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1.		Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (2008) (joelonsoftware.com)
		128 points by diziet 3 hours ago \| hide \| 38 comments
2.		Why Do Tourists Visit Ancient Ruins Everywhere Except the United States? (priceonomics.com)
		44 points by ryan_j_naughton 1 hour ago \| hide \| 37 comments
3.		Cap’n Proto (capnproto.org)
		244 points by bleakgadfly 5 hours ago \| hide \| 66 comments
4.		How to teach computational thinking (backchannel.com)
		25 points by deepakkarki 1 hour ago \| hide \| 1 comment
5.		The Falling Man (esquire.com)
		60 points by kareemm 3 hours ago \| hide \| 10 comments
6.		Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (justice.gov)
		34 points by cinquemb 3 hours ago \| hide \| 8 comments
7.		How Pittsburgh Became Uber’s Driverless Testing Ground (nytimes.com)
		47 points by sethbannon 4 hours ago \| hide \| 22 comments
8.		A star that has plutonium in its spectra (wikipedia.org)
		21 points by sgt101 2 hours ago \| hide \| 1 comment
9.		How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly (downes.ca)
		336 points by bemmu 12 hours ago \| hide \| 57 comments
10.		The biggest surprises from living in a simulated Martian habitat for a full year (newatlas.com)
		23 points by curtis 3 hours ago \| hide \| 4 comments
11.		When Will New York City Sink? (nymag.com)
		14 points by prostoalex 2 hours ago \| hide \| 5 comments
12.		22nd Century C (procedural.github.io)
		29 points by Procedural 3 hours ago \| hide \| 10 comments
13.		The battle between Tesla and your neighborhood car dealership (washingtonpost.com)
		13 points by eplanit 3 hours ago \| hide \| 6 comments
14.		The Painstaking, Secretive Process of Designing New Money (fastcodesign.com)
		27 points by lnguyen 3 hours ago \| hide \| 4 comments
15.		DebianDog – A small Debian Live CD (debiandog.github.io)
		47 points by dragonbonheur 6 hours ago \| hide \| 20 comments
16.		How to Become a C.E.O.? The Quickest Path Is a Winding One (nytimes.com)
		97 points by hvo 9 hours ago \| hide \| 57 comments
17.		FlyWeb – Pure Web Cross-Device Interaction (mozilla.org)
		103 points by siavosh 10 hours ago \| hide \| 22 comments
18.		HTSQL – A comprehensive navigational query language for relational databases (htsql.org)
		35 points by networked 6 hours ago \| hide \| 4 comments
19.		Newly Discovered Optical Vortex Was Never Noticed Before (aps.org)
		11 points by jwfxpr 3 hours ago \| hide \| 1 comment
20.		Six big economic ideas [pdf] (economist.com)
		192 points by denzil_correa 14 hours ago \| hide \| 50 comments
21.		Ants are destroying plants by nurturing perfect aphid colonies (arstechnica.com)
		61 points by em3rgent0rdr 9 hours ago \| hide \| 16 comments
22.		What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea (2015) (nytimes.com)
		22 points by tmlee 4 hours ago \| hide \| 1 comment
23.		Owl Lisp – A purely functional Scheme that compiles to C (github.com)
		126 points by rcarmo 12 hours ago \| hide \| 43 comments
24.		22-year British student invents a mobile fridge that could save many lives (bbc.co.uk)
		35 points by denzil_correa 6 hours ago \| hide \| 25 comments
25.		Read Scheme – Resources for Functional Programming (readscheme.org)
		29 points by michaelsbradley 7 hours ago \| hide \| 3 comments
26.		In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999) (inria.fr)
		111 points by ohjeez 12 hours ago \| hide \| 40 comments
27.		How to Organize the Largest US Prison Strike Ever from Inside Prison (wired.com)
		102 points by ashitlerferad 14 hours ago \| hide \| 47 comments
28.		Formidable Playbook: A practical guide to building modern applications (formidable.com)
		3 points by yugoja 1 hour ago \| hide \| discuss
29.		One-bit Computing at 60 Hertz (laughtonelectronics.com)
		96 points by 6502nerdface 11 hours ago \| hide \| 12 comments
30.		Why Writing Correct Software Is Hard and Why Math (Alone) Won’t Help Us [video] (youtube.com)
		71 points by DanielRibeiro 11 hours ago \| hide \| 17 comments
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