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1.		An error message, still found in Windows 10, is a mistake from 1974 (threadreaderapp.com)
		791 points by InclinedPlane on Nov 4, 2018 \| 252 comments
2.		Harvard Converts Millions of Legal Documents into Open Data (govtech.com)
		331 points by profquail on Nov 4, 2018 \| 31 comments
3.		Prison time, hefty fines for data privacy violations: draft U.S. Senate bill (reuters.com)
		386 points by octosphere on Nov 4, 2018 \| 270 comments
4.		An OCR cliche: Into his/her anus (2009) (wraabe.wordpress.com)
		343 points by userbinator on Nov 4, 2018 \| 90 comments
5.		Apple's T2 chip will prevent hackers from eavesdropping on your microphone (techcrunch.com)
		218 points by tosh on Nov 4, 2018 \| 151 comments
6.		My Amazon Interview Horror Story (igorkromin.net)
		351 points by ikromin on Nov 4, 2018 \| 292 comments
7.		GoCity – Code City metaphor for visualizing Go source code (go-city.github.io)
		210 points by eqcho on Nov 4, 2018 \| 35 comments
8.		A key ingredient for a universal flu vaccine may come from llamas (latimes.com)
		184 points by superpickles789 on Nov 4, 2018 \| 49 comments
9.		Show HN: Technical note app that builds a knowledge base (monocorpus.com)
		180 points by mtbarta on Nov 4, 2018 \| 52 comments
10.		EventStore: Open-Source, Functional Database with Complex Event Processing in JS (github.com/eventstore)
		122 points by juancampa on Nov 4, 2018 \| 63 comments
11.		An iOS dev's intro to graphics, and a graphics engineer's intro to ARKit (medium.com/maxxfrazer)
		74 points by maxxfrazer on Nov 3, 2018 \| 2 comments
12.		Cemeteries are landfills, and can contain all sorts of pollutants (atlasobscura.com)
		140 points by basicplus2 on Nov 4, 2018 \| 138 comments
13.		So You Want to Learn Physics (2016) (susanjfowler.com)
		229 points by happy-go-lucky on Nov 4, 2018 \| 122 comments
14.		Real Progress in Parkinson’s (blogs.sciencemag.org)
		140 points by etiam on Nov 4, 2018 \| 20 comments
15.		6502 Language Implementation Approaches (dwheeler.com)
		105 points by ingve on Nov 4, 2018 \| 26 comments
16.		Learning Clojure: comparing with Java streams (frankel.ch)
		117 points by nfrankel on Nov 4, 2018 \| 44 comments
17.		Collecting and the age of memeing (ecns.cn)
		56 points by exolymph on Nov 3, 2018 \| 25 comments
18.		Jeri Ellsworth and the Robot Uprising of 2038 (robertelder.org)
		199 points by robertelder on Nov 4, 2018 \| 65 comments
19.		Stealing Chrome cookies without a password (pdf.zone)
		125 points by octosphere on Nov 4, 2018 \| 45 comments
20.		Scaling Machine Learning at Uber with Michelangelo (uber.com)
		112 points by dpandya on Nov 4, 2018 \| 59 comments
21.		Quark Deconfinement as Supernova Explosion Engine for Blue Supergiant Stars (nature.com)
		47 points by gotocake on Nov 4, 2018 \| 6 comments
22.		Prolog Under the Hood: An Honest Look (1992) (amzi.com)
		60 points by networked on Nov 4, 2018 \| 57 comments
23.		A New History of Arabia, Written in Stone (newyorker.com)
		80 points by Tomte on Nov 3, 2018 \| 13 comments
24.		In Soviet Union, Optimization Problem Solves You (2012) (crookedtimber.org)
		92 points by mpweiher on Nov 3, 2018 \| 109 comments
25.		Avoiding race conditions in Swift (swiftbysundell.com)
		63 points by ingve on Nov 4, 2018 \| 38 comments
26.		Wired Interviews Bill Gates (1996) [video] (youtube.com)
		139 points by ytrash on Nov 4, 2018 \| 55 comments
27.		Why I love Common Lisp and hate Java (2012) (kuomarc.wordpress.com)
		121 points by pmoriarty on Nov 3, 2018 \| 165 comments
28.		A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (2010) (regehr.org)
		74 points by pmoriarty on Nov 3, 2018 \| 103 comments
29.		Coffman engine starter (wikipedia.org)
		58 points by zeristor on Nov 3, 2018 \| 15 comments
30.		Things Stanislaw Lem Predicted (culture.pl)
		167 points by a_bonobo on Nov 3, 2018 \| 39 comments
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