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1.		Compare career levels across companies (levels.fyi)
		832 points by kposehn on Oct 31, 2018 \| 411 comments
2.		JPEG image of Shakespeare which is also a zip file containing his complete works (twitter.com/david3141593)
		689 points by firasd on Oct 30, 2018 \| 132 comments
3.		We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook approved all of them (vice.com)
		970 points by pulisse on Oct 30, 2018 \| 332 comments
4.		JavaScript is now required to sign in to Google (googleblog.com)
		593 points by amaccuish on Oct 31, 2018 \| 499 comments
5.		My somewhat complete salary history as a software engineer (humanwhocodes.com)
		726 points by jodooshi on Oct 31, 2018 \| 650 comments
6.		Build Your Own Professional-Grade Audio Amp on the Sort-Of Cheap (ieee.org)
		444 points by chablent on Oct 31, 2018 \| 256 comments
7.		System76 on US Manufacturing and Open Hardware (system76.com)
		404 points by reddotX on Oct 31, 2018 \| 157 comments
8.		The SOS in my Halloween decorations (bbc.com)
		394 points by tlrobinson on Oct 30, 2018 \| 70 comments
9.		When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Improves (npr.org)
		477 points by sverige on Oct 31, 2018 \| 515 comments
10.		Clojure at Netflix (2013) [slides] (speakerdeck.com)
		369 points by tosh on Oct 31, 2018 \| 300 comments
11.		Unicode Dicks (revk.uk)
		536 points by henkdevries on Oct 31, 2018 \| 102 comments
12.		How to Make a Roguelike (gamasutra.com)
		408 points by danso on Oct 30, 2018 \| 105 comments
13.		Why Pencils Are Yellow (2017) (artsy.net)
		303 points by colinprince on Oct 31, 2018 \| 109 comments
14.		Hawaii Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Building Thirty Meter Telescope (staradvertiser.com)
		208 points by okket on Oct 31, 2018 \| 80 comments
15.		Two Objects Not Namespaced by the Linux Kernel (2017) (jessfraz.com)
		169 points by setra on Oct 31, 2018 \| 58 comments
16.		Available on Google Cloud: Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory (cloud.google.com)
		167 points by eicnix on Oct 31, 2018 \| 70 comments
17.		TensorFlow Code for Google Research's BERT: Pre-Training Method for NLP Tasks (github.com/google-research)
		129 points by ArtWomb on Oct 31, 2018 \| 13 comments
18.		Show HN: Basilica – word2vec for anything (basilica.ai)
		153 points by hiphipjorge on Oct 31, 2018 \| 77 comments
19.		The Masterless People: Pirates, Maroons, and the Struggle to Live Free (longreads.com)
		211 points by kawera on Oct 30, 2018 \| 80 comments
20.		Reinforcement Learning with Prediction-Based Rewards (blog.openai.com)
		165 points by lainon on Oct 31, 2018 \| 38 comments
21.		CFDPython: A sequence of Jupyter notebooks featuring "12 Steps to Navier-Stokes" (github.com/barbagroup)
		126 points by arunmp on Oct 31, 2018 \| 5 comments
22.		Japanese Woodblock Print Search (ukiyo-e.org)
		121 points by stareatgoats on Oct 31, 2018 \| 29 comments
23.		Transforming Wikipedia into a cultural knowledge quiz (medium.com/mjbaldwin)
		132 points by crazygringo on Oct 31, 2018 \| 46 comments
24.		Primitive – recreate your photos with vector-based geometric primitives (primitive.lol)
		182 points by ngzhian on Oct 31, 2018 \| 22 comments
25.		Advantages of Using R Notebooks Instead of Jupyter Notebooks (2017) (minimaxir.com)
		142 points by breckuh on Oct 31, 2018 \| 47 comments
26.		Actors for Squeak Smalltalk (tonyg.github.io)
		81 points by tonyg on Oct 30, 2018 \| 26 comments
27.		Tiny Books Fit in One Hand. Will They Change the Way We Read? (nytimes.com)
		196 points by ingve on Oct 30, 2018 \| 180 comments
28.		Inspection Paradox (2015) (allendowney.blogspot.com)
		69 points by happy-go-lucky on Oct 31, 2018 \| 13 comments
29.		Show HN: Giraffe – Functional ASP.NET Core web framework for F# (github.com/giraffe-fsharp)
		121 points by dustinmoris on Oct 30, 2018 \| 14 comments
30.		Windows Defender detects malware in DMD (dlang.org)
		112 points by vintagedave on Oct 31, 2018 \| 68 comments
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