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1.		Filament: Physically-based rendering engine (google.github.io)
		599 points by corysama on Aug 3, 2018 \| 125 comments
2.		4D toys (4dtoys.com)
		592 points by wenderen on Aug 4, 2018 \| 110 comments
3.		Make a “Literary Clock” from a Jailbroken Kindle (instructables.com)
		446 points by codesections on Aug 4, 2018 \| 73 comments
4.		Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can Be Dangerously Useful (torrentfreak.com)
		566 points by okket on Aug 4, 2018 \| 170 comments
5.		Pilots who risk their lives flying tiny planes over the Atlantic (bbc.com)
		199 points by curtis on Aug 4, 2018 \| 100 comments
6.		Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused (codingnest.com)
		368 points by ScottWRobinson on Aug 3, 2018 \| 90 comments
7.		Internet Archive, decentralized (archive.org)
		242 points by justin_ on Aug 4, 2018 \| 84 comments
8.		Secure Secure Shell (2015) (stribika.github.io)
		224 points by ingve on Aug 4, 2018 \| 23 comments
9.		Show HN: Polyhedra Viewer (tessera.li)
		123 points by tesseralis on Aug 4, 2018 \| 30 comments
10.		Generating random points inside a sphere (karthikkaranth.me)
		252 points by kkaranth on Aug 4, 2018 \| 121 comments
11.		The Disturbing Fate of a Planet Made of Blueberries (atlasobscura.com)
		110 points by DmenshunlAnlsis on Aug 3, 2018 \| 37 comments
12.		Ask HN: How to get web development career on track from being homeless?
		305 points by pdxHomelessDev on Aug 3, 2018 \| 196 comments
13.		The Mind: Most polarizing card game of the year? (arstechnica.com)
		187 points by Tomte on Aug 4, 2018 \| 60 comments
14.		How did you get it to run on a Gameboy? (20dollarlolita.tumblr.com)
		172 points by jordigh on Aug 3, 2018 \| 24 comments
15.		Tindallgrams (tindallgrams.net)
		112 points by thestoicattack on Aug 4, 2018 \| 13 comments
16.		Always-on Alibaba office app fuels backlash among Chinese workers (businessinsider.com)
		165 points by lnguyen on Aug 3, 2018 \| 84 comments
17.		New attack on WPA using PMKID (hashcat.net)
		228 points by newman8r on Aug 4, 2018 \| 75 comments
18.		Life lessons from differential equations (2015) (johndcook.com)
		102 points by magoghm on Aug 3, 2018 \| 20 comments
19.		Vectorized processing for Apache Arrow (github.com/dremio)
		103 points by gizmodo59 on Aug 4, 2018 \| 8 comments
20.		User guide and WASM demos for nphysics: Rust physics engine with multibodies (nphysics.org)
		100 points by sebcrozet on Aug 4, 2018 \| 8 comments
21.		Markdeep markup language (casual-effects.com)
		174 points by aparashk on Aug 4, 2018 \| 59 comments
22.		ThinkPad X220 MacOS High Sierra Installation (mcdonnelltech.com)
		248 points by walterbell on Aug 4, 2018 \| 238 comments
23.		Tracking collars reveal just how extreme a wild cheetah’s movements can be (nationalgeographic.com)
		110 points by curtis on Aug 4, 2018 \| 42 comments
24.		Computer Virus Cripples Several Taiwan Semiconductor Plants (bloomberg.com)
		123 points by dosy on Aug 4, 2018 \| 96 comments
25.		Build a VM step by step with Rust (subnetzero.io)
		188 points by ngaut on Aug 4, 2018 \| 9 comments
26.		Systemisers are better at maths (nature.com)
		103 points by lainon on Aug 3, 2018 \| 50 comments
27.		Chaff Bugs: Deterring Attackers by Making Software Buggier (arxiv.org)
		100 points by fniephaus on Aug 4, 2018 \| 30 comments
28.		Legal AI and the Industrialisation of Cognition (2017) (artificiallawyer.com)
		60 points by raleighm on Aug 3, 2018 \| 15 comments
29.		One Year Without AMP (alexkras.com)
		124 points by ingve on Aug 3, 2018 \| 58 comments
30.		The Joy programming language (kevinalbrecht.com)
		57 points by autocorr on Aug 4, 2018 \| 11 comments
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