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1.		Stacking concrete blocks is a surprisingly efficient way to store energy (qz.com)
		726 points by nabla9 on Aug 18, 2018 \| 382 comments
2.		My dad’s resume and skills from 1980 (github.com/runvnc)
		814 points by ilaksh on Aug 18, 2018 \| 397 comments
3.		HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook (hud.gov)
		469 points by google_censors on Aug 18, 2018 \| 525 comments
4.		Researcher at center of epic fraud remains an enigma to those who exposed him (sciencemag.org)
		240 points by maxerickson on Aug 18, 2018 \| 83 comments
5.		Never patterns, exhaustive matching, and uninhabited types in Rust (smallcultfollowing.com)
		161 points by fanf2 on Aug 18, 2018 \| 76 comments
6.		Mastodon Is Better Than Twitter: Elevator Pitch (codesections.com)
		467 points by codesections on Aug 18, 2018 \| 375 comments
7.		Redux vs. The React Context API (daveceddia.com)
		207 points by wheresvic1 on Aug 18, 2018 \| 73 comments
8.		A Nerd’s Way to Walk Up the Stairs (2011) (tanyakhovanova.com)
		139 points by Tomte on Aug 18, 2018 \| 94 comments
9.		An Ultrahot Exoplanet Has Metallic Skies (scientificamerican.com)
		96 points by yaseen-rob on Aug 18, 2018 \| 31 comments
10.		The Absurdity of Detecting Gravitational Waves (2017) [video] (youtube.com)
		108 points by basicplus2 on Aug 18, 2018 \| 61 comments
11.		Companies from the YC Summer 2018 Batch (blog.ycombinator.com)
		123 points by Sreyanth on Aug 18, 2018 \| 95 comments
12.		'Acoustic attack' report on US diplomats in Cuba is flawed, neurologists say (theguardian.com)
		101 points by pmoriarty on Aug 18, 2018 \| 66 comments
13.		Show HN: TinyGo – LLVM-based Go compiler for microcontrollers (github.com/aykevl)
		177 points by ngaut on Aug 18, 2018 \| 22 comments
14.		Regarding the Most Recent Amazon Mechanical Turk Data Contamination (maxhuibai.com)
		120 points by dsr12 on Aug 18, 2018 \| 28 comments
15.		Think Julia: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist (benlauwens.github.io)
		207 points by cdsousa on Aug 17, 2018 \| 70 comments
16.		A map of publicly available fruit trees, mostly in Slovakia (fruitmap.sk)
		155 points by kazet on Aug 17, 2018 \| 44 comments
17.		Stockholm’s deepest subway station is also an ecological wonder (atlasobscura.com)
		143 points by DoreenMichele on Aug 18, 2018 \| 26 comments
18.		Show HN: Favioli – Replace blank tab icons with unique per-domain emoji (eligrey.com)
		94 points by Sephr on Aug 18, 2018 \| 17 comments
19.		The Secret to Ant Efficiency Is Idleness (nytimes.com)
		125 points by electic on Aug 17, 2018 \| 45 comments
20.		The nightmarishly complex wheat genome finally yields to scientists (arstechnica.com)
		85 points by Bender on Aug 17, 2018 \| 63 comments
21.		With Undefined Behavior, Anything Is Possible (raphlinus.github.io)
		94 points by kibwen on Aug 17, 2018 \| 28 comments
22.		The Usefulness of Abstracting Over Time (maxhallinan.com)
		53 points by maxhallinan on Aug 18, 2018 \| 13 comments
23.		Create a simple cross-platform desktop game with Go (sausheong.github.io)
		151 points by sausheong on Aug 18, 2018 \| 21 comments
24.		Myths about /dev/urandom (2014) (2uo.de)
		80 points by mindcrime on Aug 17, 2018 \| 68 comments
25.		My Life in Pens (2009) (iamjamesward.com)
		64 points by tosh on Aug 18, 2018 \| 30 comments
26.		Mithril.js – A modern client-side Javascript framework (mithril.js.org)
		209 points by dammitfoo on Aug 17, 2018 \| 78 comments
27.		GoAWK: an AWK interpreter written in Go (github.com/benhoyt)
		101 points by ngaut on Aug 18, 2018 \| 36 comments
28.		M4 (computer language) (wikipedia.org)
		70 points by laktak on Aug 17, 2018 \| 26 comments
29.		F Natural – Putting the fn back in functional (github.com/billhails)
		60 points by totalperspectiv on Aug 17, 2018 \| 17 comments
30.		Are Cities Making Animals Smarter? (theatlantic.com)
		65 points by dsr12 on Aug 18, 2018 \| 13 comments
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