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1.		I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me (samuelmaddock.com)
		1920 points by smaddock on April 2, 2019 \| 605 comments
2.		Sweden Wants to Revive Europe’s Overnight Trains (citylab.com)
		623 points by aaronbrethorst on April 2, 2019 \| 266 comments
3.		Reducing notification permission prompt spam in Firefox (nightly.mozilla.org)
		777 points by barryvan on April 2, 2019 \| 260 comments
4.		French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen (torrentfreak.com)
		696 points by obl on April 2, 2019 \| 368 comments
5.		Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand (arstechnica.com)
		788 points by vanburen on April 2, 2019 \| 413 comments
6.		Sci-Hub and Alexandra Basic Information (engineuring.wordpress.com)
		436 points by stared on April 2, 2019 \| 134 comments
7.		From Show HN to Series D (segment.com)
		361 points by fullung on April 2, 2019 \| 53 comments
8.		YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection (pjreddie.com)
		320 points by headalgorithm on April 2, 2019 \| 61 comments
9.		Why Do Buses Bunch? (setosa.io)
		310 points by elliekelly on April 2, 2019 \| 150 comments
10.		Averages Can Be Misleading: Try a Percentile (2014) (elastic.co)
		199 points by donbox on April 2, 2019 \| 55 comments
11.		Idaho sets record low solar price as it starts on shift to 100pct renewables (reneweconomy.com.au)
		309 points by chdaniel on April 2, 2019 \| 159 comments
12.		OKRs Aren't Going to Fix Your Communication Issues (craigkerstiens.com)
		324 points by saisrirampur on April 1, 2019 \| 165 comments
13.		Editor.js – Block Styled Editor (editorjs.io)
		347 points by tortilla on April 2, 2019 \| 72 comments
14.		Why Evernote failed to realize its potential (usefyi.com)
		347 points by speter on April 2, 2019 \| 316 comments
15.		Getty Images Sued Again for Trying to License Public Domain Images (techdirt.com)
		292 points by ccnafr on April 1, 2019 \| 98 comments
16.		Implementing API Billing with Stripe (daily.co)
		180 points by kwindla on April 2, 2019 \| 82 comments
17.		Rare Persian manuscripts dating back to 13th century now online (loc.gov)
		218 points by bookofjoe on April 2, 2019 \| 47 comments
18.		I’m only making business card sized games now (frankforce.com)
		264 points by Delgan on April 1, 2019 \| 173 comments
19.		Deadlines Are Killing Us, and Almost Everything Else I Know About Leadership (medium.com/duncanr)
		256 points by Elof on April 1, 2019 \| 128 comments
20.		The CIA Campaign to Steal Apple's Secrets (2015) (theintercept.com)
		223 points by colinprince on April 2, 2019 \| 110 comments
21.		Size visualization of Go executables using D3 (poss.name)
		125 points by knz42 on April 1, 2019 \| 53 comments
22.		A once abandoned drug compound shows an ability to rebuild organs (scientificamerican.com)
		132 points by Bender on April 1, 2019 \| 54 comments
23.		The Difference Between ‘Violet’ and ‘Purple’ (2015) (jakubmarian.com)
		218 points by hawski on April 2, 2019 \| 102 comments
24.		Demand is skyrocketing in China for mice that mimic the diseases of humans (bloomberg.com)
		64 points by pseudolus on April 1, 2019 \| 26 comments
25.		Trying to make sense of CompuServe server hard disk images (medium.com/mpnet)
		133 points by harel on April 2, 2019 \| 59 comments
26.		Verilator: Fast, Free Verilog HDL Simulator (veripool.org)
		102 points by steven741 on April 2, 2019 \| 19 comments
27.		Nikoli Puzzles (nikoli.co.jp)
		150 points by S4M on April 2, 2019 \| 24 comments
28.		A Roadmap for Eliminating Patents in Open Source (hansenpartnership.com)
		71 points by pabs3 on March 31, 2019 \| 12 comments
29.		Restoring natural forests is the best way to remove atmospheric carbon (nature.com)
		173 points by pseudolus on April 2, 2019 \| 95 comments
30.		Statistical mechanics of money (2000) (arxiv.org)
		86 points by hairytrog on April 2, 2019 \| 60 comments
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