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1.		We Should Teach Music History Backwards (smithsonianmag.com)
		120 points by jeffreyrogers 3 hours ago \| hide \| 62 comments
2.		How Ceiling Fans Helped Slaves Eavesdrop on Plantation Owners (atlasobscura.com)
		50 points by samclemens 2 hours ago \| hide \| 8 comments
3.		Teach Programming to become a better programmer (zeroequalsfalse.press)
		23 points by kiyanwang 2 hours ago \| hide \| 14 comments
4.		Audio Modem Communication Library in Python (github.com)
		41 points by adulau 2 hours ago \| hide \| 12 comments
5.		ActorDB – Distributed SQL database (github.com)
		205 points by iamd3vil 8 hours ago \| hide \| 67 comments
6.		Ask HN: How to not fail on coding interview questions?
		37 points by evoneutron 1 hour ago \| hide \| 20 comments
7.		Goodbye, Denver Post. Hello, Blockchain (nytimes.com)
		67 points by danso 4 hours ago \| hide \| 32 comments
8.		Forgotten Employee (2002) (sites.google.com)
		46 points by jxub 3 hours ago \| hide \| 4 comments
9.		Vertical Takeoff and Vertical Landing, Now Available for Model Rockets (hackster.io)
		60 points by rbanffy 3 hours ago \| hide \| 19 comments
10.		Making buildings, cars and planes from materials based on plant fibres (economist.com)
		24 points by Turukawa 3 hours ago \| hide \| 3 comments
11.		The Math of Card Shuffling (fredhohman.com)
		22 points by danso 2 hours ago \| hide \| 1 comment
12.		Show HN: A SIMD-accelerated noise library in Rust (github.com)
		28 points by gameswithgo 3 hours ago \| hide \| 8 comments
13.		Dispatch: web-based IRC client in Go (github.com)
		39 points by buovjaga 3 hours ago \| hide \| 5 comments
14.		Sotheby’s top art forgery detective (theguardian.com)
		25 points by lnguyen 4 hours ago \| hide \| 1 comment
15.		Luxury hotels are being inundated with requests from self-described influencers (theatlantic.com)
		74 points by prostoalex 6 hours ago \| hide \| 47 comments
16.		What caused the Black Death and could it strike again? (2016) (aeon.co)
		16 points by YeGoblynQueenne 3 hours ago \| hide \| 2 comments
17.		YouTube ironically kills channel of French party demanding copyright filters (boingboing.net)
		12 points by mysterypie 19 minutes ago \| hide \| discuss
18.		Hypergrowth and the ‘Law of Startup Physics’ (firstround.com)
		5 points by yarapavan 1 hour ago \| hide \| discuss
19.		Memory Management – Changes for the programmer over the years (uridiumauthor.blogspot.com)
		16 points by ingve 4 hours ago \| hide \| discuss
20.		Handles are the better pointers (floooh.github.io)
		28 points by ingve 3 hours ago \| hide \| 9 comments
21.		Challenging What NASA Knows About Asteroids (nytimes.com)
		17 points by sohkamyung 4 hours ago \| hide \| 2 comments
22.		In an age of all-knowing algorithms, how do we choose not to know? (nautil.us)
		22 points by dnetesn 5 hours ago \| hide \| 1 comment
23.		Go package to make ASCII line graph ╭┈╯ (github.com)
		4 points by guptarohit 1 hour ago \| hide \| discuss
24.		Good Ideas, Through the Looking Glass (2005) [pdf] (ethz.ch)
		18 points by bshanks 5 hours ago \| hide \| discuss
25.		Show HN: Mentat – group chat with tags and pretty good privacy (github.com)
		17 points by kenforthewin 4 hours ago \| hide \| 10 comments
26.		Answer: Seed dispersal mechanisms for giant seeds? (and search strategies) (searchresearch1.blogspot.com)
		13 points by rhema 3 hours ago \| hide \| discuss
27.		Using a Proof Assistant to Teach Programming Language Foundations (2010) [video] (vimeo.com)
		22 points by rfreytag 5 hours ago \| hide \| 1 comment
28.		How Peppa Pig became a video nightmare for children (theguardian.com)
		94 points by pmoriarty 4 hours ago \| hide \| 61 comments
29.		Messi Walks Better Than Most Players Run (fivethirtyeight.com)
		158 points by colinprince 8 hours ago \| hide \| 72 comments
30.		Netflix Is Why AT&T bought Time Warner and Comcast and Disney want Fox (cnbc.com)
		44 points by prostoalex 5 hours ago \| hide \| 52 comments
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