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1.		Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate (medium.com/the-set-list)
		948 points by nate on Aug 8, 2018 \| 386 comments
2.		Show HN: Pts.js – A library for visualization and creative coding (ptsjs.org)
		611 points by wmnn on Aug 8, 2018 \| 71 comments
3.		GLB: GitHub's open source load balancer (githubengineering.com)
		478 points by csteinbe on Aug 8, 2018 \| 62 comments
4.		To Remember Everything You Learn, Surrender to This Algorithm (2008) (wired.com)
		740 points by colinprince on Aug 7, 2018 \| 208 comments
5.		Holloway Guide to Equity Compensation (holloway.com)
		384 points by doosey2 on Aug 8, 2018 \| 71 comments
6.		Tomu, a tiny ARM microprocessor which fits in your USB port (tomu.im)
		302 points by ris on Aug 8, 2018 \| 86 comments
7.		The Secret API of Banks (gduverger.com)
		373 points by gduverger on Aug 8, 2018 \| 252 comments
8.		Unix Syscalls (john-millikin.com)
		287 points by rspivak on Aug 7, 2018 \| 13 comments
9.		Snap’s Drop in Active Users Could Signal a Social Media Peak (nytimes.com)
		309 points by gk1 on Aug 8, 2018 \| 285 comments
10.		µUBSan: clean-room reimplementation of the Undefined Behavior Sanitizer runtime (netbsd.org)
		182 points by ingve on Aug 8, 2018 \| 60 comments
11.		Dev.to is now open source (github.com/thepracticaldev)
		212 points by agrinman on Aug 8, 2018 \| 62 comments
12.		The magic of asyncio explained (hackernoon.com)
		168 points by apoorvgarg on Aug 6, 2018 \| 89 comments
13.		Python 3 is now available on App Engine standard environment (cloud.google.com)
		277 points by stewart27 on Aug 8, 2018 \| 79 comments
14.		Shannon Labs – $100K Fellowship to support independent researchers (shannonlabs.co)
		176 points by dhash on Aug 8, 2018 \| 46 comments
15.		Warner Music Group Sells Entire Stake in Spotify (variety.com)
		158 points by lxm on Aug 8, 2018 \| 94 comments
16.		Hyperpolyglot: Lisp (hyperpolyglot.org)
		127 points by tosh on Aug 8, 2018 \| 17 comments
17.		False Advertising for College Is Pretty Much the Norm (bloomberg.com)
		182 points by jseliger on Aug 8, 2018 \| 246 comments
18.		The Weight of Numbers: Air Pollution and PM2.5 (undark.org)
		117 points by anarbadalov on Aug 8, 2018 \| 67 comments
19.		Sadly, I must say goodbye to Leaf, my programming language (mortoray.com)
		183 points by ingve on Aug 7, 2018 \| 127 comments
20.		Tokyo medical school admits changing results to exclude women (theguardian.com)
		208 points by prawn on Aug 8, 2018 \| 173 comments
21.		Manners in Early Modern England (theguardian.com)
		80 points by pulisse on Aug 8, 2018 \| 33 comments
22.		New York’s success provides road map for others taking aim at pedestrian deaths (cbc.ca)
		122 points by okket on Aug 7, 2018 \| 149 comments
23.		Internal Facebook Note: Here Is A “Psychological Trick” To Target Teens (buzzfeednews.com)
		196 points by tortilla on Aug 7, 2018 \| 77 comments
24.		CMU Engineers Find Innovative Way to Make a Low-Cost 3D Bioprinter (healthtechmagazine.net)
		99 points by walterbell on Aug 8, 2018 \| 7 comments
25.		Bail has become a way to lock up the poor regardless of guilt or threat (globalcitizen.org)
		296 points by dsr12 on Aug 8, 2018 \| 181 comments
26.		Photography Composition (antongorlin.com)
		256 points by angor on Aug 8, 2018 \| 68 comments
27.		Catching Cheating Servers in Decentralized Storage Networks (hackingdistributed.com)
		90 points by siavosh on Aug 6, 2018 \| 11 comments
28.		Filter Before You Parse: Faster Analytics on Raw Data with Sparser (stanford.edu)
		86 points by bandwitch on Aug 8, 2018 \| 14 comments
29.		DeepTAM: Deep Tracking and Mapping (uni-freiburg.de)
		81 points by lainon on Aug 8, 2018 \| 7 comments
30.		Sclack: The best CLI client for Slack, because everything is terrible (github.com/haskellcamargo)
		142 points by pavel_lishin on Aug 7, 2018 \| 34 comments
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