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1.		Why Gov.uk content should be published in HTML and not PDF (gds.blog.gov.uk)
		541 points by edent on July 16, 2018 \| 241 comments
2.		Twitch streamers who spend years broadcasting to no one (theverge.com)
		456 points by ss2003 on July 16, 2018 \| 350 comments
3.		Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day (techcrunch.com)
		646 points by koolba on July 16, 2018 \| 360 comments
4.		Cloudflare, Mozilla, Fastly, and Apple Working on Encrypted SNI (twitter.com/grittygrease)
		343 points by sahin on July 16, 2018 \| 145 comments
5.		Keeping a plaintext “did” file (theptrk.com)
		507 points by theptrk on July 16, 2018 \| 195 comments
6.		The Power of Positive People (nytimes.com)
		295 points by Tomte on July 16, 2018 \| 146 comments
7.		LIDL cancels SAP introduction after spending 500M Euro (br.de)
		341 points by wohlergehen on July 16, 2018 \| 224 comments
8.		Image optimization decreased website's page weight by 62% (freshman.tech)
		315 points by ayoisaiah on July 16, 2018 \| 105 comments
9.		Show HN: Hasura – Fast, instant GraphQL APIs on Postgres (github.com/hasura)
		382 points by tango12 on July 16, 2018 \| 103 comments
10.		Alzheimer's risk 10 times lower with herpes medication (medicalnewstoday.com)
		340 points by subcosmos on July 16, 2018 \| 120 comments
11.		El Fuego Viviente Chili Sauce (github.com/aweijnitz)
		228 points by otorrillas on July 16, 2018 \| 127 comments
12.		A Parable by Dijkstra (1973) (utexas.edu)
		296 points by fpvsoop on July 16, 2018 \| 102 comments
13.		Happy 25th Anniversary Slackware Linux (slackware.com)
		242 points by natex on July 16, 2018 \| 87 comments
14.		Rav1e: An experimental AV1 video encoder, designed to be fast and safe (github.com/xiph)
		200 points by adamnemecek on July 16, 2018 \| 73 comments
15.		How two strangers set up Dropbox and made billions (bbc.co.uk)
		191 points by scriptstar on July 16, 2018 \| 127 comments
16.		Instapaper is going independent (instapaper.com)
		304 points by uptown on July 16, 2018 \| 188 comments
17.		Judge Orders Los Angeles Times to Delete Part of Published Article (nytimes.com)
		218 points by augustocallejas on July 16, 2018 \| 155 comments
18.		Barbie typewriter (2015) (cryptomuseum.com)
		123 points by rainbowmverse on July 16, 2018 \| 50 comments
19.		Leslie Nielsen’s career got serious when he got the chance to lighten up (2016) (melmagazine.com)
		122 points by tosh on July 15, 2018 \| 24 comments
20.		How should we evaluate progress in AI? (meaningness.com)
		119 points by amasad on July 16, 2018 \| 63 comments
21.		Amazon Prime Day deals 'not what they seem' (bbc.co.uk)
		193 points by john58 on July 16, 2018 \| 118 comments
22.		Show HN: Font Playground – Play with variable fonts (typedetail.com)
		131 points by wentin on July 16, 2018 \| 23 comments
23.		How Helsinki Arrived at the Future of Urban Travel First (bloomberg.com)
		148 points by jarvelov on July 15, 2018 \| 83 comments
24.		Perceptrons from memristors (arxiv.org)
		104 points by godelmachine on July 16, 2018 \| 4 comments
25.		Goldman Sachs model to predict World Cup game results didn’t come close (bloomberg.com)
		245 points by rodionos on July 16, 2018 \| 130 comments
26.		Improving Connectomics by an Order of Magnitude (googleblog.com)
		114 points by lainon on July 16, 2018 \| 28 comments
27.		How a Sneaky Furniture Expert Ripped Off the Rich and Tricked Versailles (vanityfair.com)
		87 points by thisisit on July 16, 2018 \| 22 comments
28.		To Make Sense of the Present, Brains May Predict the Future (quantamagazine.org)
		71 points by tdurden on July 16, 2018 \| 25 comments
29.		Launch HN: Dinesafe (YC S18) – Crowdsourcing Food Poisoning Reports
		76 points by paddoq on July 16, 2018 \| 66 comments
30.		In 2017, US had largest decline in CO2 emissions (aei.org)
		139 points by lxm on July 16, 2018 \| 105 comments
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