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1.		Below the Surface – Finds from an archaeological project in the River Amstel (belowthesurface.amsterdam)
		522 points by Osiris30 on July 2, 2018 \| 104 comments
2.		SUSE to be acquired by EQT Partners (opensuse.org)
		242 points by bitcharmer on July 2, 2018 \| 139 comments
3.		Rules of optimization (humus.name)
		281 points by benaadams on July 2, 2018 \| 162 comments
4.		LibreOffice is now available for Haiku (haiku-os.org)
		298 points by vermaden on July 2, 2018 \| 157 comments
5.		Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018)
		425 points by whoishiring on July 2, 2018 \| 843 comments
6.		The advantages of an email-driven Git workflow (drewdevault.com)
		204 points by Cmerlyn on July 2, 2018 \| 101 comments
7.		Pipelines – a guided tour of the new IO API in .NET (marcgravell.com)
		286 points by benaadams on July 2, 2018 \| 26 comments
8.		Perhaps it is simpler to say that Intel was disrupted (learningbyshipping.com)
		238 points by MBCook on July 2, 2018 \| 196 comments
9.		The soccer ball that survived the Challenger explosion (espn.com)
		273 points by cthulhujr on July 2, 2018 \| 81 comments
10.		First Confirmed Image of Newborn Planet Caught with ESO’s VLT (eso.org)
		88 points by sohkamyung on July 2, 2018 \| 13 comments
11.		The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp Languages (2016) (arxiv.org)
		239 points by kuwze on July 2, 2018 \| 318 comments
12.		Lyft Follows Uber Into Bike-Sharing Lane, Buying Owner of CitiBike (nytimes.com)
		171 points by bajaj on July 2, 2018 \| 156 comments
13.		We discovered three poisonous books in our university library (theconversation.com)
		192 points by fanf2 on July 1, 2018 \| 65 comments
14.		Digicert Withdraws from the CA Security Council (digicert.com)
		166 points by dokov on July 1, 2018 \| 72 comments
15.		With more students boasting flashy GPAs, academic honors lose their luster (wsj.com)
		208 points by ss2003 on July 2, 2018 \| 266 comments
16.		Go Fishing (theweek.com)
		99 points by never-the-bride on July 2, 2018 \| 93 comments
17.		The NES turns 30: How it began, worked, and saved an industry (2013) (arstechnica.com)
		152 points by tosh on July 1, 2018 \| 74 comments
18.		Pointers Are More Abstract Than You Might Expect in C (stefansf.de)
		269 points by ognyankulev on July 2, 2018 \| 257 comments
19.		FBI would rather prosecutors drop cases than disclose stingray details (2015) (arstechnica.com)
		230 points by fgeorgy on July 2, 2018 \| 53 comments
20.		How to make MongoDB not suck for analytics (scaleapi.com)
		94 points by ayw on July 2, 2018 \| 95 comments
21.		Water compresses under a high gradient electric field (phys.org)
		135 points by neo4sure on July 2, 2018 \| 48 comments
22.		Rethinking Static Reference Tables in GHC (simonmar.github.io)
		70 points by tuukkah on July 2, 2018 \| 9 comments
23.		A bug in Samsung’s default texting app is sending random pics to other people (gizmodo.com)
		186 points by ilarum on July 2, 2018 \| 84 comments
24.		After the Fall: Ten Years After the Crash (lrb.co.uk)
		203 points by dbcooper on July 2, 2018 \| 172 comments
25.		Is the Alzheimer's “Amyloid Hypothesis” Wrong? (2017) (theatlantic.com)
		122 points by daddy_drank on July 2, 2018 \| 109 comments
26.		There was a time when search engines were a thing, and it seems they still are (conman.org)
		100 points by CrocodileStreet on July 1, 2018 \| 106 comments
27.		Unikraft Unikernel Project (linuxfoundation.org)
		83 points by iou on July 2, 2018 \| 14 comments
28.		Haskell’s State monad is not a monad (2014) (chalmers.se)
		103 points by setra on July 2, 2018 \| 69 comments
29.		Captain Beefheart Radar Station (beefheart.com)
		50 points by brudgers on July 2, 2018 \| 29 comments
30.		Design case history: the Commodore 64 (1985) [pdf] (ieee.org)
		80 points by fanf2 on July 1, 2018 \| 9 comments
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