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1. Anki: Memorization with Spaced Learning (ankiweb.net)
636 points by tarboreus on Aug 26, 2018 | 172 comments
2. The Making of Prince of Persia (2011) [pdf] (jordanmechner.com)
302 points by tosh on Aug 26, 2018 | 70 comments
3. What Data Scientists Really Do, According to Data Scientists (hbr.org)
278 points by pseudolus on Aug 26, 2018 | 136 comments
4. From GNU social to Mastodon (thomask.sdf.org)
186 points by panic on Aug 26, 2018 | 138 comments
5. John McCain has died (nytimes.com)
628 points by aaronbrethorst on Aug 26, 2018 | 210 comments
6. IncludeOS – A minimal, resource efficient unikernel for cloud services (includeos.org)
231 points by unixhero on Aug 26, 2018 | 84 comments
7. WireGuard VPN review: A new type of VPN offers serious advantages (arstechnica.com)
361 points by yepthatsreality on Aug 26, 2018 | 154 comments
8. If you’re unsure whether to quit your job or break up, you probably should (80000hours.org)
290 points by robertwiblin on Aug 25, 2018 | 208 comments
9. America’s Top Prosecutors Used to Go After Top Executives. What Changed? (2017) (nytimes.com)
174 points by tim_sw on Aug 26, 2018 | 123 comments
10. Age of Invisible Disasters (2017) (eutopian.io)
148 points by rrampage on Aug 26, 2018 | 108 comments
11. Phone Numbers Were Never Meant as ID. Now We’re All at Risk (wired.com)
245 points by colinprince on Aug 26, 2018 | 169 comments
12. A spreadsheet of the businesses I've started over the past 15 years (twitter.com/shpigford)
231 points by myth_drannon on Aug 26, 2018 | 102 comments
13. History of Lisp (1979) [pdf] (stanford.edu)
98 points by taylodl on Aug 26, 2018 | 10 comments
14. A satellite engineer explains the basics of space electronics (snapeda.com)
183 points by natashabaker on Aug 25, 2018 | 49 comments
15. Show HN: How privacy-friendly is your site? (dataskydd.net)
200 points by octosphere on Aug 26, 2018 | 41 comments
16. The origins of opera and the future of programming (the-composition.com)
66 points by fanf2 on Aug 26, 2018 | 18 comments
17. How and Why We Designed Lucida (2014) (bigelowandholmes.typepad.com)
81 points by Tomte on Aug 26, 2018 | 11 comments
18. Hackable humans and digital dictators: Q&A with Yuval Noah Harari (aljazeera.com)
74 points by DyslexicAtheist on Aug 25, 2018 | 30 comments
19. The Illegal Ramen Vendors of Postwar Tokyo (atlasobscura.com)
121 points by raleighm on Aug 26, 2018 | 49 comments
20. Geometric intuition for digital audio filters (karlhiner.com)
116 points by khiner on Aug 26, 2018 | 14 comments
21. Predict Economic Indicators with OpenStreetMap (janakiev.com)
87 points by merusame on Aug 25, 2018 | 13 comments
22. JSCPP, a simple C++ interpreter written in JavaScript (github.com/felixhao28)
98 points by turrini on Aug 25, 2018 | 31 comments
23. The Ripper: The disturbing Visceral Games project that never was (polygon.com)
45 points by adrian_mrd on Aug 25, 2018 | 23 comments
24. Methodologies for measuring open source project health (nadiaeghbal.com)
82 points by fagnerbrack on Aug 26, 2018 | 13 comments
25. Frank Siegert’s collection of NeXTSTEP programs (1996) (wizards.de)
61 points by tobr on Aug 26, 2018 | 14 comments
26. CrypTool Book (cryptool.org)
119 points by lainon on Aug 26, 2018 | 1 comment
27. An Example Microcoded CPU (2010) (tuhs.org)
58 points by peter_d_sherman on Aug 26, 2018 | 10 comments
28. Federated Learning (florian.github.io)
89 points by epsilon-greedy on Aug 25, 2018 | 12 comments
29. Detecting life’s influence on planetary atmospheres (differentimpulse.com)
46 points by virtualthings on Aug 26, 2018 | 5 comments
30. BuBBLE: A Lisp Dialect DSL Written in Haskell (github.com/ninjacop)
51 points by Ninjacop123 on Aug 25, 2018 | 8 comments

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