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1.		NewSQL databases fail to guarantee consistency and I blame Spanner (dbmsmusings.blogspot.com)
		510 points by evanweaver on Sept 21, 2018 \| 301 comments
2.		People Like You More Than You Know (scientificamerican.com)
		577 points by ALee on Sept 20, 2018 \| 200 comments
3.		Inside cpyext: Why emulating CPython C API is so Hard (morepypy.blogspot.com)
		173 points by mattip on Sept 21, 2018 \| 39 comments
4.		Functional core, imperative shell (2012) (destroyallsoftware.com)
		389 points by fagnerbrack on Sept 21, 2018 \| 126 comments
5.		Holding a Program in One's Head (2007) (paulgraham.com)
		215 points by dasmoth on Sept 21, 2018 \| 79 comments
6.		Apple File System Reference [pdf] (developer.apple.com)
		248 points by abkumar on Sept 21, 2018 \| 64 comments
7.		Southern California just saw its longest streak of bad air in decades (latimes.com)
		133 points by spking on Sept 21, 2018 \| 98 comments
8.		Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China (theintercept.com)
		541 points by halestock on Sept 21, 2018 \| 289 comments
9.		Get Billions of Correct Digits of Pi from a Wrong Formula (1999) [pdf] (rowan.edu)
		148 points by drusepth on Sept 21, 2018 \| 54 comments
10.		A Day in the Life of Americans (flowingdata.com)
		155 points by paulb81 on Sept 20, 2018 \| 61 comments
11.		Writing Documentation When You Aren't a Technical Writer – Part Two (stoplight.io)
		125 points by pytlesk4 on Sept 21, 2018 \| 19 comments
12.		Running a database on EC2? Your clock could be slowing you down (heapanalytics.com)
		178 points by drob on Sept 21, 2018 \| 92 comments
13.		Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?
		458 points by chefqual on Sept 21, 2018 \| 286 comments
14.		Insane complexity of calendrically correct date and time operations (yourcalendricalfallacyis.com)
		256 points by mtmail on Sept 20, 2018 \| 140 comments
15.		Coursera Machine Learning MOOC by Andrew Ng – Python Programming Assignments (github.com/dibgerge)
		214 points by sonabinu on Sept 20, 2018 \| 45 comments
16.		Worst Puzzle Ever (2009) (rongarret.info)
		127 points by lisper on Sept 21, 2018 \| 44 comments
17.		Qualcomm’s Chain of Trust (lineageos.org)
		180 points by krtkush on Sept 21, 2018 \| 130 comments
18.		Deep learning experiments in OCaml (janestreet.com)
		218 points by yminsky on Sept 21, 2018 \| 97 comments
19.		Thanks for the Surprise Integration with My Website, Apple (asaph.org)
		389 points by asaph on Sept 21, 2018 \| 210 comments
20.		A DMT trip 'feels like dying' – and scientists now agree (bbc.co.uk)
		213 points by jeffwass on Sept 21, 2018 \| 133 comments
21.		Go team adding a Go language server to core (googlesource.com)
		218 points by sqs on Sept 21, 2018 \| 92 comments
22.		C++ Core Coroutines Proposal [pdf] (open-std.org)
		144 points by anqurvanillapy on Sept 21, 2018 \| 116 comments
23.		The South African mountains older than continents (bbc.com)
		156 points by MiriamWeiner on Sept 21, 2018 \| 40 comments
24.		A Cat Meme Photographer from a Century Ago (saturdayeveningpost.com)
		122 points by ainar-g on Sept 19, 2018 \| 53 comments
25.		Saving the Prized Chile That Grows Only in Oaxaca’s Mountains (atlasobscura.com)
		75 points by extarial on Sept 20, 2018 \| 4 comments
26.		After Five Years of Living in Trees, a Protest Community Is Being Evicted (atlasobscura.com)
		94 points by extarial on Sept 21, 2018 \| 51 comments
27.		Freezing your credit is now free in all states under a new law (usatoday.com)
		258 points by kimsk112 on Sept 21, 2018 \| 104 comments
28.		Alane: Using Aluminum Hydride as Fuel (ardica.com)
		71 points by peter_d_sherman on Sept 19, 2018 \| 51 comments
29.		Xamarin Forms: it works (sharpnado.com)
		128 points by roubachof on Sept 20, 2018 \| 55 comments
30.		Discovery of Galileo’s lost letter shows he edited his ideas to fool Inquisition (nature.com)
		103 points by snake117 on Sept 21, 2018 \| 45 comments
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