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1.		The Follower Factory (nytimes.com)
		432 points by gregkerzhner on Jan 27, 2018 \| 165 comments
2.		Terraforming 1Password (agilebits.com)
		346 points by kawera on Jan 27, 2018 \| 118 comments
3.		Finding Profitable Startup Ideas (capitalandgrowth.org)
		297 points by jkuria on Jan 27, 2018 \| 95 comments
4.		USAF Is Jamming GPS in Western U.S. For Largest Ever Red Flag Air War Exercise (thedrive.com)
		226 points by tony101 on Jan 27, 2018 \| 149 comments
5.		An Italian Song That Sounds Like English But Is Nonsense (atlasobscura.com)
		373 points by idiocratic on Jan 27, 2018 \| 209 comments
6.		Operation Gunman – how the Soviets bugged IBM typewriters (2015) (cryptomuseum.com)
		229 points by dictum on Jan 27, 2018 \| 18 comments
7.		Kaggle Learn review: there is a deep learning track and it is worth your time (techandmortals.wordpress.com)
		219 points by akashtndn on Jan 27, 2018 \| 12 comments
8.		You Can’t Fire Equifax, but Your Employer Can (nytimes.com)
		209 points by tysone on Jan 26, 2018 \| 87 comments
9.		‘We Shall Overcome’ Is Put in Public Domain in a Copyright Settlement (nytimes.com)
		132 points by tchalla on Jan 27, 2018 \| 35 comments
10.		Amazon’s $23M book about flies (2011) (michaeleisen.org)
		186 points by YeGoblynQueenne on Jan 27, 2018 \| 106 comments
11.		Show HN: Find a co-hacker for your project (projectboard.xyz)
		149 points by bloatedcarpel on Jan 27, 2018 \| 64 comments
12.		Study produces 3D images that float (byu.edu)
		160 points by snr on Jan 26, 2018 \| 56 comments
13.		If you watch closely enough, everything is a speaker (kottke.org)
		250 points by jXCw1N0jtH3 on Jan 27, 2018 \| 52 comments
14.		Data Science at the Command Line (datascienceatthecommandline.com)
		215 points by kawera on Jan 27, 2018 \| 35 comments
15.		Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans (bostonreview.net)
		144 points by lermontov on Jan 26, 2018 \| 83 comments
16.		Postgres indexes under the hood (rcoh.me)
		162 points by rusbus on Jan 27, 2018 \| 23 comments
17.		Newton’s Financial Misadventures in the South Sea Bubble [pdf] (umn.edu)
		96 points by _culy on Jan 27, 2018 \| 35 comments
18.		Towards LaTeX in the Browser (hackernoon.com)
		110 points by jxxcarlson on Jan 27, 2018 \| 67 comments
19.		U.S trade body backs Bombardier against Boeing (reuters.com)
		102 points by rbanffy on Jan 26, 2018 \| 25 comments
20.		My Delorean runs Perl (opensource.com)
		190 points by rcarmo on Jan 27, 2018 \| 54 comments
21.		Show HN: A radically more scalable alternative to Bayesian Optimization (github.com/chrisstroemel)
		96 points by chroem- on Jan 26, 2018 \| 22 comments
22.		What Life Looks Like When Night Lasts for Days (nytimes.com)
		105 points by _lbaq on Jan 27, 2018 \| 35 comments
23.		VM escape vulnerabilities patched in VirtualBox (techrepublic.com)
		121 points by emptysands on Jan 27, 2018 \| 42 comments
24.		Python 1.0.0 is out (1994) (groups.google.com)
		163 points by sndean on Jan 27, 2018 \| 145 comments
25.		New population of one of world's rarest fish found off Tasmania (npr.org)
		56 points by s0rce on Jan 27, 2018 \| 8 comments
26.		Ted Nelson’s published papers on computers and interaction, 1965 to 1977 (archive.org)
		104 points by krstoff on Jan 27, 2018 \| 33 comments
27.		Increased Network Bandwidth for EC2 Instances (amazon.com)
		73 points by jeffbarr on Jan 27, 2018 \| 27 comments
28.		The revolutionary ideas of Thomas Kuhn (the-tls.co.uk)
		67 points by benbreen on Jan 26, 2018 \| 14 comments
29.		Wastes of Time We Regret When We Get Older (lifehacker.com.au)
		159 points by kawera on Jan 27, 2018 \| 118 comments
30.		The good guy/bad guy myth (aeon.co)
		154 points by anacleto on Jan 27, 2018 \| 207 comments
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