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1.		Academic Torrents – Making 27TB of research data available (academictorrents.com)
		1082 points by jacquesm on Aug 12, 2018 \| 140 comments
2.		What the f*** is the edge? (arcentry.com)
		269 points by wolframhempel on Aug 9, 2018 \| 182 comments
3.		Frink (frinklang.org)
		243 points by tosh on Aug 12, 2018 \| 62 comments
4.		Traveling to the Sun: Why Won’t Parker Solar Probe Melt? (nasa.gov)
		311 points by shreyanshd on Aug 12, 2018 \| 121 comments
5.		Thank you HN
		1370 points by throwAwayXYZ69 on Aug 12, 2018 \| 137 comments
6.		Show HN: Didyougogo – An Altavista slayer (didyougogo.com)
		269 points by misterman0 on Aug 12, 2018 \| 124 comments
7.		MacOS System 6, Version 6.0.8: run in browser (archive.org)
		178 points by akeck on Aug 12, 2018 \| 57 comments
8.		A visual history of the future (2014) [pdf] (service.gov.uk)
		78 points by raleighm on Aug 12, 2018 \| 2 comments
9.		Growers Are Beaming Over the Success of Lasers to Stave Off Birds (npr.org)
		146 points by ryan_j_naughton on Aug 12, 2018 \| 142 comments
10.		PC-Retro Motherboard Kit: Build a faithful reproduction of the 1982 IBM PC 5150 (mtmscientific.com)
		120 points by peter_d_sherman on Aug 12, 2018 \| 66 comments
11.		Google's censored Chinese search engine: a catalogue of ethical violations? (theconversation.com)
		188 points by cpeterso on Aug 12, 2018 \| 175 comments
12.		Show HN: WorldBrain – full text, local search of your browsing history (worldbrain.io)
		229 points by _mlxl on Aug 12, 2018 \| 69 comments
13.		What Wal-Mart Knows About Customers' Habits (2004) (nytimes.com)
		46 points by heinrichf on Aug 11, 2018 \| 22 comments
14.		Regex Dictionary (visca.com)
		90 points by cosmiccartel on Aug 11, 2018 \| 6 comments
15.		Maria Konnikova Shows Her Cards (nytimes.com)
		148 points by dnetesn on Aug 10, 2018 \| 54 comments
16.		K-anonymity (wikipedia.org)
		136 points by dedalus on Aug 10, 2018 \| 11 comments
17.		Porting SBCL to the RISC-V (rhodes.io)
		133 points by pome on Aug 11, 2018 \| 38 comments
18.		Tech-support scammers know everything about my computer, Dell customer says (arstechnica.com)
		115 points by MilnerRoute on Aug 11, 2018 \| 25 comments
19.		Vert.x native: how to run a JVM app in 10Mb of RAM (jetdrone.xyz)
		150 points by based2 on Aug 11, 2018 \| 41 comments
20.		Yagni (2015) (martinfowler.com)
		101 points by mooreds on Aug 11, 2018 \| 59 comments
21.		Show HN: A cross platform app for mirroring the clipboard between synced devices (github.com/tiagovtristao)
		57 points by _wlad on Aug 11, 2018 \| 29 comments
22.		PC Monitors: The Evolution of LED Backlights (pcmonitors.info)
		86 points by walterbell on Aug 11, 2018 \| 25 comments
23.		V.S. Naipaul has died (nytimes.com)
		100 points by stokedmartin on Aug 12, 2018 \| 23 comments
24.		Tide-Predicting Machine No. 2 (wikipedia.org)
		82 points by Hooke on Aug 12, 2018 \| 13 comments
25.		Where does logical language come from? The social bootstrapping hypothesis (babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com)
		50 points by dsr12 on Aug 11, 2018 \| 15 comments
26.		You could have invented that Bluetooth attack (trailofbits.com)
		94 points by octosphere on Aug 12, 2018 \| 17 comments
27.		Bombing forest fires sounds ridiculous, but is grounded in physics (popularmechanics.com)
		81 points by raleighm on Aug 11, 2018 \| 78 comments
28.		From Harlem to Herrang: An Original Lindy Hopper Blooms in Sweden (nytimes.com)
		51 points by Tomte on Aug 11, 2018 \| 2 comments
29.		Two years with CloudFormation: lessons learned (sanderknape.com)
		107 points by kiyanwang on Aug 12, 2018 \| 85 comments
30.		Beijing struggles to defuse anger over China's P2P lending crisis (reuters.com)
		104 points by lnguyen on Aug 12, 2018 \| 101 comments
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