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1.		Anki: Memorization with Spaced Learning (ankiweb.net)
		636 points by tarboreus on Aug 26, 2018 \| 172 comments
2.		The Making of Prince of Persia (2011) [pdf] (jordanmechner.com)
		302 points by tosh on Aug 26, 2018 \| 70 comments
3.		What Data Scientists Really Do, According to Data Scientists (hbr.org)
		278 points by pseudolus on Aug 26, 2018 \| 136 comments
4.		From GNU social to Mastodon (thomask.sdf.org)
		186 points by panic on Aug 26, 2018 \| 138 comments
5.		John McCain has died (nytimes.com)
		628 points by aaronbrethorst on Aug 26, 2018 \| 210 comments
6.		IncludeOS – A minimal, resource efficient unikernel for cloud services (includeos.org)
		231 points by unixhero on Aug 26, 2018 \| 84 comments
7.		WireGuard VPN review: A new type of VPN offers serious advantages (arstechnica.com)
		361 points by yepthatsreality on Aug 26, 2018 \| 154 comments
8.		If you’re unsure whether to quit your job or break up, you probably should (80000hours.org)
		290 points by robertwiblin on Aug 25, 2018 \| 208 comments
9.		America’s Top Prosecutors Used to Go After Top Executives. What Changed? (2017) (nytimes.com)
		174 points by tim_sw on Aug 26, 2018 \| 123 comments
10.		Age of Invisible Disasters (2017) (eutopian.io)
		148 points by rrampage on Aug 26, 2018 \| 108 comments
11.		Phone Numbers Were Never Meant as ID. Now We’re All at Risk (wired.com)
		245 points by colinprince on Aug 26, 2018 \| 169 comments
12.		A spreadsheet of the businesses I've started over the past 15 years (twitter.com/shpigford)
		231 points by myth_drannon on Aug 26, 2018 \| 102 comments
13.		History of Lisp (1979) [pdf] (stanford.edu)
		98 points by taylodl on Aug 26, 2018 \| 10 comments
14.		A satellite engineer explains the basics of space electronics (snapeda.com)
		183 points by natashabaker on Aug 25, 2018 \| 49 comments
15.		Show HN: How privacy-friendly is your site? (dataskydd.net)
		200 points by octosphere on Aug 26, 2018 \| 41 comments
16.		The origins of opera and the future of programming (the-composition.com)
		66 points by fanf2 on Aug 26, 2018 \| 18 comments
17.		How and Why We Designed Lucida (2014) (bigelowandholmes.typepad.com)
		81 points by Tomte on Aug 26, 2018 \| 11 comments
18.		Hackable humans and digital dictators: Q&A with Yuval Noah Harari (aljazeera.com)
		74 points by DyslexicAtheist on Aug 25, 2018 \| 30 comments
19.		The Illegal Ramen Vendors of Postwar Tokyo (atlasobscura.com)
		121 points by raleighm on Aug 26, 2018 \| 49 comments
20.		Geometric intuition for digital audio filters (karlhiner.com)
		116 points by khiner on Aug 26, 2018 \| 14 comments
21.		Predict Economic Indicators with OpenStreetMap (janakiev.com)
		87 points by merusame on Aug 25, 2018 \| 13 comments
22.		JSCPP, a simple C++ interpreter written in JavaScript (github.com/felixhao28)
		98 points by turrini on Aug 25, 2018 \| 31 comments
23.		The Ripper: The disturbing Visceral Games project that never was (polygon.com)
		45 points by adrian_mrd on Aug 25, 2018 \| 23 comments
24.		Methodologies for measuring open source project health (nadiaeghbal.com)
		82 points by fagnerbrack on Aug 26, 2018 \| 13 comments
25.		Frank Siegert’s collection of NeXTSTEP programs (1996) (wizards.de)
		61 points by tobr on Aug 26, 2018 \| 14 comments
26.		CrypTool Book (cryptool.org)
		119 points by lainon on Aug 26, 2018 \| 1 comment
27.		An Example Microcoded CPU (2010) (tuhs.org)
		58 points by peter_d_sherman on Aug 26, 2018 \| 10 comments
28.		Federated Learning (florian.github.io)
		89 points by epsilon-greedy on Aug 25, 2018 \| 12 comments
29.		Detecting life’s influence on planetary atmospheres (differentimpulse.com)
		46 points by virtualthings on Aug 26, 2018 \| 5 comments
30.		BuBBLE: A Lisp Dialect DSL Written in Haskell (github.com/ninjacop)
		51 points by Ninjacop123 on Aug 25, 2018 \| 8 comments
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