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1.		Meltdown Proof-of-Concept (github.com/iaik)
		760 points by __init on Jan 9, 2018 \| 174 comments
2.		A letter about Google AMP (ampletter.org)
		866 points by lainon on Jan 9, 2018 \| 346 comments
3.		Legends of the Ancient Web (2017) (idlewords.com)
		567 points by panic on Jan 9, 2018 \| 111 comments
4.		Intel CEO’s Stock Sales May Warrant SEC Examination (bloomberg.com)
		406 points by CPAhem on Jan 9, 2018 \| 184 comments
5.		Useful Mental Models (2016) (defmacro.org)
		586 points by Mougatine on Jan 8, 2018 \| 73 comments
6.		The day I accidentally killed a little boy (bbc.co.uk)
		573 points by sjcsjc on Jan 9, 2018 \| 654 comments
7.		Building for the Blockchain (blog.ycombinator.com)
		470 points by vincentschen on Jan 9, 2018 \| 330 comments
8.		What Spectre and Meltdown Mean for WebKit (webkit.org)
		397 points by pizlonator on Jan 9, 2018 \| 285 comments
9.		Introduction to reverse engineering and assembly (homelinux.net)
		343 points by seiflotfy on Jan 9, 2018 \| 32 comments
10.		Tesla's New York Gigafactory Kicks Off Solar Roof Production (bloomberg.com)
		190 points by uptown on Jan 9, 2018 \| 134 comments
11.		Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to use WhatsApp (catonmat.net)
		480 points by amasad on Jan 9, 2018 \| 222 comments
12.		A Cryptocurrency Website Changes Its Data, and $100B in Market Value Vanishes (wsj.com)
		198 points by thisisit on Jan 9, 2018 \| 173 comments
13.		James Dolan, co-creator of SecureDrop, has died (freedom.press)
		461 points by uptown on Jan 9, 2018 \| 77 comments
14.		Tim Sweeney on the First Version of the Unreal Editor (gamasutra.com)
		271 points by vesrah on Jan 9, 2018 \| 75 comments
15.		Toapi – Let any web site provide APIs (toapi.org)
		202 points by thm on Jan 9, 2018 \| 36 comments
16.		Ftfy – fix Unicode that's broken in various ways (now.sh)
		226 points by simonw on Jan 9, 2018 \| 57 comments
17.		Xerox Alto's 3 Mb/s Ethernet: Building a Gateway with a BeagleBone (righto.com)
		153 points by jf on Jan 9, 2018 \| 43 comments
18.		How the Scripto App Became a Fixture of Late-Night Comedy News (newyorker.com)
		184 points by riordan on Jan 9, 2018 \| 45 comments
19.		What it’s like to be on the board of a Fortune 500 company (jayshah.me)
		203 points by jayshahtx on Jan 9, 2018 \| 76 comments
20.		The Spice of Life (slowfood.com)
		113 points by Petiver on Jan 8, 2018 \| 61 comments
21.		Confidential metrics for Snapchat features (thedailybeast.com)
		127 points by danso on Jan 9, 2018 \| 66 comments
22.		Show HN: Hooks Data API – Realtime Data about Thousands of Topics Over Webhooks (hooks.co)
		145 points by krammer on Jan 9, 2018 \| 25 comments
23.		Why Leaf Shutter Lenses Matter (2013) (kern-photo.com)
		71 points by Lio on Jan 9, 2018 \| 36 comments
24.		Net Neutrality to Get U.S. Senate Vote as Democrats Force Issue (bloomberg.com)
		343 points by rayuela on Jan 8, 2018 \| 157 comments
25.		A Vast, 430-Year-Old World Map (atlasobscura.com)
		195 points by bcaulfield on Jan 9, 2018 \| 37 comments
26.		Show HN: Plait.py – a fake data modeler (github.com/plaitpy)
		85 points by logv on Jan 9, 2018 \| 19 comments
27.		Intel CEO: Patches will come to 90% of chips in the next week (techcrunch.com)
		155 points by elektor on Jan 9, 2018 \| 126 comments
28.		When Does Work Actually Get Done? (priceonomics.com)
		146 points by ryan_j_naughton on Jan 9, 2018 \| 43 comments
29.		The Casio AL-1000 (vintagecalculators.com)
		79 points by turrini on Jan 8, 2018 \| 34 comments
30.		An array of eight SN76489 sound chips playable via USB MIDI (little-scale.blogspot.com)
		106 points by sohkamyung on Jan 9, 2018 \| 11 comments
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