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1.		Show HN: Observable Notebooks (observablehq.com)
		654 points by jashkenas on Jan 31, 2018 \| 128 comments
2.		Content-aware image resize library (github.com/esimov)
		614 points by boyter on Jan 30, 2018 \| 78 comments
3.		AMD Returns to Full-Year Profitability, Forecasts Strong 2018 (extremetech.com)
		497 points by artsandsci on Jan 31, 2018 \| 237 comments
4.		Why Create a New Unix Shell? (oilshell.org)
		408 points by shadeless on Jan 31, 2018 \| 292 comments
5.		Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake Accounts (nytimes.com)
		336 points by ganlad on Jan 31, 2018 \| 167 comments
6.		Show HN: A Decentralized StatusPage on IPFS (dstatuspage.net)
		316 points by paulogr on Jan 31, 2018 \| 127 comments
7.		Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes (bloomberg.com)
		262 points by dismal2 on Jan 31, 2018 \| 250 comments
8.		Amazon Health (stratechery.com)
		284 points by joeyespo on Jan 31, 2018 \| 103 comments
9.		Orcas can imitate human speech, research reveals (theguardian.com)
		232 points by okket on Jan 31, 2018 \| 140 comments
10.		Uber Bike – A New Way to Commute or Explore (uber.com)
		264 points by brendannee on Jan 31, 2018 \| 289 comments
11.		Programming the Linux Framebuffer (cmcenroe.me)
		164 points by mmphosis on Jan 31, 2018 \| 24 comments
12.		C++ and the Culture of Complexity (2013) (greaterthanzero.com)
		211 points by contrarian_ on Jan 31, 2018 \| 279 comments
13.		Send the Barbarian in First (thewalrus.ca)
		211 points by ductionist on Jan 30, 2018 \| 122 comments
14.		The perplexing life of Ernő Rubik (1986) (fei.edu.br)
		128 points by musha68k on Jan 31, 2018 \| 28 comments
15.		Formula E reveals second-generation car (motorsport.com)
		116 points by tankenmate on Jan 31, 2018 \| 81 comments
16.		Free Software Foundation Receives $1M Donation from Pineapple Fund (fsf.org)
		255 points by madmax108 on Jan 31, 2018 \| 99 comments
17.		Andrew Ng launches $175M AI fund (techcrunch.com)
		196 points by dsaw on Jan 31, 2018 \| 65 comments
18.		Launch HN: ClearBrain (YC W18) – predictive models for app conversions and churn
		83 points by bmahmood on Jan 31, 2018 \| 20 comments
19.		Discontinue support for weak cryptographic standards (githubengineering.com)
		141 points by aorth on Jan 31, 2018 \| 36 comments
20.		Hans Peter Luhn and the Birth of the Hashing Algorithm (ieee.org)
		126 points by sohkamyung on Jan 31, 2018 \| 28 comments
21.		RFC 8314: Use of Transport Layer Security for Email Submission and Access (ietf.org)
		77 points by okket on Jan 31, 2018 \| 44 comments
22.		A theory of the learnable (acolyer.org)
		87 points by mpweiher on Jan 31, 2018 \| 9 comments
23.		Language at the End of the World (cabinetmagazine.org)
		66 points by Thevet on Jan 31, 2018 \| 1 comment
24.		Patchwork – Decentralized messaging and sharing app built on Secure Scuttlebutt (github.com/ssbc)
		167 points by mercer on Jan 31, 2018 \| 64 comments
25.		Like an AI Could Ever Spot Sarcasm (nvidia.com)
		131 points by bcaulfield on Jan 31, 2018 \| 106 comments
26.		Archiving the alternative press threatened by wealthy buyers (freedom.press)
		94 points by thisisparker on Jan 31, 2018 \| 14 comments
27.		How a late-blossoming classics don became Britain’s most beloved intellectual (theguardian.com)
		92 points by diodorus on Jan 30, 2018 \| 92 comments
28.		How a Fine-Dining Empire Made the Southwest Palatable to Outsiders (2016) (collectorsweekly.com)
		56 points by samclemens on Jan 31, 2018 \| 15 comments
29.		Do or undo – there is no VACUUM (rhaas.blogspot.com)
		139 points by craigkerstiens on Jan 31, 2018 \| 23 comments
30.		Making network authentication simple in a Bring Your Own Device environment (gist.github.com)
		107 points by fanf2 on Jan 31, 2018 \| 25 comments
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