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1.		Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (2008) (joelonsoftware.com)
		191 points by diziet 6 hours ago \| hide \| 78 comments
2.		Cap’n Proto (capnproto.org)
		305 points by bleakgadfly 8 hours ago \| hide \| 87 comments
3.		How to teach computational thinking (backchannel.com)
		50 points by deepakkarki 4 hours ago \| hide \| 12 comments
4.		Why Do Tourists Visit Ancient Ruins Everywhere Except the United States? (priceonomics.com)
		93 points by ryan_j_naughton 4 hours ago \| hide \| 92 comments
5.		The Falling Man (esquire.com)
		87 points by kareemm 6 hours ago \| hide \| 17 comments
6.		Videos of Evolution in Action (theatlantic.com)
		27 points by tim_sw 3 hours ago \| hide \| 3 comments
7.		22nd Century C (procedural.github.io)
		61 points by Procedural 6 hours ago \| hide \| 27 comments
8.		How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly (downes.ca)
		372 points by bemmu 15 hours ago \| hide \| 59 comments
9.		A star that has plutonium in its spectra (wikipedia.org)
		50 points by sgt101 5 hours ago \| hide \| 10 comments
10.		Why I’m giving my company Election Day off (techcrunch.com)
		10 points by _nh_ 2 hours ago \| hide \| 2 comments
11.		Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (justice.gov)
		47 points by cinquemb 6 hours ago \| hide \| 11 comments
12.		The biggest surprises from living in a simulated Martian habitat for a full year (newatlas.com)
		43 points by curtis 6 hours ago \| hide \| 8 comments
13.		When Will New York City Sink? (nymag.com)
		31 points by prostoalex 5 hours ago \| hide \| 8 comments
14.		How Pittsburgh Became Uber’s Driverless Testing Ground (nytimes.com)
		55 points by sethbannon 7 hours ago \| hide \| 32 comments
15.		The battle between Tesla and your neighborhood car dealership (washingtonpost.com)
		25 points by eplanit 6 hours ago \| hide \| 17 comments
16.		The Painstaking, Secretive Process of Designing New Money (fastcodesign.com)
		38 points by lnguyen 6 hours ago \| hide \| 10 comments
17.		Formidable Playbook: A practical guide to building modern applications (formidable.com)
		16 points by yugoja 4 hours ago \| hide \| 4 comments
18.		DebianDog – A small Debian Live CD (debiandog.github.io)
		55 points by dragonbonheur 9 hours ago \| hide \| 23 comments
19.		Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (2005) (randomhacks.net)
		119 points by behnamoh 11 hours ago \| hide \| 85 comments
20.		How to Become a C.E.O.? The Quickest Path Is a Winding One (nytimes.com)
		110 points by hvo 12 hours ago \| hide \| 61 comments
21.		Newly Discovered Optical Vortex Was Never Noticed Before (aps.org)
		20 points by jwfxpr 6 hours ago \| hide \| 2 comments
22.		HTSQL – A comprehensive navigational query language for relational databases (htsql.org)
		52 points by networked 9 hours ago \| hide \| 9 comments
23.		What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea (2015) (nytimes.com)
		39 points by tmlee 7 hours ago \| hide \| 4 comments
24.		Six big economic ideas [pdf] (economist.com)
		199 points by denzil_correa 17 hours ago \| hide \| 50 comments
25.		FlyWeb – Pure Web Cross-Device Interaction (mozilla.org)
		116 points by siavosh 13 hours ago \| hide \| 23 comments
26.		Ants are destroying plants by nurturing perfect aphid colonies (arstechnica.com)
		67 points by em3rgent0rdr 12 hours ago \| hide \| 18 comments
27.		Read Scheme – Resources for Functional Programming (readscheme.org)
		41 points by michaelsbradley 10 hours ago \| hide \| 3 comments
28.		22-year British student invents a mobile fridge that could save many lives (bbc.co.uk)
		44 points by denzil_correa 9 hours ago \| hide \| 27 comments
29.		In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999) (inria.fr)
		118 points by ohjeez 15 hours ago \| hide \| 41 comments
30.		Owl Lisp – A purely functional Scheme that compiles to C (github.com)
		131 points by rcarmo 15 hours ago \| hide \| 43 comments
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