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1.		Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible? (usenix.org)
		878 points by zdw on Aug 17, 2018 \| 171 comments
2.		Faster – Fast key-value store from Microsoft Research (github.com/microsoft)
		401 points by JeffCyr on Aug 17, 2018 \| 76 comments
3.		Arm Announces Client CPU Roadmap For Laptops (arm.com)
		389 points by redial on Aug 17, 2018 \| 278 comments
4.		Show HN: git-bug – Distributed bug tracker embedded in git (github.com/michaelmure)
		447 points by michaelmure on Aug 17, 2018 \| 94 comments
5.		Python Fire – Generates CLIs from any Python object (github.com/google)
		252 points by tzury on Aug 17, 2018 \| 35 comments
6.		John Ousterhout: My favorite sayings (stanford.edu)
		198 points by blacksqr on Aug 17, 2018 \| 63 comments
7.		History of T (2001) (paulgraham.com)
		117 points by tosh on Aug 17, 2018 \| 38 comments
8.		Pre-sleep treatment with galantamine stimulates lucid dreaming (plos.org)
		318 points by rbanffy on Aug 17, 2018 \| 222 comments
9.		How a tiny hospital used AI to lower costs and improve patient outcomes (healthcareitnews.com)
		109 points by jtsymonds on Aug 17, 2018 \| 30 comments
10.		[dupe] How to Read 100s of Millions of Records per Second from a Single Disk (clemenswinter.com)
		130 points by cwinter on Aug 17, 2018 \| 8 comments
11.		24-core CPU and I can’t type an email (randomascii.wordpress.com)
		629 points by ghuntley on Aug 17, 2018 \| 310 comments
12.		Two French rivers disappear underground in cracks and sinkholes (strangesounds.org)
		225 points by Earth_Change on Aug 17, 2018 \| 34 comments
13.		U.S. government seeks Facebook help to wiretap Messenger (reuters.com)
		207 points by tareqak on Aug 17, 2018 \| 105 comments
14.		Show HN: Find recommendations from good people (abyjames.com)
		256 points by gits1225 on Aug 17, 2018 \| 124 comments
15.		A Sound Card Before Its Time (os2museum.com)
		129 points by userbinator on Aug 17, 2018 \| 60 comments
16.		MinUnit – A minimal unit testing framework for C (2002) (jera.com)
		108 points by hazz99 on Aug 17, 2018 \| 55 comments
17.		Computational Duplo train track layouts (cr31.co.uk)
		215 points by amenghra on Aug 16, 2018 \| 19 comments
18.		The Linux Documentation Project Guides (tldp.org)
		97 points by ghosthamlet on Aug 16, 2018 \| 16 comments
19.		How to deploy an app to production with an actual button (blog.github.com)
		87 points by guessmyname on Aug 16, 2018 \| 45 comments
20.		Schism: A library of CRDT implementations of Clojure’s core data types (github.com/aredington)
		112 points by tosh on Aug 16, 2018 \| 10 comments
21.		Trial by Combat? Trial by Cake (jstor.org)
		60 points by GW150914 on Aug 17, 2018 \| 22 comments
22.		Gource – a software version control visualization tool (gource.io)
		122 points by ColinWright on Aug 16, 2018 \| 21 comments
23.		Typed Clojure in Theory and Practice [pdf] (ambrosebs.com)
		83 points by tosh on Aug 16, 2018 \| 6 comments
24.		Elon Musk Confronts a Fateful Tweet and an ‘Excruciating’ Year (nytimes.com)
		278 points by tysone on Aug 17, 2018 \| 361 comments
25.		Alexa, be my friend: Children talk to technology, but how does it respond? (washington.edu)
		73 points by rbanffy on Aug 15, 2018 \| 75 comments
26.		Show HN: Map of Related Books for “Designing Data Intensive Apps” (anvaka.github.io)
		138 points by anvaka on Aug 17, 2018 \| 4 comments
27.		Why Facebook is losing the war on hate speech in Myanmar (reuters.com)
		134 points by humantiy on Aug 17, 2018 \| 97 comments
28.		Amiga Graphics Archive (lychesis.net)
		105 points by erickhill on Aug 17, 2018 \| 27 comments
29.		VigNAT: A Formally Verified Performant NAT (vignat.github.io)
		128 points by signa11 on Aug 17, 2018 \| 40 comments
30.		‘Functional Fingerprint’ May Identify Brains Over a Lifetime (quantamagazine.org)
		51 points by laurex on Aug 17, 2018 \| 3 comments
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