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1.		Quora User Data Compromised (quora.com)
		1254 points by joebeetee on Dec 4, 2018 \| 505 comments
2.		Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI (windows.com)
		874 points by TiredOfLife on Dec 4, 2018 \| 375 comments
3.		Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10 (windowscentral.com)
		1061 points by rattt on Dec 4, 2018 \| 733 comments
4.		Firefox desktop market share now below 9% (netmarketshare.com)
		824 points by ngokevin on Dec 4, 2018 \| 740 comments
5.		Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit goes 1.0 (techcrunch.com)
		545 points by mikece on Dec 4, 2018 \| 327 comments
6.		Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode” (diyphotography.net)
		669 points by minikites on Dec 4, 2018 \| 267 comments
7.		Hashicorp Vault v1.0 (hashicorp.com)
		409 points by blopeur on Dec 4, 2018 \| 92 comments
8.		Hacker News Highlights, August to November 2018 (blog.ycombinator.com)
		413 points by craigcannon on Dec 4, 2018 \| 53 comments
9.		China Announces Punishments for Intellectual-Property Theft (bloomberg.com)
		337 points by kjhughes on Dec 4, 2018 \| 199 comments
10.		Microsoft and Docker team up to make packaging cloud-native applications easier (techcrunch.com)
		276 points by kaboro on Dec 4, 2018 \| 77 comments
11.		What we learned from 3 years of bra engineering, and what's next (bratheory.com)
		409 points by hazelynut on Dec 4, 2018 \| 225 comments
12.		Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (2012) (jesshamrick.com)
		423 points by sytelus on Dec 4, 2018 \| 257 comments
13.		Google personalizes search results even when you’re logged out, new study finds (theverge.com)
		350 points by dcu on Dec 4, 2018 \| 165 comments
14.		Show HN: Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website (darkreader.org)
		369 points by alexanderby on Dec 4, 2018 \| 175 comments
15.		Building a Language and Compiler for Machine Learning (julialang.org)
		161 points by one-more-minute on Dec 3, 2018 \| 24 comments
16.		A Not-Called Function Can Cause a 5X Slowdown (randomascii.wordpress.com)
		309 points by deafcalculus on Dec 4, 2018 \| 125 comments
17.		Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features (techcrunch.com)
		161 points by brandnewlow on Dec 4, 2018 \| 106 comments
18.		A history of the distributed transactional database (infoq.com)
		105 points by evanweaver on Dec 4, 2018 \| 25 comments
19.		Using Zig to Provide Stack Traces on Kernel Panic for a Bare Bones OS (andrewkelley.me)
		136 points by andxor on Dec 4, 2018 \| 42 comments
20.		Jupyter Notebook Tutorial – Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning in PyTorch (github.com/openmined)
		218 points by williamtrask on Dec 4, 2018 \| 5 comments
21.		Crossplane – Open Source Multicloud Control Plane (upbound.io)
		185 points by sytse on Dec 4, 2018 \| 36 comments
22.		Movim – Federated, open-source alternative to Tumblr (movim.eu)
		182 points by edhelas on Dec 4, 2018 \| 137 comments
23.		Teensy 3.1 bare metal: Writing a USB driver (2014) (kevincuzner.com)
		106 points by kersny on Dec 3, 2018 \| 15 comments
24.		Nasdaq Acquires Quandl to Advance the Use of Alternative Data (nasdaq.com)
		118 points by rainboiboi on Dec 4, 2018 \| 82 comments
25.		String Matching Based on Compile Time Perfect Hashing in Zig (andrewkelley.me)
		84 points by luu on Dec 4, 2018 \| 4 comments
26.		NULL: The worst mistake of computer science? (2015) (lucidchart.com)
		209 points by BerislavLopac on Dec 3, 2018 \| 368 comments
27.		Fortnite dev launches Epic Games Store that takes 12% of revenue (venturebeat.com)
		274 points by richardboegli on Dec 4, 2018 \| 229 comments
28.		YouTube top earners: A seven-year-old making $22M (bbc.com)
		278 points by happy-go-lucky on Dec 4, 2018 \| 310 comments
29.		Yale scientists make a borophene breakthrough (yale.edu)
		111 points by mangoleaf on Dec 4, 2018 \| 8 comments
30.		PC/GEOS (github.com/bluewaysw)
		115 points by beefhash on Dec 4, 2018 \| 76 comments
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