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1.		Paper Airplane Designs (foldnfly.com)
		1753 points by wilsonfiifi on Oct 18, 2018 \| 206 comments
2.		Repair is as important as innovation (economist.com)
		598 points by sinak on Oct 18, 2018 \| 217 comments
3.		Encrypted SNI Comes to Firefox Nightly (blog.mozilla.org)
		326 points by okket on Oct 18, 2018 \| 147 comments
4.		Modern Microprocessors – A 90-Minute Guide (2001-2016) (lighterra.com)
		443 points by projectileboy on Oct 16, 2018 \| 87 comments
5.		Caroll Spinney Leaves ‘Sesame Street’ After Nearly 50 Years (nytimes.com)
		177 points by uptown on Oct 17, 2018 \| 44 comments
6.		Seals Used to Protect Voting Machines Can Be Opened With a Shim from a Soda Can (vice.com)
		226 points by ProAm on Oct 17, 2018 \| 96 comments
7.		Building a better gov.uk, step by step (gds.blog.gov.uk)
		283 points by open-source-ux on Oct 18, 2018 \| 82 comments
8.		Decision Tables (hillelwayne.com)
		166 points by dailymorn on Oct 17, 2018 \| 49 comments
9.		Calculus Made Easy (1910) (calculusmadeeasy.org)
		378 points by luisb on Oct 18, 2018 \| 68 comments
10.		Ways people trying to do good accidentally do harm instead and how to avoid them (80000hours.org)
		322 points by robertwiblin on Oct 17, 2018 \| 144 comments
11.		New law lets you defer capital gains taxes by investing in opportunity zones (recode.net)
		196 points by rmason on Oct 18, 2018 \| 243 comments
12.		An Introduction to GPU Programming in Julia (nextjournal.com)
		290 points by simondanisch on Oct 18, 2018 \| 46 comments
13.		PostgreSQL 11 Released (postgresql.org)
		621 points by MarkusWinand on Oct 18, 2018 \| 161 comments
14.		US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty (bbc.com)
		412 points by walterbell on Oct 18, 2018 \| 374 comments
15.		Amazon Employee: We Shouldn’t Sell Facial Recognition Tech to Police (medium.com/s)
		313 points by venturis_voice on Oct 17, 2018 \| 266 comments
16.		L.A.'s Most Derided Piece of Public Art Is About to Light Up Again (atlasobscura.com)
		138 points by extraterra on Oct 18, 2018 \| 51 comments
17.		OpenBSD 6.4 released (openbsd.org)
		309 points by fcambus on Oct 18, 2018 \| 175 comments
18.		Microplastics found in 90 percent of table salt (nationalgeographic.com)
		403 points by Shivetya on Oct 18, 2018 \| 215 comments
19.		Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Could Replace Traffic Lights, Shorten Commutes (ieee.org)
		151 points by GG2 on Oct 18, 2018 \| 138 comments
20.		Uber’s Big Data Platform: 100+ Petabytes with Minute Latency (uber.com)
		211 points by eaguyhn on Oct 17, 2018 \| 68 comments
21.		Show HN: Meeting Stats – Show your boss how much of your life is in meetings (execution.com)
		127 points by remyp on Oct 18, 2018 \| 86 comments
22.		Solving Sol (solvingsol.com)
		152 points by bpierre on Oct 17, 2018 \| 25 comments
23.		Haskell's kind system: a primer (diogocastro.com)
		221 points by ristem on Oct 18, 2018 \| 51 comments
24.		Building a Cross-Browser, Cross-Platform, Real-Time Game Streaming Protocol (rainway.io)
		120 points by andrewmd5 on Oct 17, 2018 \| 24 comments
25.		The CumEx-Files – How Europe's taxpayers have been swindled of €55B (cumex-files.com)
		357 points by hansen on Oct 18, 2018 \| 105 comments
26.		Python's New Package Landscape (andrewsforge.com)
		325 points by teajunky on Oct 18, 2018 \| 165 comments
27.		Tell HN: I went and saw CSIRAC, the only first-generation computer still intact
		114 points by ObsoleteNerd on Oct 17, 2018 \| 26 comments
28.		Domain Storytelling: A DDD tool to visualize domain stories in the browser (domainstorytelling.org)
		137 points by mablae on Oct 18, 2018 \| 15 comments
29.		Orkney islands could get first electric plane service (bbc.co.uk)
		68 points by m-i-l on Oct 17, 2018 \| 28 comments
30.		Robert and Virginia Heinlein's Colorado Springs House (nitrosyncretic.com)
		100 points by benbreen on Oct 18, 2018 \| 73 comments
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