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1.		We Should Teach Music History Backwards (smithsonianmag.com)
		339 points by jeffreyrogers on June 17, 2018 \| 182 comments
2.		Fibonacci Hashing: The Optimization That the World Forgot (probablydance.com)
		405 points by ingve on June 16, 2018 \| 75 comments
3.		Forgotten Employee (2002) (sites.google.com)
		520 points by jxub on June 17, 2018 \| 166 comments
4.		ActorDB – Distributed SQL database (github.com/biokoda)
		284 points by iamd3vil on June 17, 2018 \| 85 comments
5.		Berlin-Munich high-speed train services carry 2M passengers in first six months (railjournal.com)
		217 points by ingve on June 16, 2018 \| 207 comments
6.		Eight hours a night isn’t enough, according to a leading sleep scientist (qz.com)
		437 points by lxm on June 17, 2018 \| 156 comments
7.		The Garden of Earthly Delights by Jheronimus Bosch (ntr.nl)
		128 points by ivank on June 16, 2018 \| 23 comments
8.		Teach Programming to become a better programmer (zeroequalsfalse.press)
		170 points by kiyanwang on June 17, 2018 \| 57 comments
9.		Humans Are Turning Mammals More Nocturnal (outsideonline.com)
		116 points by adamnemecek on June 16, 2018 \| 29 comments
10.		60 FPS Retro Gaming on Mobile – Master System Emulator in JavaScript (2013) (gmarty.github.io)
		105 points by tosh on June 16, 2018 \| 37 comments
11.		Handles are the better pointers (floooh.github.io)
		194 points by ingve on June 17, 2018 \| 80 comments
12.		Dispatch: web-based IRC client in Go (github.com/khlieng)
		119 points by buovjaga on June 17, 2018 \| 40 comments
13.		Show HN: A SIMD-accelerated noise library in Rust (github.com/jackmott)
		73 points by gameswithgo on June 17, 2018 \| 23 comments
14.		Ask HN: If I Close My Data Centers, What About the People/Jobs Lost?
		181 points by throwawayacct4q on June 16, 2018 \| 142 comments
15.		How to Get Your Teammates to Follow Your Lead (workaguide.com)
		186 points by BSVino on June 16, 2018 \| 49 comments
16.		Audio Modem Communication Library in Python (github.com/romanz)
		100 points by adulau on June 17, 2018 \| 40 comments
17.		The Math of Card Shuffling (fredhohman.com)
		157 points by danso on June 17, 2018 \| 33 comments
18.		Making buildings, cars and planes from materials based on plant fibres (economist.com)
		66 points by Turukawa on June 17, 2018 \| 8 comments
19.		Ctrl-labs’ armband lets you control computer cursors with your mind (venturebeat.com)
		134 points by sahin on June 17, 2018 \| 68 comments
20.		Goodbye, Denver Post. Hello, Blockchain (nytimes.com)
		176 points by danso on June 17, 2018 \| 93 comments
21.		A seed that could bring clean water to millions (phys.org)
		104 points by dnetesn on June 16, 2018 \| 28 comments
22.		Learning Bluetooth Hackery with BLE CTF (hackgnar.com)
		105 points by okket on June 16, 2018 \| 2 comments
23.		Some Words on Programming the Atari Jaguar (2006) (atari.org)
		67 points by rocky1138 on June 17, 2018 \| 17 comments
24.		Floating-Point Determinism (2013) (randomascii.wordpress.com)
		57 points by antioedipus on June 17, 2018 \| 6 comments
25.		MIT Career Development Handbook [pdf] (gecd.mit.edu)
		338 points by pagade on June 17, 2018 \| 24 comments
26.		The Carrying-Cost of Code: Taking Lean Seriously (2011) (michaelfeathers.typepad.com)
		68 points by mpweiher on June 16, 2018 \| 18 comments
27.		200-year-old ciphers may reveal the location of treasure buried in Virginia (mentalfloss.com)
		78 points by lxm on June 17, 2018 \| 39 comments
28.		How Ceiling Fans Allowed Slaves to Eavesdrop on Plantation Owners (atlasobscura.com)
		111 points by samclemens on June 17, 2018 \| 32 comments
29.		What's My Color IQ? (xrite.com)
		133 points by curtis on June 16, 2018 \| 93 comments
30.		What caused the Black Death and could it strike again? (2016) (aeon.co)
		63 points by YeGoblynQueenne on June 17, 2018 \| 17 comments
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