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1.		Worst Computer Bugs in History: Therac-25 (2017) (bugsnag.com)
		301 points by dangom on Aug 11, 2018 \| 110 comments
2.		Myth Debugging: Is the Wii More Demanding to Emulate Than the GameCube? (dolphin-emu.org)
		287 points by _ugfj on Aug 11, 2018 \| 23 comments
3.		The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3 (ietf.org)
		255 points by dochtman on Aug 11, 2018 \| 67 comments
4.		Meteor showers from space (meteorshowers.org)
		164 points by okket on Aug 11, 2018 \| 23 comments
5.		Bayesian analysis suggests that John Lennon wrote the music for 'In My Life' (npr.org)
		148 points by henrik_w on Aug 11, 2018 \| 73 comments
6.		The VU Meter and How It Got That Way (hackaday.com)
		98 points by sohkamyung on Aug 10, 2018 \| 6 comments
7.		The Art of Not Dying: the First Emperor’s Pursuit of Immortality (laphamsquarterly.org)
		101 points by lermontov on Aug 10, 2018 \| 78 comments
8.		The Xi Text Engine CRDT (github.com/google)
		235 points by jxub on Aug 11, 2018 \| 39 comments
9.		Xinu – A small, elegant operating system (purdue.edu)
		229 points by rspivak on Aug 10, 2018 \| 73 comments
10.		TinyEditor: A functional HTML/CSS/JS editor in less than 400 bytes (github.com/umpox)
		244 points by known on Aug 11, 2018 \| 21 comments
11.		Beautiful maths simplification: quaternion from two vectors (2013) (lolengine.net)
		118 points by sytelus on Aug 10, 2018 \| 16 comments
12.		GitLab is now running on GCP (twitter.com/gitlabstatus)
		253 points by sahin on Aug 11, 2018 \| 152 comments
13.		Google Public DNS turns 8.8.8.8 years old (googleblog.com)
		197 points by tomweingarten on Aug 11, 2018 \| 172 comments
14.		Show HN: A parser for electronic component descriptions (github.com/monostable)
		126 points by kasbah on Aug 11, 2018 \| 19 comments
15.		What the interns have wrought, 2018 edition (janestreet.com)
		190 points by yminsky on Aug 10, 2018 \| 132 comments
16.		What Caused the Dinosaur Extinction? (theatlantic.com)
		88 points by bkudria on Aug 11, 2018 \| 42 comments
17.		On Apple's Love Affair with Swift (stefan-lesser.com)
		154 points by doener on Aug 11, 2018 \| 239 comments
18.		A Botulism Outbreak Gave Rise to America’s Food Safety System (smithsonianmag.com)
		64 points by samclemens on Aug 10, 2018 \| 9 comments
19.		Introducing Electron Fiddle (medium.com/felixrieseberg)
		165 points by rmason on Aug 11, 2018 \| 67 comments
20.		Ristretto – A technique for constructing prime order elliptic curve groups (ristretto.group)
		67 points by based2 on Aug 10, 2018 \| 9 comments
21.		Prefab housing complex for UC Berkeley students goes up in four days (berkeleyside.com)
		159 points by protomyth on Aug 11, 2018 \| 162 comments
22.		Factor: An impressive stack-based language environment (junglecoder.com)
		111 points by yumaikas on Aug 9, 2018 \| 34 comments
23.		Mysterious Musical Stones of Ringing Rocks Park in Pennsylvania (strangesounds.org)
		69 points by Earth_Change on Aug 11, 2018 \| 19 comments
24.		Hollywood gets its own open-source foundation (techcrunch.com)
		92 points by madmax108 on Aug 11, 2018 \| 45 comments
25.		'Go mod download' (to cache) and 'go mod why' added (golang.org)
		76 points by soroso on Aug 11, 2018 \| 11 comments
26.		The End of the TV Writers’ Room? (vanityfair.com)
		59 points by JustSomeNobody on Aug 10, 2018 \| 51 comments
27.		Vkvg: Vulkan vector drawing, trying to stay close to Cairo API (github.com/jpbruyere)
		78 points by adamnemecek on Aug 11, 2018 \| 10 comments
28.		Redshift – A better flux program for Linux (2014) (jeppson.org)
		141 points by foo101 on Aug 11, 2018 \| 81 comments
29.		GSoC wrap-up – Splitting Servo's script crate (servo.org)
		37 points by wyoh on Aug 10, 2018 \| 2 comments
30.		Publii – open source static CMS for everyone (github.com/getpublii)
		98 points by BobMitro on Aug 11, 2018 \| 43 comments
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