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1.		LisaOS to be open-sourced and donated to Computer History Museum (twitter.com/6502lane)
		259 points by mpweiher on Dec 24, 2017 \| 84 comments
2.		Axiom Beta – Digital cinema camera built around FOSS and open hardware (apertus.org)
		264 points by jarmitage on Dec 24, 2017 \| 94 comments
3.		Papercraft with Blender (matiasmorant.wordpress.com)
		333 points by wvlia5 on Dec 24, 2017 \| 50 comments
4.		The Effect of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing on American Mortality Patterns [pdf] (keithameyers.com)
		216 points by stablemap on Dec 24, 2017 \| 118 comments
5.		Academic success is either a crapshoot or a scam (grasshoppermouse.github.io)
		309 points by mpweiher on Dec 23, 2017 \| 102 comments
6.		Text-only news sites are slowly making a comeback (poynter.org)
		259 points by georgecmu on Dec 24, 2017 \| 104 comments
7.		The Only McLaren F1 Technician in North America (roadandtrack.com)
		219 points by iamben on Dec 21, 2017 \| 87 comments
8.		Molly Houses: Gay Bars in 18th-Century Britain (atlasobscura.com)
		117 points by apollinaire on Dec 21, 2017 \| 12 comments
9.		Formal Verification: The Gap Between Perfect Code and Reality (raywang.tech)
		222 points by tom_mellior on Dec 24, 2017 \| 102 comments
10.		Repairing a 1960s mainframe: Fixing the IBM 1401's core memory and power supply (righto.com)
		145 points by fernly on Dec 24, 2017 \| 18 comments
11.		Undefined vs. Unsafe in Rust (manishearth.github.io)
		160 points by ingve on Dec 24, 2017 \| 47 comments
12.		Algorithmic Solution to My Insomnia (sukhar.com)
		253 points by csmajorfive on Dec 23, 2017 \| 79 comments
13.		Writing GUI Apps Using the Red Programming Language (wesleyhill.co.uk)
		182 points by stesch on Dec 24, 2017 \| 114 comments
14.		Apple Autocorrects Names of Some Medications to Names of Different Medications (twitter.com/slatestarcodex)
		248 points by Houshalter on Dec 24, 2017 \| 128 comments
15.		Earthworms can reproduce in Mars soil simulant (wur.nl)
		138 points by scadge on Dec 21, 2017 \| 75 comments
16.		The Big Business of Prisoner Care Packages (themarshallproject.org)
		86 points by scarface74 on Dec 22, 2017 \| 40 comments
17.		Bruce McCandless, First Astronaut to Fly Untethered in Space, Has Died (npr.org)
		129 points by lyk on Dec 24, 2017 \| 21 comments
18.		Reasoning About Program Behavior Algebraically [pdf] (stephendiehl.com)
		113 points by rwosync on Dec 24, 2017 \| 12 comments
19.		How to Print Integers Really Fast (pvk.ca)
		169 points by signa11 on Dec 24, 2017 \| 46 comments
20.		Analyzing One Million Robots.txt Files (intoli.com)
		157 points by foob on Dec 21, 2017 \| 25 comments
21.		Inferno OS for Raspberry Pi (bitbucket.org/infpi)
		140 points by rcarmo on Dec 23, 2017 \| 20 comments
22.		Dubsmash: Scaling to 200M Users with 3 Engineers (stackshare.io)
		180 points by yarapavan on Dec 22, 2017 \| 45 comments
23.		Fungi Saved the World (2014) (feedthedatamonster.com)
		95 points by bentaber on Dec 21, 2017 \| 12 comments
24.		Open Source .NET three years later (mattwarren.org)
		216 points by matthewwarren on Dec 24, 2017 \| 185 comments
25.		Electric currency could trash cash (1999) (theguardian.com)
		74 points by monort on Dec 24, 2017 \| 43 comments
26.		Russian submarine activity increases around Atlantic internet cables: report (thehill.com)
		117 points by erowtom on Dec 24, 2017 \| 62 comments
27.		I Got Paid $0 from the Uber Security Bug Bounty (medium.com/bread-and-circuses)
		624 points by GregoryVPerry on Dec 24, 2017 \| 152 comments
28.		Key compromise and root cert with exposed key in German lawyer software (beA) (groups.google.com)
		84 points by DyslexicAtheist on Dec 24, 2017 \| 20 comments
29.		The current state of kernel page-table isolation (lwn.net)
		81 points by jsnell on Dec 24, 2017 \| 13 comments
30.		Stopping Plastic Pollution with the Power of Bubbles (hakaimagazine.com)
		42 points by jmadsen on Dec 21, 2017 \| 5 comments
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