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1.		Learning Dexterity (blog.openai.com)
		470 points by gdb on July 30, 2018 \| 135 comments
2.		Uber shuts down self-driving trucks unit (techcrunch.com)
		467 points by mark-ruwt on July 30, 2018 \| 402 comments
3.		Some Amazon Reviews Are Too Good to Be Believed – They're Paid For (npr.org)
		455 points by EnderWT on July 30, 2018 \| 265 comments
4.		How Britain beat the odds to achieve space flight, and then abandoned it (medium.com/lapsed-historian)
		266 points by villaaston1 on July 30, 2018 \| 124 comments
5.		Security Begins at the Home Router (cmu.edu)
		233 points by BillPollak on July 30, 2018 \| 172 comments
6.		How F5Bot Slurps All of Reddit (intoli.com)
		255 points by foob on July 30, 2018 \| 87 comments
7.		Why the New V8 Is So Damn Fast (nodesource.com)
		336 points by okket on July 30, 2018 \| 233 comments
8.		India's first RISC-V based Chip is Here: Linux boots on Shakti processor (geekdave.in)
		452 points by signa11 on July 30, 2018 \| 88 comments
9.		L-theanine, a constituent in tea, and its effect on mental state (2008) [pdf] (nhri.org.tw)
		260 points by lainon on July 30, 2018 \| 158 comments
10.		Tom Tryniski digitized nearly 50M pages of newspapers in his living room (cjr.org)
		326 points by dzdt on July 30, 2018 \| 70 comments
11.		Serverless, Inc. lands $10M Series A to build serverless dev platform (techcrunch.com)
		191 points by TheMissingPiece on July 30, 2018 \| 192 comments
12.		Goodreads offloads DynamoDB tables to S3 and queries them with Athena (amazon.com)
		204 points by mooreds on July 30, 2018 \| 104 comments
13.		Gamifying propositional logic: QED, an interactive textbook (terrytao.wordpress.com)
		186 points by robinhouston on July 29, 2018 \| 21 comments
14.		Ask HN: How to pursue acquisition?
		222 points by throwaway334455 on July 29, 2018 \| 71 comments
15.		How to read Plato (1995) (plato-dialogues.org)
		116 points by csdrane on July 30, 2018 \| 73 comments
16.		Building an Inclusive Code Review Culture (plaid.com)
		164 points by whockey on July 30, 2018 \| 75 comments
17.		Iran's Wolf Wall, Second-Longest in the World, Is Still Shrouded in Mystery (discovermagazine.com)
		219 points by curtis on July 29, 2018 \| 79 comments
18.		Apollo Accelerators – Amiga Classic accelerator boards (apollo-accelerators.com)
		144 points by peter_d_sherman on July 30, 2018 \| 74 comments
19.		BitTorrent Is Now Part of TRON (bittorrent.com)
		118 points by yarapavan on July 30, 2018 \| 53 comments
20.		Non-PhotoRealistic Quake (2002) (wisc.edu)
		199 points by njn on July 30, 2018 \| 53 comments
21.		Do Our Questions Create the World? (scientificamerican.com)
		110 points by ynonym00s on July 30, 2018 \| 86 comments
22.		A Taste of Linear Logic (1993) [pdf] (ed.ac.uk)
		146 points by andrewflnr on July 30, 2018 \| 62 comments
23.		Inventory of CO2 available for terraforming Mars (nature.com)
		99 points by pmoriarty on July 30, 2018 \| 171 comments
24.		New Video of F-117s Flying Out of Tonopah Despite Their Fates Being Sealed (thedrive.com)
		130 points by molecule on July 29, 2018 \| 132 comments
25.		Compromised supply chain within a supply chain poses new risks (cloudblogs.microsoft.com)
		76 points by ccnafr on July 29, 2018 \| 17 comments
26.		If monads are the solution, what is the problem? (danghica.blogspot.com)
		189 points by theaeolist on July 30, 2018 \| 175 comments
27.		How Japan's visionaries saw the future (bbc.com)
		74 points by happy-go-lucky on July 29, 2018 \| 5 comments
28.		Ask HN: What “dumbphones” are available and viable in the US?
		175 points by msftie on July 30, 2018 \| 171 comments
29.		Practical Common Lisp (2009) (gigamonkeys.com)
		144 points by tosh on July 30, 2018 \| 84 comments
30.		‘Lopping,’ ‘Tips’ and the ‘Z-List’: Bias Lawsuit Explores Harvard’s Admissions (nytimes.com)
		139 points by mlthoughts2018 on July 30, 2018 \| 252 comments
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