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1.		Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability (securityweek.com)
		757 points by tomtoise on Jan 29, 2018 \| 315 comments
2.		LinuxBoot: Linux as Firmware (linuxboot.org)
		691 points by doener on Jan 29, 2018 \| 178 comments
3.		Plunging costs make solar, wind and battery storage cheaper than coal (reneweconomy.com.au)
		478 points by tim333 on Jan 29, 2018 \| 204 comments
4.		My new favorite book of all time (gatesnotes.com)
		651 points by yarapavan on Jan 29, 2018 \| 396 comments
5.		How Schopenhauer’s thought can illuminate a midlife crisis (aeon.co)
		268 points by lermontov on Jan 28, 2018 \| 91 comments
6.		Software Complexity Is Killing Us (simplethread.com)
		398 points by Tenhundfeld on Jan 29, 2018 \| 287 comments
7.		The paradigms of programming (acolyer.org)
		319 points by godelmachine on Jan 29, 2018 \| 106 comments
8.		Qubes Air: Generalizing the Qubes Architecture (qubes-os.org)
		183 points by andrewdavidwong on Jan 29, 2018 \| 65 comments
9.		Self-Crashing Cars (zachaysan.com)
		248 points by devy on Jan 29, 2018 \| 209 comments
10.		Show HN: Card Proxy Generator – Generate printable game cards from JSON (mitchkeenan.com)
		162 points by konamacona on Jan 29, 2018 \| 44 comments
11.		Status.im Invests $5M in Riot.im (status.im)
		212 points by dyukqu on Jan 29, 2018 \| 86 comments
12.		Vulnerable industrial controls directly connected to Internet (arstechnica.com)
		145 points by wglb on Jan 29, 2018 \| 99 comments
13.		How a malicious seed generation website stole $4M (thatoddmailbox.github.io)
		242 points by ageitgey on Jan 29, 2018 \| 71 comments
14.		Why Personas Fail (nngroup.com)
		182 points by adrian_mrd on Jan 29, 2018 \| 117 comments
15.		MPEG: A crisis, the causes and a solution (chiariglione.org)
		189 points by clouddrover on Jan 29, 2018 \| 147 comments
16.		Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2018 (fast.ai)
		389 points by jph00 on Jan 29, 2018 \| 61 comments
17.		The U.S. Gets Less Subway for Its Money Than Its Peers (citylab.com)
		214 points by jseliger on Jan 29, 2018 \| 167 comments
18.		Primg – Generate prime numbers whose binary representation looks like any image (geonnave.github.io)
		110 points by geonnave on Jan 29, 2018 \| 53 comments
19.		Why Japanese web design is so different (2013) (randomwire.com)
		257 points by thecortado on Jan 29, 2018 \| 153 comments
20.		Paxos derived (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
		161 points by r4um on Jan 29, 2018 \| 15 comments
21.		Loss of Locational Privacy While Traveling in Your Automobile (2013) [pdf] (defcon.org)
		92 points by rfreytag on Jan 28, 2018 \| 21 comments
22.		CoreRT – .NET Core runtime optimized for AOT compilation (github.com/dotnet)
		135 points by jeswin on Jan 29, 2018 \| 19 comments
23.		PointCNN – A simple and general framework for feature learning from point cloud (yangyanli.github.io)
		74 points by lainon on Jan 29, 2018 \| 4 comments
24.		A Mystery Manuscript Found in a Used Copy of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ (atlasobscura.com)
		114 points by samclemens on Jan 28, 2018 \| 18 comments
25.		A16z Monthly Newsletter: Good things come in threes (mailchi.mp)
		123 points by triplesec on Jan 29, 2018 \| 17 comments
26.		Dell could emerge as a public company through a reverse merger with VMware (cnbc.com)
		183 points by _vvdf on Jan 29, 2018 \| 36 comments
27.		The Quantum Theory and Reality (1979) [pdf] (scientificamerican.com)
		93 points by xtacy on Jan 28, 2018 \| 163 comments
28.		Linear logic and deep learning [pdf] (therisingsea.org)
		170 points by adamnemecek on Jan 29, 2018 \| 47 comments
29.		Making Sense of Super Smash Bros. Melee (planetbanatt.net)
		172 points by panic on Jan 29, 2018 \| 62 comments
30.		Easy laser-cut electronics cases for maker boards (2017) (climbers.net)
		100 points by walterbell on Jan 29, 2018 \| 38 comments
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