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1.		Larry Roberts has died (nytimes.com)
		654 points by jbegley on Dec 30, 2018 \| 93 comments
2.		How Facebook tracks you on Android [video] (ccc.de)
		673 points by gala8y on Dec 30, 2018 \| 203 comments
3.		Inter UI, a typeface designed for user interfaces (rsms.me)
		664 points by dsego on Dec 29, 2018 \| 92 comments
4.		Guesstimate – A Spreadsheet for things that aren't certain (getguesstimate.com)
		529 points by 666_howitzer on Dec 29, 2018 \| 67 comments
5.		Microsoft changed how it interviews software developers (businessinsider.fr)
		412 points by pplonski86 on Dec 30, 2018 \| 331 comments
6.		Doctors ask engineers to spend more time in the hospital before building apps (cnbc.com)
		366 points by brandonb on Dec 29, 2018 \| 211 comments
7.		Essential C (2003) [pdf] (stanford.edu)
		285 points by saadadasd on Dec 30, 2018 \| 146 comments
8.		Ask HN: Which tool do you use to create beautiful diagrams?
		681 points by lichtenberger on Dec 30, 2018 \| 212 comments
9.		How the Valley treats experienced people (rachelbythebay.com)
		554 points by zdw on Dec 30, 2018 \| 493 comments
10.		A list of lists of interview questions (github.com/maximabramchuck)
		284 points by melenaos on Dec 30, 2018 \| 84 comments
11.		Understanding is a poor substitute for convexity (2012) (edge.org)
		130 points by alrex021 on Dec 30, 2018 \| 64 comments
12.		CenturyLink 911 outage was caused by a single network card sending bad packets (twitter.com/gossithedog)
		328 points by EamonnMR on Dec 30, 2018 \| 161 comments
13.		Hacking how we see [video] (ccc.de)
		144 points by febin on Dec 30, 2018 \| 9 comments
14.		EU to fund bug bounty programs for open-source projects (zdnet.com)
		459 points by svenfaw on Dec 30, 2018 \| 142 comments
15.		Critical step found in DNA repair, cellular aging (2017) (news.harvard.edu)
		238 points by dcu on Dec 30, 2018 \| 61 comments
16.		A little-known C feature: Static array indices in parameter declarations (2013) (hamberg.no)
		259 points by fanf2 on Dec 29, 2018 \| 60 comments
17.		A quest for beauty and clear thinking: interviewing John Baez (mathisintheair.com)
		96 points by mathgenius on Dec 30, 2018 \| 22 comments
18.		An Economic Geography of the United States: From Commutes to Megaregions (2016) (atlasobscura.com)
		71 points by sytelus on Dec 28, 2018 \| 6 comments
19.		Software Methodology: Why One Size Fits No One (github.com/risk-first)
		211 points by bobm_kite9 on Dec 30, 2018 \| 82 comments
20.		Marchetti's constant (wikipedia.org)
		82 points by raldi on Dec 29, 2018 \| 24 comments
21.		A tech addict who works in the tech industry (seattletimes.com)
		103 points by wallflower on Dec 28, 2018 \| 68 comments
22.		How long is that Bézier? (raphlinus.github.io)
		164 points by raphlinus on Dec 30, 2018 \| 18 comments
23.		SchemaCrawler: Free database schema discovery and comprehension tool (schemacrawler.com)
		143 points by based2 on Dec 30, 2018 \| 20 comments
24.		Show HN: Bake – A modular build system and package manager for C/C++ (github.com/sandermertens)
		132 points by ajmmertens on Dec 30, 2018 \| 70 comments
25.		Safe and Secure Drivers in High-Level Languages [video] (ccc.de)
		173 points by DyslexicAtheist on Dec 30, 2018 \| 61 comments
26.		Spain will soon overtake Japan in life expectancy rankings (weforum.org)
		172 points by wslh on Dec 29, 2018 \| 171 comments
27.		As oil and gas exports surge, West Texas becomes the world’s “extraction colony” (texastribune.org)
		96 points by howard941 on Dec 30, 2018 \| 177 comments
28.		KubeDB – Run production-grade databases easily on Kubernetes (kubedb.com)
		187 points by openmaze on Dec 30, 2018 \| 91 comments
29.		Ibuprofen alters human testicular physiology to produce compensated hypogonadism (nih.gov)
		300 points by wallace_f on Dec 30, 2018 \| 234 comments
30.		Let the Fountain Pens Flow (nytimes.com)
		130 points by CaliforniaKarl on Dec 27, 2018 \| 114 comments
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