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1. A journalism student who found out she won a Pulitzer in class (cjr.org)
614 points by mrleiter on April 21, 2018 | 101 comments
2. Heart surgeons refuse difficult operations to avoid poor mortality ratings (telegraph.co.uk)
434 points by lxm on April 21, 2018 | 263 comments
3. When There’s an Audience, People’s Performance Improves (hopkinsmedicine.org)
162 points by spking on April 21, 2018 | 46 comments
4. Mermaid: Markdown-like generation of diagrams and flowcharts from text (github.com/knsv)
453 points by tomcam on April 20, 2018 | 61 comments
5. Gravitation water vortex power plant (wikipedia.org)
227 points by hliyan on April 21, 2018 | 80 comments
6. How to Find Product Market Fit – founder of Segment (2017) [video] (youtube.com)
184 points by gajju3588 on April 21, 2018 | 22 comments
7. What is empathy? (the-tls.co.uk)
112 points by Vigier on April 19, 2018 | 81 comments
8. Idle Hands Are the Dreamer's Tools (theamericanscholar.org)
93 points by pepys on April 18, 2018 | 14 comments
9. Show HN: FunctionKit – Approachable functional concepts brought to Swift (github.com/mpangburn)
51 points by mpangburn on April 21, 2018 | 8 comments
10. Shaper Origin: Hand-Held CNC Machine (shapertools.com)
140 points by spking on April 21, 2018 | 68 comments
11. Friendship’s Dark Side (nytimes.com)
114 points by hvo on April 21, 2018 | 67 comments
12. Pulitzer Prize Winners Moving to PR: What Does That Say About Future Journalism? (insidesources.com)
93 points by mudil on April 20, 2018 | 63 comments
13. Dissecting the NVIDIA Volta GPU Architecture via Microbenchmarking (arxiv.org)
111 points by matt_d on April 21, 2018 | 13 comments
14. The Looming Battle Over AI Chips (barrons.com)
124 points by poster123 on April 21, 2018 | 85 comments
15. Mapping the internet with Hilbert curves (benjojo.co.uk)
218 points by randomdrake on April 21, 2018 | 29 comments
16. To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the History of GM (hbr.org)
165 points by Judgmentality on April 21, 2018 | 106 comments
17. NeXT logo by Paul Rand (2010) (logodesignlove.com)
133 points by Bud on April 20, 2018 | 62 comments
18. Freeman Dyson’s Life, Through His Letters (nytimes.com)
73 points by andrewl on April 21, 2018 | 2 comments
19. Google's Project Zero exposes unpatched Windows 10 lockdown bypass (zdnet.com)
225 points by _o_ on April 21, 2018 | 118 comments
20. Show HN: Writt – Make and publish notes from Telegram (writt.glitch.me)
77 points by jajoosam on April 21, 2018 | 35 comments
21. CBC is destroying its broadcast archives after they’re digitized (thestar.com)
117 points by chmaynard on April 21, 2018 | 67 comments
22. Practical Memory Safety with Random Embedded Secret Tokens [pdf] (columbia.edu)
47 points by ingve on April 21, 2018 | 5 comments
23. A Feasible Approach to Human Stasis for Long-Duration Deep Space Missions (spaceworkseng.com)
64 points by kawera on April 21, 2018 | 45 comments
24. German Supreme court: Adblocking and taxing advertisers for unblocking, legal (techcrunch.com)
96 points by cornholio on April 20, 2018 | 36 comments
25. Nuke Scan (mattbierner.com)
58 points by mattbierner on April 20, 2018 | 10 comments
26. American Drugs in Egyptian Mummies (2005) (ucr.edu)
40 points by Petiver on April 19, 2018 | 42 comments
27. New Zealand’s War on Rats (2017) (theatlantic.com)
44 points by kposehn on April 21, 2018 | 34 comments
28. Fluree DB – A scalable blockchain database (flur.ee)
71 points by nwatson on April 21, 2018 | 71 comments
29. Show HN: Vinyl record and sleeve grading tool (raphaelyancey.github.io)
63 points by sambf on April 21, 2018 | 11 comments
30. Building Robust Systems (2008) [pdf] (csail.mit.edu)
93 points by molteanu on April 21, 2018 | 6 comments

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