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1.		Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep (2013) (npr.org)
		420 points by phatboyslim on April 17, 2017 \| 167 comments
2.		MP3 for Image Compression (2006) (emphy.de)
		344 points by joshumax on April 17, 2017 \| 96 comments
3.		Rope Science – Computer science concepts behind the Xi editor (github.com/google)
		421 points by krat0sprakhar on April 17, 2017 \| 60 comments
4.		Teeny Tiny Mansion: text adventure game formally proven to have no dead ends (svn.clifford.at)
		302 points by JoshTriplett on April 17, 2017 \| 104 comments
5.		PHP 7 Virtual Machine (nikic.github.io)
		365 points by lvht on April 17, 2017 \| 125 comments
6.		Apple’s new APFS file system (mondaynote.com)
		305 points by robin_reala on April 16, 2017 \| 168 comments
7.		How to Host Your Own Private Git Repositories (eklitzke.org)
		271 points by eklitzke on April 17, 2017 \| 108 comments
8.		Climbing the wrong hill (2009) (cdixon.org)
		248 points by brianbaquiran on April 17, 2017 \| 101 comments
9.		Data structures and algorithms interview questions and their solutions (quora.com)
		397 points by adamnemecek on April 16, 2017 \| 103 comments
10.		The origins of XXX as FIXME (snellman.net)
		195 points by panic on April 17, 2017 \| 86 comments
11.		Reasons blog posts can be of higher scientific quality than journal articles (daniellakens.blogspot.com)
		233 points by vixen99 on April 16, 2017 \| 94 comments
12.		SDF – Public Access Unix System (sdf.org)
		194 points by znpy on April 17, 2017 \| 51 comments
13.		Intel Discontinues the Intel Developer Forum; IDF17 Cancelled (anandtech.com)
		219 points by randta on April 17, 2017 \| 196 comments
14.		Slate.js: Customizeable rich text library inspired by Draft.js (slatejs.org)
		228 points by malloryerik on April 16, 2017 \| 69 comments
15.		Erlang and First-Person Shooters (2011) [pdf] (erlang-factory.com)
		195 points by Tomte on April 15, 2017 \| 41 comments
16.		Show HN: Zuck.js, a JavaScript library that lets you add Stories everywhere (github.com/ramon82)
		339 points by vegbrasil on April 17, 2017 \| 58 comments
17.		Deep Patient Predicts Patients Future from Health Records (nature.com)
		144 points by jacquesm on April 17, 2017 \| 29 comments
18.		How Complex Systems Fail (1998) [pdf] (web.mit.edu)
		112 points by henrik_w on April 16, 2017 \| 7 comments
19.		HTML to Excel data extraction (listly.io)
		121 points by changmin on April 15, 2017 \| 21 comments
20.		Loss of Coral Reefs Could Cost $1T (climatecentral.org)
		315 points by uptown on April 17, 2017 \| 131 comments
21.		The Smart Fuzzer Revolution [video] (trailofbits.com)
		73 points by nuclx on April 16, 2017 \| 15 comments
22.		Show HN: TorrentPeek – Distributed search engines using BitTorrent and SQLite (github.com/lmatteis)
		184 points by sktrdie on April 17, 2017 \| 33 comments
23.		90% of Python in 90 Minutes (2013) (slideshare.net)
		384 points by Tomte on April 17, 2017 \| 56 comments
24.		Receding glacier causes Canadian river to vanish in four days (theguardian.com)
		260 points by Red_Tarsius on April 17, 2017 \| 99 comments
25.		Maze Generator (github.com/razimantv)
		111 points by thewarrior on April 16, 2017 \| 15 comments
26.		How the Airlines Became Cartels (nytimes.com)
		311 points by walterbell on April 17, 2017 \| 290 comments
27.		Deep Laplacian Pyramid Networks for Fast and Accurate Super-Resolution (ucmerced.edu)
		77 points by TuringNYC on April 15, 2017 \| 36 comments
28.		One Night in Rio: Vacation Photos from Plan9 (arcan-fe.com)
		113 points by crazyloglad on April 17, 2017 \| 7 comments
29.		Sam Altman at the Family, Paris [video] (youtube.com)
		99 points by malloryerik on April 17, 2017 \| 50 comments
30.		Government auction of wireless airwaves will shape the future of the Internet (washingtonpost.com)
		101 points by jgrahamc on April 17, 2017 \| 60 comments
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