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1.		Why MIT now uses python instead of scheme for it's intro to comp sci (2009) (cemerick.com)
		7 points by bb88 16 minutes ago \| hide \| discuss
2.		How Facebook Keeps Messenger from Crashing on New Year's Eve (ieee.org)
		127 points by victorvation 5 hours ago \| hide \| 50 comments
3.		What Happens to Kid Culture When Streets Are Closed to Cars (citylab.com)
		253 points by anonymfus 9 hours ago \| hide \| 141 comments
4.		911 emergency services go down across the US after CenturyLink outage (techcrunch.com)
		375 points by LopRabbit 13 hours ago \| hide \| 180 comments
5.		Why I’m so “against” Ethereum (threadreaderapp.com)
		120 points by DyslexicAtheist 6 hours ago \| hide \| 88 comments
6.		Audiophiles in Japan Are Installing Their Own Power Poles (wsj.com)
		148 points by tlrobinson 8 hours ago \| hide \| 224 comments
7.		Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes people drive more (2015) (vox.com)
		171 points by jseliger 10 hours ago \| hide \| 210 comments
8.		Portugal’s Economic Revival (nytimes.com)
		141 points by Tomte 10 hours ago \| hide \| 101 comments
9.		How AlphaZero Mastered Its Games (newyorker.com)
		6 points by jsomers 1 hour ago \| hide \| discuss
10.		Fish shell 3.0 (github.com)
		440 points by faho 15 hours ago \| hide \| 193 comments
11.		Teachers Quit Jobs at Highest Rate on Record (wsj.com)
		294 points by dpflan 6 hours ago \| hide \| 275 comments
12.		Sketches of Elixir (zdsmith.com)
		169 points by signa11 13 hours ago \| hide \| 51 comments
13.		Things I Don’t Know as of 2018 (overreacted.io)
		87 points by nhebb 7 hours ago \| hide \| 26 comments
14.		A free clone of the Age of Empires II engine (openage.sft.mx)
		194 points by doener 15 hours ago \| hide \| 38 comments
15.		A new generation of environmentalists is learning to love atomic power (hcn.org)
		100 points by peterkshultz 8 hours ago \| hide \| 99 comments
16.		A Perspective on C++ Standardization in 2018 (thephd.github.io)
		45 points by ingve 8 hours ago \| hide \| 3 comments
17.		Inside Haddington Dynamics and Their Groundbreaking Dexter Robot Arm (hackster.io)
		72 points by tlrobinson 10 hours ago \| hide \| 32 comments
18.		More games should be honest about death (rockpapershotgun.com)
		142 points by danso 9 hours ago \| hide \| 87 comments
19.		Explaining Online US Political Advertising (ccc.de)
		17 points by DyslexicAtheist 6 hours ago \| hide \| 3 comments
20.		If You’re Over 50, Chances Are the Decision to Leave a Job Won’t Be Yours (propublica.org)
		32 points by wyclif 2 hours ago \| hide \| 8 comments
21.		Rainbow Warrior on shipbreaking beach in Bangladesh (mo.be)
		52 points by Tomte 10 hours ago \| hide \| 18 comments
22.		A History of Flavoring Food with Castoreum (vice.com)
		47 points by tlrobinson 10 hours ago \| hide \| 1 comment
23.		Every Building on Every Block: A Time Capsule of 1930s New York (nytimes.com)
		70 points by pseudolus 13 hours ago \| hide \| 11 comments
24.		Anatomy of a shell (drewdevault.com)
		76 points by emersion 12 hours ago \| hide \| 19 comments
25.		The Wright Brothers Defeated Gravity and the Government Machine (medium.com)
		56 points by TheSpine 10 hours ago \| hide \| 48 comments
26.		PHP + Ajax scripts or the modern ecosystem dilemma (threader.app)
		62 points by seapunk 10 hours ago \| hide \| 52 comments
27.		The millionaires building private police forces in the US (abc.net.au)
		12 points by clouddrover 2 hours ago \| hide \| discuss
28.		How Two Tiny Volatility Products Helped Fuel a Sudden Stock Slump (bloomberg.com)
		75 points by paulpauper 12 hours ago \| hide \| 37 comments
29.		“Modern” C++ Lamentations (aras-p.info)
		306 points by tpush 13 hours ago \| hide \| 208 comments
30.		Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography (crypto101.io)
		415 points by febin 17 hours ago \| hide \| 54 comments
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