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1.		Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket (bbc.com)
		830 points by farseer on Oct 11, 2018 \| 370 comments
2.		What's a CPU to do when it has nothing to do? (lwn.net)
		394 points by reddotX on Oct 10, 2018 \| 144 comments
3.		EU drops rule that would prevent self-driving car data from being copyrighted (boingboing.net)
		224 points by lnguyen on Oct 11, 2018 \| 124 comments
4.		Asterisks in Python (treyhunner.com)
		222 points by ingve on Oct 11, 2018 \| 106 comments
5.		Delete Your Account Now: A Conversation with Jaron Lanier (lareviewofbooks.org)
		339 points by lxm on Oct 10, 2018 \| 202 comments
6.		Show HN: Tableau-Like Data Visualizations in JavaScript (charts.com)
		361 points by pallavn on Oct 11, 2018 \| 114 comments
7.		Self-healing material can build itself from carbon in the air (news.mit.edu)
		279 points by extraterra on Oct 11, 2018 \| 82 comments
8.		Ask HN: Ex-FAANG developers, where are you now and why?
		537 points by macca321 on Oct 11, 2018 \| 437 comments
9.		Parallel Supercomputing for Astronomy with Julia (juliacomputing.com)
		161 points by SiempreViernes on Oct 11, 2018 \| 61 comments
10.		How I Faked My Way to the Top of Paris Fashion Week [video] (youtube.com)
		289 points by tlrobinson on Oct 10, 2018 \| 129 comments
11.		Millions of workers believe they are bound by non-binding contracts (thespeakernewsjournal.com)
		269 points by sprechen on Oct 11, 2018 \| 170 comments
12.		Listen to a SIM-Jacking, Account-Stealing Ransom (vice.com)
		167 points by petethomas on Oct 11, 2018 \| 92 comments
13.		Faster R with FastR (medium.com/graalvm)
		162 points by nirvdrum on Oct 11, 2018 \| 78 comments
14.		What we lose by reading 100,000 words every day (washingtonpost.com)
		198 points by pepys on Oct 9, 2018 \| 105 comments
15.		Tale of Three Probabilistic Families: Discriminative, Descriptive and Generative (arxiv.org)
		97 points by ArtWomb on Oct 11, 2018 \| 6 comments
16.		Rust has a static “garbage collector” (steveklabnik.com)
		240 points by steveklabnik on Oct 10, 2018 \| 200 comments
17.		Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data (arstechnica.com)
		175 points by ivank on Oct 10, 2018 \| 319 comments
18.		NetLogo – A multi-agent programmable modeling environment (northwestern.edu)
		95 points by tosh on Oct 9, 2018 \| 32 comments
19.		An eclipse gave researchers an inside look at how bees respond to light (smithsonianmag.com)
		92 points by shawn on Oct 11, 2018 \| 36 comments
20.		Merging a Hasselblad 500C/M and a FujiFilm Instax 9 (isaacblankensmith.com)
		149 points by eddiecohen2 on Oct 9, 2018 \| 34 comments
21.		Polly: LLVM Framework for High-Level Loop and Data-Locality Optimizations (llvm.org)
		82 points by luu on Oct 10, 2018 \| 16 comments
22.		Sandsifter: x86 processor fuzzer (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
		105 points by wrench4916 on Oct 9, 2018 \| 17 comments
23.		FISK – It's a floppy disk fax machine (twitter.com/foone)
		169 points by pentestercrab on Oct 11, 2018 \| 61 comments
24.		Yossi Appleboum on How Bloomberg is Positioning His Research Against Supermicro (servethehome.com)
		143 points by pjf on Oct 10, 2018 \| 58 comments
25.		Anti-social Punishment (lesswrong.com)
		358 points by type0 on Oct 11, 2018 \| 118 comments
26.		Real Differences Between OT and CRDT for Co-Editors (arxiv.org)
		100 points by shunza on Oct 11, 2018 \| 62 comments
27.		What happened when Buffer stopped using Slack on Fridays (fastcompany.com)
		108 points by lxm on Oct 11, 2018 \| 119 comments
28.		How to Identify Almost Anyone in a Consumer Gene Database (scientificamerican.com)
		70 points by extraterra on Oct 11, 2018 \| 7 comments
29.		The program to build NASA’s moon rocket could double in price to $9B (washingtonpost.com)
		78 points by hef19898 on Oct 11, 2018 \| 118 comments
30.		Children poisoned by lead on U.S. Army bases (reuters.com)
		170 points by petethomas on Oct 11, 2018 \| 56 comments
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