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1.		It seems that Google is forgetting the old web (zona-m.net)
		1102 points by barry-cotter on April 8, 2019 \| 302 comments
2.		Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface for text or display (digital.gov)
		1310 points by thinkalone on April 8, 2019 \| 237 comments
3.		58 Bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere (jrl.ninja)
		797 points by JoshuaRLi on April 8, 2019 \| 225 comments
4.		US Workers Are Highly Taxed If You Count Premiums (peoplespolicyproject.org)
		434 points by viburnum on April 8, 2019 \| 498 comments
5.		A majority of consumers do not expect Google to track their activities (niemanlab.org)
		336 points by jeremiahlee on April 8, 2019 \| 154 comments
6.		VPN – Very Precarious Narrative (schub.io)
		462 points by denschub on April 8, 2019 \| 274 comments
7.		No one, not even the Secret Service, should randomly plug in a strange USB stick (techcrunch.com)
		388 points by MagicPropmaker on April 8, 2019 \| 213 comments
8.		Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil (bloomberg.com)
		373 points by pseudolus on April 8, 2019 \| 285 comments
9.		Bleve: Full-text search and indexing for Go (blevesearch.com)
		297 points by homarp on April 8, 2019 \| 63 comments
10.		Paint Is Colored Glue (delanceyplace.com)
		273 points by pshaw on April 8, 2019 \| 93 comments
11.		Zig 0.4.0 Released (ziglang.org)
		277 points by AndyKelley on April 8, 2019 \| 138 comments
12.		Facebook are 'morally bankrupt liars' says New Zealand's privacy commissioner (theguardian.com)
		419 points by oska on April 8, 2019 \| 328 comments
13.		Busy Person Patterns (2006) [pdf] (hillside.net)
		350 points by mpweiher on April 7, 2019 \| 17 comments
14.		Aroma: Using machine learning for code recommendation (facebook.com)
		254 points by moneil971 on April 8, 2019 \| 57 comments
15.		How to increase your chances of finding a hidden camera (sixfortwelve.wordpress.com)
		423 points by rurban on April 7, 2019 \| 181 comments
16.		Fat, Not Meat, May Have Led to Bigger Hominin Brains (scientificamerican.com)
		210 points by hourislate on April 7, 2019 \| 131 comments
17.		Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old today (righto.com)
		204 points by matt_d on April 7, 2019 \| 34 comments
18.		A gentle introduction to symbolic execution (monic.co)
		190 points by joelburget on April 8, 2019 \| 27 comments
19.		Notarizing Your App Before Distribution (developer.apple.com)
		252 points by tambourine_man on April 8, 2019 \| 257 comments
20.		Let's Talk About Capacitor Failure (bytecellar.com)
		154 points by blakespot on April 8, 2019 \| 109 comments
21.		Permanent Magnetic Materials Without Rare Earth Metals (diva-portal.org)
		82 points by Breadmaker on April 8, 2019 \| 6 comments
22.		Does the LHC collide protons at twice the speed of light? (backreaction.blogspot.com)
		128 points by jacobedawson on April 7, 2019 \| 62 comments
23.		One night of telescope time rules out black hole/dark matter idea (arstechnica.com)
		155 points by Tomte on April 7, 2019 \| 89 comments
24.		Characterizing secret leakage in public GitHub repositories (acolyer.org)
		117 points by feross on April 8, 2019 \| 36 comments
25.		Simply Logical: Intelligent Reasoning by Example (1994) (simply-logical.space)
		104 points by pplonski86 on April 7, 2019 \| 11 comments
26.		On Startup Capital Efficiency (stevecheney.com)
		155 points by lxm on April 8, 2019 \| 37 comments
27.		Chrome to get lazy load below-the-fold images and iframes (groups.google.com)
		114 points by rbanffy on April 7, 2019 \| 62 comments
28.		Fortnite and the Good Life (tinyletter.com)
		109 points by bradstreet on April 8, 2019 \| 178 comments
29.		Robert A. Caro on the means and ends of power (nytimes.com)
		107 points by jger15 on April 7, 2019 \| 34 comments
30.		Dogs that protect little penguins (2015) (bbc.com)
		70 points by happy-go-lucky on April 7, 2019 \| 26 comments
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