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1. Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible? (usenix.org)
878 points by zdw on Aug 17, 2018 | 171 comments
2. Faster – Fast key-value store from Microsoft Research (github.com/microsoft)
401 points by JeffCyr on Aug 17, 2018 | 76 comments
3. Arm Announces Client CPU Roadmap For Laptops (arm.com)
389 points by redial on Aug 17, 2018 | 278 comments
4. Show HN: git-bug – Distributed bug tracker embedded in git (github.com/michaelmure)
447 points by michaelmure on Aug 17, 2018 | 94 comments
5. Python Fire – Generates CLIs from any Python object (github.com/google)
252 points by tzury on Aug 17, 2018 | 35 comments
6. John Ousterhout: My favorite sayings (stanford.edu)
198 points by blacksqr on Aug 17, 2018 | 63 comments
7. History of T (2001) (paulgraham.com)
117 points by tosh on Aug 17, 2018 | 38 comments
8. Pre-sleep treatment with galantamine stimulates lucid dreaming (plos.org)
318 points by rbanffy on Aug 17, 2018 | 222 comments
9. How a tiny hospital used AI to lower costs and improve patient outcomes (healthcareitnews.com)
109 points by jtsymonds on Aug 17, 2018 | 30 comments
10. [dupe] How to Read 100s of Millions of Records per Second from a Single Disk (clemenswinter.com)
130 points by cwinter on Aug 17, 2018 | 8 comments
11. 24-core CPU and I can’t type an email (randomascii.wordpress.com)
629 points by ghuntley on Aug 17, 2018 | 310 comments
12. Two French rivers disappear underground in cracks and sinkholes (strangesounds.org)
225 points by Earth_Change on Aug 17, 2018 | 34 comments
13. U.S. government seeks Facebook help to wiretap Messenger (reuters.com)
207 points by tareqak on Aug 17, 2018 | 105 comments
14. Show HN: Find recommendations from good people (abyjames.com)
256 points by gits1225 on Aug 17, 2018 | 124 comments
15. A Sound Card Before Its Time (os2museum.com)
129 points by userbinator on Aug 17, 2018 | 60 comments
16. MinUnit – A minimal unit testing framework for C (2002) (jera.com)
108 points by hazz99 on Aug 17, 2018 | 55 comments
17. Computational Duplo train track layouts (cr31.co.uk)
215 points by amenghra on Aug 16, 2018 | 19 comments
18. The Linux Documentation Project Guides (tldp.org)
97 points by ghosthamlet on Aug 16, 2018 | 16 comments
19. How to deploy an app to production with an actual button (blog.github.com)
87 points by guessmyname on Aug 16, 2018 | 45 comments
20. Schism: A library of CRDT implementations of Clojure’s core data types (github.com/aredington)
112 points by tosh on Aug 16, 2018 | 10 comments
21. Trial by Combat? Trial by Cake (jstor.org)
60 points by GW150914 on Aug 17, 2018 | 22 comments
22. Gource – a software version control visualization tool (gource.io)
122 points by ColinWright on Aug 16, 2018 | 21 comments
23. Typed Clojure in Theory and Practice [pdf] (ambrosebs.com)
83 points by tosh on Aug 16, 2018 | 6 comments
24. Elon Musk Confronts a Fateful Tweet and an ‘Excruciating’ Year (nytimes.com)
278 points by tysone on Aug 17, 2018 | 361 comments
25. Alexa, be my friend: Children talk to technology, but how does it respond? (washington.edu)
73 points by rbanffy on Aug 15, 2018 | 75 comments
26. Show HN: Map of Related Books for “Designing Data Intensive Apps” (anvaka.github.io)
138 points by anvaka on Aug 17, 2018 | 4 comments
27. Why Facebook is losing the war on hate speech in Myanmar (reuters.com)
134 points by humantiy on Aug 17, 2018 | 97 comments
28. Amiga Graphics Archive (lychesis.net)
105 points by erickhill on Aug 17, 2018 | 27 comments
29. VigNAT: A Formally Verified Performant NAT (vignat.github.io)
128 points by signa11 on Aug 17, 2018 | 40 comments
30. ‘Functional Fingerprint’ May Identify Brains Over a Lifetime (quantamagazine.org)
51 points by laurex on Aug 17, 2018 | 3 comments

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