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1.		Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (byorgey.wordpress.com)
		2074 points by weatherlight on May 7, 2018 \| 310 comments
2.		The Economics of Writing a Technical Book (medium.com/p)
		519 points by JustinGarrison on May 7, 2018 \| 149 comments
3.		Tech watchdogs call on Facebook, Google for transparency around censored content (techcrunch.com)
		305 points by cfadvan on May 7, 2018 \| 237 comments
4.		Cutting Edge Deep Learning for Coders, Part 2 (fast.ai)
		425 points by mlboss on May 7, 2018 \| 75 comments
5.		Walmart Beats Amazon in $15B Flipkart Battle (bloomberg.com)
		277 points by dsr12 on May 4, 2018 \| 166 comments
6.		Show HN: How to Tune a Guitar (mathisonian.github.io)
		338 points by mathisonian on May 7, 2018 \| 119 comments
7.		The path that the decimal number system took from India to medieval Europe (thonyc.wordpress.com)
		173 points by cossatot on May 6, 2018 \| 60 comments
8.		Thermal Paper Polaroid (mitxela.com)
		340 points by Ivoah on May 6, 2018 \| 57 comments
9.		Uber vehicle reportedly saw but ignored woman it struck (techcrunch.com)
		337 points by runesoerensen on May 7, 2018 \| 426 comments
10.		96-Year-Old Secretary Quietly Amasses Fortune, Then Donates $8.2M (nytimes.com)
		402 points by dsr12 on May 6, 2018 \| 319 comments
11.		The Various Kinds of IO – Blocking, Non-Blocking, Multiplexed and Async (rubberducking.com)
		370 points by didibus on May 7, 2018 \| 64 comments
12.		That New Memory Smell: Tech Can Tell If Your Flash Is New or Recycled (ieee.org)
		122 points by jonbaer on May 7, 2018 \| 39 comments
13.		Concorde ‘B’ (heritageconcorde.com)
		288 points by robin_reala on May 7, 2018 \| 324 comments
14.		Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google [pdf] (stat.berkeley.edu)
		139 points by amasad on May 7, 2018 \| 19 comments
15.		As Kubernetes grows, a startup ecosystem develops in its wake (techcrunch.com)
		184 points by banderon on May 7, 2018 \| 155 comments
16.		Core Erlang by Example (erlang.org)
		241 points by okket on May 7, 2018 \| 37 comments
17.		Volvo to Use Google Assistant, Play Store and Maps in Next-Gen Infotainment (volvocars.com)
		121 points by codeka on May 7, 2018 \| 126 comments
18.		Virtlet: run VMs as Kubernetes pods (mirantis.com)
		179 points by ivan4th on May 7, 2018 \| 23 comments
19.		Operation Ivy Bells (wikipedia.org)
		98 points by montrose on May 7, 2018 \| 31 comments
20.		Reinforcement Learning – Bandit Problems (oneraynyday.github.io)
		218 points by oneraynyday on May 7, 2018 \| 40 comments
21.		Brain cells that track location in space appear to also count beats in time (quantamagazine.org)
		212 points by jacobwg on May 6, 2018 \| 85 comments
22.		Limiting breakage with a software deployment checklist (gojekengineering.com)
		98 points by plinkplonk on May 6, 2018 \| 17 comments
23.		Cilium 1.0: Bringing the BPF Revolution to Kubernetes Networking and Security (cilium.io)
		151 points by eatonphil on May 7, 2018 \| 32 comments
24.		Self-Awareness for Introverts [pdf] (cliffc.org)
		256 points by mpweiher on May 7, 2018 \| 102 comments
25.		Three Decades Later, Mystery Numbers Explained (quantamagazine.org)
		71 points by cfadvan on May 7, 2018 \| 5 comments
26.		SkyKnit: When knitters teamed up with a neural network (aiweirdness.com)
		84 points by camtarn on May 7, 2018 \| 7 comments
27.		Russian ALFA Class interceptor submarine (hisutton.com)
		124 points by dyyni on May 7, 2018 \| 58 comments
28.		Who Are These Economists, Anyway? (2009) [pdf] (levyinstitute.org)
		97 points by wormold on May 6, 2018 \| 96 comments
29.		A giant 360 LED clock (mathieupassenaud.fr)
		114 points by mathieupassenau on May 7, 2018 \| 28 comments
30.		Show HN: Stadia Maps, reasonably priced map tiles, static maps, and routing (stadiamaps.com)
		105 points by lukeqsee on May 6, 2018 \| 53 comments
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