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1.		Silent and Simple Ion Engine Powers a Plane with No Moving Parts (scientificamerican.com)
		662 points by tshannon on Nov 21, 2018 \| 223 comments
2.		Amazon admits it exposed customer email addresses, but refuses to give details (techcrunch.com)
		521 points by Ours90 on Nov 21, 2018 \| 146 comments
3.		Why Aren't There C Conferences? (nullprogram.com)
		466 points by ingve on Nov 21, 2018 \| 372 comments
4.		The Second Half of Watergate Was Bigger, Worse, and Forgotten by the Public (longreads.com)
		479 points by cmurf on Nov 20, 2018 \| 237 comments
5.		Popular dark-web hosting provider hacked, 6,500 sites down (zdnet.com)
		229 points by wglb on Nov 21, 2018 \| 152 comments
6.		CUDA 10 in Clojure (dragan.rocks)
		157 points by dragandj on Nov 21, 2018 \| 19 comments
7.		My hiring experience as a submarine sonar operator in the Norwegian Navy (brautaset.org)
		170 points by drtse4 on Nov 21, 2018 \| 56 comments
8.		Flying for Thanksgiving (bert.org)
		323 points by janvdberg on Nov 19, 2018 \| 111 comments
9.		Ask HN: Have you ever regretted working on a product?
		371 points by mavsman on Nov 21, 2018 \| 472 comments
10.		D compilation is too slow and I am forking the compiler (thecybershadow.net)
		251 points by ingve on Nov 21, 2018 \| 116 comments
11.		How much bandwidth does the L2 have to give, anyway? (github.com/travisdowns)
		143 points by nkurz on Nov 20, 2018 \| 12 comments
12.		A list of practical projects that anyone can solve in any programming language (github.com/karan)
		320 points by truth_seeker on Nov 21, 2018 \| 64 comments
13.		Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016) (idlewords.com)
		303 points by crunchiebones on Nov 21, 2018 \| 248 comments
14.		I Can Be the Bank: Individual Investors Buy Busted Mortgages (wsj.com)
		107 points by iaskquestions on Nov 21, 2018 \| 162 comments
15.		Concurrency Glossary (slikts.github.io)
		197 points by slikts on Nov 21, 2018 \| 28 comments
16.		Some Amazon employees bought NYC condos before news of HQ2 location emerged (thehill.com)
		267 points by jakelazaroff on Nov 21, 2018 \| 164 comments
17.		CDC Food Safety Alert: E. Coli Outbreak Linked to Romaine Lettuce (cdc.gov)
		148 points by sycdan on Nov 20, 2018 \| 89 comments
18.		Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation and sleep (brain.fm)
		163 points by eduardsi on Nov 20, 2018 \| 109 comments
19.		Fast, Constant-Time Sphere Indexing (donw.io)
		117 points by strangecasts on Nov 21, 2018 \| 9 comments
20.		TKE: Modern Tcl/Tk-based text editor (sourceforge.net)
		155 points by blacksqr on Nov 20, 2018 \| 104 comments
21.		Facebook's Ads System Suffers Glitch Days Before Black Friday (bloomberg.com)
		78 points by mathattack on Nov 21, 2018 \| 20 comments
22.		To predict the future, the brain uses two clocks (news.berkeley.edu)
		153 points by ClarendonDrive on Nov 20, 2018 \| 16 comments
23.		Wooden bikes (materiabikes.com)
		160 points by dzedajs on Nov 21, 2018 \| 228 comments
24.		WesternDigital/blb: Distributed object storage system for use on bare metal (github.com/westerndigitalcorporation)
		95 points by mastabadtomm on Nov 21, 2018 \| 23 comments
25.		The Triple Jeopardy of a Chinese Math Prodigy (bloomberg.com)
		154 points by vthallam on Nov 21, 2018 \| 65 comments
26.		Asynchronous Ratcheting Tree: Group Messaging with Strong Security Guarantees (github.com/facebookresearch)
		86 points by setra on Nov 21, 2018 \| 4 comments
27.		Django core no more (b-list.org)
		170 points by jsmeaton on Nov 20, 2018 \| 44 comments
28.		Where are they? Why I hope the search for ET life finds nothing (2008) (fermatslibrary.com)
		78 points by godelmachine on Nov 20, 2018 \| 117 comments
29.		A small French privacy ruling could remake adtech (techcrunch.com)
		250 points by _quhg on Nov 21, 2018 \| 160 comments
30.		Container Linux on the Desktop [slides] (docs.google.com)
		126 points by soohyung on Nov 21, 2018 \| 57 comments
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