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1.		Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (2008) (joelonsoftware.com)
		209 points by diziet 7 hours ago \| hide \| 94 comments
2.		Cap’n Proto (capnproto.org)
		332 points by bleakgadfly 9 hours ago \| hide \| 88 comments
3.		Why Do Tourists Visit Ancient Ruins Everywhere Except the United States? (priceonomics.com)
		110 points by ryan_j_naughton 5 hours ago \| hide \| 98 comments
4.		How to teach computational thinking (backchannel.com)
		60 points by deepakkarki 5 hours ago \| hide \| 13 comments
5.		Why I’m giving my company Election Day off (techcrunch.com)
		20 points by _nh_ 3 hours ago \| hide \| 18 comments
6.		Videos of Evolution in Action (theatlantic.com)
		38 points by tim_sw 4 hours ago \| hide \| 5 comments
7.		The Falling Man (esquire.com)
		93 points by kareemm 7 hours ago \| hide \| 19 comments
8.		How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly (downes.ca)
		383 points by bemmu 16 hours ago \| hide \| 60 comments
9.		22nd Century C (procedural.github.io)
		71 points by Procedural 7 hours ago \| hide \| 33 comments
10.		The biggest surprises from living in a simulated Martian habitat for a full year (newatlas.com)
		48 points by curtis 7 hours ago \| hide \| 11 comments
11.		A star that has plutonium in its spectra (wikipedia.org)
		56 points by sgt101 6 hours ago \| hide \| 15 comments
12.		Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (justice.gov)
		49 points by cinquemb 7 hours ago \| hide \| 13 comments
13.		When Will New York City Sink? (nymag.com)
		36 points by prostoalex 6 hours ago \| hide \| 13 comments
14.		Formidable Playbook: A practical guide to building modern applications (formidable.com)
		22 points by yugoja 5 hours ago \| hide \| 5 comments
15.		The Painstaking, Secretive Process of Designing New Money (fastcodesign.com)
		42 points by lnguyen 7 hours ago \| hide \| 10 comments
16.		How Pittsburgh Became Uber’s Driverless Testing Ground (nytimes.com)
		55 points by sethbannon 8 hours ago \| hide \| 33 comments
17.		The battle between Tesla and your neighborhood car dealership (washingtonpost.com)
		27 points by eplanit 7 hours ago \| hide \| 19 comments
18.		DebianDog – A small Debian Live CD (debiandog.github.io)
		57 points by dragonbonheur 10 hours ago \| hide \| 26 comments
19.		How to Become a C.E.O.? The Quickest Path Is a Winding One (nytimes.com)
		114 points by hvo 13 hours ago \| hide \| 61 comments
20.		Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (2005) (randomhacks.net)
		120 points by behnamoh 12 hours ago \| hide \| 86 comments
21.		What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea (2015) (nytimes.com)
		44 points by tmlee 8 hours ago \| hide \| 5 comments
22.		HTSQL – A comprehensive navigational query language for relational databases (htsql.org)
		54 points by networked 10 hours ago \| hide \| 10 comments
23.		Newly Discovered Optical Vortex Was Never Noticed Before (aps.org)
		21 points by jwfxpr 7 hours ago \| hide \| 4 comments
24.		Six big economic ideas [pdf] (economist.com)
		201 points by denzil_correa 18 hours ago \| hide \| 50 comments
25.		FlyWeb – Pure Web Cross-Device Interaction (mozilla.org)
		119 points by siavosh 14 hours ago \| hide \| 24 comments
26.		Read Scheme – Resources for Functional Programming (readscheme.org)
		47 points by michaelsbradley 11 hours ago \| hide \| 3 comments
27.		Ants are destroying plants by nurturing perfect aphid colonies (arstechnica.com)
		69 points by em3rgent0rdr 13 hours ago \| hide \| 18 comments
28.		22-year British student invents a mobile fridge that could save many lives (bbc.co.uk)
		45 points by denzil_correa 10 hours ago \| hide \| 27 comments
29.		In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999) (inria.fr)
		124 points by ohjeez 16 hours ago \| hide \| 43 comments
30.		Owl Lisp – A purely functional Scheme that compiles to C (github.com)
		133 points by rcarmo 16 hours ago \| hide \| 43 comments
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