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1.		Fake review factories that run on Facebook and post five-star Amazon reviews (theguardian.com)
		598 points by sefrost on Oct 20, 2018 \| 313 comments
2.		Who Are My Investors? (avc.com)
		500 points by wslh on Oct 21, 2018 \| 253 comments
3.		The City of Seattle Accidentally Gave Me 32M Emails for $40 (mchap.io)
		516 points by bpchaps on Oct 19, 2018 \| 233 comments
4.		Massachusetts gas fires: Another technological tragedy (bit-player.org)
		216 points by greeneggs on Oct 20, 2018 \| 123 comments
5.		An update on GNU performance (arm.com)
		161 points by ingve on Oct 21, 2018 \| 64 comments
6.		Alchemy: A Language and Compiler for Homomorphic Encryption Made Easy [pdf] (umich.edu)
		81 points by ArtWomb on Oct 20, 2018 \| 7 comments
7.		Ask HN: What do you do in your 1-on-1s with your direct reports?
		409 points by ankurvjy on Oct 20, 2018 \| 153 comments
8.		A honeypot programmed in Micropython for the ESP8266 (github.com/gbafana25)
		105 points by gkm25 on Oct 21, 2018 \| 22 comments
9.		Hello P5.js Web Editor (medium.com/processing-foundation)
		194 points by juliendorra on Oct 21, 2018 \| 24 comments
10.		Run Perl in the browser with WebPerl (zero-g.net)
		148 points by mfontani on Oct 21, 2018 \| 58 comments
11.		Researchers Prove Quantum Computers Are More Powerful Than Classical Computers (vice.com)
		75 points by Osiris30 on Oct 20, 2018 \| 27 comments
12.		Ask HN: Am I just a wantrepreneur?
		428 points by ced83fra on Oct 21, 2018 \| 148 comments
13.		Evolution of Emacs Lisp [pdf] (umontreal.ca)
		194 points by tarsius on Oct 21, 2018 \| 55 comments
14.		Why Kodak Died and Fujifilm Thrived: A Tale of Two Film Companies (petapixel.com)
		169 points by bleair on Oct 21, 2018 \| 50 comments
15.		Repair Café (repaircafe.org)
		227 points by fredley on Oct 19, 2018 \| 65 comments
16.		Zero-day in jQuery plugin sample code exploited for at least three years (zdnet.com)
		216 points by john37386 on Oct 20, 2018 \| 68 comments
17.		A Love Story That Upended the Texas Prison System (texasmonthly.com)
		136 points by rmason on Oct 19, 2018 \| 37 comments
18.		Steve Wozniak on Smart Watches, Motivating Engineers, Siri, and More (ieee.org)
		225 points by kanishkdudeja on Oct 21, 2018 \| 136 comments
19.		Problems with infinite scroll (logrocket.com)
		208 points by ohjeez on Oct 21, 2018 \| 108 comments
20.		Mass-Produced Electric Lada from 30 Years Ago (englishrussia.com)
		118 points by stmw on Oct 21, 2018 \| 69 comments
21.		Pharo: An immersive programming experience (pharo.org)
		188 points by signa11 on Oct 21, 2018 \| 106 comments
22.		The Looming Danger of Non-Banks (axios.com)
		101 points by rafaelc on Oct 21, 2018 \| 70 comments
23.		Notes on Landauer's principle, reversible computation, Maxwell's Demon (2003) [pdf] (princeton.edu)
		73 points by boricensis on Oct 21, 2018
24.		New Cottonseed Is Safe for People to Eat (npr.org)
		55 points by crunchiebones on Oct 19, 2018 \| 45 comments
25.		Show HN: Webpage to PDF Microservice (imti.co)
		93 points by cjimti on Oct 21, 2018 \| 34 comments
26.		Orca: differential bug localization in large-scale services (acolyer.org)
		37 points by mpweiher on Oct 20, 2018 \| 4 comments
27.		67% of workers earning over $100k see themselves quitting in the next 6 months (cnbc.com)
		237 points by DoreenMichele on Oct 21, 2018 \| 148 comments
28.		Some studies show an association between the herpes virus and Alzheimer’s (theconversation.com)
		190 points by hourislate on Oct 20, 2018 \| 46 comments
29.		Show HN: SQL Viewer – UI for uber/queryparser, written in Haskell (github.com/dlthomas)
		88 points by dllthomas on Oct 21, 2018 \| 9 comments
30.		BepiColombo Launches on Long Journey to Mercury (nytimes.com)
		55 points by dnetesn on Oct 20, 2018 \| 2 comments
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