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1.		Walkable Streets Are More Economically Productive (strongtowns.org)
		662 points by oftenwrong on Jan 18, 2018 \| 415 comments
2.		Wine 3.0 Released (winehq.org)
		724 points by etiam on Jan 18, 2018 \| 222 comments
3.		JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake (jspaint.ml)
		906 points by hjek on Jan 18, 2018 \| 248 comments
4.		Restructuring a giant, ancient codebase to make LibreOffice work well everywhere (fosdem.org)
		489 points by buovjaga on Jan 18, 2018 \| 101 comments
5.		CIA rendition flights from rustic North Carolina called to account by citizens (theguardian.com)
		306 points by pera on Jan 18, 2018 \| 166 comments
6.		Oxidizing Source Maps with Rust and WebAssembly (hacks.mozilla.org)
		207 points by mnemonik on Jan 18, 2018 \| 30 comments
7.		Microsoft MakeCode (makecode.com)
		407 points by mdturnerphys on Jan 17, 2018 \| 90 comments
8.		It is not possible to detect and block Chrome headless (intoli.com)
		360 points by foob on Jan 18, 2018 \| 166 comments
9.		Building an Operating System for the Raspberry Pi (jsandler18.github.io)
		331 points by gregorymichael on Jan 18, 2018 \| 79 comments
10.		Scaling Kubernetes to 2,500 Nodes (blog.openai.com)
		265 points by stanzheng on Jan 18, 2018 \| 33 comments
11.		Keep Webpack Fast: A Field Guide for Better Build Performance (slack.engineering)
		214 points by firloop on Jan 18, 2018 \| 47 comments
12.		Ten Years' Worth of Learning About Pricing (tomtunguz.com)
		247 points by gk1 on Jan 18, 2018 \| 43 comments
13.		Fuze for Nintendo Switch: An easy-to-learn text-based programming language (fuze.co.uk)
		245 points by E765 on Jan 18, 2018 \| 102 comments
14.		Stream Processing for Go (wallaroolabs.com)
		198 points by spooneybarger on Jan 18, 2018 \| 30 comments
15.		CloudFlair: Bypassing CloudFlare using Internet-wide scan data (christophetd.fr)
		151 points by 68c12c16 on Jan 18, 2018 \| 48 comments
16.		An old theory of quantized gravity is gaining new life (quantamagazine.org)
		110 points by bcaulfield on Jan 18, 2018 \| 66 comments
17.		Rust and QML: a timely example (vandenoever.info)
		144 points by gilrain on Jan 18, 2018 \| 20 comments
18.		Dear SaaS vendors (liip.ch)
		160 points by market_arts on Jan 18, 2018 \| 90 comments
19.		Life in the age of noise (powells.com)
		169 points by fern12 on Jan 16, 2018 \| 65 comments
20.		Indistinguishable from Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips (2012) [video] (youtube.com)
		183 points by taspeotis on Jan 18, 2018 \| 52 comments
21.		Nintendo Labo: make, play, and discover (nintendo.co.uk)
		302 points by cyanbane on Jan 17, 2018 \| 2 comments
22.		The Woman Behind Two Men and a Truck (fortune.com)
		158 points by lxm on Jan 17, 2018 \| 72 comments
23.		Classic RAND Papers (rand.org)
		125 points by miobrien on Jan 17, 2018 \| 21 comments
24.		Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders (scientificamerican.com)
		275 points by jrwan on Jan 18, 2018 \| 321 comments
25.		Clojure Numerics: Orthogonalization and Least Squares (dragan.rocks)
		118 points by dragandj on Jan 18, 2018 \| 20 comments
26.		Cape Town could be the first city to run out of water (bbc.com)
		204 points by tonteldoos on Jan 18, 2018 \| 138 comments
27.		Amazon announces candidate cities for HQ2 (amazon.com)
		325 points by uptown on Jan 18, 2018 \| 721 comments
28.		So You Want to Compete with Steam (fortressofdoors.com)
		244 points by eugenekolo on Jan 17, 2018 \| 215 comments
29.		On the global survival of mafias (the-tls.co.uk)
		64 points by benbreen on Jan 16, 2018 \| 29 comments
30.		Visual tour of classical electromagnetism (web.mit.edu)
		96 points by adamnemecek on Jan 15, 2018 \| 13 comments
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