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1.		How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language (twobithistory.org)
		191 points by chwolfe 4 hours ago \| hide \| 63 comments
2.		Paul Allen has died (cnbc.com)
		1972 points by coloneltcb 8 hours ago \| hide \| 212 comments
3.		Twilio to Acquire Sendgrid (twilio.com)
		502 points by coloneltcb 10 hours ago \| hide \| 142 comments
4.		The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is Doing (2017) (theatlantic.com)
		76 points by kimsk112 4 hours ago \| hide \| 22 comments
5.		The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digital world (theguardian.com)
		171 points by DanielBMarkham 8 hours ago \| hide \| 39 comments
6.		How to Write a Technical Paper [pdf] (semanticscholar.org)
		142 points by boricensis 7 hours ago \| hide \| 9 comments
7.		The extraordinary influence of the Iliad and Odyssey (the-tls.co.uk)
		18 points by pepys 2 hours ago \| hide \| discuss
8.		Removing Old Versions of TLS (blog.mozilla.org)
		149 points by edmorley 10 hours ago \| hide \| 50 comments
9.		The Bredesen protocol for treating Alzheimer’s (scienceblog.com)
		19 points by sjcsjc 2 hours ago \| hide \| 1 comment
10.		RaptorJIT 1.0: Lua implementation for high-perf low-level system programming (github.com)
		122 points by ingve 9 hours ago \| hide \| 8 comments
11.		Priority Queue on Ethereum with a 15 ETH Bug Bounty (github.com)
		81 points by HugoMelo 7 hours ago \| hide \| 47 comments
12.		The high-risk, high-reward world of selling random stuff on Amazon (cnn.com)
		14 points by prostoalex 3 hours ago \| hide \| 1 comment
13.		Stop cherry-picking, start merging, Part 1: The merge conflict (microsoft.com)
		19 points by kiyanwang 3 hours ago \| hide \| 8 comments
14.		Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
		133 points by cellml 5 hours ago \| hide \| 392 comments
15.		Hijacking HTML canvas and PNG images to store arbitrary text data (igorkromin.net)
		32 points by ikromin 5 hours ago \| hide \| 11 comments
16.		A Framework for Intelligence and Cortical Function Based on Grid Cells (biorxiv.org)
		106 points by doener 10 hours ago \| hide \| 26 comments
17.		How to Manage Connections Efficiently in Postgres, or Any Database (brandur.org)
		234 points by bgentry 14 hours ago \| hide \| 27 comments
18.		Smart Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google's Nest Hand Over Data (forbes.com)
		160 points by edejong 13 hours ago \| hide \| 67 comments
19.		SoftBank Gives Startups Billions of Reasons to Hold Off IPOs (wsj.com)
		78 points by dsr12 9 hours ago \| hide \| 33 comments
20.		The Wonder from Down Under: The Fairlight CMI Digital Sampling Synthesiser (paleotronic.com)
		31 points by empressplay 6 hours ago \| hide \| 11 comments
21.		The story of Augur, an Ethereum prediction market (decryptmedia.com)
		8 points by ilanhz 1 hour ago \| hide \| 2 comments
22.		China cracks down on religion, crosses burned at Christian churches (abc.net.au)
		77 points by gscott 2 hours ago \| hide \| 30 comments
23.		‘Lifeboats’ Amid the World’s Wildfires (nytimes.com)
		12 points by dnetesn 4 hours ago \| hide \| discuss
24.		GitHub's game jam returns next month (blog.github.com)
		56 points by lee337 8 hours ago \| hide \| 8 comments
25.		Study shows massive insect loss (washingtonpost.com)
		254 points by pgrote 11 hours ago \| hide \| 93 comments
26.		Why Doctors Reject Tools That Make Their Jobs Easier (scientificamerican.com)
		155 points by dsr12 9 hours ago \| hide \| 87 comments
27.		Modernizing Transport Security (googleblog.com)
		117 points by edmorley 14 hours ago \| hide \| 35 comments
28.		Animals that are currently monitored using facial recognition technology (nymag.com)
		21 points by ssaddi 7 hours ago \| hide \| discuss
29.		Micromusic.net chiptune radio (1999) (micromusic.net)
		55 points by hnzix 10 hours ago \| hide \| 12 comments
30.		M.I.T. Plans College for Artificial Intelligence, Backed by $1B (nytimes.com)
		514 points by superfx 17 hours ago \| hide \| 156 comments
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