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1.		Lessons learned from a failing local mall (strongtowns.org)
		412 points by oftenwrong on April 28, 2018 \| 209 comments
2.		"@" on Twitter (twitter.com/intent)
		504 points by isp on April 27, 2018 \| 137 comments
3.		Seattle vacates hundreds of marijuana charges going back 30 years (theroot.com)
		343 points by MilnerRoute on April 28, 2018 \| 172 comments
4.		Make your own sourdough (github.com/hendricius)
		619 points by hendricius on April 28, 2018 \| 204 comments
5.		The myopia boom (2015) (nature.com)
		199 points by betterfuture on April 28, 2018 \| 67 comments
6.		Bulldoze the business school (theguardian.com)
		344 points by merraksh on April 28, 2018 \| 156 comments
7.		Show HN: A proof-of-concept FoundationDB based network block device backend (github.com/dividuum)
		192 points by dividuum on April 28, 2018 \| 33 comments
8.		Show HN: Generating fun Stack Exchange questions using Markov chains (se-simulator.lw1.at)
		178 points by Findus23 on April 28, 2018 \| 36 comments
9.		HyperTools: A Python toolbox for gaining insights into high-dimensional data (hypertools.readthedocs.io)
		174 points by schuetze on April 28, 2018 \| 23 comments
10.		Implementing and Understanding Type Classes (2014) (okmij.org)
		118 points by jez on April 28, 2018 \| 26 comments
11.		Native Clojure with GraalVM (innoq.com)
		171 points by sandGorgon on April 28, 2018 \| 68 comments
12.		The quadratic formula and low-precision arithmetic (johndcook.com)
		147 points by ingve on April 28, 2018 \| 41 comments
13.		A Layman’s Intro to Western Classical Music (quariety.com)
		166 points by Roccan on April 28, 2018 \| 56 comments
14.		The Wren Programming Language (github.com/munificent)
		164 points by api on April 27, 2018 \| 30 comments
15.		In theory, rocks from Oman could store hundreds of years of human CO2 emissions (nytimes.com)
		93 points by subliminalpanda on April 27, 2018 \| 90 comments
16.		Open3D – A Modern Library for 3D Data Processing (open3d.org)
		65 points by adamnemecek on April 28, 2018 \| 15 comments
17.		Wooden Statue Found in Late 1890s Likely Dates Back More Than 11,000 Years (smithsonianmag.com)
		129 points by forgingahead on April 28, 2018 \| 27 comments
18.		Statement on Nature Machine Intelligence (oregonstate.edu)
		168 points by wei_jok on April 28, 2018 \| 18 comments
19.		World's oldest spider discovered in Australian outback (phys.org)
		67 points by dnetesn on April 28, 2018 \| 22 comments
20.		Structured Concurrency in High-Level Languages (250bpm.com)
		130 points by rumcajz on April 28, 2018 \| 35 comments
21.		William Stein on the struggle for open source funding in pure mathematics [pdf] (ams.org)
		84 points by adenadel on April 27, 2018 \| 17 comments
22.		Context Is Everything: Finding Meaning Statistically in Semantic Spaces (arxiv.org)
		135 points by ghosthamlet on April 28, 2018 \| 20 comments
23.		Writing FreeBSD Malware [video] (youtube.com)
		44 points by adamnemecek on April 27, 2018 \| 8 comments
24.		Microsoft attempts to spin its role in counterfeiting case (techcrunch.com)
		199 points by sizzle on April 28, 2018 \| 147 comments
25.		Fake books sold on Amazon could be used for money laundering (theguardian.com)
		162 points by DanBC on April 28, 2018 \| 123 comments
26.		A survey of comics research in computer science (arxiv.org)
		68 points by blopeur on April 28, 2018 \| 2 comments
27.		Why Do So Many Judges Cite Jane Austen in Legal Decisions? (electricliterature.com)
		57 points by pepys on April 27, 2018 \| 14 comments
28.		Cross Chess (wikipedia.org)
		54 points by tosh on April 27, 2018 \| 27 comments
29.		What it means to “disagree and commit” and how I do it (2016) (amazonianblog.com)
		97 points by tush726 on April 28, 2018 \| 45 comments
30.		People Are Turning Their Instagram Accounts into Bots (buzzfeed.com)
		144 points by thm on April 28, 2018 \| 42 comments
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