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1.		Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (2008) (joelonsoftware.com)
		227 points by diziet 8 hours ago \| hide \| 111 comments
2.		Cap’n Proto (capnproto.org)
		350 points by bleakgadfly 10 hours ago \| hide \| 89 comments
3.		Why I’m giving my company Election Day off (techcrunch.com)
		28 points by _nh_ 4 hours ago \| hide \| 30 comments
4.		How to teach computational thinking (backchannel.com)
		69 points by deepakkarki 6 hours ago \| hide \| 16 comments
5.		Why Do Tourists Visit Ancient Ruins Everywhere Except the United States? (priceonomics.com)
		123 points by ryan_j_naughton 6 hours ago \| hide \| 109 comments
6.		Videos of Evolution in Action (theatlantic.com)
		45 points by tim_sw 5 hours ago \| hide \| 8 comments
7.		How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly (downes.ca)
		394 points by bemmu 17 hours ago \| hide \| 61 comments
8.		The Falling Man (esquire.com)
		97 points by kareemm 8 hours ago \| hide \| 22 comments
9.		22nd Century C (procedural.github.io)
		81 points by Procedural 8 hours ago \| hide \| 39 comments
10.		Rethink How to Pitch a VC. From Mark Susters’ Posts Series (medium.com)
		3 points by gtabx 48 minutes ago \| hide \| 1 comment
11.		A star that has plutonium in its spectra (wikipedia.org)
		63 points by sgt101 7 hours ago \| hide \| 17 comments
12.		The biggest surprises from living in a simulated Martian habitat for a full year (newatlas.com)
		51 points by curtis 8 hours ago \| hide \| 16 comments
13.		Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (justice.gov)
		53 points by cinquemb 8 hours ago \| hide \| 13 comments
14.		When Will New York City Sink? (nymag.com)
		42 points by prostoalex 7 hours ago \| hide \| 17 comments
15.		Formidable Playbook: A practical guide to building modern applications (formidable.com)
		25 points by yugoja 6 hours ago \| hide \| 5 comments
16.		The Painstaking, Secretive Process of Designing New Money (fastcodesign.com)
		44 points by lnguyen 8 hours ago \| hide \| 13 comments
17.		How Pittsburgh Became Uber’s Driverless Testing Ground (nytimes.com)
		57 points by sethbannon 9 hours ago \| hide \| 33 comments
18.		The battle between Tesla and your neighborhood car dealership (washingtonpost.com)
		29 points by eplanit 8 hours ago \| hide \| 19 comments
19.		How to Become a C.E.O.? The Quickest Path Is a Winding One (nytimes.com)
		117 points by hvo 14 hours ago \| hide \| 61 comments
20.		Newly Discovered Optical Vortex Was Never Noticed Before (aps.org)
		26 points by jwfxpr 8 hours ago \| hide \| 5 comments
21.		DebianDog – A small Debian Live CD (debiandog.github.io)
		58 points by dragonbonheur 11 hours ago \| hide \| 27 comments
22.		Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (2005) (randomhacks.net)
		123 points by behnamoh 13 hours ago \| hide \| 88 comments
23.		What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea (2015) (nytimes.com)
		48 points by tmlee 10 hours ago \| hide \| 6 comments
24.		Six big economic ideas [pdf] (economist.com)
		204 points by denzil_correa 19 hours ago \| hide \| 50 comments
25.		FlyWeb – Pure Web Cross-Device Interaction (mozilla.org)
		122 points by siavosh 15 hours ago \| hide \| 25 comments
26.		HTSQL – A comprehensive navigational query language for relational databases (htsql.org)
		56 points by networked 11 hours ago \| hide \| 12 comments
27.		Read Scheme – Resources for Functional Programming (readscheme.org)
		50 points by michaelsbradley 12 hours ago \| hide \| 3 comments
28.		Ants are destroying plants by nurturing perfect aphid colonies (arstechnica.com)
		71 points by em3rgent0rdr 14 hours ago \| hide \| 18 comments
29.		In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999) (inria.fr)
		129 points by ohjeez 17 hours ago \| hide \| 43 comments
30.		22-year British student invents a mobile fridge that could save many lives (bbc.co.uk)
		46 points by denzil_correa 11 hours ago \| hide \| 27 comments
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