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1. New Evidence That Lead Exposure Increases Crime (2017) (brookings.edu)
329 points by anarazel on Aug 31, 2018 | 147 comments
2. CLI: Improved (remysharp.com)
913 points by Bootvis on Aug 30, 2018 | 272 comments
3. Procrastination is more about managing emotions than time: study (bbc.com)
478 points by lxm on Aug 30, 2018 | 119 comments
4. Maersk installed 100-foot-tall rotating sails on one of its tankers (wsj.com)
389 points by petethomas on Aug 31, 2018 | 224 comments
5. Can Beethoven send takedown requests? (wikimediafoundation.org)
530 points by janoszen on Aug 31, 2018 | 310 comments
6. EU to recommend that member states abolish daylight saving time (theguardian.com)
602 points by bkfh on Aug 31, 2018 | 362 comments
7. React Fire: Modernizing React DOM (github.com/facebook)
287 points by radubrehar on Aug 31, 2018 | 107 comments
8. My bag of tricks – loose notes, design patterns, rules-of-thumb (gordonbrander.com)
412 points by necrodome on Aug 30, 2018 | 79 comments
9. Show HN: Proven – An alternative to Twitter's verified accounts, with HN support (github.com/dschep)
334 points by dschep on Aug 31, 2018 | 75 comments
10. Cargo ships that sink when their cargo suddenly liquefies (theconversation.com)
281 points by YeGoblynQueenne on Aug 31, 2018 | 115 comments
11. x86-64 Assembly Language Programming with Ubuntu (unlv.edu)
276 points by lainon on Aug 31, 2018 | 91 comments
12. On the Worst-Case Complexity of TimSort (dagstuhl.de)
204 points by pelario on Aug 31, 2018 | 74 comments
13. Blackened Buildings of Manchester Before the Clean Air Act (manchestereveningnews.co.uk)
226 points by monort on Aug 31, 2018 | 99 comments
14. Total Recall: LeBron's mighty mind (2014) (espn.com)
167 points by wallflower on Aug 31, 2018 | 95 comments
15. AI Can Transform Anyone Into a Professional Dancer (nvidia.com)
222 points by tuckermi on Aug 31, 2018 | 168 comments
16. How much countries spend in R&D (unesco.org)
202 points by yoquan on Aug 31, 2018 | 83 comments
17. How well does population density predict U.S. voting outcomes? (observablehq.com)
148 points by mbostock on Aug 31, 2018 | 109 comments
18. How the Brain Experiences Time (neurosciencenews.com)
150 points by richardhod on Aug 31, 2018 | 30 comments
19. A deep dive into the Go memory allocator and garbage collector (sourcegraph.com)
182 points by beyang on Aug 31, 2018 | 42 comments
20. Apple self-driving car in accident: California DMV filing (reuters.com)
140 points by Varcht on Aug 31, 2018 | 261 comments
21. On the Kidnapped African Boy Who Became a German Philosopher (lithub.com)
123 points by lermontov on Aug 31, 2018 | 14 comments
22. Full Ethereum blockchain now available as a BigQuery public dataset (cloud.google.com)
133 points by matt2000 on Aug 31, 2018 | 44 comments
23. Latin American delivery startup Rappi valued above $1B (axios.com)
58 points by andreshb on Aug 31, 2018 | 27 comments
24. 'It's Enrico Pallazzo': The inside Story of 'The Naked Gun' Baseball Game (sportingnews.com)
101 points by grzm on Aug 31, 2018 | 58 comments
25. Multi-Armed Bandits, Conjugate Models and Bayesian Reinforcement Learning (eigenfoo.xyz)
125 points by _eigenfoo on Aug 31, 2018 | 18 comments
26. Mutiny at the big five is part of the future of work (abe-winter.github.io)
165 points by awinter-py on Aug 31, 2018 | 143 comments
27. The early history of Windows file attributes (microsoft.com)
72 points by zdw on Aug 31, 2018 | 9 comments
28. Even bad estimates are valuable if you use them right (ntietz.com)
71 points by ntietz on Aug 31, 2018 | 20 comments
29. Relationship Between Practice and Performance in Sports: A Meta-Analysis (2016) [pdf] (case.edu)
55 points by luu on Aug 30, 2018 | 26 comments
30. Introducing the Tink cryptographic software library (googleblog.com)
96 points by helper on Aug 30, 2018 | 28 comments

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