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1.		International System of Units overhauled in historic vote (npl.co.uk)
		834 points by daegloe on Nov 16, 2018 \| 576 comments
2.		Big List of Naughty Strings (github.com/minimaxir)
		780 points by pmoriarty on Nov 16, 2018 \| 146 comments
3.		Elementary OS – Fast, open, privacy-respecting replacement for Windows and macOS (elementary.io)
		561 points by diggernet on Nov 16, 2018 \| 421 comments
4.		Across the West powerful firms are becoming even more powerful (economist.com)
		329 points by ilamont on Nov 16, 2018 \| 111 comments
5.		I Found the Best Burger Place in America, Then I Killed It (thrillist.com)
		613 points by wallflower on Nov 16, 2018 \| 387 comments
6.		The Art and Science of Leading Projects (teamgantt.com)
		149 points by ismyrnow on Nov 16, 2018 \| 20 comments
7.		Golua – A Lua 5.3 engine implemented in Go (github.com/azure)
		277 points by grey-area on Nov 16, 2018 \| 89 comments
8.		Letter to an Aspiring Doctor (firstthings.com)
		114 points by wormold on Nov 15, 2018 \| 46 comments
9.		The Art of Mathematics (jhu.edu)
		163 points by mathgenius on Nov 16, 2018 \| 22 comments
10.		Python Data Visualization 2018: Why So Many Libraries? (anaconda.com)
		302 points by ehudla on Nov 16, 2018 \| 101 comments
11.		MiSafes' child-tracking smartwatches are easy to hack (bbc.com)
		86 points by wil_I_am_27 on Nov 16, 2018 \| 43 comments
12.		Transitioning Google Cloud leadership after three great years (cloud.google.com)
		251 points by clebio on Nov 16, 2018 \| 239 comments
13.		C Portability Lessons from Weird Machines (begriffs.com)
		270 points by begriffs on Nov 16, 2018 \| 117 comments
14.		Pachyderm Raises $10M to Bring Data Provenance to the Enterprise (pachyderm.io)
		102 points by jaz46 on Nov 16, 2018 \| 27 comments
15.		PSA: Firefox Nightly now with experimental Wayland support (glandium.org)
		288 points by glandium on Nov 16, 2018 \| 97 comments
16.		UKL: A Unikernel Based on Linux (redhat.com)
		156 points by perbu on Nov 15, 2018 \| 37 comments
17.		Show HN: Find a Study Buddy for your MOOC (stacks.courses)
		217 points by johnnyodonnell on Nov 16, 2018 \| 64 comments
18.		Quietly, Japan has established itself as a power in the aerospace industry (arstechnica.com)
		178 points by rbanffy on Nov 16, 2018 \| 127 comments
19.		Tulsa Remote (tulsaremote.com)
		347 points by Aloha on Nov 15, 2018 \| 215 comments
20.		Build a do-it-yourself IMSI Catcher for about $20 (vice.com)
		200 points by mises on Nov 16, 2018 \| 62 comments
21.		Orangutans are the only great apes besides humans to ‘talk’ about the past (sciencemag.org)
		204 points by ccwilson10 on Nov 16, 2018 \| 93 comments
22.		AI Playbook (a16z.com)
		249 points by febin on Nov 16, 2018 \| 20 comments
23.		Scientists who make apps addictive (1843magazine.com)
		227 points by sdeepak on Nov 16, 2018 \| 46 comments
24.		Amazon S3 Block Public Access: Protection for Your Accounts and Buckets (amazon.com)
		150 points by ingve on Nov 16, 2018 \| 85 comments
25.		Antifungal resistance is here (theatlantic.com)
		138 points by xoa on Nov 15, 2018 \| 28 comments
26.		Amateur Mathematician Finds Smallest Universal Cover (quantamagazine.org)
		166 points by Pharmakon on Nov 15, 2018 \| 22 comments
27.		Type inference (thegreenplace.net)
		146 points by luord on Nov 15, 2018 \| 44 comments
28.		Insomnia: 'No link' between sleepless nights and early death (bbc.co.uk)
		123 points by sjcsjc on Nov 16, 2018 \| 77 comments
29.		Rare microbes lead scientists to discover new branch on the tree of life (cbc.ca)
		157 points by tosh on Nov 16, 2018 \| 17 comments
30.		Science Is Getting Less Bang for Its Buck (theatlantic.com)
		138 points by dsr12 on Nov 16, 2018 \| 148 comments
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