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1.		How to Come Up with Profitable Business Ideas (indiehackers.com)
		986 points by ChanningAllen on May 18, 2018 \| 143 comments
2.		A Wikipedia editor's long-running campaign (fivefilters.org)
		748 points by yasp on May 19, 2018 \| 366 comments
3.		How to disappear from the internet (theguardian.com)
		389 points by kawera on May 19, 2018 \| 130 comments
4.		How Judea Pearl Became One of AI's Sharpest Critics (theatlantic.com)
		308 points by stevenwoo on May 19, 2018 \| 121 comments
5.		Devices Which Track Cellphones, Intercept Calls Found All Over DC, MD, VA (nbcwashington.com)
		266 points by walterbell on May 19, 2018 \| 107 comments
6.		A relatively simple Datalog engine (github.com/frankmcsherry)
		207 points by dmit on May 19, 2018 \| 28 comments
7.		Lessons from My Math Degree That Have Nothing to Do with Math (medium.com/s)
		268 points by ginnungagap on May 19, 2018 \| 87 comments
8.		Estonia plans to become a free public transport nation (popupcity.net)
		472 points by doener on May 19, 2018 \| 279 comments
9.		UIs that accidentally preserve memories (metafilter.com)
		163 points by mistersquid on May 19, 2018 \| 30 comments
10.		Why a Dutch court stopped high school students from swapping schools (2017) (medium.com/social-choice)
		170 points by m4lvin on May 19, 2018 \| 222 comments
11.		Inside the 76477 Space Invaders sound effect chip (righto.com)
		151 points by reportingsjr on May 19, 2018 \| 29 comments
12.		The Cult of the Root Cause (reinertsenassociates.com)
		180 points by fanf2 on May 19, 2018 \| 66 comments
13.		Dagoba: an in-memory graph database (2016) (aosabook.org)
		133 points by jxub on May 18, 2018 \| 12 comments
14.		Decisions can be tough when you have chronic pain (futurity.org)
		85 points by laurex on May 18, 2018 \| 34 comments
15.		Counting Bees on a Raspberry Pi with a ConvNet (matpalm.com)
		177 points by burningion on May 18, 2018 \| 23 comments
16.		The Zen of Erlang (2016) (ferd.ca)
		236 points by jxub on May 18, 2018 \| 23 comments
17.		Fridge 0.1 (joeyh.name)
		257 points by edward on May 19, 2018 \| 70 comments
18.		Writing a Portable CPU/GPU Ray Tracer in C# (mellinoe.github.io)
		116 points by mellinoe on May 19, 2018 \| 22 comments
19.		The memory models that underlie programming languages (2016) (canonical.org)
		177 points by bshanks on May 18, 2018 \| 35 comments
20.		Evidence that drinking baking soda can promote an anti-inflammatory environment (augusta.edu)
		206 points by pera on May 19, 2018 \| 178 comments
21.		A Deep Dive into Monte Carlo Tree Search (moderndescartes.com)
		150 points by brilee on May 19, 2018 \| 6 comments
22.		Why it’s so hard to fix banking: An interview with Simple’s exiting CEO (slate.com)
		158 points by jseliger on May 19, 2018 \| 157 comments
23.		Today’s dominant approach to A.I. has not worked out (nytimes.com)
		139 points by cohaagen on May 19, 2018 \| 137 comments
24.		Show HN: Vuido builds desktop apps using Vue.js without Electron (vuejs.org)
		192 points by rmason on May 18, 2018 \| 113 comments
25.		Open Source Calculator Teaches Us about Quality Documentation (hackaday.com)
		183 points by sohkamyung on May 18, 2018 \| 54 comments
26.		A Scientist Finds Her Child’s Rare Brain Illness Stems from the Gene She Studies (nytimes.com)
		127 points by robg on May 18, 2018 \| 18 comments
27.		Magazine publishers with video ambitions see YouTube as safer bet than Facebook (digiday.com)
		145 points by amerine on May 18, 2018 \| 80 comments
28.		The weirdest bug I’ve found in a compiler: MSVC 2017 (medium.com/ryanhaining)
		103 points by ingve on May 18, 2018 \| 57 comments
29.		New Release: 0 A.D. Alpha 23 “Ken Wood” (play0ad.com)
		187 points by jonbaer on May 19, 2018 \| 24 comments
30.		Open-Sourcing our GDPR Compliance Preparation For Articles 30, 32, and 35 (everlaw.com)
		161 points by homarp on May 19, 2018 \| 69 comments
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