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1.		IBM acquires Red Hat (redhat.com)
		2611 points by nopriorarrests on Oct 28, 2018 \| 1052 comments
2.		Bing has been serving up malicious Google Chrome ads for months (forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho)
		535 points by wglb on Oct 27, 2018 \| 240 comments
3.		What I Learned from porting my projects to FreeBSD (github.com/shlomif)
		292 points by zdw on Oct 28, 2018 \| 146 comments
4.		The Waiting Time Paradox, Or, Why Is My Bus Always Late? (jakevdp.github.io)
		345 points by dragly on Oct 28, 2018 \| 95 comments
5.		Unslacking Tideways Company (beberlei.de)
		220 points by beberlei on Oct 28, 2018 \| 160 comments
6.		No Phd, No Problem: New Schemes Teach the Masses to Build AI (economist.com)
		245 points by jkuria on Oct 28, 2018 \| 124 comments
7.		Uber’s Restaurant Empire (bloomberg.com)
		171 points by PretzelFisch on Oct 28, 2018 \| 120 comments
8.		Scooters are taking cars off the road, a survey says (ggwash.org)
		195 points by lxm on Oct 28, 2018 \| 307 comments
9.		Talking to the Mailman – Interview with Richard Stallman (newleftreview.org)
		183 points by clydethefrog on Oct 27, 2018 \| 112 comments
10.		Turns Out Wearing a Hi-Vis Vest Gets You into Everything for Free (vice.com)
		274 points by LeoPanthera on Oct 28, 2018 \| 199 comments
11.		Ask HN: How to get started developing with FPGA?
		247 points by meifun on Oct 28, 2018 \| 84 comments
12.		Show HN: A note-taking web app that won't ever betray you (noteto.me)
		156 points by heathjohns on Oct 27, 2018 \| 74 comments
13.		A Sudden Illness (2003) (newyorker.com)
		130 points by axiomdata316 on Oct 28, 2018 \| 37 comments
14.		Stephen Hawking’s Final Paper: How to Escape from a Black Hole (nytimes.com)
		154 points by mgalka on Oct 27, 2018 \| 44 comments
15.		Researchers analysed 1700 novels to reveal six story types (bbc.com)
		170 points by sdeepak on Oct 28, 2018 \| 98 comments
16.		DeBroglie – Generate tile-based maps using wave function collapse (boristhebrave.github.io)
		102 points by tobr on Oct 28, 2018 \| 18 comments
17.		Google’s smart city dream is turning into a privacy nightmare (engadget.com)
		200 points by new_guy on Oct 28, 2018 \| 62 comments
18.		A Proof About Where Symmetries Can’t Exist (quantamagazine.org)
		102 points by jonbaer on Oct 26, 2018 \| 5 comments
19.		How Vancouver Became a Money Laundering Paradise [audio] (canadalandshow.com)
		125 points by dsr12 on Oct 28, 2018 \| 61 comments
20.		Why Netflix Rolled Its Own Node.js Functions-As-a-Service Runtime (thenewstack.io)
		139 points by ingve on Oct 28, 2018 \| 76 comments
21.		BitBench – Visually dissect and analyze bit strings (github.com/zuckschwerdt)
		58 points by adulau on Oct 28, 2018 \| 14 comments
22.		What 'dependency' means in Unix init systems is underspecified (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		75 points by zdw on Oct 28, 2018 \| 40 comments
23.		The DS GPU and its fun quirks (kuribo64.net)
		136 points by justinweiss on Oct 28, 2018 \| 24 comments
24.		Ray Ozzie on Lotus Notes and Slow Hunch Innovation (2011) (stevenberlinjohnson.com)
		61 points by wslh on Oct 28, 2018 \| 14 comments
25.		What is the revenue generation model for DuckDuckGo? (quora.com)
		298 points by lettergram on Oct 28, 2018 \| 150 comments
26.		Darknet – A neural network framework written in C and CUDA (github.com/pjreddie)
		63 points by ZeljkoS on Oct 27, 2018 \| 19 comments
27.		The Strangest Book on the Theory of Computation (2009) (recursed.blogspot.com)
		138 points by Hooke on Oct 28, 2018 \| 32 comments
28.		Show HN: Whack – A simply-designed compiled programming language (github.com/onchere)
		57 points by wycliffb on Oct 28, 2018 \| 45 comments
29.		Direct access to wave function amplitudes and eigenvalues in TBTK (second-tech.com)
		34 points by dafer45 on Oct 28, 2018 \| 11 comments
30.		Your DNA Is Out There. Do You Want Law Enforcement Using It? (bloombergquint.com)
		89 points by Jerry2 on Oct 28, 2018 \| 52 comments
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