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1.		Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres (theguardian.com)
		1562 points by philliphaydon on Dec 19, 2018 \| 417 comments
2.		For First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter Public Domain (smithsonianmag.com)
		814 points by ingve on Dec 19, 2018 \| 264 comments
3.		Introducing Project Mu (windows.com)
		465 points by ductionist on Dec 19, 2018 \| 143 comments
4.		What I learned from reading a thousand emergency room bills (vox.com)
		424 points by jedwhite on Dec 19, 2018 \| 583 comments
5.		Why Can’t We Find Planet Nine? (quantamagazine.org)
		200 points by qubitcoder on Dec 19, 2018 \| 149 comments
6.		As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants (nytimes.com)
		499 points by jumelles on Dec 19, 2018 \| 190 comments
7.		Python gets a new governance model (lwn.net)
		414 points by OrangeTux on Dec 19, 2018 \| 175 comments
8.		Estimating Value of Facebook by Paying Users to Stop Using It (plos.org)
		284 points by infodocket on Dec 19, 2018 \| 191 comments
9.		Writing copy for landing pages (stripe.com)
		416 points by HeinZawHtet on Dec 19, 2018 \| 84 comments
10.		Windows Sandbox (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
		597 points by lxm on Dec 19, 2018 \| 319 comments
11.		What I learned in ten years of blogging (ferrucc.io)
		356 points by 0xferruccio on Dec 19, 2018 \| 162 comments
12.		Unmanned grocery delivery is underway in Arizona (detroitnews.com)
		121 points by evo_9 on Dec 19, 2018 \| 139 comments
13.		MailChimp deleted my account with no warning (rongarret.info)
		715 points by lisper on Dec 19, 2018 \| 253 comments
14.		Google Tech Dev Guide (withgoogle.com)
		428 points by myroon5 on Dec 19, 2018 \| 238 comments
15.		LibreRouter: Powering community networks with free and open hardware (apnic.net)
		290 points by xuande on Dec 19, 2018 \| 86 comments
16.		Building a Spotify Player for My Mac SE/30 (68kmla.org)
		346 points by laurentdc on Dec 18, 2018 \| 59 comments
17.		Korg NuTube, vacuum tube for the 21st century (korgnutube.com)
		168 points by ChuckMcM on Dec 19, 2018 \| 88 comments
18.		Librem 5 dev kits are shipping (puri.sm)
		253 points by arctux on Dec 18, 2018 \| 94 comments
19.		Kademlia: A Peer-To-peer Information System Based on the XOR Metric (2002) [pdf] (csail.mit.edu)
		191 points by liamzebedee on Dec 19, 2018 \| 40 comments
20.		The Dating Brokers: An autopsy of online love (tacticaltech.org)
		191 points by gumby on Dec 18, 2018 \| 119 comments
21.		Comma-Separated Tree (observablehq.com)
		153 points by mbostock on Dec 18, 2018 \| 61 comments
22.		Geoffrey Hinton and Demis Hassabis: AGI is nowhere close to being a reality (venturebeat.com)
		204 points by z0a on Dec 18, 2018 \| 175 comments
23.		Searching statically-linked vulnerable library functions in executable code (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
		150 points by matt_d on Dec 19, 2018 \| 37 comments
24.		The Little Printf (ferd.ca)
		208 points by lelf on Dec 18, 2018 \| 25 comments
25.		Google Chrome to stop back-button hijacking (googlesource.com)
		193 points by superhumanuser on Dec 18, 2018 \| 124 comments
26.		Dad and the Egg Controller (pentadact.com)
		253 points by evan_ on Dec 18, 2018 \| 49 comments
27.		O-bahn Busway (wikipedia.org)
		97 points by widforss on Dec 19, 2018 \| 36 comments
28.		Shanghai City in panoramic view in 195 gigapixels (bigpixel.cn)
		256 points by learnaholic on Dec 19, 2018 \| 86 comments
29.		Intro to Quantum Information Science (scottaaronson.com)
		114 points by furcyd on Dec 19, 2018 \| 6 comments
30.		The universal decay of collective memory and attention (nature.com)
		144 points by Hooke on Dec 18, 2018 \| 21 comments
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