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1.		We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly (medium.com/googlersagainstdragonfly)
		1652 points by daveowei on Nov 27, 2018 \| 840 comments
2.		How to balance full-time work with creative projects (thecreativeindependent.com)
		760 points by cookingoils on Nov 27, 2018 \| 267 comments
3.		AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbiting Satellites (amazon.com)
		598 points by leef on Nov 27, 2018 \| 159 comments
4.		Fortran is still a thing (wordsandbuttons.online)
		407 points by zeveb on Nov 27, 2018 \| 243 comments
5.		Open Source is Not About You (gist.github.com)
		734 points by jashkenas on Nov 27, 2018 \| 277 comments
6.		I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back (fastcompany.com)
		805 points by bennettfeely on Nov 27, 2018 \| 724 comments
7.		EC2 Instances Powered by Arm-Based AWS Graviton Processors (amazon.com)
		420 points by mcrute on Nov 27, 2018 \| 152 comments
8.		East German secret police guide for identifying youth subcultures (1985) (twitter.com/industrial_book)
		246 points by ilamont on Nov 26, 2018 \| 78 comments
9.		Paying for Popularity Can Be Fraud (bloomberg.com)
		281 points by Ice_cream_suit on Nov 27, 2018 \| 131 comments
10.		Firecracker – Lightweight Virtualization for Serverless Computing (amazon.com)
		368 points by leef on Nov 27, 2018 \| 110 comments
11.		China Expands Research Funding, Luring U.S. Scientists and Students (npr.org)
		228 points by pseudolus on Nov 27, 2018 \| 191 comments
12.		The Insect Apocalypse Is Here (nytimes.com)
		418 points by surbas on Nov 27, 2018 \| 337 comments
13.		A military exercise staged 35 years ago almost triggered World War Three (bbc.com)
		222 points by pseudolus on Nov 26, 2018 \| 93 comments
14.		Show HN: A tool to make a bot that speaks like you, learning from WhatsApp chats (github.com/spandan-madan)
		134 points by spandan-madan on Nov 27, 2018 \| 39 comments
15.		Armageddon Looms over World Chess Champs after Carlsen’s Shocking Decision (deadspin.com)
		185 points by mindgam3 on Nov 27, 2018 \| 162 comments
16.		How to host your own distributed website in just a few seconds (florence.chat)
		156 points by Noc2 on Nov 27, 2018 \| 58 comments
17.		Don't measure developers, measure projects (anaxi.com)
		164 points by jeanlaf on Nov 26, 2018 \| 62 comments
18.		YouTube will delete existing video annotations on January 15, 2019 (support.google.com)
		372 points by ivank on Nov 27, 2018 \| 212 comments
19.		McKernel – A lightweight multi-kernel OS for high-performance computing (www-sys-aics.riken.jp)
		125 points by rbanffy on Nov 27, 2018 \| 30 comments
20.		Why are tech companies making custom typefaces? (arun.is)
		262 points by richtr on Nov 26, 2018 \| 195 comments
21.		Inside Sellafield's death zone with the nuclear clean-up robots (bbc.co.uk)
		116 points by ljf on Nov 27, 2018 \| 80 comments
22.		Amazon DynamoDB Transactions (amazon.com)
		173 points by leef on Nov 27, 2018 \| 75 comments
23.		The FBI of the National Park Service (outsideonline.com)
		112 points by rmason on Nov 27, 2018 \| 47 comments
24.		One of the world’s most visited websites that nobody is aware of (2017) (ruwhof.net)
		321 points by handpickednames on Nov 27, 2018 \| 159 comments
25.		Show HN: Extract main ideas in your texts with SummarizeBot (summarizebot.com)
		76 points by postagger on Nov 27, 2018 \| 39 comments
26.		Rare and diverse giant viruses unexpectedly found in a forest soil ecosystem (phys.org)
		110 points by oedmarap on Nov 26, 2018 \| 4 comments
27.		Fact vs. Fiction: Truths from Inside the Shaolin Temple (radiichina.com)
		98 points by jonnybgood on Nov 27, 2018 \| 95 comments
28.		A Break in the Quest for the Quantum Speed Limit (theatlantic.com)
		64 points by peter_d_sherman on Nov 26, 2018 \| 17 comments
29.		The Secret Syndicate Behind Nancy Drew (jstor.org)
		102 points by Pharmakon on Nov 26, 2018 \| 33 comments
30.		Rust 2018 survey results (rust-lang.org)
		302 points by steveklabnik on Nov 27, 2018 \| 190 comments
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