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1.		Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard Deconstructs the Science of Songwriting (medium.com/cuepoint)
		93 points by sarahf on April 20, 2015 \| 28 comments
2.		The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets (righto.com)
		930 points by todsacerdoti 4 months ago \| 508 comments
3.		Ask HN: What is the most challenging programming course you have taken?
		64 points by hnthrow098767 4 months ago \| 81 comments
4.		Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites (danilafe.com)
		983 points by fabianholzer 4 months ago \| 421 comments
5.		I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers (dropofahat.zone)
		1347 points by jimhi 4 months ago \| 440 comments
6.		From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction (arstechnica.com)
		206 points by pseudolus 4 months ago \| 74 comments
7.		Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money?
		176 points by gooob 5 months ago \| 299 comments
8.		Ask HN: Who are your favorite tech youtubers
		33 points by mr_o47 6 months ago \| 45 comments
9.		When do we stop finding new music? (statsignificant.com)
		414 points by commons-tragedy 6 months ago \| 564 comments
10.		McKinsey Under Criminal Investigation over Opioid-Related Consulting (wsj.com)
		418 points by impish9208 6 months ago \| 158 comments
11.		I should have loved biology (2020) (jsomers.net)
		685 points by paulgb 6 months ago \| 253 comments
12.		Our biggest ever river catch? (theoceancleanup.com)
		380 points by nickburns 6 months ago \| 184 comments
13.		Ask HN: What is the most harmful project you've worked on?
		15 points by castalian 7 months ago \| 9 comments
14.		Rooster King: A multimedia zine website collage album memoir thing (drewschorno.com)
		71 points by mwfogleman 7 months ago \| 14 comments
15.		There’s a 30-year old dead Rabbit in Seven Sisters tube station (ianvisits.co.uk)
		423 points by edward 7 months ago \| 229 comments
16.		Organizing OpenStreetMap mapping parties (codeberg.page)
		213 points by pabs3 7 months ago \| 96 comments
17.		British Placename Mapper (rtwilson.com)
		111 points by bookofjoe 7 months ago \| 120 comments
18.		A cheeky intern nearly turned MS-DOS into NSFW-DOS (theregister.com)
		85 points by LinuxBender 7 months ago \| 75 comments
19.		The U.S. government may finally mandate safer table saws (npr.org)
		335 points by walterbell 7 months ago \| 756 comments
20.		SFMTA's train system running on floppy disks; city fears 'catastrophic failure' (abc7news.com)
		91 points by sidlls 7 months ago \| 238 comments
21.		Ways of Seeing: Nicholson Baker learns to draw (bookforum.com)
		110 points by benbreen 7 months ago \| 33 comments
22.		Ask HN: What was an interesting project you started and finished over a weekend?
		172 points by nishithfolly 7 months ago \| 238 comments
23.		Lessons from history's greatest R&D labs (answer.ai)
		153 points by jph00 9 months ago \| 53 comments
24.		Ask HN: What are some homeless shelter innovations?
		46 points by codingclaws 9 months ago \| 117 comments
25.		Ask HN: Those who've joined a friend's startup as an employee, how did that go?
		227 points by humbleferret 9 months ago \| 280 comments
26.		Random Animations (bleuje.com)
		481 points by ggrelet 9 months ago \| 61 comments
27.		Relearning math as an adult (gmays.com)
		453 points by gmays 9 months ago \| 257 comments
28.		Ask HN: What to do with text from old, unarchived, online forums?
		131 points by stevengoodwin 10 months ago \| 108 comments
29.		Ask HN: Small-batch builds of smaller phyiscal objects
		27 points by huhtenberg 10 months ago \| 66 comments
30.		An app can be a home-cooked meal (robinsloan.com)
		556 points by mkeeter on Feb 15, 2020 \| 130 comments
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