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1.		How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions (thedailybeast.com)
		638 points by DLay on July 29, 2018 \| 230 comments
2.		Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know (lesswrong.com)
		711 points by cepp on July 28, 2018 \| 263 comments
3.		Detecting the use of "curl \| bash" server-side (idontplaydarts.com)
		500 points by rubyn00bie on July 29, 2018 \| 145 comments
4.		Refresh: concept for a new kind of web browser (refresh.study)
		575 points by davidbarker on July 29, 2018 \| 146 comments
5.		A Spectre is Haunting Unicode (dampfkraft.com)
		353 points by hardmaru on July 29, 2018 \| 110 comments
6.		If you put chalk under a powerful microscope (twitter.com/ferrisjabr)
		380 points by DanBC on July 28, 2018 \| 76 comments
7.		Code with Mu: a simple Python editor for beginner programmers (codewith.mu)
		281 points by miduil on July 29, 2018 \| 73 comments
8.		TSA is tracking regular travelers like terrorists in secret surveillance program (bostonglobe.com)
		327 points by Anechoic on July 29, 2018 \| 162 comments
9.		Is Cobol holding you hostage with Math? (medium.com/bellmar)
		200 points by mbellotti on July 29, 2018 \| 115 comments
10.		The Blockchain Bubble Will Pop, What Next? (approximatelycorrect.com)
		238 points by baxtr on July 29, 2018 \| 321 comments
11.		Police accused of deploying facial recognition 'by stealth' in London (independent.co.uk)
		161 points by pmoriarty on July 28, 2018 \| 68 comments
12.		I created the exact same app in React and Vue (medium.com/javascript-in-plain-english)
		301 points by techbio on July 29, 2018 \| 180 comments
13.		A Rogue Tesla Mechanic Resurrecting Salvaged Cars [video] (youtube.com)
		209 points by CaliforniaKarl on July 28, 2018 \| 124 comments
14.		Turbo Button (wikipedia.org)
		195 points by tosh on July 29, 2018 \| 113 comments
15.		Microfilm Lasts Half a Millennium (theatlantic.com)
		164 points by adrian_mrd on July 28, 2018 \| 102 comments
16.		Dying Alone in Japan: The Industry Devoted to What’s Left Behind (bloomberg.com)
		124 points by axiomdata316 on July 29, 2018 \| 103 comments
17.		Java's Magic Sauce (azul.com)
		108 points by wheresvic1 on July 29, 2018 \| 71 comments
18.		Fear of Macros (greghendershott.com)
		129 points by tosh on July 29, 2018 \| 11 comments
19.		Teens Debate Big Issues on Instagram Flop Accounts (theatlantic.com)
		91 points by tylerhou on July 28, 2018 \| 57 comments
20.		London’s Super-Recognizer Police Force (2016) (newyorker.com)
		81 points by Tomte on July 29, 2018 \| 32 comments
21.		Macbook eGPU Redux: Sticking a GTX 1080 in an AKiTiO Thunder2 (archagon.net)
		125 points by archagon on July 27, 2018 \| 58 comments
22.		Tuple Spaces – Good Ideas Don't Always Win (2011) (software-carpentry.org)
		109 points by panic on July 28, 2018 \| 43 comments
23.		A new shape called the scutoid has been discovered in our cells (gizmodo.com)
		80 points by ColinWright on July 28, 2018 \| 16 comments
24.		When conductor and soloist clash, a performance can turn into a contest of wills (theamericanscholar.org)
		70 points by tintinnabula on July 28, 2018 \| 7 comments
25.		The mysterious heart of the Roland TR-808 drum machine (secretlifeofsynthesizers.com)
		151 points by souterrain on July 28, 2018 \| 29 comments
26.		Setting Up a Fast, Comprehensive Search Routine with PostgreSQL (conery.io)
		99 points by craigkerstiens on July 29, 2018 \| 49 comments
27.		Double Faults (phil-opp.com)
		86 points by octosphere on July 29, 2018 \| 8 comments
28.		Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man: Mel Brooks in His 90s (theatlantic.com)
		71 points by johnny313 on July 28, 2018 \| 15 comments
29.		My Name is Brian and I Build Supercomputers in My Spare Time (2014) (parallella.org)
		84 points by peter_d_sherman on July 28, 2018 \| 32 comments
30.		Dads Pass on More Than Genetics in Their Sperm (smithsonianmag.com)
		191 points by pagutierrezn on July 28, 2018 \| 87 comments
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