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1.		Remote Code Execution on a Facebook server (scrt.ch)
		877 points by phwd on Aug 24, 2018 \| 192 comments
2.		Former Tesla Firmware Engineer Discusses the System (twitter.com/atomicthumbs)
		948 points by swalsh on Aug 24, 2018 \| 555 comments
3.		A2Z: A computer designed and built from scratch. Custom CPU on FPGA (2017) (hackaday.io)
		262 points by F4HDK on Aug 24, 2018 \| 50 comments
4.		How an International Hacker Network Turned Stolen Press Releases into $100M (theverge.com)
		358 points by sus_007 on Aug 24, 2018 \| 65 comments
5.		What is this Twitter army of Amazon drones cheerfully defending warehouse work? (techcrunch.com)
		432 points by pinewurst on Aug 24, 2018 \| 183 comments
6.		Traveler sues US Customs and Border Protection over iPhone search and seizure (9to5mac.com)
		363 points by thund on Aug 24, 2018 \| 193 comments
7.		Eerie Skyglow Called 'Steve' Isn't an Aurora, Is 'Completely Unknown' to Science (livescience.com)
		280 points by okket on Aug 24, 2018 \| 111 comments
8.		Supreme Court Should Say No to Patents That Take Old Ideas Away from the Public (eff.org)
		310 points by otp124 on Aug 24, 2018 \| 68 comments
9.		ATtention Spanned: Comprehensive Android Vulnerability Analysis of AT Commands (atcommands.org)
		185 points by p4bl0 on Aug 24, 2018 \| 75 comments
10.		Be kind (2016) (briangilham.com)
		338 points by tosh on Aug 24, 2018 \| 76 comments
11.		The Bitter Regrets of a Useless Chinese Daughter (nytimes.com)
		487 points by bitcurious on Aug 24, 2018 \| 297 comments
12.		IRC turns thirty (oulu.fi)
		342 points by worez on Aug 24, 2018 \| 208 comments
13.		Writing Documentation When You Aren't a Technical Writer (stoplight.io)
		303 points by pytlesk4 on Aug 23, 2018 \| 80 comments
14.		Redis is not “open core” (antirez.com)
		204 points by stock_toaster on Aug 24, 2018 \| 68 comments
15.		Keylist RFC: Distributing OpenPGP Keys with Signed Keylist Subscriptions (firstlook.media)
		73 points by petethomas on Aug 24, 2018 \| 14 comments
16.		Intel microcode license updated to permit redistribution (01.org)
		184 points by rnhmjoj on Aug 24, 2018 \| 38 comments
17.		Sangoma (FreePBX) to Acquire Digium (Asterisk) for $28M (sangoma.com)
		158 points by kimi on Aug 24, 2018 \| 67 comments
18.		The Dark Arts of Advanced and Unsafe Rust Programming (rust-lang.org)
		181 points by ngaut on Aug 24, 2018 \| 25 comments
19.		Show HN: Remote jobs for people with disabilities (jobenabler.org)
		177 points by zaheerbaloch on Aug 24, 2018 \| 53 comments
20.		Sonder Raises $135M to Turn Airbnb Apartments into Hotels (forbes.com/sites/bizcarson)
		118 points by anguswithgusto on Aug 24, 2018 \| 128 comments
21.		Researchers have observed the Lyman-alpha transition in the antihydrogen atom (home.cern)
		145 points by sohkamyung on Aug 23, 2018 \| 38 comments
22.		NLP’s generalization problem, and how researchers are tackling it (thegradient.pub)
		155 points by onuralp on Aug 23, 2018 \| 39 comments
23.		Arduino command line interface (github.com/arduino)
		147 points by braxxox on Aug 24, 2018 \| 29 comments
24.		On HtDP (felleisen.org)
		121 points by tosh on Aug 23, 2018 \| 34 comments
25.		Music and Machine Learning (monash.edu)
		83 points by zappau on Aug 23, 2018 \| 24 comments
26.		Tracking animals from space could predict earthquakes on the ground (nbcnews.com)
		61 points by jonbaer on Aug 24, 2018 \| 19 comments
27.		Consider applying for grad school (80000hours.org)
		109 points by robertwiblin on Aug 24, 2018 \| 157 comments
28.		Privatizing Poverty (thebaffler.com)
		189 points by axiomdata316 on Aug 23, 2018 \| 192 comments
29.		Opium or Cucumber? Debunking a Myth About Sumerian Drugs (resobscura.blogspot.com)
		63 points by benbreen on Aug 23, 2018 \| 11 comments
30.		Watching neurons in action (medicalxpress.com)
		48 points by dnetesn on Aug 23, 2018 \| 2 comments
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