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1.		I found two identical packs of Skittles among 468 packs (possiblywrong.wordpress.com)
		826 points by bookofjoe on April 17, 2019 \| 207 comments
2.		First Japan-Built Airliner in 50 Years Takes on Boeing and Airbus (bloomberg.com)
		406 points by pseudolus on April 18, 2019 \| 112 comments
3.		How the Boeing 737 Max disaster looks to a software Developer (ieee.org)
		528 points by pross356 on April 18, 2019 \| 298 comments
4.		Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent (businessinsider.com)
		525 points by starmftronajoll on April 18, 2019 \| 297 comments
5.		The Healing Power of Gardens (nytimes.com)
		349 points by dgam on April 18, 2019 \| 112 comments
6.		Tolkien was right: Scholars conclude Beowulf likely the work of single author (arstechnica.com)
		301 points by Tomte on April 17, 2019 \| 93 comments
7.		Keeping master green at scale (uber.com)
		301 points by roshanj on April 18, 2019 \| 115 comments
8.		Super Mario Bros. has been released for the Commodore 64 (lemon64.com)
		360 points by muterad_murilax on April 18, 2019 \| 124 comments
9.		Advanced NLP with SpaCy (spacy.io)
		357 points by jonbaer on April 18, 2019 \| 36 comments
10.		Lemmy: Federated Alternative to Reddit in Rust (github.com/dessalines)
		319 points by adamnemecek on April 17, 2019 \| 99 comments
11.		AES-GCM-SIV: Nonce Misuse-Resistant Authenticated Encryption (ietf.org)
		120 points by conductor on April 18, 2019 \| 48 comments
12.		Bling Fire: Finite state machine and regular expression manipulation library (github.com/microsoft)
		301 points by catam on April 18, 2019 \| 65 comments
13.		Optimizing M3: Halving Our Metrics Ingestion Latency by Forking the Go Compiler (uber.com)
		206 points by roskilli on April 18, 2019 \| 67 comments
14.		IBM halting sales of Watson AI tool for drug discovery (statnews.com)
		257 points by hprotagonist on April 18, 2019 \| 169 comments
15.		A Cult Japanese Retailer Making Billions Breaking All the Rules (bloomberg.com)
		187 points by pseudolus on April 17, 2019 \| 140 comments
16.		A physics master’s degree opens doors to myriad careers (scitation.org)
		169 points by digital55 on April 18, 2019 \| 162 comments
17.		Once it was easy to be obscure, but technology has ended that (nytimes.com)
		240 points by tysone on April 17, 2019 \| 190 comments
18.		Ask HN: Machine learning resources for audio processing
		252 points by samrohn on April 17, 2019 \| 26 comments
19.		Recursive Drawing (mandalagaba.com)
		184 points by Liriel on April 17, 2019 \| 36 comments
20.		Engineers create ‘lifelike’ material with artificial metabolism (cornell.edu)
		147 points by r4um on April 17, 2019 \| 51 comments
21.		God's Number Is 20 (2010) (cube20.org)
		152 points by weinzierl on April 17, 2019 \| 83 comments
22.		The Parker “51” (2018) (richardspens.com)
		78 points by astdb on April 18, 2019 \| 70 comments
23.		Wipro Intruders Targeted Other Major IT Firms (krebsonsecurity.com)
		75 points by valiant-comma on April 18, 2019 \| 7 comments
24.		Donald E. Knuth: An Oral History (2018) [video] (stanford.edu)
		173 points by bsilvereagle on April 18, 2019 \| 20 comments
25.		Anarchists Who Took the Commuter Train (longreads.com)
		107 points by iron0013 on April 17, 2019 \| 41 comments
26.		‘Our Lying Eyes’: Inaccurate eyewitness identifications and wrongful convictions (nybooks.com)
		74 points by hhs on April 18, 2019 \| 36 comments
27.		Canada Group Sues Government over Google's Sidewalk Labs (bbc.com)
		117 points by colinprince on April 18, 2019 \| 65 comments
28.		Lessons from the Long Depression (coppolacomment.com)
		106 points by jajag on April 17, 2019 \| 56 comments
29.		Modern Clowning in Los Angeles (dorsia.io)
		63 points by aarmenante on April 18, 2019 \| 9 comments
30.		Lexical Distance Among Languages of Europe (2015) (alternativetransport.wordpress.com)
		84 points by lelf on April 16, 2019 \| 39 comments
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