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1.		Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (2008) (joelonsoftware.com)
		171 points by diziet 5 hours ago \| hide \| 67 comments
2.		Cap’n Proto (capnproto.org)
		287 points by bleakgadfly 7 hours ago \| hide \| 86 comments
3.		How to teach computational thinking (backchannel.com)
		40 points by deepakkarki 3 hours ago \| hide \| 10 comments
4.		Why Do Tourists Visit Ancient Ruins Everywhere Except the United States? (priceonomics.com)
		77 points by ryan_j_naughton 3 hours ago \| hide \| 78 comments
5.		The Falling Man (esquire.com)
		79 points by kareemm 5 hours ago \| hide \| 16 comments
6.		A star that has plutonium in its spectra (wikipedia.org)
		45 points by sgt101 4 hours ago \| hide \| 4 comments
7.		Videos of Evolution in Action (theatlantic.com)
		16 points by tim_sw 2 hours ago \| hide \| 2 comments
8.		Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (justice.gov)
		47 points by cinquemb 5 hours ago \| hide \| 10 comments
9.		How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly (downes.ca)
		360 points by bemmu 14 hours ago \| hide \| 57 comments
10.		22nd Century C (procedural.github.io)
		53 points by Procedural 5 hours ago \| hide \| 19 comments
11.		How Pittsburgh Became Uber’s Driverless Testing Ground (nytimes.com)
		55 points by sethbannon 6 hours ago \| hide \| 31 comments
12.		The biggest surprises from living in a simulated Martian habitat for a full year (newatlas.com)
		37 points by curtis 5 hours ago \| hide \| 5 comments
13.		When Will New York City Sink? (nymag.com)
		26 points by prostoalex 4 hours ago \| hide \| 7 comments
14.		The battle between Tesla and your neighborhood car dealership (washingtonpost.com)
		24 points by eplanit 5 hours ago \| hide \| 15 comments
15.		The Painstaking, Secretive Process of Designing New Money (fastcodesign.com)
		34 points by lnguyen 5 hours ago \| hide \| 10 comments
16.		DebianDog – A small Debian Live CD (debiandog.github.io)
		54 points by dragonbonheur 8 hours ago \| hide \| 22 comments
17.		Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (2005) (randomhacks.net)
		118 points by behnamoh 10 hours ago \| hide \| 85 comments
18.		Newly Discovered Optical Vortex Was Never Noticed Before (aps.org)
		19 points by jwfxpr 5 hours ago \| hide \| 2 comments
19.		How to Become a C.E.O.? The Quickest Path Is a Winding One (nytimes.com)
		106 points by hvo 11 hours ago \| hide \| 60 comments
20.		What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea (2015) (nytimes.com)
		35 points by tmlee 6 hours ago \| hide \| 3 comments
21.		HTSQL – A comprehensive navigational query language for relational databases (htsql.org)
		47 points by networked 8 hours ago \| hide \| 7 comments
22.		Formidable Playbook: A practical guide to building modern applications (formidable.com)
		11 points by yugoja 3 hours ago \| hide \| 2 comments
23.		Six big economic ideas [pdf] (economist.com)
		198 points by denzil_correa 16 hours ago \| hide \| 50 comments
24.		FlyWeb – Pure Web Cross-Device Interaction (mozilla.org)
		114 points by siavosh 12 hours ago \| hide \| 22 comments
25.		Ants are destroying plants by nurturing perfect aphid colonies (arstechnica.com)
		67 points by em3rgent0rdr 11 hours ago \| hide \| 18 comments
26.		Read Scheme – Resources for Functional Programming (readscheme.org)
		39 points by michaelsbradley 9 hours ago \| hide \| 3 comments
27.		22-year British student invents a mobile fridge that could save many lives (bbc.co.uk)
		41 points by denzil_correa 8 hours ago \| hide \| 26 comments
28.		In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999) (inria.fr)
		116 points by ohjeez 14 hours ago \| hide \| 41 comments
29.		Owl Lisp – A purely functional Scheme that compiles to C (github.com)
		130 points by rcarmo 14 hours ago \| hide \| 43 comments
30.		One-bit Computing at 60 Hertz (laughtonelectronics.com)
		101 points by 6502nerdface 13 hours ago \| hide \| 13 comments
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