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1.		What is Nix and why you should try it (branchable.com)
		141 points by vletrmx 2 hours ago \| hide \| 58 comments
2.		Why physicists still use Fortran (moreisdifferent.com)
		190 points by dralley 5 hours ago \| hide \| 152 comments
3.		The trouble with text-only email (lwn.net)
		28 points by corbet 2 hours ago \| hide \| 14 comments
4.		Switching from Common Lisp to Julia (tpapp.github.io)
		53 points by fanf2 3 hours ago \| hide \| 13 comments
5.		Uber and Lyft have reduced mass transit use and added traffic in major cities (planetizen.com)
		287 points by WisNorCan 3 hours ago \| hide \| 245 comments
6.		As the 747 Begins Its Final Approach, a Pilot Takes a Flight Down Memory Lane (nytimes.com)
		50 points by danso 2 hours ago \| hide \| 36 comments
7.		Predicting, Decrypting, and Abusing WPA2/802.11 Group Keys [pdf] (usenix.org)
		26 points by hadronzoo 1 hour ago \| hide \| 1 comment
8.		GNU UPC (gccupc.org)
		3 points by rayascott 4 minutes ago \| hide \| discuss
9.		US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to consumer telephone data (medium.com)
		858 points by benaadams 6 hours ago \| hide \| 217 comments
10.		Genes for Skin Color Rebut Dated Notions of Race, Researchers Say (nytimes.com)
		19 points by digital55 1 hour ago \| hide \| 4 comments
11.		Making the Case for Feature-Rich Memory Systems (2016) [pdf] (utah.edu)
		17 points by ingve 3 hours ago \| hide \| 2 comments
12.		Unbalanced reads from SSDs in software RAID mirrors in Linux (utoronto.ca)
		77 points by zdw 5 hours ago \| hide \| 32 comments
13.		Show HN: UnderExpress – A free, ready to use website UI kit for hustlers (underexpress.com)
		37 points by ankyth27 3 hours ago \| hide \| 20 comments
14.		Boiling lead and black art: a history of mathematical typography (practicallyefficient.com)
		90 points by fanf2 8 hours ago \| hide \| 32 comments
15.		Light weight process isolation tool [Linux] (nsjail.com)
		15 points by LaFolle 2 hours ago \| hide \| 3 comments
16.		Death of the Nile (bbc.co.uk)
		46 points by dberhane 5 hours ago \| hide \| 8 comments
17.		Calamine: Excel file reader, written in Rust (github.com)
		70 points by TAForObvReasons 7 hours ago \| hide \| 11 comments
18.		An Interview with Stanley Kubrick (1969) (visual-memory.co.uk)
		23 points by helloworld 4 hours ago \| hide \| 2 comments
19.		Rv8: a high performance RISC-V to x86 binary translator [pdf] (carrv.github.io)
		44 points by ingve 7 hours ago \| hide \| 11 comments
20.		A “negative emissions” plant has opened in Iceland (qz.com)
		70 points by jonbaer 8 hours ago \| hide \| 24 comments
21.		Why PostgreSQL is better than MySQL (2ndquadrant.com)
		67 points by furkansahin 3 hours ago \| hide \| 49 comments
22.		The Binary System Was Created Long Before Leibniz (acm.org)
		12 points by rayascott 2 hours ago \| hide \| 1 comment
23.		What I Learned from Reading Every Amazon Shareholders Letter (medium.com)
		148 points by vinnyglennon 12 hours ago \| hide \| 49 comments
24.		Arithmetic Gas (mathematicalgarden.wordpress.com)
		5 points by pizza 2 hours ago \| hide \| discuss
25.		Rushdie’s New York Bubble (nybooks.com)
		30 points by moab 7 hours ago \| hide \| discuss
26.		DIY Apodization Filter (4photos.de)
		21 points by brudgers 4 hours ago \| hide \| 6 comments
27.		A single photon reveals quantum entanglement of 16M atoms (phys.org)
		57 points by dnetesn 10 hours ago \| hide \| 11 comments
28.		My 20-Year Experience of Software Development Methodologies (zwischenzugs.wordpress.com)
		310 points by zwischenzug 12 hours ago \| hide \| 120 comments
29.		DAG Rosenstein’s “Responsible Encryption” Demand Is Bad and He Should Feel Bad (eff.org)
		10 points by DiabloD3 53 minutes ago \| hide \| discuss
30.		Arthur Schopenhauer on the Dangers of Clickbait (farnamstreetblog.com)
		14 points by DyslexicAtheist 1 hour ago \| hide \| 2 comments
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