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1.		Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness (phys.org)
		851 points by maxwell on Aug 9, 2018 \| 332 comments
2.		Julia 1.0 (julialang.org)
		915 points by montalbano on Aug 9, 2018 \| 434 comments
3.		A Dutch first: Ingenious BMW theft attempt (mrooding.me)
		537 points by rapnie on Aug 9, 2018 \| 309 comments
4.		Show HN: Retool – build internal tools faster (tryretool.com)
		592 points by dvdhsu on Aug 9, 2018 \| 109 comments
5.		America's first big offshore wind farm sets record low price (reneweconomy.com.au)
		224 points by Osiris30 on Aug 9, 2018 \| 124 comments
6.		Utah expands public transportation with rapid bus transit, free until 2021 (rideuta.com)
		316 points by _lx4l on Aug 8, 2018 \| 180 comments
7.		I don't trust Signal (drewdevault.com)
		523 points by Bl4ckb0ne on Aug 9, 2018 \| 455 comments
8.		A $250 Biohack That’s Revolutionizing Life with Diabetes (bloomberg.com)
		317 points by rbanffy on Aug 8, 2018 \| 157 comments
9.		Problem Solving and Clojure 1.9 with Rich Hickey (case-podcast.org)
		231 points by tosh on Aug 9, 2018 \| 91 comments
10.		A Comcast Security Flaw Exposed Millions of Customers’ Personal Information (buzzfeednews.com)
		256 points by minimaxir on Aug 8, 2018 \| 74 comments
11.		IPOs are expensive and cumbersome – Try a direct listing, like we did at Spotify (ft.com)
		206 points by rayhano on Aug 9, 2018 \| 109 comments
12.		New York Times Co. Reports $24M Profit, Thanks to Digital Subscribers (nytimes.com)
		361 points by aaronbrethorst on Aug 9, 2018 \| 329 comments
13.		A Guide to Python's Magic Methods (2012) (rszalski.github.io)
		194 points by apsec112 on Aug 9, 2018 \| 45 comments
14.		Gerald M. Weinberg has died (facebook.com)
		374 points by pbowyer on Aug 8, 2018 \| 66 comments
15.		First drug to prevent chronic migraines approved by EU (theguardian.com)
		113 points by al_ramich on Aug 9, 2018 \| 61 comments
16.		Discovery of nitrogen-fixing corn variety could reduce need for added fertilizer (ucdavis.edu)
		272 points by selimthegrim on Aug 9, 2018 \| 105 comments
17.		WireGuarding the mainline (lwn.net)
		206 points by thinxer on Aug 9, 2018 \| 95 comments
18.		Show HN: NES Party – Online Multiplayer NES Emulator Using WebRTC (nes.party)
		237 points by hauxir on Aug 9, 2018 \| 60 comments
19.		Engineering whiteboard interviews: yay or nay? (keyvalues.com)
		196 points by lynnetye on Aug 9, 2018 \| 359 comments
20.		The terrible 'what if': how OCD makes every day a matter of life or death (theguardian.com)
		262 points by pmcpinto on Aug 8, 2018 \| 134 comments
21.		Getting Alexa to Respond to Sign Language Using Your Webcam and TensorFlow.js (medium.com/tensorflow)
		213 points by hardmaru on Aug 9, 2018 \| 27 comments
22.		Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are removed (thehill.com)
		266 points by anigbrowl on Aug 9, 2018 \| 524 comments
23.		Understanding Simpson’s Paradox (2013) [pdf] (ucla.edu)
		81 points by stevewilhelm on Aug 9, 2018 \| 15 comments
24.		Librem 5 general development report (puri.sm)
		116 points by Nelkins on Aug 9, 2018 \| 58 comments
25.		How Globalization Has Broken the Chain of Responsibility (sapiens.org)
		159 points by JoachimOfFiore on Aug 9, 2018 \| 102 comments
26.		Blogging with Emacs org-mode (sadiqpk.org)
		109 points by pksadiq on Aug 8, 2018 \| 33 comments
27.		The pfSense Book (netgate.com)
		121 points by ingve on Aug 8, 2018 \| 43 comments
28.		Unknown Unknowns: The Problem of Hypocognition (scientificamerican.com)
		95 points by draenei on Aug 9, 2018 \| 37 comments
29.		Causal Models (stanford.edu)
		112 points by zerealshadowban on Aug 8, 2018 \| 19 comments
30.		First “Photos” of Ocean Carbon Molecules Hold Clues to Future Warming (scientificamerican.com)
		41 points by draenei on Aug 8, 2018 \| 5 comments
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