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1.		Post-surgical deaths in Scotland drop by a third, attributed to a checklist (bbc.co.uk)
		1036 points by fanf2 on April 17, 2019 \| 366 comments
2.		Popular Google Play store apps are abusing permissions and committing ad fraud (buzzfeednews.com)
		388 points by mzs on April 17, 2019 \| 173 comments
3.		Intel Exiting 5G Modems (intel.com)
		404 points by ItsTotallyOn on April 17, 2019 \| 216 comments
4.		Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis (matthewrayfield.com)
		747 points by bemmu on April 17, 2019 \| 165 comments
5.		Microsoft turned down facial-recognition sales on human rights concerns (reuters.com)
		461 points by dredmorbius on April 17, 2019 \| 111 comments
6.		Let’s Encrypt to transition to ISRG root (scotthelme.co.uk)
		342 points by trygvis on April 17, 2019 \| 110 comments
7.		Fluent 1.0: a localization system for natural-sounding translations (hacks.mozilla.org)
		319 points by feross on April 17, 2019 \| 115 comments
8.		Meshroom: Open Source 3D Reconstruction Software (2018) [video] (alicevision.github.io)
		262 points by hereiskkb on April 17, 2019 \| 39 comments
9.		A Chicago woman fell victim to Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus (nytimes.com)
		203 points by dredmorbius on April 17, 2019 \| 98 comments
10.		Facebook shareholders are getting fed up with Zuckerberg but can’t do anything (latimes.com)
		272 points by smsm42 on April 17, 2019 \| 210 comments
11.		‘Bubble Boys’ Cured in Medical Breakthrough Using Gene Therapy (bloomberg.com)
		243 points by mzs on April 17, 2019 \| 31 comments
12.		Panic’s Next Editor (panic.com)
		332 points by whalesalad on April 16, 2019 \| 230 comments
13.		Planet’s ocean-plastics problem detailed in 60-year data set (nature.com)
		171 points by sunraa on April 17, 2019 \| 44 comments
14.		Employee Wellness Programs Yield Little Benefit, Study Shows (nytimes.com)
		150 points by mlthoughts2018 on April 16, 2019 \| 120 comments
15.		Life of Brian at 40: an assertion of individual freedom that still resonates (theconversation.com)
		253 points by sohkamyung on April 16, 2019 \| 206 comments
16.		How Not to Acknowledge a Data Breach (krebsonsecurity.com)
		184 points by hsnewman on April 17, 2019 \| 50 comments
17.		Zstandard v1.4.0 (github.com/facebook)
		158 points by terrelln on April 16, 2019 \| 67 comments
18.		The Art of Research – A History by Vi Hart (theartofresearch.org)
		165 points by anonymfus on April 16, 2019 \| 17 comments
19.		AMP pages displaying your own domain (googleblog.com)
		200 points by dfabulich on April 17, 2019 \| 325 comments
20.		Google OAuth Login Issues (cloud.google.com)
		118 points by derwiki on April 17, 2019 \| 35 comments
21.		Adventures in reverse engineering Broadcom NIC firmware (devever.net)
		168 points by jandeboevrie on April 17, 2019 \| 34 comments
22.		Kalman and Bayesian Filters in Python (2018) (github.com/rlabbe)
		234 points by r0f1 on April 16, 2019 \| 12 comments
23.		How the quantum search algorithm works (quantum.country)
		152 points by p1esk on April 17, 2019 \| 17 comments
24.		Should I Resign from My Full Professor Job to Work Fulltime on Cocalc? (sagemath.com)
		250 points by occamschainsaw on April 17, 2019 \| 151 comments
25.		Graphical Introduction to Dynamic Programming (avikdas.com)
		210 points by adamnemecek on April 17, 2019 \| 11 comments
26.		Obfuscated Erlang (2012) (ferd.ca)
		87 points by QuinnWilton on April 17, 2019 \| 14 comments
27.		Tinfoil Chat – Onion-routed, endpoint secure messaging system (github.com/maqp)
		144 points by schlowmo on April 17, 2019 \| 30 comments
28.		Godot Engine – Announcing the Godot 2019 Showreel (godotengine.org)
		175 points by makepanic on April 16, 2019 \| 30 comments
29.		Stripe Acquires Touchtech (techcrunch.com)
		148 points by middle1 on April 17, 2019 \| 43 comments
30.		How does a relational database work? (2017) (coding-geek.com)
		198 points by PeterZaitsev on April 16, 2019 \| 26 comments
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