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1.		My Story as a Homeless Developer (medium.com/jessehorne)
		482 points by jessehorne on Sept 7, 2018 \| 300 comments
2.		Jack Ma to Retire from Alibaba (nytimes.com)
		401 points by tysone on Sept 7, 2018 \| 125 comments
3.		Google Fiber Is High-Speed Internet’s Most Successful Failure (hbr.org)
		281 points by apress on Sept 7, 2018 \| 157 comments
4.		Medieval Fantasy City Generator (watabou.itch.io)
		788 points by BerislavLopac on Sept 6, 2018 \| 115 comments
5.		On the Road to Pure Go X11 GUIs (janouch.name)
		198 points by wolfgke on Sept 7, 2018 \| 118 comments
6.		Intel can’t supply 14nm Xeons, HPE recommends AMD Epyc (semiaccurate.com)
		328 points by davidgerard on Sept 7, 2018 \| 125 comments
7.		'Mindful people' feel less pain (medicalxpress.com)
		207 points by dnetesn on Sept 7, 2018 \| 149 comments
8.		Hospitals to launch their own drug company to fight high prices and shortages (npr.org)
		242 points by stevetodd on Sept 7, 2018 \| 138 comments
9.		AVX-512: when and how to use these new instructions (lemire.me)
		188 points by ingve on Sept 7, 2018 \| 52 comments
10.		In the fundamental physics of the world, there is neither space nor time (nautil.us)
		164 points by dnetesn on Sept 7, 2018 \| 79 comments
11.		Don't Steal Money from Day Traders Before They Lose It (bloomberg.com)
		298 points by thaumasiotes on Sept 6, 2018 \| 249 comments
12.		Try OCaml (ocamlpro.com)
		341 points by dna_polymerase on Sept 7, 2018 \| 227 comments
13.		Quaternions: the Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra (quantamagazine.org)
		205 points by rbanffy on Sept 7, 2018 \| 79 comments
14.		“Sand Dams” Are Transforming African Drylands (weburbanist.com)
		155 points by misnamed on Sept 7, 2018 \| 50 comments
15.		Beleaguered Didi Is Said to Lose $585M in Just Six Months (bloomberg.com)
		120 points by raleighm on Sept 7, 2018 \| 133 comments
16.		Introduction to Calculus with Derivatives (adit.io)
		266 points by nafizh on Sept 6, 2018 \| 65 comments
17.		Firefox about:config privacy settings (gist.github.com)
		362 points by krn on Sept 7, 2018 \| 147 comments
18.		Breaking bad news (boz.com)
		298 points by zdw on Sept 5, 2018 \| 103 comments
19.		How we fit an NES game into 40 Kilobytes [video] (youtube.com)
		163 points by scott_s on Sept 6, 2018 \| 13 comments
20.		Ancient farmers spared us from glaciers but changed Earth's climate: study (phys.org)
		154 points by dnetesn on Sept 7, 2018 \| 78 comments
21.		Tech companies in San Francisco (employbl.com)
		129 points by connor11528 on Sept 7, 2018 \| 57 comments
22.		The US chip industry starts to wake up to new competitive reality (archive.is)
		107 points by yazr on Sept 7, 2018 \| 87 comments
23.		Show HN: BitMidi – Wayback machine for old-school MIDI files (bitmidi.com)
		168 points by feross on Sept 6, 2018 \| 80 comments
24.		Go says Wat (sourcegraph.com)
		152 points by beyang on Sept 7, 2018 \| 99 comments
25.		Company using Mechanical Turk botches U.S. Senate campaign finance records (publicintegrity.org)
		153 points by danso on Sept 5, 2018 \| 57 comments
26.		Oberon System Implemented on a Low-Cost FPGA Board (2015) [pdf] (semanticscholar.org)
		123 points by tosh on Sept 7, 2018 \| 34 comments
27.		How Spam Filtering Works: From SPF to DKIM to Blacklists (deliciousbrains.com)
		143 points by lxm on Sept 6, 2018 \| 64 comments
28.		Keybase’s browser extension subverts its encryption (palant.de)
		225 points by fallenhitokiri on Sept 7, 2018 \| 75 comments
29.		WireMock (wiremock.org)
		163 points by 0x4542 on Sept 6, 2018 \| 57 comments
30.		Huawei caught cheating performance test for new phones (techcrunch.com)
		260 points by tango24 on Sept 7, 2018 \| 115 comments
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