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1.		A year later, Equifax has faced little fallout from losing data (techcrunch.com)
		934 points by sahin on Sept 8, 2018 \| 276 comments
2.		Popular iPhone apps caught sending user location data to monetization firms (techcrunch.com)
		677 points by tareqak on Sept 7, 2018 \| 252 comments
3.		XSV: A fast CSV command-line toolkit written in Rust (github.com/burntsushi)
		609 points by tosh on Sept 8, 2018 \| 188 comments
4.		Tools of the Trade, from Hacker News (github.com/cjbarber)
		581 points by 0x4542 on Sept 8, 2018 \| 98 comments
5.		Wi-Fi Gets More Secure: What You Need to Know About WPA3 (ieee.org)
		261 points by NicoJuicy on Sept 7, 2018 \| 152 comments
6.		YouTube's tendency to push everyday users toward politically extreme content (nytimes.com)
		395 points by anigbrowl on Sept 7, 2018 \| 242 comments
7.		Show HN: Reminiscence, self-hosted bookmark manager and personal wayback machine (github.com/kanishka-linux)
		213 points by kanishkalinux on Sept 8, 2018 \| 47 comments
8.		Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole (quillette.com)
		510 points by alexmat on Sept 7, 2018 \| 222 comments
9.		OxyContin billionaire has patented a drug to wean addicts from opioids (washingtonpost.com)
		217 points by dsr12 on Sept 8, 2018 \| 148 comments
10.		Forgotten Greats of Science Fiction (tor.com)
		169 points by walterbell on Sept 8, 2018 \| 120 comments
11.		Making Music: When Simple Probabilities Outperform Deep Learning (towardsdatascience.com)
		137 points by lxm on Sept 6, 2018 \| 44 comments
12.		Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome
		532 points by ronilan on Sept 8, 2018 \| 323 comments
13.		Can good teaching be taught? (nytimes.com)
		196 points by MarkMc on Sept 8, 2018 \| 120 comments
14.		Poaching Tesla (aboveavalon.com)
		107 points by mercutio2 on Sept 8, 2018 \| 153 comments
15.		GRPC and JSON (grpc.io)
		130 points by ngaut on Sept 7, 2018 \| 13 comments
16.		Surprising hidden order unites prime numbers and crystal-like materials (phys.org)
		157 points by foxes on Sept 7, 2018 \| 39 comments
17.		Smelvetica – Helvetica the way it was intended to be (tholman.com)
		280 points by lelf on Sept 6, 2018 \| 93 comments
18.		Brute Force Incognito Browsing (nullprogram.com)
		134 points by Cmerlyn on Sept 6, 2018 \| 48 comments
19.		Ten years after the financial crisis, GSE securities have expanded $804B (creditbubblebulletin.blogspot.com)
		83 points by kaycebasques on Sept 8, 2018 \| 22 comments
20.		Evidence of 7,200-year-old cheese-making found on the Dalmatian Coast (psu.edu)
		74 points by XzetaU8 on Sept 7, 2018 \| 18 comments
21.		How the City of London invented offshore banking (theguardian.com)
		97 points by NeedMoreTea on Sept 8, 2018 \| 40 comments
22.		Companies that contribute to open source can gain a competitive advantage (hbs.edu)
		152 points by ingve on Sept 8, 2018 \| 19 comments
23.		Bump-Canceling Bunk Beds Promise Smooth Bus Rides (wired.com)
		99 points by Osiris30 on Sept 7, 2018 \| 86 comments
24.		Ray Tracing Without Ray Tracing API (diaryofagraphicsprogrammer.blogspot.com)
		50 points by ingve on Sept 8, 2018 \| 16 comments
25.		Procedurally Generating Islands (2017) (plaxdev.wordpress.com)
		77 points by cursorial on Sept 7, 2018 \| 8 comments
26.		Youth-apprenticeship program in Colorado mirrors a successful Swiss model (theatlantic.com)
		57 points by adamnemecek on Sept 8, 2018 \| 16 comments
27.		The Ethics of Consciousness Hunting (nautil.us)
		93 points by dnetesn on Sept 6, 2018 \| 10 comments
28.		Contracts in OpenBSD (2010) [pdf] (kindsoftware.com)
		42 points by tosh on Sept 8, 2018 \| 7 comments
29.		Getting specific about generics (emilymaier.net)
		83 points by grey-area on Sept 7, 2018 \| 29 comments
30.		Beyond Spotify and iZettle: How Sweden became Europe’s capital of startup exits (venturebeat.com)
		100 points by imartin2k on Sept 8, 2018 \| 95 comments
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