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1.		Show HN: Select Star SQL, an interactive SQL book (selectstarsql.com)
		700 points by zckao on Sept 4, 2018 \| 112 comments
2.		Mercedes Readies First Tesla Rival in $12B Attack (bloomberg.com)
		455 points by antr on Sept 4, 2018 \| 755 comments
3.		Radical open-access plan could spell end to journal subscriptions (nature.com)
		509 points by sohkamyung on Sept 4, 2018 \| 137 comments
4.		A military technique for falling asleep in two minutes (independent.co.uk)
		829 points by pmoriarty on Sept 3, 2018 \| 224 comments
5.		Progress update from the Librem 5 hardware department (puri.sm)
		311 points by fosco on Sept 4, 2018 \| 213 comments
6.		Show HN: Magic Sandbox – learn Kubernetes on real infrastructure (magicsandbox.com)
		392 points by mstipetic on Sept 4, 2018 \| 89 comments
7.		UPDuino: a $9.99 FPGA (tinyletter.com)
		297 points by jamesbowman on Sept 4, 2018 \| 115 comments
8.		Reboot Your Dreamliner Every 248 Days to Avoid Integer Overflow (2015) (i-programmer.info)
		356 points by pjmlp on Sept 4, 2018 \| 280 comments
9.		Stellarium Web: Online Planetarium (stellarium-web.org)
		364 points by phsilva on Sept 4, 2018 \| 48 comments
10.		A bug story: data alignment in C on x86 (2016) (pzemtsov.github.io)
		134 points by fanf2 on Sept 4, 2018 \| 80 comments
11.		Want to Be More Creative? Take a Walk (2014) (nytimes.com)
		262 points by imartin2k on Sept 3, 2018 \| 43 comments
12.		How to Get Kids to Do Chores: Does the Maya Method Work? (npr.org)
		233 points by Xcelerate on Sept 4, 2018 \| 161 comments
13.		How LLVM Optimizes a Function (regehr.org)
		268 points by chmaynard on Sept 4, 2018 \| 18 comments
14.		“Stateless” sync using version vectors (archagon.net)
		141 points by archagon on Sept 4, 2018 \| 19 comments
15.		Wikimedia warns EU copyright reform threatens the ‘vibrant free web’ (techcrunch.com)
		264 points by AnatMl2 on Sept 4, 2018 \| 125 comments
16.		Mass Transit Optimization for Buses: The Depot Problem (optibus.com)
		98 points by amoshag on Sept 4, 2018 \| 39 comments
17.		Learning Python for Social Scientists (2015) (nealcaren.github.io)
		134 points by kome on Sept 4, 2018 \| 12 comments
18.		MikroTik routers are forwarding owners’ traffic to unknown attackers (360.com)
		261 points by DyslexicAtheist on Sept 4, 2018 \| 145 comments
19.		Implementing a network protocol in Go (sourcegraph.com)
		181 points by beyang on Sept 3, 2018 \| 4 comments
20.		The Diplomatic Couriers Who Deliver America's Secret Mail (wired.com)
		106 points by ALee on Sept 4, 2018 \| 52 comments
21.		Rocket woman: How to cook curry and get a spacecraft into Mars orbit (bbc.com)
		110 points by snadahalli on Sept 4, 2018 \| 46 comments
22.		Email security on Democratic campaigns is as bad as 2016 (washingtonpost.com)
		130 points by idlewords on Sept 4, 2018 \| 108 comments
23.		Levenshtein Automata (2010) (notdot.net)
		172 points by tosh on Sept 4, 2018 \| 11 comments
24.		A Fighter Pilot’s Guide to Surviving on the Roads (portsmouthctc.org.uk)
		312 points by lifeisstillgood on Sept 3, 2018 \| 182 comments
25.		Hacking into a CPU’S Microcode (2017) (hackaday.com)
		117 points by peter_d_sherman on Sept 4, 2018 \| 17 comments
26.		Australia Wants to Take Government Surveillance to the Next Level (nytimes.com)
		313 points by adventured on Sept 4, 2018 \| 94 comments
27.		What Came First: The Village or the Temple? Or, the Mystery of Göbekli Tepe (bookworm.club)
		91 points by kaycebasques on Sept 4, 2018 \| 100 comments
28.		OpsGenie is joining Atlassian (opsgenie.com)
		143 points by mansilladev on Sept 4, 2018 \| 24 comments
29.		The mean age of high-tech founders is 43, economists say (wsj.com)
		226 points by GoldenMonkey on Sept 4, 2018 \| 93 comments
30.		Princess Alice disaster: The Thames' 650 forgotten dead (bbc.co.uk)
		64 points by Jaruzel on Sept 3, 2018 \| 9 comments
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