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1.		Teach Yourself to Echolocate: A beginner’s guide to navigating with sound (atlasobscura.com)
		571 points by zebraman on Oct 13, 2018 \| 105 comments
2.		The Reason We Haven’t Directly Detected Dark Matter (medium.com/starts-with-a-bang)
		334 points by alex_young on Oct 13, 2018 \| 295 comments
3.		The Murgia Hack System (mhsys.org)
		139 points by ingve on Oct 13, 2018 \| 12 comments
4.		Rapids – Open GPU Data Science (rapids.ai)
		124 points by msis on Oct 13, 2018 \| 25 comments
5.		CSS Layout cookbook (developer.mozilla.org)
		322 points by filipoi on Oct 13, 2018 \| 24 comments
6.		Why Futurism Has a Cultural Blindspot (2015) (nautil.us)
		119 points by dnetesn on Oct 13, 2018 \| 69 comments
7.		Model-Based Machine Learning Book (mbmlbook.com)
		365 points by r0f1 on Oct 12, 2018 \| 12 comments
8.		An Amateur Rap Crew Stole Surveillance Tech that Tracks Almost Every American (forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster)
		313 points by kawera on Oct 12, 2018 \| 111 comments
9.		See what you can create with 140 characters of JavaScript and a canvas (dwitter.net)
		183 points by pajtai on Oct 12, 2018 \| 24 comments
10.		A Great Old Timey Game Programming Hack (2013) (moertel.com)
		252 points by esaym on Oct 13, 2018 \| 22 comments
11.		Quitting my job has been the best thing I've done for my career (joshuahu.io)
		315 points by jhu247 on Oct 12, 2018 \| 224 comments
12.		Air India Express 737 Hits ILS, Damages Wall on Departure, Flies for 4 Hours (flightradar24.com)
		224 points by singhshashi on Oct 12, 2018 \| 238 comments
13.		BetrFS: An in-kernel file system that uses Bε trees to organize on-disk storage (betrfs.org)
		167 points by espeed on Oct 12, 2018 \| 46 comments
14.		Is Chronic Anxiety a Learning Disorder? (scientificamerican.com)
		225 points by laurex on Oct 12, 2018 \| 72 comments
15.		Ask HN: 40+ Career Advice?
		384 points by nextstep40plus on Oct 13, 2018 \| 229 comments
16.		Lab-Grown Human Retinas Illuminate How Eyes Develop Color Vision (scientificamerican.com)
		55 points by ihsoj on Oct 12, 2018 \| 11 comments
17.		Setting, Elaborating, Reflecting on Goals Improves Academic Performance (2010) [pdf] (utoronto.ca)
		70 points by shawndumas on Oct 13, 2018 \| 4 comments
18.		Chess Game Using Racket’s Pasteboard (alex-hhh.github.io)
		107 points by bwidlar on Oct 13, 2018 \| 11 comments
19.		The byproducts of reading OpenBSD netcat code (nanxiao.me)
		68 points by nanxiao on Oct 13, 2018 \| 11 comments
20.		Invisible Manipulation: ways our data is being used against us (privacyinternational.org)
		159 points by crunchiebones on Oct 13, 2018 \| 78 comments
21.		TinySeed – A Startup Accelerator Designed for Bootstrappers (robwalling.com)
		342 points by ljoshua on Oct 12, 2018 \| 101 comments
22.		How Bad Is It to Forget Someone's Name? (theatlantic.com)
		146 points by walterbell on Oct 10, 2018 \| 112 comments
23.		Documents OCR: Improving Efficiency by Making PDFs Searchable (medium.com/oscar-tech)
		126 points by ebibi on Oct 11, 2018 \| 42 comments
24.		Are influencers overrated? New Study questions effectiveness of targeting “hubs” (stanford.edu)
		81 points by anigbrowl on Oct 13, 2018 \| 23 comments
25.		Fantasy Maps That Put the World’s Tallest Mountains Side by Side (atlasobscura.com)
		79 points by Thevet on Oct 12, 2018 \| 3 comments
26.		The S.E.C. Dusts Off a Never-Used Cyber Enforcement Tool (nytimes.com)
		58 points by walterbell on Oct 11, 2018 \| 4 comments
27.		Thank you for calling tech support, now please die (2015) (arstechnica.com)
		95 points by nwrk on Oct 13, 2018 \| 26 comments
28.		Cimple: Instruction and Memory Level Parallelism (arxiv.org)
		56 points by moab on Oct 12, 2018 \| 16 comments
29.		Big Integer Design (bearssl.org)
		101 points by matt_d on Oct 13, 2018 \| 8 comments
30.		Firebase outages and misleading status reporting (medium.com/scosta)
		143 points by sauldcosta on Oct 13, 2018 \| 49 comments
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