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1. We Should Teach Music History Backwards (smithsonianmag.com)
339 points by jeffreyrogers on June 17, 2018 | 182 comments
2. Fibonacci Hashing: The Optimization That the World Forgot (probablydance.com)
405 points by ingve on June 16, 2018 | 75 comments
3. Forgotten Employee (2002) (sites.google.com)
520 points by jxub on June 17, 2018 | 166 comments
4. ActorDB – Distributed SQL database (github.com/biokoda)
284 points by iamd3vil on June 17, 2018 | 85 comments
5. Berlin-Munich high-speed train services carry 2M passengers in first six months (railjournal.com)
217 points by ingve on June 16, 2018 | 207 comments
6. Eight hours a night isn’t enough, according to a leading sleep scientist (qz.com)
437 points by lxm on June 17, 2018 | 156 comments
7. The Garden of Earthly Delights by Jheronimus Bosch (ntr.nl)
128 points by ivank on June 16, 2018 | 23 comments
8. Teach Programming to become a better programmer (zeroequalsfalse.press)
170 points by kiyanwang on June 17, 2018 | 57 comments
9. Humans Are Turning Mammals More Nocturnal (outsideonline.com)
116 points by adamnemecek on June 16, 2018 | 29 comments
10. 60 FPS Retro Gaming on Mobile – Master System Emulator in JavaScript (2013) (gmarty.github.io)
105 points by tosh on June 16, 2018 | 37 comments
11. Handles are the better pointers (floooh.github.io)
194 points by ingve on June 17, 2018 | 80 comments
12. Dispatch: web-based IRC client in Go (github.com/khlieng)
119 points by buovjaga on June 17, 2018 | 40 comments
13. Show HN: A SIMD-accelerated noise library in Rust (github.com/jackmott)
73 points by gameswithgo on June 17, 2018 | 23 comments
14. Ask HN: If I Close My Data Centers, What About the People/Jobs Lost?
181 points by throwawayacct4q on June 16, 2018 | 142 comments
15. How to Get Your Teammates to Follow Your Lead (workaguide.com)
186 points by BSVino on June 16, 2018 | 49 comments
16. Audio Modem Communication Library in Python (github.com/romanz)
100 points by adulau on June 17, 2018 | 40 comments
17. The Math of Card Shuffling (fredhohman.com)
157 points by danso on June 17, 2018 | 33 comments
18. Making buildings, cars and planes from materials based on plant fibres (economist.com)
66 points by Turukawa on June 17, 2018 | 8 comments
19. Ctrl-labs’ armband lets you control computer cursors with your mind (venturebeat.com)
134 points by sahin on June 17, 2018 | 68 comments
20. Goodbye, Denver Post. Hello, Blockchain (nytimes.com)
176 points by danso on June 17, 2018 | 93 comments
21. A seed that could bring clean water to millions (phys.org)
104 points by dnetesn on June 16, 2018 | 28 comments
22. Learning Bluetooth Hackery with BLE CTF (hackgnar.com)
105 points by okket on June 16, 2018 | 2 comments
23. Some Words on Programming the Atari Jaguar (2006) (atari.org)
67 points by rocky1138 on June 17, 2018 | 17 comments
24. Floating-Point Determinism (2013) (randomascii.wordpress.com)
57 points by antioedipus on June 17, 2018 | 6 comments
25. MIT Career Development Handbook [pdf] (gecd.mit.edu)
338 points by pagade on June 17, 2018 | 24 comments
26. The Carrying-Cost of Code: Taking Lean Seriously (2011) (michaelfeathers.typepad.com)
68 points by mpweiher on June 16, 2018 | 18 comments
27. 200-year-old ciphers may reveal the location of treasure buried in Virginia (mentalfloss.com)
78 points by lxm on June 17, 2018 | 39 comments
28. How Ceiling Fans Allowed Slaves to Eavesdrop on Plantation Owners (atlasobscura.com)
111 points by samclemens on June 17, 2018 | 32 comments
29. What's My Color IQ? (xrite.com)
133 points by curtis on June 16, 2018 | 93 comments
30. What caused the Black Death and could it strike again? (2016) (aeon.co)
63 points by YeGoblynQueenne on June 17, 2018 | 17 comments

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