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1.		A journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class (cjr.org)
		614 points by mrleiter on April 21, 2018 \| 101 comments
2.		Heart surgeons refuse difficult operations to avoid poor mortality ratings (telegraph.co.uk)
		434 points by lxm on April 21, 2018 \| 263 comments
3.		When There’s an Audience, People’s Performance Improves (hopkinsmedicine.org)
		162 points by spking on April 21, 2018 \| 46 comments
4.		Mermaid: Markdown-like generation of diagrams and flowcharts from text (github.com/knsv)
		453 points by tomcam on April 20, 2018 \| 61 comments
5.		Gravitation water vortex power plant (wikipedia.org)
		227 points by hliyan on April 21, 2018 \| 80 comments
6.		How to Find Product Market Fit – founder of Segment (2017) [video] (youtube.com)
		184 points by gajju3588 on April 21, 2018 \| 22 comments
7.		What is empathy? (the-tls.co.uk)
		112 points by Vigier on April 19, 2018 \| 81 comments
8.		Idle Hands Are the Dreamer's Tools (theamericanscholar.org)
		93 points by pepys on April 18, 2018 \| 14 comments
9.		Show HN: FunctionKit – Approachable functional concepts brought to Swift (github.com/mpangburn)
		51 points by mpangburn on April 21, 2018 \| 8 comments
10.		Shaper Origin: Hand-Held CNC Machine (shapertools.com)
		140 points by spking on April 21, 2018 \| 68 comments
11.		Friendship’s Dark Side (nytimes.com)
		114 points by hvo on April 21, 2018 \| 67 comments
12.		Pulitzer Prize Winners Moving to PR: What Does That Say About Future Journalism? (insidesources.com)
		93 points by mudil on April 20, 2018 \| 63 comments
13.		Dissecting the NVIDIA Volta GPU Architecture via Microbenchmarking (arxiv.org)
		111 points by matt_d on April 21, 2018 \| 13 comments
14.		The Looming Battle Over AI Chips (barrons.com)
		124 points by poster123 on April 21, 2018 \| 85 comments
15.		Mapping the internet with Hilbert curves (benjojo.co.uk)
		218 points by randomdrake on April 21, 2018 \| 29 comments
16.		To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the History of GM (hbr.org)
		165 points by Judgmentality on April 21, 2018 \| 106 comments
17.		NeXT logo by Paul Rand (2010) (logodesignlove.com)
		133 points by Bud on April 20, 2018 \| 62 comments
18.		Freeman Dyson’s Life, Through His Letters (nytimes.com)
		73 points by andrewl on April 21, 2018 \| 2 comments
19.		Google's Project Zero exposes unpatched Windows 10 lockdown bypass (zdnet.com)
		225 points by _o_ on April 21, 2018 \| 118 comments
20.		Show HN: Writt – Make and publish notes from Telegram (writt.glitch.me)
		77 points by jajoosam on April 21, 2018 \| 35 comments
21.		CBC is destroying its broadcast archives after they’re digitized (thestar.com)
		117 points by chmaynard on April 21, 2018 \| 67 comments
22.		Practical Memory Safety with Random Embedded Secret Tokens [pdf] (columbia.edu)
		47 points by ingve on April 21, 2018 \| 5 comments
23.		A Feasible Approach to Human Stasis for Long-Duration Deep Space Missions (spaceworkseng.com)
		64 points by kawera on April 21, 2018 \| 45 comments
24.		German Supreme court: Adblocking and taxing advertisers for unblocking, legal (techcrunch.com)
		96 points by cornholio on April 20, 2018 \| 36 comments
25.		Nuke Scan (mattbierner.com)
		58 points by mattbierner on April 20, 2018 \| 10 comments
26.		American Drugs in Egyptian Mummies (2005) (ucr.edu)
		40 points by Petiver on April 19, 2018 \| 42 comments
27.		New Zealand’s War on Rats (2017) (theatlantic.com)
		44 points by kposehn on April 21, 2018 \| 34 comments
28.		Fluree DB – A scalable blockchain database (flur.ee)
		71 points by nwatson on April 21, 2018 \| 71 comments
29.		Show HN: Vinyl record and sleeve grading tool (raphaelyancey.github.io)
		63 points by sambf on April 21, 2018 \| 11 comments
30.		Building Robust Systems (2008) [pdf] (csail.mit.edu)
		93 points by molteanu on April 21, 2018 \| 6 comments
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