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1.
Decentralisation: the next big step for the world wide web (theguardian.com)
532 points by carsonfarmer on Sept 8, 2018 | 208 comments
2.
First-party isolation in Firefox: what breaks if you enable it? (ctrl.blog)
347 points by fanf2 on Sept 9, 2018 | 114 comments
3.
D3-dag – Layout algorithms for visualizing directed acylic graphs (github.com/erikbrinkman)
256 points by petethomas on Sept 9, 2018 | 40 comments
4.
Isochronous Curves (wikipedia.org)
224 points by anonu on Sept 9, 2018 | 62 comments
5.
Why Are Newspaper Websites So Horrible? (citylab.com)
263 points by joegahona on Sept 8, 2018 | 183 comments
6.
The algebra and calculus of algebraic data types (recurse.com)
170 points by alex_hirner on Sept 8, 2018 | 48 comments
7.
Show HN: Zero – Local file system transparently swapping to the cloud (github.com/konstantinschubert)
252 points by konschubert on Sept 9, 2018 | 96 comments
8.
Infectious Theory of Alzheimer's Disease Draws Fresh Interest (npr.org)
222 points by chriskanan on Sept 9, 2018 | 89 comments
9.
Ask HN: How to transition from academic programming to software engineering?
220 points by fdsvnsmvas on Sept 9, 2018 | 103 comments
10.
Beijing’s Three Options: Unemployment, Debt, or Wealth Transfers (carnegieendowment.org)
147 points by mooreds on Sept 9, 2018 | 118 comments
11.
How Tutanota replaced Google’s FCM with their own notification system (f-droid.org)
187 points by grammers on Sept 9, 2018 | 66 comments
12.
Mistakes C/C++ Devs make writing Go (sourcegraph.com)
202 points by beyang on Sept 9, 2018 | 60 comments
13.
The First 15 Years of PyPy – A Personal Retrospective (morepypy.blogspot.com)
183 points by gok on Sept 9, 2018 | 27 comments
14.
Smenu, a command-line advanced selection filter and a menu builder for terminal (github.com/p-gen)
182 points by pgen on Sept 9, 2018 | 7 comments
15.
To Restore Civil Society, Start with the Library (nytimes.com)
185 points by Tomte on Sept 9, 2018 | 141 comments
16.
Show HN: Prod – Blocks addictive websites until you've finished your to-do list (chrome.google.com)
96 points by JohnBartlet on Sept 9, 2018 | 45 comments
17.
Time to look beyond Oracle's JDK (joda.org)
173 points by wheresvic1 on Sept 8, 2018 | 129 comments
18.
DIY puller RC flying wing airplane with Kline–Fogleman modified airfoil (ausleuchtung.ch)
141 points by synesso on Sept 8, 2018 | 20 comments
19.
Spontaneous knotting of an agitated string (2007) (nih.gov)
71 points by ColinWright on Sept 9, 2018 | 23 comments
20.
Loneliness is a serious public-health problem (economist.com)
185 points by joeyespo on Sept 8, 2018 | 121 comments
21.
Transplanted mammals take a century to re-learn migration routes (arstechnica.com)
71 points by grey_earthling on Sept 8, 2018
22.
Strest – Flexible REST Tests in YAML (github.com/eykhagen)
60 points by jsrbn on Sept 9, 2018 | 8 comments
23.
Companies worry more about access to software developers than capital (cnbc.com)
193 points by ScottWRobinson on Sept 9, 2018 | 276 comments
24.
How social-media platforms dispense justice (economist.com)
63 points by privong on Sept 9, 2018 | 28 comments
25.
Mezcal Is Born of Time, Tradition and a Slow-Growing Plant (nytimes.com)
90 points by petethomas on Sept 8, 2018 | 33 comments
26.
Blogging with org-publish in Emacs (vicarie.in)
81 points by narendraj9 on Sept 8, 2018 | 8 comments
27.
NSA metadata program “consistent” with Fourth Amendment, Kavanaugh once argued (arstechnica.com)
185 points by colejohnson66 on Sept 9, 2018 | 74 comments
28.
Creating a Fibonacci Generator in Assembly (seso.io)
50 points by willvk on Sept 9, 2018 | 35 comments
29.
UK’s worst-selling map: The empty landscape charted by OS440 (theguardian.com)
84 points by f_allwein on Sept 9, 2018 | 33 comments
30.
The Amazon Echo as a map of human labor, data and planetary resources (anatomyof.ai)
65 points by benryon on Sept 8, 2018 | 9 comments

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