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1.		Let's Encrypt Root Trusted by All Major Root Programs (letsencrypt.org)
		1532 points by okket on Aug 6, 2018 \| 144 comments
2.		What happens when you ask people to draw a bike (2016) (gianlucagimini.it)
		566 points by dlazar on Aug 6, 2018 \| 187 comments
3.		FCC admits it was never actually hacked (techcrunch.com)
		494 points by placatedmayhem on Aug 6, 2018 \| 148 comments
4.		Introducing Android 9 Pie (googleblog.com)
		481 points by nsriv on Aug 6, 2018 \| 357 comments
5.		Facebook has asked U.S. banks to share financial information about customers (wsj.com)
		597 points by tysone on Aug 6, 2018 \| 213 comments
6.		How Does Mastodon Work? (kevq.uk)
		389 points by codesections on Aug 4, 2018 \| 175 comments
7.		I’m a very slow thinker (2016) (sivers.org)
		604 points by gary__ on Aug 6, 2018 \| 224 comments
8.		OpenAI Five Benchmark: Results (blog.openai.com)
		281 points by runesoerensen on Aug 6, 2018 \| 122 comments
9.		DoD: Turn Off Your Fitbit, Garmin, Apple Watch GPS (breakingdefense.com)
		292 points by smacktoward on Aug 6, 2018 \| 210 comments
10.		What did Earth look like X million years ago? (dinosaurpictures.org)
		423 points by rport on Aug 5, 2018 \| 75 comments
11.		Nile: decentralized, commission-free, local-economy focused Amazon alternative (github.com/open-source-ideas)
		342 points by marcocastignoli on Aug 6, 2018 \| 201 comments
12.		Rainway takes a game running on one system and streams it to another device (rainway.io)
		188 points by andrewmd5 on Aug 6, 2018 \| 114 comments
13.		Implementing a JIT-compiler with Rust (dinfuehr.github.io)
		126 points by ristem on Aug 6, 2018 \| 17 comments
14.		A Couple of Meta-Interpreters in Prolog (metalevel.at)
		136 points by octosphere on Aug 6, 2018 \| 17 comments
15.		Boston-area startups are on pace to overtake NYC venture totals (techcrunch.com)
		198 points by e1ven on Aug 6, 2018 \| 168 comments
16.		One-Process Programming Notes (crawshaw.io)
		185 points by jaffee on Aug 6, 2018 \| 39 comments
17.		AWS icon quiz (docs.google.com)
		580 points by elfakyn on Aug 6, 2018 \| 185 comments
18.		Freeing the Web from the Browser (reinterpretcast.com)
		231 points by joesavage on Aug 5, 2018 \| 123 comments
19.		For progress to be by accumulation and not random walk, read great books (2010) (lesswrong.com)
		158 points by gmays on Aug 6, 2018 \| 74 comments
20.		Systems Neuroscience Is About to Get Bonkers (simonsfoundation.org)
		103 points by hardmaru on Aug 6, 2018 \| 24 comments
21.		PgModeler – PostgreSQL Database Modeler (pgmodeler.io)
		165 points by pera on Aug 5, 2018 \| 31 comments
22.		How I slashed a SQL query's runtime with two Unix commands (spinellis.gr)
		249 points by DSpinellis on Aug 5, 2018 \| 83 comments
23.		Deep Space Network Now: Status of communications with our deep space explorers (nasa.gov)
		125 points by CaliforniaKarl on Aug 5, 2018 \| 22 comments
24.		Gear Review: Wahoo Elemnt Bolt (joshua0.dreamwidth.org)
		168 points by wbraun on Aug 5, 2018 \| 39 comments
25.		Energy Saved, Sleep Lost: The Unintended Consequences of LED Lighting (medium.com/caseorganic)
		166 points by Kroeler on Aug 6, 2018 \| 177 comments
26.		CLI tool that finds secrets accidentally committed to a Git repo (2017) (github.com/ukhomeoffice)
		103 points by kiyanwang on Aug 5, 2018 \| 31 comments
27.		Show HN: ASCII line chart with console, HTML and image outputs, written in PHP (github.com/noximo)
		74 points by noximo on Aug 5, 2018 \| 12 comments
28.		Ronald Wayne, the third co-founder of Apple (cbsnews.com)
		77 points by wpietri on Aug 4, 2018 \| 20 comments
29.		Why does it take so long to mend an escalator? (2002) (lrb.co.uk)
		66 points by danso on Aug 6, 2018 \| 89 comments
30.		Notes from Dynamicland: Geokit (rsnous.com)
		87 points by petethomas on Aug 6, 2018 \| 10 comments
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