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1. 4,400 year old Egyptian tomb discovered in the Saqqara pyramid complex (bbc.co.uk)
275 points by open-source-ux on Dec 16, 2018 | 57 comments
2. My Dad's Friendship with Charles Barkley (wbur.org)
467 points by weitingliu on Dec 16, 2018 | 40 comments
3. Can Repelling Magnets Replace the Spring in a Pogo Stick? (kjmagnetics.com)
292 points by mhb on Dec 16, 2018 | 142 comments
4. Google AMP case study: leads dropped by 59% (kinsta.com)
336 points by krn on Dec 16, 2018 | 158 comments
5. The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got (2012) (russolsen.com)
462 points by pplonski86 on Dec 15, 2018 | 237 comments
6. 1980s Amiga has been running the AC and heat in 19 schools for 30 years (geek.com)
230 points by flippyhead on Dec 16, 2018 | 164 comments
7. German exclaves in Belgium separated by a bicycle path from the rest of Germany (fascinatingmaps.com)
272 points by rwmj on Dec 16, 2018 | 155 comments
8. DDR Type 2 Short-wave spy transmitter (cryptomuseum.com)
167 points by jonke on Dec 15, 2018 | 28 comments
9. Tell HN: Tim May, Author of “The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto”, Has Died
284 points by hmsln on Dec 15, 2018 | 34 comments
10. Why Design Thinking Works (hbr.org)
218 points by helloworld on Dec 16, 2018 | 96 comments
11. Linux: IO without entering the kernel (kernel.dk)
210 points by pplonski86 on Dec 16, 2018 | 75 comments
12. Thoughts on, and pictures of, the original Macintosh User Manual (peterme.com)
187 points by tosh on Dec 16, 2018 | 84 comments
13. Java’s Forgotten Forebear (2009) (ieee.org)
122 points by charlysl on Dec 16, 2018 | 80 comments
14. Organizational Debt (boats.gitlab.io)
185 points by ingve on Dec 16, 2018 | 40 comments
15. Show HN: Single-header C++11 HTML document constructor (github.com/tinfoilboy)
87 points by tinfoilboy on Dec 16, 2018 | 10 comments
16. Nvidia's $1,100 AI brain for robots goes on sale (engadget.com)
144 points by elorant on Dec 16, 2018 | 86 comments
17. An Illustrated Theory of Numbers (2017) (illustratedtheoryofnumbers.com)
167 points by earthicus on Dec 16, 2018 | 44 comments
18. Two Chinese Stalagmites Are a 'Holy Grail' for Accurate Radiocarbon Dating (gizmodo.com)
105 points by curtis on Dec 15, 2018 | 25 comments
19. Can functional programming be liberated from the von Neumann paradigm? (2010) (conal.net)
161 points by stevekrouse on Dec 16, 2018 | 82 comments
20. Why we suck at “solving wicked problems” (morebeyond.co.za)
74 points by imartin2k on Dec 15, 2018 | 14 comments
21. Breaking Into Android Phones with a 3D-Printed Head (forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster)
101 points by rexbee on Dec 16, 2018 | 77 comments
22. Pampy: Pattern Matching for Python (github.com/santinic)
126 points by fagnerbrack on Dec 16, 2018 | 44 comments
23. PG&E falsified gas pipeline records for years after deadly explosion (latimes.com)
142 points by WalterGR on Dec 15, 2018 | 68 comments
24. The U.S. National Academies Reports on the Prospects for Quantum Computing (ieee.org)
58 points by rbanffy on Dec 13, 2018 | 27 comments
25. How McKinsey has helped raise the stature of authoritarian governments (nytimes.com)
169 points by ValentineC on Dec 16, 2018 | 39 comments
26. How We Deal with Data Quality Using Circuit Breakers (intuit.com)
66 points by r4um on Dec 16, 2018 | 4 comments
27. Typewriter Cartography (somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com)
74 points by Jureko on Dec 16, 2018 | 7 comments
28. Michelangelo PyML: Uber’s Platform for Rapid Python ML Model (uber.com)
77 points by pplonski86 on Dec 16, 2018 | 24 comments
29. Wireguard VPN: Typical Setup (2017) (ckn.io)
105 points by tosh on Dec 16, 2018 | 50 comments
30. Firefox 64 built with GCC and Clang (hubicka.blogspot.com)
188 points by Twirrim on Dec 16, 2018 | 63 comments

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