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1.		The NetHack dev team is happy to announce the release of NetHack 3.6.1 (groups.google.com)
		326 points by hapnin on April 29, 2018 \| 118 comments
2.		“Lifefaker.com makes faking perfection easy” (lifefaker.com)
		751 points by olifrost on April 29, 2018 \| 234 comments
3.		Ask HN: My startup has basically failed. What now?
		463 points by mlevental on April 28, 2018 \| 220 comments
4.		StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations (streetlend.com)
		724 points by cbeach on April 29, 2018 \| 1123 comments
5.		France seizes france.com from man who's had it since 1994 (arstechnica.com)
		491 points by coobird on April 29, 2018 \| 224 comments
6.		A History of APL in 50 Functions (jsoftware.com)
		250 points by jim-jim-jim on April 29, 2018 \| 93 comments
7.		Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2017) [pdf] (cses.fi)
		594 points by linouk23 on April 29, 2018 \| 121 comments
8.		'Demonically Clever' Backdoor Hides Inside Computer Chip (wired.com)
		360 points by Digit-Al on April 29, 2018 \| 114 comments
9.		The aging mind: neuroplasticity in response to cognitive training (2013) (nih.gov)
		204 points by qrian on April 29, 2018 \| 117 comments
10.		9,096 Stars in the Sky – Is That All? (skyandtelescope.com)
		264 points by georgecmu on April 29, 2018 \| 90 comments
11.		It’s Impossible to Prove Your Laptop Hasn’t Been Hacked (theintercept.com)
		305 points by wglb on April 28, 2018 \| 130 comments
12.		Kasparov versus the World (wikipedia.org)
		256 points by CraneWorm on April 28, 2018 \| 60 comments
13.		Mathematical Illustrations: A manual of geometry and postscript (ubc.ca)
		203 points by noch on April 29, 2018 \| 33 comments
14.		Show HN: A fast, hopefully accurate, fuzzy matching library written in Go (github.com/sahilm)
		186 points by sahilmuthoo on April 28, 2018 \| 30 comments
15.		Nintendo's secretive creative process (theguardian.com)
		161 points by gyre007 on April 28, 2018 \| 51 comments
16.		An API Journey: From Idea to Deployment the Agile Way (redhat.com)
		132 points by rterzi on April 29, 2018 \| 18 comments
17.		Unprivileged Docker Builds – A Proof of Concept (zwischenzugs.com)
		112 points by kiyanwang on April 29, 2018 \| 119 comments
18.		Health dangers of sleep deprivation (independent.co.uk)
		234 points by pmoriarty on April 29, 2018 \| 113 comments
19.		Show HN: Web Audio DSP Playground (acarabott.github.io)
		126 points by acarabott on April 29, 2018 \| 43 comments
20.		Larry Harvey, co-founder of Burning Man, has died (nytimes.com)
		179 points by NaOH on April 29, 2018 \| 108 comments
21.		OpenEMR v5.0.1 (openhealthnews.com)
		123 points by exception_e on April 28, 2018 \| 37 comments
22.		Building a Content-Based Search Engine IV: Earth Mover's Distance (deepideas.net)
		70 points by deepideas on April 29, 2018 \| 7 comments
23.		Hidden Masterpieces of the NYC Subway (fastcodesign.com)
		95 points by presspot on April 29, 2018 \| 19 comments
24.		Core Memory Upgrade for Arduino (hackaday.com)
		75 points by ingve on April 29, 2018 \| 13 comments
25.		New Shepard's 8th test flight [video] (blueorigin.com)
		151 points by thibran on April 29, 2018 \| 105 comments
26.		Tell HN: Sci-Hub's TLS certificate has started failing
		244 points by AlbertoGP on April 29, 2018 \| 145 comments
27.		T-Mobile seals merger deal with Sprint (cnbc.com)
		183 points by robbiet480 on April 29, 2018 \| 97 comments
28.		Optimizing Paxos with batching and pipelining (2012) [pdf] (semanticscholar.org)
		71 points by baotiao on April 29, 2018 \| 1 comment
29.		French museum discovers half of its collection are fakes (telegraph.co.uk)
		116 points by sverige on April 29, 2018 \| 43 comments
30.		Drawing with boids (miniatureape.github.io)
		71 points by miniatureape on April 29, 2018 \| 8 comments
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