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1. Let's Encrypt Root Trusted by All Major Root Programs (letsencrypt.org)
1532 points by okket on Aug 6, 2018 | 144 comments
2. What happens when you ask people to draw a bike (2016) (gianlucagimini.it)
566 points by dlazar on Aug 6, 2018 | 187 comments
3. FCC admits it was never actually hacked (techcrunch.com)
494 points by placatedmayhem on Aug 6, 2018 | 148 comments
4. Introducing Android 9 Pie (googleblog.com)
481 points by nsriv on Aug 6, 2018 | 357 comments
5. Facebook has asked U.S. banks to share financial information about customers (wsj.com)
597 points by tysone on Aug 6, 2018 | 213 comments
6. How Does Mastodon Work? (kevq.uk)
389 points by codesections on Aug 4, 2018 | 175 comments
7. I’m a very slow thinker (2016) (sivers.org)
604 points by gary__ on Aug 6, 2018 | 224 comments
8. OpenAI Five Benchmark: Results (blog.openai.com)
281 points by runesoerensen on Aug 6, 2018 | 122 comments
9. DoD: Turn Off Your Fitbit, Garmin, Apple Watch GPS (breakingdefense.com)
292 points by smacktoward on Aug 6, 2018 | 210 comments
10. What did Earth look like X million years ago? (dinosaurpictures.org)
423 points by rport on Aug 5, 2018 | 75 comments
11. Nile: decentralized, commission-free, local-economy focused Amazon alternative (github.com/open-source-ideas)
342 points by marcocastignoli on Aug 6, 2018 | 201 comments
12. Rainway takes a game running on one system and streams it to another device (rainway.io)
188 points by andrewmd5 on Aug 6, 2018 | 114 comments
13. Implementing a JIT-compiler with Rust (dinfuehr.github.io)
126 points by ristem on Aug 6, 2018 | 17 comments
14. A Couple of Meta-Interpreters in Prolog (metalevel.at)
136 points by octosphere on Aug 6, 2018 | 17 comments
15. Boston-area startups are on pace to overtake NYC venture totals (techcrunch.com)
198 points by e1ven on Aug 6, 2018 | 168 comments
16. One-Process Programming Notes (crawshaw.io)
185 points by jaffee on Aug 6, 2018 | 39 comments
17. AWS icon quiz (docs.google.com)
580 points by elfakyn on Aug 6, 2018 | 185 comments
18. Freeing the Web from the Browser (reinterpretcast.com)
231 points by joesavage on Aug 5, 2018 | 123 comments
19. For progress to be by accumulation and not random walk, read great books (2010) (lesswrong.com)
158 points by gmays on Aug 6, 2018 | 74 comments
20. Systems Neuroscience Is About to Get Bonkers (simonsfoundation.org)
103 points by hardmaru on Aug 6, 2018 | 24 comments
21. PgModeler – PostgreSQL Database Modeler (pgmodeler.io)
165 points by pera on Aug 5, 2018 | 31 comments
22. How I slashed a SQL query's runtime with two Unix commands (spinellis.gr)
249 points by DSpinellis on Aug 5, 2018 | 83 comments
23. Deep Space Network Now: Status of communications with our deep space explorers (nasa.gov)
125 points by CaliforniaKarl on Aug 5, 2018 | 22 comments
24. Gear Review: Wahoo Elemnt Bolt (joshua0.dreamwidth.org)
168 points by wbraun on Aug 5, 2018 | 39 comments
25. Energy Saved, Sleep Lost: The Unintended Consequences of LED Lighting (medium.com/caseorganic)
166 points by Kroeler on Aug 6, 2018 | 177 comments
26. CLI tool that finds secrets accidentally committed to a Git repo (2017) (github.com/ukhomeoffice)
103 points by kiyanwang on Aug 5, 2018 | 31 comments
27. Show HN: ASCII line chart with console, HTML and image outputs, written in PHP (github.com/noximo)
74 points by noximo on Aug 5, 2018 | 12 comments
28. Ronald Wayne, the third co-founder of Apple (cbsnews.com)
77 points by wpietri on Aug 4, 2018 | 20 comments
29. Why does it take so long to mend an escalator? (2002) (lrb.co.uk)
66 points by danso on Aug 6, 2018 | 89 comments
30. Notes from Dynamicland: Geokit (rsnous.com)
87 points by petethomas on Aug 6, 2018 | 10 comments

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