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1.		Show HN: Router7 – A pure-Go implementation of a small home internet router (github.com/rtr7)
		461 points by secure on July 14, 2018 \| 102 comments
2.		Why Use OpenStreetMap Instead of Google Maps? (openstreetmap.org)
		557 points by tdurden on July 14, 2018 \| 209 comments
3.		Finding and exploiting hidden features of Animal Crossing's NES emulator (jamchamb.github.io)
		191 points by fanf2 on July 14, 2018 \| 13 comments
4.		Spiffy: Enabling File-System Aware Storage Applications (usenix.org)
		84 points by mpweiher on July 14, 2018 \| 5 comments
5.		Cognitive Distortions of People Who Get Stuff Done (2012) [pdf] (semanticscholar.org)
		386 points by bleigh0 on July 14, 2018 \| 151 comments
6.		Labour HQ used Facebook ads to deceive Jeremy Corbyn during election campaign (thetimes.co.uk)
		305 points by stevemoy on July 14, 2018 \| 146 comments
7.		How to scale a distributed system [pdf] (oreillystatic.com)
		214 points by HenryR on July 14, 2018 \| 10 comments
8.		The Great Apple Keyboard Cover-Up (ifixit.org)
		406 points by shritesh on July 14, 2018 \| 179 comments
9.		Stencila: An open source office suite for reproducible research (stenci.la)
		256 points by muraiki on July 13, 2018 \| 49 comments
10.		The everything-is-a-file principle – Linus Torvalds (yarchive.net)
		293 points by majke on July 14, 2018 \| 217 comments
11.		Intel to Acquire eASIC: Lower Cost ASICs in FPGA Design Time (anandtech.com)
		151 points by tpetry on July 14, 2018 \| 19 comments
12.		An Illustrated Proof of the CAP Theorem (mwhittaker.github.io)
		209 points by networked on July 14, 2018 \| 71 comments
13.		Air Gapping a MacBook Air: The Great BCM15700A2 Mystery (firstlook.media)
		227 points by jeffo_rulez on July 14, 2018 \| 77 comments
14.		Crop circle reveals ancient ‘henge’ monument buried in Ireland (globalnews.ca)
		124 points by rmason on July 13, 2018 \| 36 comments
15.		Archaeologists in China Discover the Oldest Stone Tools Outside Africa (nytimes.com)
		52 points by montrose on July 13, 2018 \| 24 comments
16.		The moving sofa problem (wikipedia.org)
		215 points by franzb on July 13, 2018 \| 51 comments
17.		How Minecraft is helping kids fall in love with books (theguardian.com)
		145 points by the-enemy on July 13, 2018 \| 85 comments
18.		Link Between Alzheimer’s and Herpes (theatlantic.com)
		147 points by pingou on July 13, 2018 \| 54 comments
19.		PC market has seen its first growth quarter in six years (venturebeat.com)
		133 points by tronotonante on July 14, 2018 \| 86 comments
20.		Open source, privacy-enabled smartphone operating systems (e.foundation)
		119 points by prince707 on July 14, 2018 \| 68 comments
21.		Zero-Knowledge Proofs (zkp.science)
		142 points by exolymph on July 14, 2018 \| 21 comments
22.		Libaco: A fast and lightweight C asymmetric coroutine library (github.com/hnes)
		152 points by adamnemecek on July 14, 2018 \| 55 comments
23.		Have we overestimated the effectiveness of psychotherapy? (bps.org.uk)
		144 points by laurex on July 13, 2018 \| 145 comments
24.		A Correction; Welcome to 51,254 (2000) (nytimes.com)
		64 points by hk__2 on July 14, 2018 \| 14 comments
25.		Nordic Ice Skating on Thin, Black Ice in Sweden Is an Art and a Science (nationalgeographic.com)
		110 points by monort on July 13, 2018 \| 47 comments
26.		On Semicolons and the Rules of Writing (themillions.com)
		126 points by apollinaire on July 13, 2018 \| 51 comments
27.		The secret maps used in World War II (bbc.com)
		82 points by MiriamWeiner on July 13, 2018 \| 10 comments
28.		Escape Compasses (paratrooper.be)
		81 points by politelemon on July 14, 2018 \| 26 comments
29.		The Fast Meme Transform: Convert Audio into Linux Commands (robertelder.org)
		62 points by signa11 on July 13, 2018 \| 11 comments
30.		WebAssembly is more than the web (steveklabnik.com)
		178 points by steveklabnik on July 13, 2018 \| 81 comments
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