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1.		Intel Has a Big Problem (bloomberg.com)
		780 points by MilnerRoute on Jan 20, 2018 \| 337 comments
2.		Learn FFmpeg the hard way (github.com/leandromoreira)
		586 points by dreampeppers99 on Jan 20, 2018 \| 79 comments
3.		Training Your Brain So That You Don’t Need Reading Glasses (2017) (nytimes.com)
		540 points by walterbell on Jan 20, 2018 \| 137 comments
4.		Relativ – A VR headset that you can build yourself for $100 (github.com/relativty)
		449 points by realusername on Jan 20, 2018 \| 84 comments
5.		Atari Tempest: Dave Theurer’s Masterpiece (arcadeblogger.com)
		232 points by videotopia on Jan 19, 2018 \| 61 comments
6.		Blockchains from a Distributed Computing Perspective [pdf] (brown.edu)
		235 points by rejectedalot on Jan 20, 2018 \| 66 comments
7.		The London Time Machine (arcgis.com)
		85 points by kawera on Jan 20, 2018 \| 17 comments
8.		Mental Overload Detection with Respiration Variability Spectrogram (aqibsaeed.github.io)
		75 points by koko20 on Jan 20, 2018 \| 17 comments
9.		Command Line Heroes Podcast (redhat.com)
		140 points by terrencewells on Jan 20, 2018 \| 16 comments
10.		A Simple Decompiler (1988) (drdobbs.com)
		60 points by userbinator on Jan 20, 2018 \| 3 comments
11.		NSA deleted surveillance data it pledged to preserve (politico.com)
		278 points by tony101 on Jan 20, 2018 \| 78 comments
12.		MiniZinc: free and open-source constraint modeling language (minizinc.org)
		179 points by bjourne on Jan 20, 2018 \| 33 comments
13.		Clinical trial finds blood-plasma infusions for Alzheimer’s safe, promising (stanford.edu)
		107 points by monort on Jan 20, 2018 \| 24 comments
14.		Stream and Go: News feeds for 300M users, built on RocksDB and Raft (stackshare.io)
		207 points by tschellenbach on Jan 20, 2018 \| 63 comments
15.		Joe Frank, Spinner of Strange Radio Tales, Has Died (nytimes.com)
		58 points by klenwell on Jan 20, 2018 \| 7 comments
16.		The DNA of Iceland's First Known Black Man, Recreated from Living Descendants (theatlantic.com)
		96 points by curtis on Jan 19, 2018 \| 27 comments
17.		A prime number whose binary representation looks like a giraffe (reddit.com)
		264 points by svenfaw on Jan 20, 2018 \| 76 comments
18.		Fermented Shark, Anyone? (1843magazine.com)
		49 points by Thevet on Jan 19, 2018 \| 59 comments
19.		GoPro has discontinued its developer program (gopro.com)
		115 points by byteCoder on Jan 19, 2018 \| 92 comments
20.		PostgreSQL 10: Partitions of partitions (joaodlf.com)
		140 points by joaodlf on Jan 20, 2018 \| 48 comments
21.		The Untreatable: The Spanish Flu of 1918 (lrb.co.uk)
		96 points by Vigier on Jan 19, 2018 \| 105 comments
22.		Paul Bocuse, Celebrated French Chef, Dies at 91 (nytimes.com)
		163 points by NaOH on Jan 20, 2018 \| 43 comments
23.		Advanced Distributed Systems (illinois.edu)
		202 points by blueSky1989 on Jan 20, 2018 \| 11 comments
24.		C as an intermediate language (2012) (yosefk.com)
		133 points by yinso on Jan 20, 2018 \| 60 comments
25.		Show HN: Hyperfine – a command-line benchmarking tool (github.com/sharkdp)
		126 points by sharkdp on Jan 20, 2018 \| 19 comments
26.		Linear regression by hand (dsgazette.com)
		129 points by tarheeljason on Jan 20, 2018 \| 34 comments
27.		I Was a Bank Robber Until I Read Kant (thewalrus.ca)
		131 points by lermontov on Jan 20, 2018 \| 46 comments
28.		Switzerland “Should Become the Crypto-Nation” Says Minister (trustnodes.com)
		173 points by svaja on Jan 20, 2018 \| 90 comments
29.		JS things I didn’t know existed (air.ghost.io)
		275 points by fagnerbrack on Jan 20, 2018 \| 98 comments
30.		Rejoiner: Unified GraphQL schema from gRPC microservices (github.com/google)
		108 points by patrickaljord on Jan 20, 2018 \| 31 comments
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