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1.		Have a personal web site (markchristian.org)
		883 points by markchristian on April 30, 2019 \| 414 comments
2.		I made a smart watch from scratch (imgur.com)
		1451 points by mnem on April 30, 2019 \| 216 comments
3.		Eric Schmidt Steps Down from Alphabet’s Board of Directors (twitter.com/ericschmidt)
		702 points by azhenley on April 30, 2019 \| 344 comments
4.		I Can’t Answer Standardized Test Questions About My Own Poems (2017) (huffpost.com)
		617 points by ilamont on April 29, 2019 \| 443 comments
5.		Golden: Mapping human knowledge (golden.com)
		397 points by yarapavan on April 30, 2019 \| 167 comments
6.		Biological Function Emerges from Unsupervised Learning on 250M Protein Sequences (biorxiv.org)
		251 points by smhx on April 30, 2019 \| 49 comments
7.		Show HN: CC Search – search engine for 300M CC-licensed images (creativecommons.org)
		375 points by kgodey on April 30, 2019 \| 87 comments
8.		Career advice I wish I’d been given when I was young (80000hours.org)
		423 points by robertwiblin on April 30, 2019 \| 218 comments
9.		How pharmaceutical industry financial modelers think about rare diseases (cureffi.org)
		341 points by refurb on April 30, 2019 \| 152 comments
10.		Soul – A language and IDE for audio coding (soul.dev)
		323 points by ttoinou on April 30, 2019 \| 95 comments
11.		U.K. Police Have a Message for Crime Victims: Hand over Your Private Data (nytimes.com)
		241 points by bookofjoe on April 30, 2019 \| 114 comments
12.		Vancouver Airport blocking ads with information on travellers’ privacy rights (globalnews.ca)
		277 points by dredmorbius on April 30, 2019 \| 65 comments
13.		Now dev – Serverless on localhost (zeit.co)
		273 points by styfle on April 30, 2019 \| 104 comments
14.		Anatomy of an ELF executable (kishuagarwal.github.io)
		241 points by kishu18 on April 30, 2019 \| 23 comments
15.		Google Continues Slump After Ad Revenue Growth Slows (bloomberg.com)
		199 points by dredmorbius on April 30, 2019 \| 126 comments
16.		A Quest to Make Gasoline Out of Thin Air: Prometheus (YC W19) (bloomberg.com)
		190 points by swibbler on April 30, 2019 \| 279 comments
17.		How to Make Maps Using Leaflet.js, PostGIS and Chicago Open Data (samc1213.github.io)
		194 points by samblogs on April 30, 2019 \| 20 comments
18.		This Place Is Not a Place of Honor (1992) (archive.org)
		186 points by andrewflnr on April 27, 2019 \| 119 comments
19.		Facebook is redesigning its core app (theverge.com)
		205 points by pgodzin on April 30, 2019 \| 207 comments
20.		Apollo 15 postage stamp incident (wikipedia.org)
		133 points by danielsiders on April 30, 2019 \| 49 comments
21.		Distributions vs. Releases: Why Python Packaging Is Hard (pydist.com)
		131 points by BerislavLopac on April 30, 2019 \| 76 comments
22.		Google Will Eat Itself (2005) (gwei.org)
		208 points by slater on April 30, 2019 \| 65 comments
23.		Indie Game Removed from Switch After Dev Reveals It Has a Hidden Code Editor (nintendolife.com)
		199 points by laurex on April 29, 2019 \| 175 comments
24.		TeX Live 2019 (tug.org)
		188 points by Tomte on April 30, 2019 \| 79 comments
25.		Tether Says Stablecoin Is Only Backed 74% by Cash, Securities (bloomberg.com)
		157 points by chollida1 on April 30, 2019 \| 247 comments
26.		Python at Netflix (medium.com/netflix-techblog)
		440 points by luord on April 30, 2019 \| 237 comments
27.		UK police secretly downloading content from suspects’ phones (2018) (privacyinternational.org)
		272 points by dredmorbius on April 30, 2019 \| 99 comments
28.		The Treaty That Forced the Cherokee People from Their Homelands Goes on View (smithsonianmag.com)
		122 points by pseudolus on April 26, 2019 \| 70 comments
29.		How many ways are there to sort GUIDs? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
		93 points by soheilpro on April 27, 2019 \| 48 comments
30.		Open-source Chrome extension to save the state of a page for further analysis (github.com/vrtdev)
		75 points by wingleung on April 27, 2019 \| 5 comments
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