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1.		Paul Allen has died (cnbc.com)
		2901 points by coloneltcb on Oct 15, 2018 \| 277 comments
2.		What I loved about Paul Allen (gatesnotes.com)
		964 points by uknownuser on Oct 16, 2018 \| 114 comments
3.		GitHub launches Actions, its workflow automation tool (techcrunch.com)
		642 points by moritzplassnig on Oct 16, 2018 \| 145 comments
4.		China May Have $5.8T in Hidden Debt with ‘Titanic’ Risks (bloomberg.com)
		482 points by aswaedr on Oct 16, 2018 \| 241 comments
5.		How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language (twobithistory.org)
		614 points by chwolfe on Oct 16, 2018 \| 307 comments
6.		The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digital world (theguardian.com)
		429 points by DanielBMarkham on Oct 14, 2018 \| 96 comments
7.		Lessons learned from creating a real-time collaborative rich-text editor (ckeditor.com)
		426 points by Reinmar on Oct 15, 2018 \| 88 comments
8.		How Exercise Might “Clean” the Alzheimer's Brain (scientificamerican.com)
		390 points by extraterra on Oct 16, 2018 \| 209 comments
9.		Do We Worship Complexity? (innoq.com)
		260 points by ScottWRobinson on Oct 16, 2018 \| 256 comments
10.		Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
		393 points by cellml on Oct 16, 2018 \| 1052 comments
11.		How to Write a Technical Paper [pdf] (semanticscholar.org)
		362 points by boricensis on Oct 15, 2018 \| 25 comments
12.		MongoDB switches up its open source license (techcrunch.com)
		306 points by zhuxuefeng1994 on Oct 16, 2018 \| 467 comments
13.		Show HN: Polar – an offline web browser with annotations and tagging (getpolarized.io)
		382 points by burtonator on Oct 15, 2018 \| 69 comments
14.		Messenger systems compared by security, privacy, compatibility, and features (docs.google.com)
		300 points by lrvick on Oct 15, 2018 \| 236 comments
15.		The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is Doing (2017) (theatlantic.com)
		219 points by kimsk112 on Oct 16, 2018 \| 116 comments
16.		How Employers Track Their Workers (theatlantic.com)
		170 points by crunchiebones on Oct 16, 2018 \| 81 comments
17.		Does being bored make us more creative? (2014) (fermatslibrary.com)
		113 points by mgdo on Oct 16, 2018 \| 44 comments
18.		The extraordinary influence of the Iliad and Odyssey (the-tls.co.uk)
		136 points by pepys on Oct 15, 2018 \| 80 comments
19.		Priority Queue on Ethereum with a 15 ETH Bug Bounty (github.com/zmitton)
		127 points by _pw5l on Oct 15, 2018 \| 107 comments
20.		Gartner picks digital ethics and privacy as a strategic trend for 2019 (techcrunch.com)
		110 points by RobertSmith on Oct 16, 2018 \| 23 comments
21.		Where Oil Rigs Go to Die (2017) (theguardian.com)
		114 points by fredley on Oct 14, 2018 \| 30 comments
22.		GitHub's game jam returns next month (blog.github.com)
		109 points by lee337 on Oct 15, 2018 \| 18 comments
23.		To become a software consultant, avoid letting clients pay you for code (2017) (daedtech.com)
		332 points by fagnerbrack on Oct 16, 2018 \| 132 comments
24.		The high-risk, high-reward world of selling random stuff on Amazon (cnn.com)
		126 points by lxm on Oct 14, 2018 \| 82 comments
25.		Hijacking HTML canvas and PNG images to store arbitrary text data (igorkromin.net)
		70 points by ikromin on Oct 15, 2018 \| 41 comments
26.		Making Windows Slower Part 2: Process Creation (randomascii.wordpress.com)
		179 points by nikbackm on Oct 16, 2018 \| 32 comments
27.		Concepts to help developers master JavaScript (github.com/leonardomso)
		316 points by alexgrcs on Oct 16, 2018 \| 51 comments
28.		The Wonder from Down Under: The Fairlight CMI Digital Sampling Synthesiser (paleotronic.com)
		59 points by empressplay on Oct 16, 2018 \| 27 comments
29.		Uber Proposals Value It at $120B in Possible 2019 IPO (wsj.com)
		120 points by bko on Oct 16, 2018 \| 96 comments
30.		American Mercenaries Were Hired to Assassinate Politicians in the Middle East (buzzfeednews.com)
		307 points by georgecmu on Oct 16, 2018 \| 236 comments
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