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1.		Why Do Tourists Visit Ancient Ruins Everywhere Except the United States? (priceonomics.com)
		65 points by ryan_j_naughton 2 hours ago \| hide \| 55 comments
2.		Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (2008) (joelonsoftware.com)
		154 points by diziet 4 hours ago \| hide \| 44 comments
3.		Cap’n Proto (capnproto.org)
		263 points by bleakgadfly 6 hours ago \| hide \| 81 comments
4.		How to teach computational thinking (backchannel.com)
		36 points by deepakkarki 2 hours ago \| hide \| 5 comments
5.		The Falling Man (esquire.com)
		70 points by kareemm 4 hours ago \| hide \| 14 comments
6.		A star that has plutonium in its spectra (wikipedia.org)
		40 points by sgt101 3 hours ago \| hide \| 1 comment
7.		Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (justice.gov)
		43 points by cinquemb 4 hours ago \| hide \| 8 comments
8.		How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly (downes.ca)
		346 points by bemmu 13 hours ago \| hide \| 57 comments
9.		22nd Century C (procedural.github.io)
		42 points by Procedural 4 hours ago \| hide \| 14 comments
10.		How Pittsburgh Became Uber’s Driverless Testing Ground (nytimes.com)
		49 points by sethbannon 5 hours ago \| hide \| 28 comments
11.		The biggest surprises from living in a simulated Martian habitat for a full year (newatlas.com)
		30 points by curtis 4 hours ago \| hide \| 4 comments
12.		When Will New York City Sink? (nymag.com)
		21 points by prostoalex 3 hours ago \| hide \| 5 comments
13.		The battle between Tesla and your neighborhood car dealership (washingtonpost.com)
		21 points by eplanit 4 hours ago \| hide \| 9 comments
14.		Videos of Evolution in Action (theatlantic.com)
		7 points by tim_sw 1 hour ago \| hide \| discuss
15.		The Painstaking, Secretive Process of Designing New Money (fastcodesign.com)
		32 points by lnguyen 4 hours ago \| hide \| 7 comments
16.		DebianDog – A small Debian Live CD (debiandog.github.io)
		49 points by dragonbonheur 7 hours ago \| hide \| 20 comments
17.		Newly Discovered Optical Vortex Was Never Noticed Before (aps.org)
		18 points by jwfxpr 4 hours ago \| hide \| 2 comments
18.		Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (2005) (randomhacks.net)
		113 points by behnamoh 9 hours ago \| hide \| 82 comments
19.		How to Become a C.E.O.? The Quickest Path Is a Winding One (nytimes.com)
		103 points by hvo 10 hours ago \| hide \| 59 comments
20.		What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea (2015) (nytimes.com)
		29 points by tmlee 6 hours ago \| hide \| 2 comments
21.		FlyWeb – Pure Web Cross-Device Interaction (mozilla.org)
		106 points by siavosh 11 hours ago \| hide \| 22 comments
22.		HTSQL – A comprehensive navigational query language for relational databases (htsql.org)
		42 points by networked 7 hours ago \| hide \| 6 comments
23.		Six big economic ideas [pdf] (economist.com)
		195 points by denzil_correa 15 hours ago \| hide \| 50 comments
24.		Ants are destroying plants by nurturing perfect aphid colonies (arstechnica.com)
		65 points by em3rgent0rdr 10 hours ago \| hide \| 18 comments
25.		Read Scheme – Resources for Functional Programming (readscheme.org)
		35 points by michaelsbradley 8 hours ago \| hide \| 3 comments
26.		Owl Lisp – A purely functional Scheme that compiles to C (github.com)
		126 points by rcarmo 13 hours ago \| hide \| 43 comments
27.		In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999) (inria.fr)
		114 points by ohjeez 13 hours ago \| hide \| 41 comments
28.		22-year British student invents a mobile fridge that could save many lives (bbc.co.uk)
		37 points by denzil_correa 7 hours ago \| hide \| 26 comments
29.		One-bit Computing at 60 Hertz (laughtonelectronics.com)
		100 points by 6502nerdface 13 hours ago \| hide \| 13 comments
30.		How to Organize the Largest US Prison Strike Ever from Inside Prison (wired.com)
		102 points by ashitlerferad 15 hours ago \| hide \| 47 comments
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