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1.		Soviet-Era Industrial Design (atlasobscura.com)
		245 points by how-about-this on April 14, 2018 \| 129 comments
2.		Why Entrepreneurs Start Companies Rather Than Join Them (steveblank.com)
		419 points by thesumofall on April 13, 2018 \| 214 comments
3.		Someone Stole My Book (and My Job) and Is Selling It on Amazon (extremetech.com)
		315 points by artsandsci on April 13, 2018 \| 137 comments
4.		Assumptions about how children learn to read have been disproven by research (theatlantic.com)
		227 points by dsr12 on April 14, 2018 \| 174 comments
5.		How to Be a Systems Thinker (edge.org)
		283 points by raleighm on April 14, 2018 \| 82 comments
6.		What did Alan Kay and Steve Jobs talk about at the 2007 iPhone keynote? (quora.com)
		207 points by tambourine_man on April 14, 2018 \| 133 comments
7.		Bret Victor Redesigns Classic Strogatz Paper (2011) (worrydream.com)
		206 points by jgamman on April 14, 2018 \| 50 comments
8.		NEON is the new black: fast JPEG optimization on ARM servers (cloudflare.com)
		252 points by jgrahamc on April 13, 2018 \| 73 comments
9.		24 hours in a diner in New York (1843magazine.com)
		152 points by onuralp on April 13, 2018 \| 57 comments
10.		Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?
		701 points by ratpik on April 14, 2018 \| 147 comments
11.		DragonFly BSD 5.2 (dragonflybsd.org)
		159 points by joeschmoe3 on April 13, 2018 \| 50 comments
12.		Causes and consequences of the Sicilian Mafia (voxeu.org)
		164 points by wallflower on April 14, 2018 \| 35 comments
13.		Looking to Listen: Audio-Visual Speech Separation (googleblog.com)
		86 points by chriskanan on April 11, 2018 \| 7 comments
14.		The Secret to Better Social Media? Fewer Friends (wsj.com)
		134 points by jkuria on April 14, 2018 \| 97 comments
15.		Tiny Steps Towards Liberating Bootloaders and Modem Firmware of MediaTek Phones (postmarketos.org)
		147 points by ollieparanoid on April 14, 2018 \| 13 comments
16.		Dark side of ergonomics in Rust (vorner.github.io)
		178 points by Avi-D-coder on April 14, 2018 \| 130 comments
17.		Hackett – A Haskell-like language with support for Racket’s macro system (github.com/lexi-lambda)
		171 points by tosh on April 14, 2018 \| 16 comments
18.		When algorithms surprise us (arxiv.org)
		112 points by imartin2k on April 14, 2018 \| 18 comments
19.		FBI Refuses to Say Whether It Bought iPhone Unlocking Tech 'GrayKey' (vice.com)
		88 points by _o_ on April 13, 2018 \| 62 comments
20.		Was there a civilization on Earth before humans? (theatlantic.com)
		366 points by limbicsystem on April 14, 2018 \| 262 comments
21.		China Is Nationalizing Its Tech Sector (bloomberg.com)
		209 points by adventured on April 14, 2018 \| 213 comments
22.		The Fossil distributed version control system (fossil-scm.org)
		108 points by lisper on April 14, 2018 \| 52 comments
23.		Y Combinator, Backer of Dropbox, Vaults from Experiment to Kingmaker (wsj.com)
		141 points by dopeboy on April 14, 2018 \| 75 comments
24.		The Nature of the Firm (1937) (wiley.com)
		71 points by ayanai on April 14, 2018 \| 12 comments
25.		Front-End Developer Handbook (frontendmasters.com)
		220 points by wyclif on April 14, 2018 \| 70 comments
26.		Founder who lived with bipolar for years started a company to tackle the stigma (forbes.com/sites/meganbruneau)
		82 points by marojejian on April 14, 2018 \| 68 comments
27.		Radio host Art Bell has died (reviewjournal.com)
		125 points by eplanit on April 14, 2018 \| 55 comments
28.		Yeast Probably Originated in China (theatlantic.com)
		70 points by kercker on April 14, 2018 \| 28 comments
29.		Notes on Resonance (worrydream.com)
		111 points by AriaMinaei on April 14, 2018 \| 40 comments
30.		Ask HN: What are well designed SaaS websites?
		191 points by piu on April 14, 2018 \| 73 comments
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