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1.		Why MIT uses Python instead of Scheme for its undergraduate CS program (2009) (cemerick.com)
		47 points by bb88 1 hour ago \| hide \| 23 comments
2.		Adding Up the True Cost of Tax Breaks for Big Tech’s Data Centers (2016) (nextcity.org)
		8 points by dontreact 24 minutes ago \| hide \| discuss
3.		How AlphaZero Mastered Its Games (newyorker.com)
		20 points by jsomers 2 hours ago \| hide \| discuss
4.		How Facebook Keeps Messenger from Crashing on New Year's Eve (ieee.org)
		145 points by victorvation 6 hours ago \| hide \| 56 comments
5.		What Happens to Kid Culture When Streets Are Closed to Cars (citylab.com)
		268 points by anonymfus 10 hours ago \| hide \| 149 comments
6.		Why I’m so “against” Ethereum (threadreaderapp.com)
		145 points by DyslexicAtheist 7 hours ago \| hide \| 101 comments
7.		911 emergency services go down across the US after CenturyLink outage (techcrunch.com)
		385 points by LopRabbit 14 hours ago \| hide \| 181 comments
8.		Audiophiles in Japan Are Installing Their Own Power Poles (wsj.com)
		153 points by tlrobinson 9 hours ago \| hide \| 243 comments
9.		Cerberus – Semantic models for C (cam.ac.uk)
		5 points by pplonski86 51 minutes ago \| hide \| 1 comment
10.		Fundamental rule of traffic: building new roads makes people drive more (2015) (vox.com)
		177 points by jseliger 11 hours ago \| hide \| 212 comments
11.		Portugal’s Economic Revival (nytimes.com)
		146 points by Tomte 11 hours ago \| hide \| 105 comments
12.		Things I Don’t Know as of 2018 (overreacted.io)
		118 points by nhebb 8 hours ago \| hide \| 32 comments
13.		A new generation of environmentalists is learning to love atomic power (hcn.org)
		109 points by peterkshultz 9 hours ago \| hide \| 106 comments
14.		Sketches of Elixir (zdsmith.com)
		174 points by signa11 14 hours ago \| hide \| 55 comments
15.		A free clone of the Age of Empires II engine (openage.sft.mx)
		201 points by doener 16 hours ago \| hide \| 39 comments
16.		Teachers Quit Jobs at Highest Rate on Record (wsj.com)
		305 points by dpflan 7 hours ago \| hide \| 298 comments
17.		Inside Haddington Dynamics and Their Groundbreaking Dexter Robot Arm (hackster.io)
		75 points by tlrobinson 11 hours ago \| hide \| 33 comments
18.		A Perspective on C++ Standardization in 2018 (thephd.github.io)
		48 points by ingve 9 hours ago \| hide \| 4 comments
19.		Explaining Online US Political Advertising (ccc.de)
		22 points by DyslexicAtheist 7 hours ago \| hide \| 4 comments
20.		Over half of older US workers are pushed out of longtime jobs before they retire (propublica.org)
		46 points by wyclif 3 hours ago \| hide \| 20 comments
21.		A History of Flavoring Food with Castoreum (vice.com)
		49 points by tlrobinson 11 hours ago \| hide \| 1 comment
22.		More games should be honest about death (rockpapershotgun.com)
		146 points by danso 10 hours ago \| hide \| 90 comments
23.		Every Building on Every Block: A Time Capsule of 1930s New York (nytimes.com)
		75 points by pseudolus 14 hours ago \| hide \| 12 comments
24.		Fish shell 3.0 (github.com)
		451 points by faho 16 hours ago \| hide \| 194 comments
25.		Anatomy of a shell (drewdevault.com)
		79 points by emersion 13 hours ago \| hide \| 20 comments
26.		Rainbow Warrior on shipbreaking beach in Bangladesh (mo.be)
		53 points by Tomte 11 hours ago \| hide \| 18 comments
27.		“Modern” C++ Lamentations (aras-p.info)
		311 points by tpush 14 hours ago \| hide \| 210 comments
28.		The Wright Brothers Defeated Gravity and the Government Machine (medium.com)
		59 points by TheSpine 11 hours ago \| hide \| 48 comments
29.		Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography (crypto101.io)
		429 points by febin 18 hours ago \| hide \| 56 comments
30.		PHP + Ajax scripts or the modern ecosystem dilemma (threader.app)
		63 points by seapunk 11 hours ago \| hide \| 53 comments
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