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1.		Go 2 Draft Designs (googlesource.com)
		909 points by conroy on Aug 28, 2018 \| 473 comments
2.		Sen. Wyden Confirms Cell-Site Simulators Disrupt Emergency Calls (eff.org)
		518 points by DiabloD3 on Aug 28, 2018 \| 122 comments
3.		NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your current internet connection (nycmesh.net)
		550 points by tony101 on Aug 28, 2018 \| 170 comments
4.		How the Dutch created a casual biking culture (vox.com)
		388 points by jseliger on Aug 28, 2018 \| 383 comments
5.		Write – A word processor for handwriting (styluslabs.com)
		412 points by krupan on Aug 28, 2018 \| 88 comments
6.		What You Need to Know Before Considering a PhD (fast.ai)
		348 points by hardmaru on Aug 27, 2018 \| 187 comments
7.		We are rewriting CodeMirror (codemirror.net)
		342 points by tobr on Aug 28, 2018 \| 73 comments
8.		Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environmental cost (economist.com)
		271 points by lazerpants on Aug 28, 2018 \| 420 comments
9.		Yahoo, Bucking Industry, Scans Emails for Data to Sell Advertisers (wsj.com)
		239 points by hemancuso on Aug 28, 2018 \| 109 comments
10.		Long-sought decay of Higgs boson observed at CERN (home.cern)
		243 points by chmaynard on Aug 28, 2018 \| 83 comments
11.		Salmon, a Python Mail Server (salmon-mail.readthedocs.io)
		214 points by tosh on Aug 28, 2018 \| 52 comments
12.		Why Static Websites Need HTTPS (troyhunt.com)
		328 points by edward on Aug 28, 2018 \| 253 comments
13.		How Netflix outsmarted everyone else in TV (recode.net)
		150 points by dsr12 on Aug 28, 2018 \| 131 comments
14.		LyX: combine the power of LaTeX with the ease of use of a graphical interface (lyx.org)
		198 points by delib on Aug 28, 2018 \| 68 comments
15.		Fuzzing the .NET JIT Compiler (mattwarren.org)
		73 points by matthewwarren on Aug 28, 2018 \| 19 comments
16.		Cracking Litter Box DRM (davidhampgonsalves.com)
		121 points by dh-g on Aug 28, 2018 \| 49 comments
17.		Why Love Generative Art? (artnome.com)
		248 points by Artnome on Aug 27, 2018 \| 81 comments
18.		JSON Changelog with SQLite (budgetwithbuckets.com)
		113 points by iffycan on Aug 27, 2018 \| 23 comments
19.		Ask HN: Have you built a house?
		356 points by gonvaled on Aug 28, 2018 \| 220 comments
20.		Novel Attack Technique Uses Smart Light Bulbs to Steal Data (bleepingcomputer.com)
		84 points by yaseen-rob on Aug 28, 2018 \| 39 comments
21.		Is Rails still relevant in 2018? (eq8.eu)
		306 points by bdcravens on Aug 28, 2018 \| 333 comments
22.		Zero-Day Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Leaked on Twitter (twitter.com/sandboxescaper)
		332 points by tzury on Aug 28, 2018 \| 123 comments
23.		Building a Treasury Bond Ladder (terenz.io)
		140 points by john2373 on Aug 28, 2018 \| 99 comments
24.		‘Why didn’t you think this baby was ill?’ Decision-making in acute paediatrics (bmj.com)
		88 points by DanBC on Aug 27, 2018 \| 72 comments
25.		Service Workers (frontendian.co)
		126 points by andRyanMiller on Aug 28, 2018 \| 66 comments
26.		Russian archeologists have found an exceptionally rare 'beard kopek' (dailymail.co.uk)
		47 points by rutenspitz on Aug 27, 2018 \| 19 comments
27.		A Genetic Condition That 21 People Are Known to Have (nytimes.com)
		70 points by js2 on Aug 28, 2018 \| 48 comments
28.		A walkthrough the AcridRain password stealer (stormshield.com)
		77 points by _cacao on Aug 28, 2018 \| 14 comments
29.		RssHub – A feed aggregator that can generate feeds from pretty much everything (rsshub.app)
		235 points by tvvocold on Aug 28, 2018 \| 60 comments
30.		JupyterCon: I don't like Notebooks [slides] (docs.google.com)
		312 points by tosh on Aug 28, 2018 \| 106 comments
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