distrust of Symantec TLS Certificates (blog.mozilla.org)
		307 points by asymmetric on Sept 5, 2018 \| 118 comments
11.		Why does sorting in computer science mean ordering rather than categorizing? (twitter.com/random_walker)
		239 points by randomwalker on Sept 4, 2018 \| 147 comments
12.		Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know (eecs.berkeley.edu)
		419 points by ingve on Sept 4, 2018 \| 103 comments
13.		But Rich People Live Here, So We Can't Be Going Broke (strongtowns.org)
		261 points by oftenwrong on Sept 5, 2018 \| 183 comments
14.		Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook (pewresearch.org)
		254 points by gnicholas on Sept 5, 2018 \| 179 comments
15.		Blood-Testing Firm Theranos to Dissolve (wsj.com)
		332 points by mudil on Sept 5, 2018 \| 193 comments
16.		How to Make a Big Decision (nytimes.com)
		350 points by dsr12 on Sept 5, 2018 \| 91 comments
17.		Breakout implemented in JavaScript in a PDF (rawgit.com)
		174 points by luu on Sept 5, 2018 \| 56 comments
18.		Turing Tumble – Build Marble-Powered Computers (turingtumble.com)
		142 points by jtokoph on Sept 5, 2018 \| 24 comments
19.		When optimising code, never guess, always measure (solipsys.co.uk)
		124 points by ColinWright on Sept 5, 2018 \| 103 comments
20.		Skype rolls back its redesign by ditching stories and squiggles (techcrunch.com)
		150 points by mindgam3 on Sept 4, 2018 \| 121 comments
21.		“Prestudy”: Learning Chinese Through Reading (kerrickstaley.com)
		213 points by KerrickStaley on Sept 5, 2018 \| 107 comments
22.		Show HN: AgentMaps – Turn maps into living societies (github.com/noncomputable)
		112 points by andrewtable on Sept 4, 2018 \| 8 comments
23.		Microsoft Azure suffers outage after cooling issue (datacenterdynamics.com)
		210 points by pcunite on Sept 4, 2018 \| 108 comments
24.		How the Go runtime implements maps efficiently without generics (cheney.net)
		197 points by kjeetgill on Sept 5, 2018 \| 86 comments
25.		Sand scarcity is about more than “running out” of sand (theverge.com)
		71 points by Tomte on Sept 5, 2018 \| 37 comments
26.		Scrapping Contracts: a critique of the Go generics proposal (merovius.de)
		86 points by Merovius on Sept 5, 2018 \| 26 comments
27.		The Early History Of Smalltalk (1993) (worrydream.com)
		121 points by ohjeez on Sept 4, 2018 \| 68 comments
28.		Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head as it eyes another fundraise (techcrunch.com)
		230 points by Mereruka on Sept 4, 2018 \| 185 comments
29.		Choosing Your First Marketing Hire (gkogan.co)
		98 points by gk1 on Sept 5, 2018 \| 23 comments
30.		How true hackers write JavaScript (news.ycombinator.com)
		403 points by damir on Sept 5, 2018 \| 328 comments
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