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1.		Don’t Do This in Production (stephenmann.io)
		696 points by pattrn on Aug 19, 2018 \| 284 comments
2.		Headless Chrome support in Cloud Functions and App Engine (cloud.google.com)
		333 points by idoco on Aug 19, 2018 \| 79 comments
3.		Facebook addiction linked to staking your self-worth on social acceptance (psypost.org)
		317 points by brahmwg on Aug 18, 2018 \| 144 comments
4.		Bumper Sticker Computer Science (1985) [pdf] (bowdoin.edu)
		231 points by kamaal on Aug 19, 2018 \| 49 comments
5.		Is serverless insecure? Let's find out (lambdashell.com)
		222 points by vdmq on Aug 18, 2018 \| 52 comments
6.		The scientists who starved to death surrounded by food (amusingplanet.com)
		348 points by classichasclass on Aug 19, 2018 \| 82 comments
7.		Introduction to Go Modules (selbach.ca)
		252 points by robteix on Aug 19, 2018 \| 101 comments
8.		The new MacBook Pros with T2 chips do indeed kernel panic randomly (twitter.com/bdkjones)
		257 points by miles on Aug 18, 2018 \| 311 comments
9.		AV1 and the Video Wars of 2027 (hacks.mozilla.org)
		160 points by ko27 on Aug 19, 2018 \| 103 comments
10.		The 1970s calculator race (twitter.com/pulplibrarian)
		169 points by lxm on Aug 19, 2018 \| 60 comments
11.		What to say when recruiters ask you to name the first number (interviewing.io)
		330 points by leeny on Aug 16, 2018 \| 332 comments
12.		Ask HN: How did you find your current job?
		199 points by onuralp on Aug 19, 2018 \| 207 comments
13.		Shamir's Secret Sharing (wikipedia.org)
		177 points by fisian on Aug 18, 2018 \| 45 comments
14.		How Amsterdam’s Airport Is Fighting Noise Pollution with Land Art (amusingplanet.com)
		147 points by jath2 on Aug 19, 2018 \| 62 comments
15.		When You’re Hot, You’re Hot: Career Successes Come in Clusters (northwestern.edu)
		134 points by barry-cotter on Aug 18, 2018 \| 42 comments
16.		In praise of SWARMing (dannorth.net)
		45 points by adrianhoward on Aug 19, 2018 \| 18 comments
17.		Two player Karateka using a 42 byte patch (retroconnector.com)
		137 points by rishabhd on Aug 18, 2018 \| 22 comments
18.		Getting Deep into EVM: How Ethereum Works Backstage (hackernoon.com)
		93 points by rbanffy on Aug 18, 2018 \| 4 comments
19.		The short history of the “about:” URL (2013) (montulli.org)
		143 points by johnmw on Aug 19, 2018 \| 21 comments
20.		The City Born in a Day: The Origin Story of Oklahoma City (nymag.com)
		110 points by tintinnabula on Aug 17, 2018 \| 22 comments
21.		Invisible Institute Relaunches the Citizens Police Data Project (theintercept.com)
		74 points by danso on Aug 16, 2018 \| 5 comments
22.		Border between Belgium and the Netherlands at Baarle-Hertog/Baarle-Nassau (2017) (brilliantmaps.com)
		105 points by pulisse on Aug 18, 2018 \| 70 comments
23.		A Haskell Compiler – Slides on GHC Implementation (2013) (stanford.edu)
		101 points by TheAsprngHacker on Aug 19, 2018 \| 18 comments
24.		The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly (washingtonpost.com)
		235 points by siberianbear on Aug 19, 2018 \| 103 comments
25.		MIT 6.886 – Graph Analytics – Spring 2018 (csail.mit.edu)
		154 points by charlysl on Aug 19, 2018 \| 4 comments
26.		Show HN: FreshJobs – An aggregator of junior and entry-level jobs (freshjobs.io)
		106 points by lukehero on Aug 19, 2018 \| 31 comments
27.		Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels (2016) (karpathy.github.io)
		57 points by sonabinu on Aug 18, 2018 \| 1 comment
28.		The Chinese Wheelbarrow (2011) (lowtechmagazine.com)
		88 points by oftenwrong on Aug 19, 2018 \| 33 comments
29.		On Loneliness and Solitude (pa-mar.net)
		136 points by Pamar on Aug 19, 2018 \| 36 comments
30.		Lifeguard Drone Rescues Swimmer in Spain (thedrive.com)
		83 points by nradov on Aug 18, 2018 \| 53 comments
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