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1.		Japan's Hometown Tax (kalzumeus.com)
		847 points by gwern on Oct 19, 2018 \| 249 comments
2.		Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great Engineer, and Happiness (triplebyte.com)
		712 points by aacook on Oct 18, 2018 \| 340 comments
3.		Apple CEO Tim Cook Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story (buzzfeednews.com)
		530 points by minimaxir on Oct 19, 2018 \| 317 comments
4.		Show HN: Applying for jobs? Manage all your interviews in one place (afterinterview.com)
		306 points by ohsik on Oct 19, 2018 \| 126 comments
5.		Intel 9th Gen Review (anandtech.com)
		221 points by endorphone on Oct 19, 2018 \| 174 comments
6.		New York Attorney General Expands Inquiry into Net Neutrality Comments (nytimes.com)
		184 points by shadowtree on Oct 19, 2018 \| 41 comments
7.		Consistency Without Clocks: FaunaDB's Distributed Transaction Protocol (fauna.com)
		171 points by evanweaver on Oct 19, 2018 \| 101 comments
8.		Did Facebook’s faulty data push publishers to make terrible decisions on video? (niemanlab.org)
		207 points by laurex on Oct 19, 2018 \| 106 comments
9.		Asterix in Translation: The Genius of Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge (auntymuriel.com)
		161 points by DanBC on Oct 19, 2018 \| 70 comments
10.		Let’s talk about PAKE (cryptographyengineering.com)
		138 points by stargrave on Oct 19, 2018 \| 98 comments
11.		“Whole Earth” origin (1976) (longnow.org)
		85 points by josephpmay on Oct 19, 2018 \| 17 comments
12.		Sunshine Helps Kill Germs Indoors (npr.org)
		205 points by lnguyen on Oct 19, 2018 \| 183 comments
13.		This Old Lisp (thisoldlisp.com)
		238 points by _19qg on Oct 19, 2018 \| 106 comments
14.		Show HN: Coffee Chat – Trade your expertise (coffeechat.app)
		182 points by lw on Oct 17, 2018 \| 78 comments
15.		A Hacker from South Africa Rescued the First NASA Computer in Space (2016) (atlasobscura.com)
		140 points by DoreenMichele on Oct 19, 2018 \| 5 comments
16.		I woke up unable to speak English (bbc.com)
		262 points by dcminter on Oct 17, 2018 \| 100 comments
17.		The Bookish Life: How to Read and Why (firstthings.com)
		160 points by diodorus on Oct 17, 2018 \| 67 comments
18.		Hackintosh-KVM Guide: High Sierra+ Using QEMU's I440fx Chipset (passthroughpo.st)
		248 points by walterbell on Oct 19, 2018 \| 95 comments
19.		Winamp 5.8 Release – First update in 5 years (winamp.com)
		283 points by Jhsto on Oct 19, 2018 \| 135 comments
20.		Bosnians who speak medieval Spanish (bbc.com)
		171 points by MiriamWeiner on Oct 18, 2018 \| 79 comments
21.		A tutorial on Principal Component Analysis (tkv.io)
		156 points by tehnokv on Oct 19, 2018 \| 16 comments
22.		Reservoir computing (wikipedia.org)
		99 points by gyre007 on Oct 18, 2018 \| 20 comments
23.		Church-Turing Thesis Cannot Possibly Be True [video] (microsoft.com)
		174 points by espeed on Oct 19, 2018 \| 147 comments
24.		Mill vs. Spectre: Performance and Security [video] (youtube.com)
		71 points by leoc on Oct 19, 2018 \| 31 comments
25.		Microservices Are Something You Grow Into, Not Begin With (nickjanetakis.com)
		338 points by fagnerbrack on Oct 19, 2018 \| 153 comments
26.		FT8 – Tipping Point for Ham Radio? (flexradio.com)
		158 points by lightlyused on Oct 19, 2018 \| 113 comments
27.		Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a Brutal Soviet Era (collectorsweekly.com)
		93 points by prismatic on Oct 18, 2018 \| 76 comments
28.		Improving AI language understanding by combining multiple word representations (fb.com)
		86 points by jamesjue on Oct 19, 2018 \| 7 comments
29.		How to price a product, sell it to customers, and build a sales team (stripe.com)
		265 points by petethomas on Oct 18, 2018 \| 21 comments
30.		GraphSense – A Scalable Cryptocurrency Analytics Platform (graphsense.info)
		77 points by lainon on Oct 19, 2018 \| 10 comments
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