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1.		4,400 year old Egyptian tomb discovered in the Saqqara pyramid complex (bbc.co.uk)
		275 points by open-source-ux on Dec 16, 2018 \| 57 comments
2.		My Dad's Friendship with Charles Barkley (wbur.org)
		467 points by weitingliu on Dec 16, 2018 \| 40 comments
3.		Can Repelling Magnets Replace the Spring in a Pogo Stick? (kjmagnetics.com)
		292 points by mhb on Dec 16, 2018 \| 142 comments
4.		Google AMP case study: leads dropped by 59% (kinsta.com)
		336 points by krn on Dec 16, 2018 \| 158 comments
5.		The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got (2012) (russolsen.com)
		462 points by pplonski86 on Dec 15, 2018 \| 237 comments
6.		1980s Amiga has been running the AC and heat in 19 schools for 30 years (geek.com)
		230 points by flippyhead on Dec 16, 2018 \| 164 comments
7.		German exclaves in Belgium separated by a bicycle path from the rest of Germany (fascinatingmaps.com)
		272 points by rwmj on Dec 16, 2018 \| 155 comments
8.		DDR Type 2 Short-wave spy transmitter (cryptomuseum.com)
		167 points by jonke on Dec 15, 2018 \| 28 comments
9.		Tell HN: Tim May, Author of “The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto”, Has Died
		284 points by hmsln on Dec 15, 2018 \| 34 comments
10.		Why Design Thinking Works (hbr.org)
		218 points by helloworld on Dec 16, 2018 \| 96 comments
11.		Linux: IO without entering the kernel (kernel.dk)
		210 points by pplonski86 on Dec 16, 2018 \| 75 comments
12.		Thoughts on, and pictures of, the original Macintosh User Manual (peterme.com)
		187 points by tosh on Dec 16, 2018 \| 84 comments
13.		Java’s Forgotten Forebear (2009) (ieee.org)
		122 points by charlysl on Dec 16, 2018 \| 80 comments
14.		Organizational Debt (boats.gitlab.io)
		185 points by ingve on Dec 16, 2018 \| 40 comments
15.		Show HN: Single-header C++11 HTML document constructor (github.com/tinfoilboy)
		87 points by tinfoilboy on Dec 16, 2018 \| 10 comments
16.		Nvidia's $1,100 AI brain for robots goes on sale (engadget.com)
		144 points by elorant on Dec 16, 2018 \| 86 comments
17.		An Illustrated Theory of Numbers (2017) (illustratedtheoryofnumbers.com)
		167 points by earthicus on Dec 16, 2018 \| 44 comments
18.		Two Chinese Stalagmites Are a 'Holy Grail' for Accurate Radiocarbon Dating (gizmodo.com)
		105 points by curtis on Dec 15, 2018 \| 25 comments
19.		Can functional programming be liberated from the von Neumann paradigm? (2010) (conal.net)
		161 points by stevekrouse on Dec 16, 2018 \| 82 comments
20.		Why we suck at “solving wicked problems” (morebeyond.co.za)
		74 points by imartin2k on Dec 15, 2018 \| 14 comments
21.		Breaking Into Android Phones with a 3D-Printed Head (forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster)
		101 points by rexbee on Dec 16, 2018 \| 77 comments
22.		Pampy: Pattern Matching for Python (github.com/santinic)
		126 points by fagnerbrack on Dec 16, 2018 \| 44 comments
23.		PG&E falsified gas pipeline records for years after deadly explosion (latimes.com)
		142 points by WalterGR on Dec 15, 2018 \| 68 comments
24.		The U.S. National Academies Reports on the Prospects for Quantum Computing (ieee.org)
		58 points by rbanffy on Dec 13, 2018 \| 27 comments
25.		How McKinsey has helped raise the stature of authoritarian governments (nytimes.com)
		169 points by ValentineC on Dec 16, 2018 \| 39 comments
26.		How We Deal with Data Quality Using Circuit Breakers (intuit.com)
		66 points by r4um on Dec 16, 2018 \| 4 comments
27.		Typewriter Cartography (somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com)
		74 points by Jureko on Dec 16, 2018 \| 7 comments
28.		Michelangelo PyML: Uber’s Platform for Rapid Python ML Model (uber.com)
		77 points by pplonski86 on Dec 16, 2018 \| 24 comments
29.		Wireguard VPN: Typical Setup (2017) (ckn.io)
		105 points by tosh on Dec 16, 2018 \| 50 comments
30.		Firefox 64 built with GCC and Clang (hubicka.blogspot.com)
		188 points by Twirrim on Dec 16, 2018 \| 63 comments
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