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1.		NirSoft Freeware (2008) (nirsoft.net)
		625 points by valgaze on April 16, 2018 \| 232 comments
2.		Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files from government website (cbc.ca)
		793 points by eigenvector on April 16, 2018 \| 483 comments
3.		What Data Does Facebook Collect When I’m Not Using Facebook, and Why? (fb.com)
		461 points by rock_hard on April 16, 2018 \| 320 comments
4.		I built a progressive web app and published it in three app stores (judahgabriel.com)
		528 points by judah on April 16, 2018 \| 406 comments
5.		Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punishment for taking breaks (pulse.ng)
		785 points by vezycash on April 16, 2018 \| 689 comments
6.		Coinbase acquires Earn.com (earn.com)
		319 points by ammaristotle on April 16, 2018 \| 157 comments
7.		Probability Theory for Scientists and Engineers (betanalpha.github.io)
		444 points by kawera on April 15, 2018 \| 47 comments
8.		Time to rebuild the web? (oreilly.com)
		596 points by BerislavLopac on April 16, 2018 \| 439 comments
9.		Kaniko: Build container images in Kubernetes (googleblog.com)
		261 points by dlor on April 16, 2018 \| 45 comments
10.		Ketamine has 'fast-acting benefits' for depression (bbc.co.uk)
		335 points by pmoriarty on April 16, 2018 \| 203 comments
11.		You Can’t Do Data Science in a GUI (dominodatalab.com)
		259 points by gk1 on April 15, 2018 \| 169 comments
12.		Why New York City Stopped Building Subways (citylab.com)
		272 points by jseliger on April 16, 2018 \| 261 comments
13.		Papers from the Lost Culture of Array Languages (2011) (dadgum.com)
		187 points by tosh on April 16, 2018 \| 77 comments
14.		Dinero.js – JavaScript library for working with monetary values (sarahdayan.github.io)
		135 points by johnhenderson on April 16, 2018 \| 77 comments
15.		General Assembly sells to Adecco for $413M (techcrunch.com)
		159 points by sethbannon on April 16, 2018 \| 77 comments
16.		Growing a Language, by Guy Steele (1998) [video] (youtube.com)
		166 points by mnmlsm on April 16, 2018 \| 20 comments
17.		Cosmos is an operating system “construction kit” (github.com/cosmosos)
		139 points by CodinM on April 15, 2018 \| 40 comments
18.		Recurrent Neural Network Tutorial for Artists (2017) (otoro.net)
		141 points by hardmaru on April 15, 2018 \| 8 comments
19.		OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world (theverge.com)
		235 points by ChrisArchitect on April 16, 2018 \| 217 comments
20.		Blowing in the wind: Plutonium at former nuclear weapons site (latimes.com)
		96 points by knuththetruth on April 16, 2018 \| 83 comments
21.		Lung Cancer Patients Live Longer with Immune Therapy (nytimes.com)
		111 points by adumbledore on April 16, 2018 \| 77 comments
22.		The 100th Meridian, Where the Great Plains Begin, May Be Shifting (columbia.edu)
		97 points by clumsysmurf on April 16, 2018 \| 32 comments
23.		Reverse Engineering the Soundcloud API (pythontips.com)
		116 points by pmoriarty on April 15, 2018 \| 25 comments
24.		Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979) [pdf] (toronto.edu)
		150 points by tosh on April 15, 2018 \| 13 comments
25.		KLEE LLVM Execution Engine (klee.github.io)
		125 points by polskibus on April 16, 2018 \| 20 comments
26.		Gruen transfer (wikipedia.org)
		105 points by edward on April 15, 2018 \| 58 comments
27.		Show HN: Phi-editor, a text editor implemented in Go and SDL (github.com/felixangell)
		102 points by felixangell on April 16, 2018 \| 34 comments
28.		Turn-of-the-Century Pigeons Photographed Earth from Above (newyorker.com)
		88 points by dthal on April 15, 2018 \| 12 comments
29.		Over 65,000 Home Routers Are Proxying Bad Traffic for Botnets, APTs (bleepingcomputer.com)
		213 points by AndrewDucker on April 16, 2018 \| 93 comments
30.		Why Do Fantasy Novels Have So Much Food? (atlasobscura.com)
		104 points by Thevet on April 16, 2018 \| 120 comments
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