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1.		Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods the Grid (bloomberg.com)
		537 points by bumholio on Aug 7, 2018 \| 407 comments
2.		Facebook Field Guide to Machine Learning – video series (fb.com)
		552 points by tosh on Aug 7, 2018 \| 63 comments
3.		Engineers teach a drone to herd birds away from airports autonomously (techxplore.com)
		264 points by dnetesn on Aug 7, 2018 \| 105 comments
4.		Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool (gizmodo.com)
		580 points by uptown on Aug 7, 2018 \| 167 comments
5.		Startup School 2018 – Curriculum (blog.ycombinator.com)
		339 points by katm on Aug 7, 2018 \| 61 comments
6.		Seaweed could be scrubbing more carbon from the atmosphere than expected (2017) (oceana.org)
		338 points by propman on Aug 7, 2018 \| 159 comments
7.		The Structure of Stand-Up Comedy (pudding.cool)
		444 points by nniroclax on Aug 6, 2018 \| 93 comments
8.		EPA is allowing asbestos back into manufacturing (archpaper.com)
		560 points by okket on Aug 7, 2018 \| 338 comments
9.		Where Vim Came From (twobithistory.org)
		420 points by janvdberg on Aug 6, 2018 \| 259 comments
10.		Study Finds Increased Incarceration Has Marginal-To-Zero Impact on Crime (eji.org)
		325 points by mpweiher on Aug 6, 2018 \| 182 comments
11.		Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker (cryptoaustralia.org.au)
		337 points by gszathmari on Aug 6, 2018 \| 288 comments
12.		Plan to replicate 50 high-impact cancer papers shrinks to just 18 (sciencemag.org)
		253 points by nonbel on Aug 6, 2018 \| 191 comments
13.		Dungeons Tome – Tool for generating dungeons for RPGs (dungeonstome.com)
		289 points by _Zoran_ on Aug 7, 2018 \| 102 comments
14.		Speech-to-Text Benchmark: Framework for benchmarking speech-to-text engines (github.com/picovoice)
		195 points by kenarsa on Aug 7, 2018 \| 64 comments
15.		Announcing Dart 2 Stable and the Dart Web Platform (medium.com/dartlang)
		246 points by ScottWRobinson on Aug 7, 2018 \| 253 comments
16.		Voting system to be used in West Virginia elections is vulnerable (twitter.com/gossithedog)
		277 points by grey-area on Aug 7, 2018 \| 154 comments
17.		Horrors of Using Azure Kubernetes Service in Production (movingfulcrum.com)
		371 points by pdeva1 on Aug 6, 2018 \| 136 comments
18.		Very few owners of Alexa-powered devices use them for shopping (techcrunch.com)
		201 points by confiscate on Aug 7, 2018 \| 183 comments
19.		The Byzantine Generals Problem (1982) [pdf] (lamport.azurewebsites.net)
		127 points by xkgt on Aug 6, 2018 \| 21 comments
20.		What can defend against off-the-shelf drone weapons? (dw.com)
		141 points by pmoriarty on Aug 7, 2018 \| 187 comments
21.		How I gained commit access to Homebrew in 30 minutes (medium.com/vesirin)
		415 points by bgentry on Aug 7, 2018 \| 85 comments
22.		Nim partners with Status.im (nim-lang.org)
		174 points by dom96 on Aug 7, 2018 \| 55 comments
23.		Show HN: Dancemusic.wtf – Quiz Game for Learning Electronic Dance Music Styles (dancemusic.wtf)
		152 points by Tjorvens on Aug 6, 2018 \| 55 comments
24.		The Foundry at the Heart of DARPA’s Plan to Let Old Fabs Beat New Ones (ieee.org)
		74 points by rbanffy on Aug 7, 2018 \| 21 comments
25.		Leaked white paper proposes U.S. Congressional regulation of social media (cjr.org)
		189 points by walterbell on Aug 7, 2018 \| 152 comments
26.		Shortage of charging stations to become a bottleneck to mass adoption of EVs? (fresnobee.com)
		83 points by lxm on Aug 7, 2018 \| 210 comments
27.		Balloon Pirate Radio (2007) (idlewords.com)
		66 points by rfreytag on Aug 7, 2018 \| 15 comments
28.		Android Pie SDK is now more Kotlin-friendly (googleblog.com)
		121 points by ingve on Aug 7, 2018 \| 73 comments
29.		In Praise of Defensive Football (popula.com)
		99 points by Thevet on Aug 6, 2018 \| 18 comments
30.		An incomplete history of the QED Text Editor (2004) (bell-labs.com)
		60 points by shawndumas on Aug 7, 2018 \| 3 comments
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