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1.		Programming Fonts – Test Drive (programmingfonts.org)
		712 points by southwindcg on Jan 21, 2019 \| 283 comments
2.		On whether changes in bedroom CO2 levels affect sleep quality (gwern.net)
		576 points by pizza on Jan 21, 2019 \| 306 comments
3.		Why does APT not use HTTPS? (whydoesaptnotusehttps.com)
		515 points by rishabhd on Jan 21, 2019 \| 420 comments
4.		Proper Breathing Brings Better Health (scientificamerican.com)
		404 points by pseudolus on Jan 20, 2019 \| 139 comments
5.		H&R Block and Intuit Lobby Against Free and Simple Tax Filing (2017) (propublica.org)
		509 points by aaronbrethorst on Jan 21, 2019 \| 190 comments
6.		CNIL imposes a financial penalty of 50M euros against Google (cnil.fr)
		330 points by Aissen on Jan 21, 2019 \| 222 comments
7.		Are We in the Middle of a Programming Bubble? (thinkfaster.co)
		386 points by swimorsinka on Jan 21, 2019 \| 397 comments
8.		Advanced Mac Substitute: API-level reimplementation of classic Mac OS (v68k.org)
		271 points by fanf2 on Jan 21, 2019 \| 64 comments
9.		Intro to hacking MicroSD cards (2013) (bunniestudios.com)
		352 points by bubblehack3r on Jan 21, 2019 \| 29 comments
10.		NumPy 1.16 is the last release to support Python 2.7 (github.com/numpy)
		240 points by htfy96 on Jan 21, 2019 \| 109 comments
11.		If 5G Is So Important, Why Isn’t It Secure? (nytimes.com)
		243 points by kurthr on Jan 21, 2019 \| 169 comments
12.		Genode OS: A tool kit for highly secure special-purpose operating systems (genode.org)
		205 points by doener on Jan 21, 2019 \| 31 comments
13.		Bed that saved me from the Taliban (bbc.co.uk)
		576 points by ahamedirshad123 on Jan 21, 2019 \| 133 comments
14.		Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters (cnn.com)
		218 points by gscott on Jan 21, 2019 \| 111 comments
15.		Letter in Response to Jan. 17 Article in The New York Times (hms.harvard.edu)
		294 points by crunchiebones on Jan 21, 2019 \| 136 comments
16.		Quinn 0.2.0: QUIC protocol implementation in Rust (github.com/djc)
		207 points by whoisnnamdi on Jan 21, 2019 \| 50 comments
17.		Google launches an AI contest for social good (ai.google)
		164 points by saranshk on Jan 20, 2019 \| 97 comments
18.		Arbitrage and Equilibrium in the Team Fortress 2 Economy (2012) (valvesoftware.com)
		55 points by pizza on Jan 20, 2019 \| 12 comments
19.		Ask HN: What are must-know concepts for back end development?
		491 points by chrisdsaldivar on Jan 21, 2019 \| 130 comments
20.		Most “ugly” produce gets turned into soups, sauces, salsa, jam (twitter.com/sarahtaber_bww)
		349 points by apsec112 on Jan 20, 2019 \| 214 comments
21.		An Introduction to Ray Tracing (1989) (realtimerendering.com)
		194 points by walterbell on Jan 21, 2019 \| 19 comments
22.		Volume Rendering with WebGL (willusher.io)
		95 points by ArtWomb on Jan 21, 2019 \| 8 comments
23.		Open Source Radio Telescope [pdf] (gnuradio.org)
		131 points by wglb on Jan 20, 2019 \| 9 comments
24.		A Bridge Too Far: E.W. Dijkstra and Logic (vanemden.wordpress.com)
		127 points by akkartik on Jan 20, 2019 \| 72 comments
25.		A Lifetime of Systems Thinking (thesystemsthinker.com)
		228 points by yarapavan on Jan 21, 2019 \| 48 comments
26.		Photo-Sketching: Inferring Contour Drawings from Images (arxiv.org)
		54 points by pplonski86 on Jan 21, 2019 \| 25 comments
27.		Show HN: FBP editor for music/vfx with [three, tone, tensorflow].js nodes (kousun12.github.io)
		42 points by kousun12 on Jan 21, 2019 \| 17 comments
28.		Best Display for Programming? (2017) (hackernoon.com)
		142 points by kristianp on Jan 21, 2019 \| 197 comments
29.		Idea that some species have stopped evolving is finally going extinct (2015) (nautil.us)
		59 points by dnetesn on Jan 20, 2019 \| 25 comments
30.		Schumpeter on Strategy (reactionwheel.net)
		101 points by imartin2k on Jan 21, 2019 \| 4 comments
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