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1.		The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is damaging our minds (theglobeandmail.com)
		759 points by mmayberry on Jan 8, 2018 \| 463 comments
2.		Losing Faith in the State, Some Mexican Towns Quietly Break Away (nytimes.com)
		469 points by camtarn on Jan 8, 2018 \| 270 comments
3.		Apple shareholders push for study of phone addiction in children (bloomberg.com)
		439 points by anigbrowl on Jan 8, 2018 \| 256 comments
4.		Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 (randomascii.wordpress.com)
		606 points by nikbackm on Jan 8, 2018 \| 76 comments
5.		Products Over Projects (martinfowler.com)
		256 points by kawera on Jan 5, 2018 \| 39 comments
6.		Beginner's guide to longevity research (ldeming.com)
		361 points by sajid on Jan 8, 2018 \| 84 comments
7.		Stanford paper says rent control is driving up cost of housing in San Francisco (curbed.com)
		295 points by nwsm on Jan 8, 2018 \| 304 comments
8.		Casting a $20M Mirror for the World’s Largest Telescope [video] (ieee.org)
		236 points by sohkamyung on Jan 8, 2018 \| 54 comments
9.		Go’s hidden pragmas (cheney.net)
		221 points by spacey on Jan 8, 2018 \| 115 comments
10.		Google Pay (blog.google)
		303 points by dfabulich on Jan 8, 2018 \| 326 comments
11.		Albert Hofmann discovers the effects of LSD (1943) (laphamsquarterly.org)
		250 points by benbreen on Jan 8, 2018 \| 96 comments
12.		Exercise Alters Our Microbiome (nytimes.com)
		295 points by fillskills on Jan 8, 2018 \| 309 comments
13.		As of today, no US passenger airlines operate the Boeing 747 (arstechnica.com)
		266 points by rcarmo on Jan 7, 2018 \| 243 comments
14.		The Banana As We Know It Is Dying Again (discovermagazine.com)
		196 points by DrScump on Jan 7, 2018 \| 110 comments
15.		Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, GNU grep and ripgrep (beyondgrep.com)
		244 points by infodroid on Jan 8, 2018 \| 100 comments
16.		The Great Attention Heist (lareviewofbooks.org)
		206 points by lxm on Jan 7, 2018 \| 86 comments
17.		The art of the error message (thestyleofelements.org)
		167 points by kawera on Jan 5, 2018 \| 56 comments
18.		Beijing bets on facial recognition in a big drive for total surveillance (washingtonpost.com)
		172 points by apta on Jan 8, 2018 \| 125 comments
19.		Flowsheets Visualizations (tinyletter.com)
		82 points by mpweiher on Jan 8, 2018 \| 10 comments
20.		DeepTriage: Exploring the Effectiveness of Deep Learning for Bug Triaging (mybluemix.net)
		94 points by lainon on Jan 8, 2018 \| 7 comments
21.		Psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid (nih.gov)
		185 points by jgalvez on Jan 8, 2018 \| 46 comments
22.		“Toward the Year 2018”, a speculative book from 1968 (newyorker.com)
		99 points by diodorus on Jan 8, 2018 \| 91 comments
23.		Typesafe Neural Networks in Haskell with Dependent Types (jle.im)
		140 points by KirinDave on Jan 7, 2018 \| 18 comments
24.		Quantum 'spooky action at a distance' becoming practical? (phys.org)
		94 points by dnetesn on Jan 5, 2018 \| 41 comments
25.		A Neuroscientist Explores the “Sanskrit Effect” (scientificamerican.com)
		168 points by triplesec on Jan 7, 2018 \| 88 comments
26.		ROP Emporium: Learn return-oriented programming through a series of challenges (ropemporium.com)
		140 points by entelechy on Jan 7, 2018 \| 16 comments
27.		Ambit: In-Memory Accelerator for Bulk Bitwise Operations Using Commodity DRAM [pdf] (ethz.ch)
		66 points by espeed on Jan 6, 2018 \| 13 comments
28.		Show HN: Pushup alarm – A React app that uses your webcam to count pushups (pushupalarm.com)
		134 points by faris-ssj on Jan 8, 2018 \| 45 comments
29.		Azure Functions vs. AWS Lambda – Scaling Face Off (azurefromthetrenches.com)
		179 points by deegles on Jan 8, 2018 \| 58 comments
30.		Moonlight Sonata Visualized (2012) [video] (youtube.com)
		89 points by netgusto on Jan 7, 2018 \| 30 comments
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