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1.		John Perry Barlow has died (eff.org)
		1485 points by schoen on Feb 7, 2018 \| 126 comments
2.		Designing Windows 95’s User Interface (socket3.wordpress.com)
		568 points by LaSombra on Feb 7, 2018 \| 394 comments
3.		Tinc VPN: Secure Private Network Between Hosts (tinc-vpn.org)
		420 points by phantom_oracle on Feb 7, 2018 \| 195 comments
4.		A photographer capturing subcultures that refuse to die (huckmagazine.com)
		298 points by kikitee on Feb 7, 2018 \| 122 comments
5.		Growing from 0 to 4M users on our fashion app with vertical machine learning (medium.com/aldamiz)
		306 points by aldamiz on Feb 7, 2018 \| 71 comments
6.		LCUI – A small C library for building user interfaces with XML and CSS (github.com/lc-soft)
		335 points by ausjke on Feb 7, 2018 \| 127 comments
7.		The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet (gizmodo.com)
		522 points by curtis on Feb 7, 2018 \| 255 comments
8.		Car Hacker's Handbook (2016) (opengarages.org)
		337 points by rbanffy on Feb 7, 2018 \| 72 comments
9.		Googlebot’s JavaScript random() function is deterministic (tomanthony.co.uk)
		311 points by TomAnthony on Feb 7, 2018 \| 108 comments
10.		The cpu_features library (googleblog.com)
		183 points by stablemap on Feb 7, 2018 \| 35 comments
11.		A Developer’s Guide to Responding to National Security Letters (twilio.com)
		271 points by tony101 on Feb 7, 2018 \| 69 comments
12.		Repairing the card reader for a 1960s mainframe: cams, relays and a clutch (righto.com)
		140 points by zdw on Feb 7, 2018 \| 65 comments
13.		Distributed Databases Should Work More Like CDNs (cockroachlabs.com)
		212 points by loiselleatwork on Feb 7, 2018 \| 83 comments
14.		Capsule networks can overcome some shortcomings of CNNs (oreilly.com)
		101 points by severine on Feb 6, 2018
15.		The conceptual origins of Maxwell's equations and gauge theory (2014) [pdf] (umd.edu)
		134 points by espeed on Feb 7, 2018 \| 29 comments
16.		WireGuard: fast, modern, secure VPN tunnel (wireguard.com)
		227 points by jermaustin1 on Feb 7, 2018 \| 43 comments
17.		Show HN: An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume (ceev.io)
		185 points by mitchas on Feb 7, 2018 \| 93 comments
18.		Nest to join forces with Google’s hardware team (nest.com)
		134 points by shawndumas on Feb 7, 2018 \| 124 comments
19.		Newly Discovered Form of Water Ice Is ‘Really Strange’ (nytimes.com)
		115 points by rbanffy on Feb 6, 2018 \| 23 comments
20.		Python’s Weak Performance Matters (metarabbit.wordpress.com)
		298 points by georgecmu on Feb 7, 2018 \| 325 comments
21.		LMARV-1: A RISC-V processor you can see [video] (youtube.com)
		120 points by Retr0spectrum on Feb 7, 2018 \| 19 comments
22.		Discovering types for entity disambiguation (blog.openai.com)
		85 points by gdb on Feb 7, 2018 \| 6 comments
23.		Visualising Electromagnetic Fields (lukesturgeon.co.uk)
		108 points by lelf on Feb 7, 2018 \| 33 comments
24.		Americans are spending less on clothing (bloomberg.com)
		217 points by lxm on Feb 7, 2018 \| 323 comments
25.		Launch HN: Substack (YC W18): Paid email newsletters made simple
		124 points by cjbest on Feb 7, 2018 \| 88 comments
26.		Spider-Like Creature with a Scorpion’s Tail Found Trapped in Amber (nytimes.com)
		98 points by Osiris30 on Feb 7, 2018 \| 59 comments
27.		Many Animals Can Count (nytimes.com)
		130 points by dnetesn on Feb 7, 2018 \| 72 comments
28.		Elevated Use of Absolutist Words Is a Marker of Anxiety, Depression [pdf] (sagepub.com)
		269 points by tjalfi on Feb 7, 2018 \| 167 comments
29.		Probing Planets in Extragalactic Galaxies Using Quasar Microlensing (arxiv.org)
		72 points by IntronExon on Feb 7, 2018 \| 26 comments
30.		Airbnb’s Battle to Stay Private (bloomberg.com)
		104 points by thedogeye on Feb 7, 2018 \| 84 comments
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