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1.		Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on Wikipedia (wikimedia.org)
		677 points by subset on April 23, 2018 \| 243 comments
2.		You probably don't need AI/ML. You can make do with well written SQL scripts (threadreaderapp.com)
		1075 points by passenger on April 22, 2018 \| 322 comments
3.		MIT Researchers Have Developed a ‘System for Dream Control’ (vice.com)
		547 points by dsr12 on April 23, 2018 \| 133 comments
4.		Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance (neflabs.com)
		687 points by neflabs on April 23, 2018 \| 349 comments
5.		Show HN: Giving a Broken Barcode Scanner a New Life with Elixir and Nerves (bcarrigan.com)
		330 points by carrigan on April 23, 2018 \| 58 comments
6.		An Introduction to Hashing in the Era of Machine Learning (bradfieldcs.com)
		247 points by kqr2 on April 23, 2018 \| 20 comments
7.		The last day of linotype at the NYT (1978) [video] (vimeo.com)
		213 points by donw on April 23, 2018 \| 65 comments
8.		Planning a Morrowind all-faction speedrun with simulated annealing, part 2 (kimonote.com)
		232 points by mildbyte on April 23, 2018 \| 36 comments
9.		The Many Ways Google Harvests Data (wsj.com)
		303 points by j32fun on April 23, 2018 \| 185 comments
10.		Renting is Throwing Money Away, Right? (2015) (affordanything.com)
		475 points by vinnyglennon on April 23, 2018 \| 478 comments
11.		Qt for WebAssembly Technology Preview (qt.io)
		243 points by fantasticsid on April 23, 2018 \| 191 comments
12.		IAmA Dane Jasper, CEO of Sonic, Northern California's Largest Independent ISP (reddit.com)
		168 points by quantisan on April 23, 2018 \| 15 comments
13.		New AI Imaging Technique Reconstructs Photos with Realistic Results (nvidia.com)
		219 points by dsr12 on April 23, 2018 \| 70 comments
14.		Accelerating Deep Neuroevolution: Train Atari in Hours on a Single Computer (ubere.ng)
		155 points by mkvorwerck on April 23, 2018 \| 38 comments
15.		Bringing Objective-C to the Amiga (heap.zone)
		137 points by Midar on April 23, 2018 \| 112 comments
16.		Memory, attention, sequences (towardsdatascience.com)
		102 points by jonbaer on April 22, 2018 \| 3 comments
17.		The Art of Picking Intel Registers (2003) (swansontec.com)
		133 points by Tomte on April 22, 2018 \| 44 comments
18.		The limits of information (2014) (maths.org)
		103 points by whitecream on April 22, 2018 \| 21 comments
19.		The “unpatchable” exploit that makes every current Nintendo Switch hackable (arstechnica.com)
		181 points by pjl on April 23, 2018 \| 72 comments
20.		Show HN: Interactive WebGL visualization of all 47K buildings in Manhattan (tbaldw.in)
		151 points by taylorbaldwin on April 23, 2018 \| 42 comments
21.		Union Types in Flow and Reason (jez.io)
		109 points by jez on April 22, 2018 \| 53 comments
22.		Eventbrite has removed filming clause from agreement (twitter.com/eventbrite)
		89 points by blatherard on April 22, 2018 \| 27 comments
23.		Show HN: HTTP/2 Python-Asyncio Web Microframework (gitlab.com/pgjones)
		173 points by pgjones on April 23, 2018 \| 42 comments
24.		On Becoming an American Writer (theparisreview.org)
		84 points by chmaynard on April 23, 2018 \| 14 comments
25.		How DNA Transfer Framed Lukis Anderson for Murder (themarshallproject.org)
		98 points by cafogleman on April 23, 2018 \| 10 comments
26.		How Windmills as Wide as Jumbo Jets Are Making Clean Energy Mainstream (nytimes.com)
		242 points by dankohn1 on April 23, 2018 \| 279 comments
27.		Walking While Black (lithub.com)
		266 points by hownottowrite on April 22, 2018 \| 163 comments
28.		Programming in the Debugger (willcrichton.net)
		117 points by wcrichton on April 22, 2018 \| 86 comments
29.		Show HN: Create a personalized and optimized webpack configuration (jakoblind.no)
		92 points by znaky on April 23, 2018 \| 45 comments
30.		Solved: A Decades-Old Ansel Adams Mystery (atlasobscura.com)
		86 points by sverige on April 22, 2018 \| 5 comments
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