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1.		They Used To Last 50 Years (recraigslist.com)
		1359 points by teslacar on March 19, 2017 \| 860 comments
2.		Distill: a modern machine learning journal (distill.pub)
		930 points by jasikpark on March 20, 2017 \| 105 comments
3.		The last patent on AC-3 (Dolby Digital) expires at midnight (ac3freedomday.org)
		578 points by robbiet480 on March 20, 2017 \| 222 comments
4.		The Document Which Used to Be Called the MIT Lockpicking Guide (1992) (blurofinsanity.com)
		355 points by Tomte on March 20, 2017 \| 114 comments
5.		Tears (meltingasphalt.com)
		417 points by urs on March 20, 2017 \| 115 comments
6.		I've decided to move on to Distill (colah.github.io)
		353 points by apsec112 on March 20, 2017 \| 46 comments
7.		SHA-1 Collision Detection on GitHub.com (github.com/blog)
		374 points by samlambert on March 20, 2017 \| 90 comments
8.		A hot bath has benefits similar to exercise (theconversation.com)
		298 points by walterbell on March 20, 2017 \| 226 comments
9.		Show HN: How to write a recursive descent parser (craftinginterpreters.com)
		347 points by munificent on March 20, 2017 \| 148 comments
10.		It's Better To Animate a Film Alone, Even If It Takes Years (vice.com)
		227 points by curtis on March 19, 2017 \| 104 comments
11.		Bloaty McBloatface: a size profiler for binaries (reverberate.org)
		202 points by haberman on March 20, 2017 \| 43 comments
12.		Two Executives to Leave Uber, Adding to Departures (nytimes.com)
		354 points by flyingramen on March 20, 2017 \| 250 comments
13.		How to Learn New Things as an Adult (theatlantic.com)
		296 points by pmcpinto on March 19, 2017 \| 113 comments
14.		What makes gambling wrong but insurance right? (bbc.com)
		294 points by sohkamyung on March 20, 2017 \| 255 comments
15.		The Antidesktop (2002) (archive.org)
		196 points by yankcrime on March 20, 2017 \| 121 comments
16.		Comprehensive and biased comparison of OpenBSD and FreeBSD [pdf] (bsdfrog.org)
		170 points by oherrala on March 20, 2017 \| 74 comments
17.		Hash indexes are faster than btree indexes? (amitkapila16.blogspot.com)
		200 points by dhd415 on March 20, 2017 \| 54 comments
18.		Whiteboard problems in pure Lambda Calculus (jtolds.com)
		200 points by jtolds on March 20, 2017 \| 41 comments
19.		Has Li-battery genius John Goodenough done it again? Colleagues are skeptical (qz.com)
		170 points by M_Grey on March 20, 2017 \| 154 comments
20.		TreeMaker: Origami Design Software (langorigami.com)
		155 points by poppingtonic on March 19, 2017 \| 12 comments
21.		The D Garbage Collector (dlang.org)
		139 points by sconxu on March 20, 2017 \| 87 comments
22.		The Intel Edison: Linux Maker Machine in a Matchbox (linux.com)
		87 points by JoshTriplett on March 20, 2017 \| 53 comments
23.		Why I Dissented (medium.com/neelkashkari)
		129 points by Mz on March 19, 2017 \| 61 comments
24.		Ask HN: Competitor is successful with black hat SEO
		255 points by throwmesomeseo on March 20, 2017 \| 102 comments
25.		DeepMind in “very early stage” talks with National Grid to reduce UK energy use (arstechnica.co.uk)
		254 points by rbanffy on March 20, 2017 \| 110 comments
26.		SimplCommerce: Simple, cross-platform, modularized ecommerce system on .NET Core (github.com/simplcommerce)
		86 points by maherjend on March 20, 2017 \| 19 comments
27.		YC W17 Launch: Wifi.com.ng – Uncapped ISP for Africa (blog.ycombinator.com)
		143 points by craigcannon on March 20, 2017 \| 75 comments
28.		Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting in Neural Networks (rylanschaeffer.github.io)
		123 points by RSchaeffer on March 19, 2017 \| 11 comments
29.		Epoll is broken – part 2/2 (popcount.org)
		108 points by protomyth on March 20, 2017 \| 39 comments
30.		Most Electronics Being Banned on Certain US-Bound Flights (bloomberg.com)
		249 points by BWStearns on March 20, 2017 \| 450 comments
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