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1.		Apple open-sources FoundationDB (foundationdb.org)
		2136 points by spullara on April 19, 2018 \| 441 comments
2.		Scuttlebutt, a Decentralized Alternative to Facebook (inthemesh.com)
		623 points by bpierre on April 19, 2018 \| 342 comments
3.		No boundaries for Facebook data: third-party trackers abuse Facebook Login (freedom-to-tinker.com)
		601 points by randomwalker on April 18, 2018 \| 117 comments
4.		The ASUS Tinker Board is a compelling upgrade from a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (jeffgeerling.com)
		441 points by geerlingguy on April 18, 2018 \| 228 comments
5.		Reading Aloud to Young Children Has Benefits for Behavior and Attention (nytimes.com)
		283 points by sea6ear on April 18, 2018 \| 99 comments
6.		Stripe Home (stripe.com)
		496 points by wgyn on April 19, 2018 \| 151 comments
7.		A manufacturing process that produces long strips of high-quality graphene (news.mit.edu)
		257 points by fahd777 on April 19, 2018 \| 56 comments
8.		Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL now generally available (googleblog.com)
		278 points by CoachRufus87 on April 18, 2018 \| 105 comments
9.		The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid homework (qz.com)
		659 points by draven on April 19, 2018 \| 997 comments
10.		Facebook to change user terms, limiting effect of EU privacy law (reuters.com)
		384 points by pwtweet on April 19, 2018 \| 390 comments
11.		Apple's investment into Clangd and refactoring tooling (llvm.org)
		289 points by artisdom on April 19, 2018 \| 79 comments
12.		A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonprofit (nytimes.com)
		309 points by wei_jok on April 19, 2018 \| 182 comments
13.		List of places to find remote jobs and freelancing projects (drive.google.com)
		590 points by pankmahar on April 19, 2018 \| 66 comments
14.		New tools for open source maintainers (blog.github.com)
		164 points by joeyespo on April 18, 2018 \| 65 comments
15.		Flow chart of cognitive biases (breakdown-notes.com)
		360 points by cher14 on April 19, 2018 \| 29 comments
16.		Interview with Simon Peyton-Jones (cmu.edu)
		214 points by jasim on April 19, 2018 \| 126 comments
17.		Palantir is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens (bloomberg.com)
		523 points by pdog on April 19, 2018 \| 260 comments
18.		API and Other Platform Product Changes (facebook.com)
		167 points by krausejj on April 19, 2018 \| 96 comments
19.		How engineers can stand out from the applicant pool (keyvalues.com)
		251 points by lynnetye on April 19, 2018 \| 144 comments
20.		A lesson in wireless engineering from the Raspberry Pi (embedded-computing.com)
		244 points by sohkamyung on April 19, 2018 \| 46 comments
21.		Southwest 1380: think about the flight attendants (blogs.harvard.edu)
		320 points by troydavis on April 19, 2018 \| 194 comments
22.		FCC Issues Warning in Wake of Swarm's Unauthorized Launch (space.com)
		135 points by jackfoxy on April 19, 2018 \| 158 comments
23.		Robot Assembles Ikea Furniture (nytimes.com)
		136 points by nopinsight on April 19, 2018 \| 79 comments
24.		MySQL 8.0 is now generally available (mysqlserverteam.com)
		221 points by theodorejb on April 19, 2018 \| 100 comments
25.		A polymer made from waste cooking oil and sulphur can clean up crude oil spills (flinders.edu.au)
		140 points by xVedun on April 19, 2018 \| 18 comments
26.		Show HN: Telescope – News and RSS Reader (itunes.apple.com)
		166 points by meteor333 on April 19, 2018 \| 94 comments
27.		Shortest bit sequence that's never been sent over the Internet (2017) (seancassidy.me)
		193 points by wglb on April 19, 2018 \| 117 comments
28.		Show HN: Lisp Shell (github.com/dexterlagan)
		120 points by dexterlagan on April 19, 2018 \| 56 comments
29.		Darwin: a genomics co-processor provides up to 15,000x acceleration (acolyer.org)
		158 points by godelmachine on April 19, 2018 \| 49 comments
30.		The Opening Bell (no one told me I had to make a speech) (medium.com/wuntusk)
		79 points by krambs on April 19, 2018 \| 18 comments
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