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1.		NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students (wsj.com)
		931 points by mudil on Aug 16, 2018 \| 507 comments
2.		Who Left Open The Cookie Jar? (wholeftopenthecookiejar.eu)
		412 points by pmoriarty on Aug 16, 2018 \| 138 comments
3.		Introduction to A* (1997) (stanford.edu)
		337 points by tosh on Aug 16, 2018 \| 31 comments
4.		OpenPGPjs has passed an independent security audit (protonmail.com)
		245 points by testloop on Aug 16, 2018 \| 122 comments
5.		FDA approves first generic version of EpiPen (washingtonpost.com)
		319 points by MBCook on Aug 16, 2018 \| 82 comments
6.		Show HN: Wayland compositor in around 500 lines of annotated C (gist.github.com)
		332 points by ddevault on Aug 16, 2018 \| 122 comments
7.		Traveling the World on a Third World Passport (bucketlistly.blog)
		342 points by cirrus-clouds on Aug 16, 2018 \| 308 comments
8.		The Hacker News Habit (hackernewslater.com)
		315 points by burritofanatic on Aug 16, 2018 \| 109 comments
9.		How to Hire (hbr.org)
		274 points by devy on Aug 16, 2018 \| 223 comments
10.		Battery breakthrough: Double performance lithium battery that doesn’t catch fire (umich.edu)
		237 points by vezycash on Aug 16, 2018 \| 77 comments
11.		The Akrasia Effect: Why We Don’t Follow Through on What We Set Out to Do (jamesclear.com)
		389 points by melling on Aug 15, 2018 \| 149 comments
12.		Pixelblaze V2 – An advanced LED pattern development engine and controller (bhencke.com)
		248 points by _fx6v on Aug 16, 2018 \| 78 comments
13.		Google Needs to Come Clean About Its Chinese Plans (eff.org)
		268 points by panarky on Aug 16, 2018 \| 140 comments
14.		Solo – Open-source FIDO2 security key (solokeys.com)
		174 points by fabiofederici on Aug 16, 2018 \| 64 comments
15.		Botched CIA Communications System Helped Blow Cover of Chinese Agents (foreignpolicy.com)
		277 points by mkeeter on Aug 16, 2018 \| 199 comments
16.		A dull, resilient stream processor in Go (github.com/jeffail)
		199 points by ngaut on Aug 16, 2018 \| 30 comments
17.		A high bias low-variance introduction to Machine Learning for physicists (bu.edu)
		200 points by yoquan on Aug 16, 2018 \| 21 comments
18.		An introduction to libuv (2016) (nikhilm.github.io)
		125 points by eatonphil on Aug 16, 2018 \| 38 comments
19.		Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused – part 2 (codingnest.com)
		154 points by aw1621107 on Aug 16, 2018 \| 15 comments
20.		Firms That Bossed Agriculture for a Century Face New Threat: Farmers (wsj.com)
		65 points by JumpCrisscross on Aug 16, 2018 \| 21 comments
21.		Taking on a Patent Troll: Caveat Troglodytarum (bitmovin.com)
		105 points by kfarr on Aug 16, 2018 \| 21 comments
22.		Saving Lives with Tech Amid Syria’s Endless Civil War (wired.com)
		56 points by halasystems on Aug 16, 2018 \| 15 comments
23.		Algorithm and Blues: The Tyranny of the Coming Smart-Tech Utopia (stanford.edu)
		77 points by raleighm on Aug 15, 2018 \| 44 comments
24.		Bleak New Estimates in Drug Epidemic: A Record 72,000 Overdose Deaths in 2017 (nytimes.com)
		149 points by Alex3917 on Aug 16, 2018 \| 204 comments
25.		China’s first ‘fully homegrown’ web browser found to be Google Chrome clone (shanghai.ist)
		321 points by dexterpe on Aug 16, 2018 \| 171 comments
26.		Exploring Error Handling Patterns in Go (8thlight.com)
		133 points by trptcolin on Aug 15, 2018 \| 77 comments
27.		Show HN: Eno – A lightning fast, user-friendly YAML/TOML alternative
		102 points by simonrepp on Aug 15, 2018 \| 65 comments
28.		The TTY demystified (2008) (linusakesson.net)
		98 points by kjeetgill on Aug 15, 2018 \| 12 comments
29.		Engineers Say They've Created a Way to Detect Bombs and Guns Using Basic Wifi (gizmodo.com)
		116 points by kiyanwang on Aug 16, 2018 \| 48 comments
30.		Search Engine for Web Page Source Code with 300M Sites Indexed (publicwww.com)
		101 points by ArtWomb on Aug 15, 2018 \| 24 comments
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