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1.		Nvidia announces RTX 2000 GPU series with ‘6x more performance’ and ray-tracing (theverge.com)
		445 points by albertzeyer on Aug 20, 2018 \| 377 comments
2.		Insurance copays are higher than the cost of the drug about 25% of the time (pbs.org)
		488 points by jabo on Aug 19, 2018 \| 291 comments
3.		Tiny Plastic Is Everywhere (npr.org)
		466 points by francisofascii on Aug 20, 2018 \| 301 comments
4.		Minecraft Global Warming (github.com/nsporillo)
		524 points by nsporillo on Aug 20, 2018 \| 125 comments
5.		Um – Create your own man pages so you can remember how to do stuff (github.com/sinclairtarget)
		647 points by quickthrower2 on Aug 20, 2018 \| 165 comments
6.		What Did Ada Lovelace’s Program Actually Do? (twobithistory.org)
		410 points by weebst on Aug 20, 2018 \| 52 comments
7.		Introduction to Augur, an open-source, decentralized betting marketplace (litepaper.com)
		373 points by ilanhz on Aug 20, 2018 \| 171 comments
8.		Telling the Truth About Defects in Technology Should Never Be Illegal (eff.org)
		432 points by severine on Aug 20, 2018 \| 90 comments
9.		Backyourstack: discover and sponsor your open-source dependencies (backyourstack.com)
		277 points by vvoyer on Aug 20, 2018 \| 61 comments
10.		New evidence challenges the story of the Stanford Prison Experiment (bps.org.uk)
		305 points by hecubus on Aug 20, 2018 \| 144 comments
11.		OpenAI Five: Goals and Progress (openai.com)
		195 points by gdb on Aug 20, 2018 \| 75 comments
12.		More Americans report near-constant cannabis use (theatlantic.com)
		315 points by TheBeardKing on Aug 20, 2018 \| 374 comments
13.		SEC Charges Rothenberg Ventures in Fraudulent Scheme (sec.gov)
		176 points by ciscoriordan on Aug 20, 2018 \| 87 comments
14.		Archaeologists explore a rural field in Kansas, and a lost city emerges (latimes.com)
		116 points by Jerry2 on Aug 19, 2018 \| 38 comments
15.		Parallel Programming with Python (chryswoods.com)
		218 points by uaaa on Aug 20, 2018 \| 141 comments
16.		Why HP Fell (mondaynote.com)
		182 points by robin_reala on Aug 20, 2018 \| 155 comments
17.		Whiteboards used after Gatwick flight information screens fail (bbc.com)
		154 points by gpresot on Aug 20, 2018 \| 111 comments
18.		OpenStreetMap for the dyslexic (osm4dys.org)
		146 points by thinkingemote on Aug 20, 2018 \| 64 comments
19.		LI2: Lego Institute for Lego Investigation (norvig.com)
		104 points by tosh on Aug 19, 2018 \| 19 comments
20.		Clover: 4-Bit Quantized Linear Algebra (astojanov.github.io)
		94 points by ArtWomb on Aug 18, 2018 \| 18 comments
21.		Bing.com now runs on .NET Core (msdn.microsoft.com)
		375 points by sebazzz on Aug 20, 2018 \| 152 comments
22.		Making ASDF more magic by making it less magic (fare.livejournal.com)
		43 points by ghosthamlet on Aug 19, 2018 \| 11 comments
23.		Cisco Said to Be Cited for Bias Against U.S. Workers (bloomberglaw.com)
		219 points by altoidaltoid on Aug 20, 2018 \| 266 comments
24.		Fast Multiplication with Slow Additions (loup-vaillant.fr)
		80 points by loup-vaillant on Aug 20, 2018 \| 9 comments
25.		Pop Songs Written by Native Speakers of Swedish (theparisreview.org)
		135 points by lxm on Aug 19, 2018 \| 148 comments
26.		Design errors Satoshi made (twitter.com/deadalnix)
		128 points by myth_drannon on Aug 18, 2018 \| 53 comments
27.		The Billionaires and The Guru: How an Indian Family Burned Through $2B (bloomberg.com)
		168 points by dragonsh on Aug 20, 2018 \| 108 comments
28.		1968 Created the 'Ultimate' Anti-Sport Sport (npr.org)
		49 points by js2 on Aug 18, 2018 \| 11 comments
29.		Go Memory Management (povilasv.me)
		165 points by ngaut on Aug 20, 2018 \| 18 comments
30.		Overnight Brain Stimulation Improves Memory (jneurosci.org)
		103 points by laurex on Aug 18, 2018 \| 34 comments
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