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1.		Ex-Google Employee Urges Lawmakers to Take on Company (nytimes.com)
		778 points by subdane on Sept 26, 2018 \| 352 comments
2.		Google Maps won't let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking (twitter.com/jonathanmayer)
		996 points by technocracy on Sept 25, 2018 \| 355 comments
3.		Mmm, Pi-hole (troyhunt.com)
		849 points by cryptography on Sept 26, 2018 \| 408 comments
4.		WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton on Why He Left $850M Behind (forbes.com/sites/parmyolson)
		626 points by petethomas on Sept 26, 2018 \| 392 comments
5.		Product Updates Based on Your Feedback (blog.google)
		780 points by tptacek on Sept 26, 2018 \| 451 comments
6.		How to Build a Low-Tech Website (lowtechmagazine.com)
		600 points by RomanZolotarev on Sept 26, 2018 \| 183 comments
7.		Introducing Oculus Quest, Our First 6DOF All-In-One VR System (oculus.com)
		377 points by TiredOfLife on Sept 26, 2018 \| 247 comments
8.		AWS now supports U2F/Yubikeys (amazon.com)
		357 points by captn3m0 on Sept 25, 2018 \| 127 comments
9.		LTE Base Station Software (bellard.org)
		215 points by vezycash on Sept 26, 2018 \| 45 comments
10.		Skip – A programming language to skip the things you have already computed (skiplang.com)
		283 points by pbowyer on Sept 26, 2018 \| 100 comments
11.		'Super Mario Bros.' speedrunner hits nearly inhuman 4:55 world record (mashable.com)
		445 points by danso on Sept 25, 2018 \| 121 comments
12.		Show HN: You Don't Need WordPress – Create a Blog With Only Google Docs (youdontneedwp.com)
		257 points by patwalls on Sept 26, 2018 \| 110 comments
13.		When Zuckerberg Asserted Control, Instagram’s Founders Chafed (nytimes.com)
		260 points by eudora on Sept 26, 2018 \| 112 comments
14.		Demolishing the California Dream: How SF Planned Its Own Housing Crisis (collectorsweekly.com)
		208 points by docker_up on Sept 26, 2018 \| 181 comments
15.		Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career?
		460 points by sardaaraz on Sept 26, 2018 \| 472 comments
16.		How leaves talk to roots (phys.org)
		84 points by dnetesn on Sept 26, 2018 \| 1 comment
17.		The Apple Watch – Tipping Point Time for Healthcare (steveblank.com)
		209 points by kulu2002 on Sept 26, 2018 \| 136 comments
18.		Meshbird – distributed private networking (meshbird.com)
		177 points by gyre007 on Sept 25, 2018 \| 42 comments
19.		Announcing Hyperswarm (hashbase.io)
		166 points by bpierre on Sept 26, 2018 \| 23 comments
20.		Abstract of the NTSB Report on Air Canada flight 759's taxiway overflight at SFO [pdf] (ntsb.gov)
		124 points by CaliforniaKarl on Sept 26, 2018 \| 127 comments
21.		Bill Gates-led $1B energy fund expands startup portfolio fighting climate change (qz.com)
		137 points by edwinksl on Sept 26, 2018 \| 43 comments
22.		Automakers working to transform data from cars into secondary revenue streams (carbuzz.com)
		169 points by reaperducer on Sept 26, 2018 \| 147 comments
23.		Oracle’s Java 11 trap (joda.org)
		478 points by haimez on Sept 26, 2018 \| 236 comments
24.		Simple Python implementation of a Bayesian multi-armed bandit algorithm (peterroelants.github.io)
		117 points by Xochipilli on Sept 26, 2018 \| 5 comments
25.		Fata Morgana in the Juan de Fuca Strait (usra.edu)
		60 points by dangerman on Sept 25, 2018 \| 7 comments
26.		Rejected Then Recruited: Our Journey into Y Combinator (repl.it)
		114 points by amasad on Sept 26, 2018 \| 21 comments
27.		The Problem With APLs (hillelwayne.com)
		82 points by mr_golyadkin on Sept 26, 2018 \| 51 comments
28.		Trees, Teeth, and Time: The mathematics of clock making (ams.org)
		90 points by espeed on Sept 26, 2018 \| 4 comments
29.		Pixelmash: Resolution-Independent Pixel Art Software for PC and Mac [video] (youtube.com)
		93 points by caspervonb on Sept 26, 2018 \| 19 comments
30.		Skripal Suspect Boshirov Identified as GRU Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga (bellingcat.com)
		273 points by abhi3 on Sept 26, 2018 \| 97 comments
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