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1.		Japan starts space elevator experiments (electronicsweekly.com)
		447 points by Futurebot on Sept 2, 2018 \| 286 comments
2.		TypeScript at Google (neugierig.org)
		494 points by wslh on Sept 2, 2018 \| 195 comments
3.		USB-C Explorer – A development board to get started working with USB Type-C (reclaimerlabs.com)
		311 points by walterbell on Sept 2, 2018 \| 72 comments
4.		Why Read the Classics? (1986) (nybooks.com)
		310 points by constantinum on Sept 2, 2018 \| 160 comments
5.		An Intensive Introduction to Cryptography (intensecrypto.org)
		569 points by angry_octet on Sept 2, 2018 \| 36 comments
6.		An Introduction to Modern CMake (cliutils.gitlab.io)
		267 points by uyoakaoma on Sept 2, 2018 \| 122 comments
7.		MatchSticks: Portable CNC System for Automating Wood-Working Joinery (rutian.github.io)
		242 points by ArtWomb on Sept 1, 2018 \| 49 comments
8.		Carlo Rovelli on challenging our common-sense notion of time (nautil.us)
		110 points by Deinos on Sept 1, 2018 \| 74 comments
9.		Zero-copy deserialization in Julia (scattered-thoughts.net)
		155 points by jamii on Aug 30, 2018 \| 32 comments
10.		SGI's $250,000 Graphics Supercomputer from 1993 – Onyx RealityEngine² [video] (youtube.com)
		306 points by bane on Sept 2, 2018 \| 138 comments
11.		PaperTTY – Python module to render a TTY on e-ink (github.com/joukos)
		234 points by messe on Sept 2, 2018 \| 69 comments
12.		Time Series Prediction Using LSTM Deep Neural Networks (altumintelligence.com)
		213 points by shivinski on Sept 2, 2018 \| 70 comments
13.		How Two Thieves Stole Thousands of Prints from University Libraries (atlasobscura.com)
		63 points by apollinaire on Sept 1, 2018 \| 10 comments
14.		Mastodon and the challenges of abuse in a federated system (nolanlawson.com)
		192 points by dredmorbius on Sept 2, 2018 \| 177 comments
15.		Military robots are getting smaller and more capable (economist.com)
		138 points by lxm on Sept 2, 2018 \| 123 comments
16.		Show HN: 2048.cpp – Play 2048 in directly your terminal (github.com/plibither8)
		135 points by plibither8 on Sept 2, 2018 \| 45 comments
17.		A new way to remove ice buildup without power or chemicals (phys.org)
		62 points by dnetesn on Sept 1, 2018 \| 18 comments
18.		Vredefort Crater, the world’s oldest and largest known impact structure (nasa.gov)
		87 points by zerealshadowban on Sept 1, 2018 \| 20 comments
19.		A collection of botnet source codes, unorganized, for educational purposes (github.com/maestron)
		186 points by adamnemecek on Sept 2, 2018 \| 18 comments
20.		How to Design for the Modern Web (medium.com/commitlog)
		227 points by geocar on Sept 2, 2018 \| 93 comments
21.		Service provider story about tracking down TCP RSTs (nanog.org)
		91 points by cnst on Sept 1, 2018 \| 49 comments
22.		Deep Reinforcement Learning in Depth in 60 Days (github.com/andri27-ts)
		189 points by andri27 on Sept 2, 2018 \| 19 comments
23.		Crunch Time in NAFTA Negotiations: What's at Play for Canada on Digital Policy (michaelgeist.ca)
		58 points by uiri on Sept 1, 2018 \| 32 comments
24.		Meal frequency and timing in health and disease (nih.gov)
		145 points by Mikho on Sept 1, 2018 \| 62 comments
25.		Automatic conversion between simplified and traditional Chinese (wikimedia.org)
		51 points by anewhnaccount2 on Aug 31, 2018 \| 13 comments
26.		Computer Vision Using Go and OpenCV 3 (sourcegraph.com)
		105 points by beyang on Sept 2, 2018 \| 5 comments
27.		Has elegance betrayed physics? (scitation.org)
		52 points by okket on Sept 2, 2018 \| 43 comments
28.		A Failure of Academic Quality Control [pdf] (journalofpositivesexuality.org)
		60 points by luu on Sept 2, 2018 \| 19 comments
29.		How parchment is made (lrb.co.uk)
		35 points by ohjeez on Sept 1, 2018 \| 6 comments
30.		The Camera Is the Lidar (medium.com/angus.pacala)
		200 points by nthuser on Sept 2, 2018 \| 73 comments
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