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1.		An Experimental Course on Operating Systems (stanford.edu)
		967 points by jzoch on Jan 12, 2018 \| 243 comments
2.		Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea (qz.com)
		788 points by ValentineC on Jan 12, 2018 \| 317 comments
3.		Protecting Google Cloud customers without impacting performance (blog.google)
		465 points by theDoug on Jan 11, 2018 \| 129 comments
4.		Understanding the React Source Code, Part 1 (hackernoon.com)
		210 points by adamnemecek on Jan 11, 2018 \| 33 comments
5.		How to sleep a million years (2013) (popcount.org)
		208 points by bemmu on Jan 12, 2018 \| 21 comments
6.		DNSFS – Store files in others' DNS resolver caches (benjojo.co.uk)
		243 points by benjojo12 on Jan 12, 2018 \| 36 comments
7.		H3: A Hexagonal Hierarchical Geospatial Indexing System (github.com/uber)
		140 points by omot on Jan 12, 2018 \| 45 comments
8.		Improving Ourselves to Death (newyorker.com)
		281 points by kawera on Jan 10, 2018 \| 101 comments
9.		Website Glitch Let Me Overstock My Coinbase (krebsonsecurity.com)
		287 points by wglb on Jan 11, 2018 \| 130 comments
10.		Harvard Study Shows Why Big Telecom Is Terrified of Community-Run Broadband (vice.com)
		379 points by owens99 on Jan 12, 2018 \| 144 comments
11.		Buried Ice Water Discovered on Mars (nasa.gov)
		338 points by almost_usual on Jan 11, 2018 \| 60 comments
12.		A proof-of-concept system for counter-surveillance against spy drones (wired.com)
		136 points by breck on Jan 12, 2018 \| 68 comments
13.		Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share (nytimes.com)
		280 points by axg on Jan 12, 2018 \| 213 comments
14.		Intel Security Issue Update: Addressing Reboot Issues (intel.com)
		259 points by bcantrill on Jan 12, 2018 \| 117 comments
15.		Dogecoin's inventor looks to the past for insight into the future (vice.com)
		269 points by thisisit on Jan 12, 2018 \| 247 comments
16.		IoT Sensors Monitor a 1,400-Kilometer Canal in China (ieee.org)
		74 points by sohkamyung on Jan 12, 2018 \| 33 comments
17.		The Making of Apple’s Emoji (medium.com/agzmn)
		261 points by Doubleguitars on Jan 11, 2018 \| 107 comments
18.		Mechanical Computing Systems Using Only Links and Rotary Joints (arxiv.org)
		112 points by lainon on Jan 12, 2018 \| 26 comments
19.		Kotlin: The Problem with null (arturdryomov.online)
		128 points by bmc7505 on Jan 12, 2018 \| 107 comments
20.		How to Think Like a Medieval Monk (2017) (laphamsquarterly.org)
		178 points by diodorus on Jan 12, 2018 \| 57 comments
21.		Wood gas vehicles: firewood in the fuel tank (lowtechmagazine.com)
		144 points by aphextron on Jan 12, 2018 \| 67 comments
22.		Making tab switching faster in Firefox with tab warming (mikeconley.ca)
		153 points by bpierre on Jan 11, 2018 \| 100 comments
23.		Show HN: Bato – A Filipino Programming Language (github.com/jjuliano)
		159 points by jjuliano on Jan 12, 2018 \| 123 comments
24.		Rat poison from pot farms is poisoning owls, study finds (sfchronicle.com)
		149 points by anigbrowl on Jan 12, 2018 \| 67 comments
25.		A Security Issue in Intel’s Active Management Technology (f-secure.com)
		143 points by buovjaga on Jan 12, 2018 \| 33 comments
26.		Update Regarding ACME TLS-SNI and Shared Hosting Infrastructure (letsencrypt.org)
		116 points by okket on Jan 11, 2018 \| 42 comments
27.		Fifty Years of Shannon Theory (1998) [pdf] (princeton.edu)
		126 points by avastmick on Jan 12, 2018 \| 22 comments
28.		Things you must know before you can understand Meltdown as a developer (razorpay.com)
		235 points by captn3m0 on Jan 12, 2018 \| 94 comments
29.		New DHS policy on demands for passwords to travelers’ electronic devices (papersplease.org)
		365 points by tehwebguy on Jan 12, 2018 \| 278 comments
30.		Tesla: Art of Transmitting Electrical Energy through the Natural Mediums (1900) (patents.google.com)
		107 points by hownottowrite on Jan 11, 2018 \| 22 comments
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