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1.		Show HN: A browser extension which blocks chat/helpdesk widgets (hellogoodbye.app)
		510 points by bcye on March 16, 2019 \| 226 comments
2.		How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing (2013) (propublica.org)
		462 points by danso on March 14, 2019 \| 253 comments
3.		Apple Watch detects irregular heart beat in large U.S. study (reuters.com)
		310 points by onetimemanytime on March 16, 2019 \| 231 comments
4.		A solar-powered, self-hosted version of Low-Tech Magazine (lowtechmagazine.com)
		235 points by hemmert on March 16, 2019 \| 66 comments
5.		As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling (nytimes.com)
		284 points by mykowebhn on March 16, 2019 \| 284 comments
6.		Wolfenstein: Ray Tracing on Using WebGL1 (reindernijhoff.net)
		235 points by leeoniya on March 16, 2019 \| 27 comments
7.		Google’s Nest fiasco harms user trust and invades their privacy (malwarebytes.com)
		242 points by johnisgood on March 16, 2019 \| 113 comments
8.		Lem: A Common Lisp editor/IDE with high expansibility (github.com/cxxxr)
		159 points by lelf on March 16, 2019 \| 77 comments
9.		Marcel Duchamp Interview on Art and Dada (1956) [video] (youtube.com)
		56 points by brudgers on March 15, 2019 \| 22 comments
10.		How I Learned to Love Algebraic Geometry (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
		243 points by chmaynard on March 15, 2019 \| 54 comments
11.		The difference between ‘broke’ and ‘poor’ (theguardian.com)
		355 points by wallflower on March 16, 2019 \| 217 comments
12.		Saving of public Google+ content by the Archive Team has begun (reddit.com)
		170 points by danso on March 16, 2019 \| 90 comments
13.		YUML – Easy Embeddable Diagrams (yuml.me)
		178 points by etaioinshrdlu on March 16, 2019 \| 54 comments
14.		Formula 1: The secret aerodynamicist reveals design concepts (bbc.com)
		175 points by clouddrover on March 15, 2019 \| 66 comments
15.		Transcatheter aortic valve replacement effective in younger, healthier patients (nytimes.com)
		137 points by matt4077 on March 16, 2019 \| 44 comments
16.		School is all about signaling, not skill-building (latimes.com)
		315 points by kermittd on March 16, 2019 \| 216 comments
17.		Invent More, Toil Less (2016) [pdf] (usenix.org)
		128 points by DyslexicAtheist on March 16, 2019 \| 41 comments
18.		Seven Commandments for Event-Driven Architectures (rjzaworski.com)
		142 points by n1bble on March 16, 2019 \| 30 comments
19.		Facebook announces next-generation Open Rack frame (fb.com)
		125 points by el_duderino on March 16, 2019 \| 44 comments
20.		Show HN: A simple Prolog Interpreter written in a few lines of Python 3 (github.com/photonlines)
		149 points by photon_lines on March 15, 2019 \| 20 comments
21.		How Designers Engineer Luck Into Video Games (2017) (nautil.us)
		141 points by bookofjoe on March 15, 2019 \| 78 comments
22.		Why Operators Are Useful (neopythonic.blogspot.com)
		178 points by s16h on March 16, 2019 \| 167 comments
23.		Falling in love with OpenBSD again (functionallyparanoid.com)
		146 points by lelf on March 15, 2019 \| 92 comments
24.		Facebook’s algorithm change has spurred an angry, Fox News-dominated News Feed (niemanlab.org)
		237 points by sethbannon on March 16, 2019 \| 131 comments
25.		Worstsort (byorgey.wordpress.com)
		73 points by pplonski86 on March 15, 2019 \| 42 comments
26.		Launch HN: Nabis (YC W19) – Cannabis Shipping and Logistics
		83 points by vning93 on March 16, 2019 \| 23 comments
27.		Wikipedia and the Wisdom of Polarized Crowds (nautil.us)
		84 points by dnetesn on March 15, 2019 \| 31 comments
28.		Before the Internet (2017) (newyorker.com)
		74 points by eodafbaloo on March 16, 2019 \| 31 comments
29.		Gwern’s AI-Generated Poetry (slatestarcodex.com)
		117 points by gbear605 on March 15, 2019 \| 37 comments
30.		Knoppix 8.5.0 Released (knopper.net)
		135 points by bjoko on March 16, 2019 \| 50 comments
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