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1.		How poverty changes your mindset (chicagobooth.edu)
		777 points by bryanwbh on Feb 25, 2018 \| 522 comments
2.		Crankshaft – A GNU/Linux for the Raspberry Pi as an Android Auto headunit (getcrankshaft.com)
		315 points by jimmies on Feb 25, 2018 \| 67 comments
3.		Requests-HTML: HTML Parsing for Humans (github.com/kennethreitz)
		467 points by ingve on Feb 25, 2018 \| 90 comments
4.		Planet Shadertoy (shadertoy.com)
		420 points by ttsiodras on Feb 24, 2018 \| 121 comments
5.		An SVG that always shows today's date (shkspr.mobi)
		317 points by edent on Feb 25, 2018 \| 78 comments
6.		Mark Felt-Tipped: Uncovering top-secret information by counting pixels (matthi.coffee)
		369 points by matt4077 on Feb 25, 2018 \| 126 comments
7.		Web application from scratch, part I (defn.io)
		370 points by Bogdanp on Feb 25, 2018 \| 65 comments
8.		What I Learned Burning $14k on YouTube Ads for Candy Japan (candyjapan.com)
		554 points by jbardnz on Feb 25, 2018 \| 243 comments
9.		Dropbox saved almost $75M over two years by moving out of AWS (geekwire.com)
		494 points by shaklee3 on Feb 25, 2018 \| 210 comments
10.		Apple moves to store iCloud keys in China, raising human rights fears (reuters.com)
		227 points by dsr12 on Feb 24, 2018 \| 106 comments
11.		KaiOS – A Smartphone Operating System (kaiostech.com)
		290 points by fstephany on Feb 25, 2018 \| 160 comments
12.		FAA Tapes from That Oregon UFO Incident (thedrive.com)
		282 points by tensor_rank_0 on Feb 24, 2018 \| 111 comments
13.		Tinkering with electronics (thanassis.space)
		192 points by ttsiodras on Feb 25, 2018 \| 79 comments
14.		A Crash Course on ML Modules (2015) (jozefg.bitbucket.io)
		146 points by Tomte on Feb 25, 2018 \| 53 comments
15.		In an Era of ‘Smart’ Things, Sometimes Dumb Stuff Is Better (nytimes.com)
		362 points by Dangeranger on Feb 25, 2018 \| 331 comments
16.		Concrete Airmail Arrows: Accessing the Bay Area’s Unique ‘Double Arrow’ Set (99percentinvisible.org)
		103 points by IntronExon on Feb 25, 2018 \| 17 comments
17.		Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ (samsung.com)
		183 points by iamd3vil on Feb 25, 2018 \| 303 comments
18.		Differential Privacy for Dummies (2016) (robertovitillo.com)
		111 points by Tomte on Feb 25, 2018 \| 21 comments
19.		When to bring in the heavy hitters (2017) (mfbt.ca)
		161 points by mooreds on Feb 25, 2018 \| 52 comments
20.		The dangerous downsides of perfectionism (bbc.com)
		157 points by ernsheong on Feb 25, 2018 \| 41 comments
21.		Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary survive the internet? (theguardian.com)
		84 points by f_allwein on Feb 23, 2018 \| 70 comments
22.		Who Goes Nazi? (1941) (harpers.org)
		197 points by Recoveringhobo on Feb 24, 2018 \| 116 comments
23.		What are we going to do with quantum computers? (technologyreview.com)
		140 points by hunglee2 on Feb 25, 2018 \| 132 comments
24.		ASCIIToSVG: Convert ASCII Diagrams to Beautiful SVGs (github.com/dhobsd)
		118 points by ingve on Feb 25, 2018 \| 22 comments
25.		Making Direct3D games faster in Wine using modern OpenGL (comminos.com)
		216 points by BlackLotus89 on Feb 24, 2018 \| 31 comments
26.		CTTK: Constant-Time Toolkit (github.com/pornin)
		121 points by matt_d on Feb 25, 2018 \| 41 comments
27.		How inflation swindles the equity investor (1977) (fortune.com)
		121 points by mudil on Feb 25, 2018 \| 123 comments
28.		Overconfident Students, Dubious Employers (insidehighered.com)
		111 points by sylvainkalache on Feb 25, 2018 \| 121 comments
29.		Likelihood of discontinuous progress around the development of AGI (aiimpacts.org)
		69 points by lyavin on Feb 25, 2018 \| 107 comments
30.		Cryptography: Or the History, Principles, and Practice of Cipher-Writing (1898) (publicdomainreview.org)
		75 points by Petiver on Feb 23, 2018 \| 2 comments
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