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1.		Set Theory and Algebra in CS: Introduction to Mathematical Modeling (2013) [pdf] (semanticscholar.org)
		317 points by lainon on Aug 25, 2018 \| 50 comments
2.		The Future of Notebooks: Lessons from JupyterCon (willcrichton.net)
		353 points by wcrichton on Aug 25, 2018 \| 154 comments
3.		Skim reading is the new normal. The effect on society is profound (theguardian.com)
		327 points by pmoriarty on Aug 25, 2018 \| 211 comments
4.		Japan to add millions of new nodes to federated Nextcloud network (nextcloud.com)
		237 points by r3bl on Aug 25, 2018 \| 64 comments
5.		Don’t Shoot Messenger (eff.org)
		197 points by DiabloD3 on Aug 24, 2018 \| 20 comments
6.		Centralized Wins. Decentralized Loses (highscalability.com)
		275 points by ghosthamlet on Aug 25, 2018 \| 150 comments
7.		My life with 12 programmers, 2 rooms and one 21st-century dream (2016) (salon.com)
		269 points by testb on Aug 24, 2018 \| 167 comments
8.		How to Fit a Large Program into a Small Machine (1999) (mud.co.uk)
		148 points by tosh on Aug 25, 2018 \| 35 comments
9.		Using John Varney's rhythm wheel to differentiate 3/4 and 6/8 time signatures (megan-vo.github.io)
		95 points by mathisonian on Aug 24, 2018 \| 89 comments
10.		Elm 0.19 Broke Us (dev.to)
		276 points by maxhallinan on Aug 25, 2018 \| 226 comments
11.		Money Really Does Lead to a More Satisfying Life (nytimes.com)
		263 points by mpweiher on Aug 25, 2018 \| 146 comments
12.		Energy Department teams up with Bill Gates to move mini-nuclear plants to market (washingtonexaminer.com)
		207 points by rmason on Aug 25, 2018 \| 114 comments
13.		Beyond the pixel plane: sensing and learning in 3D (thegradient.pub)
		129 points by gtmtg on Aug 25, 2018 \| 15 comments
14.		The MRISC32 – A vector first CPU design (bitsnbites.eu)
		87 points by mbitsnbites on Aug 24, 2018 \| 18 comments
15.		An Oral History of ‘GoldenEye 007’ on the N64 (melmagazine.com)
		175 points by ForHackernews on Aug 25, 2018 \| 95 comments
16.		The Approval Economy (zandercutt.com)
		113 points by imartin2k on Aug 24, 2018 \| 34 comments
17.		The Paradox of Karl Popper (scientificamerican.com)
		147 points by lainon on Aug 25, 2018 \| 78 comments
18.		Great Barrier Reef headed for ‘massive death’ (cnn.com)
		169 points by Tomte on Aug 25, 2018 \| 124 comments
19.		What happens when we work non-stop (bbc.com)
		173 points by vjsc on Aug 24, 2018 \| 44 comments
20.		The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined (nytimes.com)
		222 points by boulos on Aug 25, 2018 \| 358 comments
21.		Training classifiers with natural language explanations (acolyer.org)
		92 points by ngaut on Aug 24, 2018 \| 1 comment
22.		The evolutionary mystery of gigantic human brains (arstechnica.com)
		68 points by nnx on Aug 24, 2018 \| 42 comments
23.		Sarcasm Analysis Using Conversation Context (arxiv.org)
		78 points by rbanffy on Aug 25, 2018 \| 19 comments
24.		Security Chasms of WASM [pdf] (blackhat.com)
		78 points by rfinney on Aug 24, 2018 \| 9 comments
25.		Evenly distributing points on a sphere (extremelearning.com.au)
		88 points by Signez on Aug 25, 2018 \| 20 comments
26.		TKVDB: radix tree persistent key/value storage engine written in ANSI C (github.com/vmxdev)
		105 points by vmxdev on Aug 25, 2018 \| 20 comments
27.		How Paper Batteries Charged by Bacteria Could Power the Internet of Things (ieee.org)
		56 points by rbanffy on Aug 24, 2018 \| 26 comments
28.		German Cryptanalytic Attacks on the British World War II “TYPEX” Machine (columbia.edu)
		73 points by sohkamyung on Aug 25, 2018 \| 19 comments
29.		Understand what AI sees (hackernoon.com)
		100 points by dirtPUNK on Aug 24, 2018 \| 42 comments
30.		The First Photo of a Human Being, and How the Scene's Changed from 180 Years Ago (vintag.es)
		59 points by prismatic on Aug 24, 2018 \| 28 comments
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