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1.		Using FOIA Data and Unix to halve major source of parking tickets (mchap.io)
		769 points by tptacek on Aug 13, 2018 \| 237 comments
2.		Original Source code for the Furby [pdf] (seanriddle.com)
		533 points by rahimiali on Aug 13, 2018 \| 152 comments
3.		Exapunks (zachtronics.com)
		603 points by yumaikas on Aug 12, 2018 \| 137 comments
4.		Dijkstra's in Disguise (evjang.com)
		450 points by ColinWright on Aug 12, 2018 \| 26 comments
5.		Nvidia Unveils Quadro RTX, a Raytracing GPU (nasdaq.com)
		316 points by tntn on Aug 13, 2018 \| 189 comments
6.		Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found (quantamagazine.org)
		275 points by digital55 on Aug 13, 2018 \| 62 comments
7.		What Does Immersing Yourself in a Book Do to Your Brain? (lithub.com)
		195 points by dpflan on Aug 11, 2018 \| 49 comments
8.		Show HN: A side project in medical devices (chrisseaton.com)
		267 points by chrisseaton on Aug 13, 2018 \| 45 comments
9.		One man designed and built the ultimate bush plane (arstechnica.com)
		252 points by privong on Aug 12, 2018 \| 80 comments
10.		Endocrine-disrupting chemical exposure in US: disease burden and cost analysis (thelancet.com)
		193 points by bookofjoe on Aug 13, 2018 \| 152 comments
11.		Notes Nearing Ninety: Learning to Write Less (theparisreview.org)
		248 points by quickfox on Aug 13, 2018 \| 41 comments
12.		In a Town of 11 People, Mysterious Disappearance Turns Neighbor Against Neighbor (nytimes.com)
		192 points by danso on Aug 13, 2018 \| 112 comments
13.		AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review (anandtech.com)
		322 points by TiredOfLife on Aug 13, 2018 \| 189 comments
14.		Faxploit: Sending Fax Back to the Dark Ages (checkpoint.com)
		207 points by blopeur on Aug 13, 2018 \| 61 comments
15.		OpenStax – openly licensed textbooks (openstax.org)
		348 points by pome on Aug 12, 2018 \| 55 comments
16.		Cache-Line Aware Data Structures (accu.org)
		123 points by ingve on Aug 13, 2018 \| 4 comments
17.		The Bell System Technical Journal (archive.org)
		148 points by walrus01 on Aug 13, 2018 \| 19 comments
18.		Alcubierre drive (wikipedia.org)
		166 points by grahameb on Aug 12, 2018 \| 125 comments
19.		Organized Resources for Deep Learning Researchers and Developers (github.com/astorfi)
		153 points by irsina on Aug 13, 2018 \| 22 comments
20.		Starting your own bank is laborious but profitable (2009) (wealthmanagement.com)
		154 points by gscott on Aug 13, 2018 \| 155 comments
21.		Dear customers of Cloudflare: an appeal regarding Tor (gitlab.com/iblech)
		481 points by IngoBlechschmid on Aug 13, 2018 \| 163 comments
22.		Mkcert: Tool for making locally-trusted development certificates (github.com/filosottile)
		218 points by vaibhavmule on Aug 13, 2018 \| 38 comments
23.		Jorge Luis Borges Interview (1977) (denisdutton.com)
		167 points by cwmoore on Aug 12, 2018 \| 20 comments
24.		Facebook buys Vidpresso's (YC W14) team and tech to make video interactive (techcrunch.com)
		91 points by sandmansandine on Aug 13, 2018 \| 64 comments
25.		Show HN: Trackerjacker – Map and track wifi networks you're not connected to (github.com/calebmadrigal)
		159 points by calebm on Aug 13, 2018 \| 33 comments
26.		Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches (1994) (pmichaud.com)
		109 points by tarboreus on Aug 12, 2018 \| 32 comments
27.		Creating the alien writing in Infinifactory (2015) (zachtronics.com)
		108 points by karulont on Aug 13, 2018 \| 10 comments
28.		Microbiologist Carl Woese changed the way we think about evolution (nytimes.com)
		81 points by yaseen-rob on Aug 13, 2018 \| 15 comments
29.		The 10:1 rule of writing and programming (ybrikman.com)
		380 points by ScottWRobinson on Aug 13, 2018 \| 90 comments
30.		δ-presence, for when being in the dataset is sensitive (desfontain.es)
		84 points by p4bl0 on Aug 12, 2018 \| 5 comments
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