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1.		Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (2008) (joelonsoftware.com)
		107 points by diziet 2 hours ago \| hide \| 27 comments
2.		Cap’n Proto (capnproto.org)
		225 points by bleakgadfly 4 hours ago \| hide \| 55 comments
3.		Why Do Tourists Visit Ancient Ruins Everywhere Except the United States? (priceonomics.com)
		17 points by ryan_j_naughton 48 minutes ago \| hide \| 7 comments
4.		The Falling Man (esquire.com)
		49 points by kareemm 2 hours ago \| hide \| 3 comments
5.		How to teach computational thinking (backchannel.com)
		10 points by deepakkarki 45 minutes ago \| hide \| discuss
6.		Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (justice.gov)
		25 points by cinquemb 2 hours ago \| hide \| 5 comments
7.		How Pittsburgh Became Uber’s Driverless Testing Ground (nytimes.com)
		36 points by sethbannon 3 hours ago \| hide \| 19 comments
8.		When Will New York City Sink? (nymag.com)
		9 points by prostoalex 1 hour ago \| hide \| discuss
9.		How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly (downes.ca)
		324 points by bemmu 11 hours ago \| hide \| 57 comments
10.		The Painstaking, Secretive Process of Designing New Money (fastcodesign.com)
		21 points by lnguyen 2 hours ago \| hide \| 2 comments
11.		22nd Century C (procedural.github.io)
		22 points by Procedural 2 hours ago \| hide \| 5 comments
12.		The biggest surprises from living in a simulated Martian habitat for a full year (newatlas.com)
		16 points by curtis 2 hours ago \| hide \| 1 comment
13.		A star that has plutonium in its spectra (wikipedia.org)
		9 points by sgt101 1 hour ago \| hide \| discuss
14.		DebianDog – A small Debian Live CD (debiandog.github.io)
		43 points by dragonbonheur 5 hours ago \| hide \| 18 comments
15.		The battle between Tesla and your neighborhood car dealership (washingtonpost.com)
		8 points by eplanit 2 hours ago \| hide \| 2 comments
16.		How to Become a C.E.O.? The Quickest Path Is a Winding One (nytimes.com)
		95 points by hvo 8 hours ago \| hide \| 53 comments
17.		FlyWeb – Pure Web Cross-Device Interaction (mozilla.org)
		100 points by siavosh 9 hours ago \| hide \| 19 comments
18.		22-year British student invents a mobile fridge that could save many lives (bbc.co.uk)
		34 points by denzil_correa 5 hours ago \| hide \| 25 comments
19.		Six big economic ideas [pdf] (economist.com)
		186 points by denzil_correa 13 hours ago \| hide \| 50 comments
20.		Ants are destroying plants by nurturing perfect aphid colonies (arstechnica.com)
		58 points by em3rgent0rdr 8 hours ago \| hide \| 16 comments
21.		Owl Lisp – A purely functional Scheme that compiles to C (github.com)
		123 points by rcarmo 11 hours ago \| hide \| 42 comments
22.		HTSQL – A comprehensive navigational query language for relational databases (htsql.org)
		28 points by networked 5 hours ago \| hide \| 3 comments
23.		Newly Discovered Optical Vortex Was Never Noticed Before (aps.org)
		8 points by jwfxpr 2 hours ago \| hide \| 1 comment
24.		Read Scheme – Resources for Functional Programming (readscheme.org)
		26 points by michaelsbradley 6 hours ago \| hide \| 3 comments
25.		How to Organize the Largest US Prison Strike Ever from Inside Prison (wired.com)
		102 points by ashitlerferad 13 hours ago \| hide \| 47 comments
26.		In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999) (inria.fr)
		106 points by ohjeez 11 hours ago \| hide \| 40 comments
27.		One-bit Computing at 60 Hertz (laughtonelectronics.com)
		94 points by 6502nerdface 10 hours ago \| hide \| 12 comments
28.		What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea (2015) (nytimes.com)
		17 points by tmlee 3 hours ago \| hide \| discuss
29.		Why Writing Correct Software Is Hard and Why Math (Alone) Won’t Help Us [video] (youtube.com)
		65 points by DanielRibeiro 10 hours ago \| hide \| 14 comments
30.		Fortress of Tedium: What I Learned as a Substitute Teacher (nytimes.com)
		67 points by sperant 10 hours ago \| hide \| 16 comments
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