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1.		Microsoft Releases a Linux Version of the ProcDump Sysinternals Tool (github.com/microsoft)
		455 points by ArtWomb on Nov 4, 2018 \| 354 comments
2.		China Telecom's Internet Traffic Misdirection (oracle.com)
		410 points by dbelson on Nov 5, 2018 \| 112 comments
3.		Learning to Read in Your 30s Profoundly Transforms the Brain (nautil.us)
		367 points by dnetesn on Nov 5, 2018 \| 165 comments
4.		Cancer-Linked Chemicals Manufactured by 3M Are Turning Up in Drinking Water (bloomberg.com)
		387 points by smacktoward on Nov 5, 2018 \| 170 comments
5.		Programming Paradigms for Dummies: What Every Programmer Should Know (2009) [pdf] (ucl.ac.be)
		504 points by tiniuclx on Nov 5, 2018 \| 163 comments
6.		Google's interview system: it's not about solving the problem (threader.app)
		389 points by mariedm on Nov 4, 2018 \| 415 comments
7.		Stacksort – Searches StackOverflow for sorting functions and runs them (2013) (gkoberger.github.io)
		318 points by colinprince on Nov 5, 2018 \| 79 comments
8.		Improving Ourselves to Death (newyorker.com)
		222 points by Futurebot on Nov 5, 2018 \| 117 comments
9.		The LM383 Story (idea2ic.com)
		201 points by ksikka on Nov 5, 2018 \| 62 comments
10.		Bussed out: how America moves thousands of homeless people around the country (theguardian.com)
		239 points by chaostheory on Nov 4, 2018 \| 119 comments
11.		Philosophy Has Made Plenty of Progress (scientificamerican.com)
		248 points by chablent on Nov 4, 2018 \| 326 comments
12.		As women have more equal opportunity, the more their preferences differ from men (science.sciencemag.org)
		534 points by seagullz on Nov 5, 2018 \| 502 comments
13.		How hustle culture took over advertising (digiday.com)
		208 points by ilamont on Nov 5, 2018 \| 252 comments
14.		What’s Hiding in Your PDF? (pspdfkit.com)
		216 points by ingve on Nov 5, 2018 \| 61 comments
15.		Generating Software Tests: Breaking Software for Fun and Profit (fuzzingbook.org)
		179 points by ingve on Nov 5, 2018 \| 24 comments
16.		Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses in the encryption of solid state drives [pdf] (zdnet.com)
		224 points by exceptione on Nov 5, 2018 \| 109 comments
17.		How I became friends with an octopus (bbc.com)
		150 points by evo_9 on Nov 5, 2018 \| 51 comments
18.		Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL (stitchfix.com)
		248 points by _ttg on Nov 4, 2018 \| 115 comments
19.		Show HN: Above-average products selling for below-average prices (goodcheapandfast.com)
		183 points by john_w on Nov 4, 2018 \| 65 comments
20.		RTL-SDR compatible decoder application for the Meteor M2 weather satellite (rtl-sdr.com)
		122 points by Baikal12 on Nov 5, 2018 \| 19 comments
21.		Why [Insert Thing Here] Is Not a Password Killer (troyhunt.com)
		213 points by nikbackm on Nov 5, 2018 \| 271 comments
22.		Depends – the missing linker for the JVM (github.com/bgard6977)
		124 points by voodootrucker on Nov 4, 2018 \| 29 comments
23.		How Writers Map Their Imaginary Worlds (atlasobscura.com)
		147 points by crunchiebones on Nov 4, 2018 \| 36 comments
24.		SMT Solving on an iPhone (washington.edu)
		174 points by sidereal on Nov 5, 2018 \| 35 comments
25.		Redbird: A modern reverse proxy for Node (github.com/optimalbits)
		136 points by Immortalin on Nov 5, 2018 \| 74 comments
26.		Solar storm of 1859 (wikipedia.org)
		109 points by nhkssol on Nov 4, 2018 \| 45 comments
27.		Nix Language Primer (binaryphile.com)
		122 points by binaryphile on Nov 5, 2018 \| 64 comments
28.		A faster, cheaper path to fusion energy (phys.org)
		117 points by gmiller123456 on Nov 5, 2018 \| 123 comments
29.		Microsoft Beats Amazon in 12-Month Cloud Revenue (forbes.com/sites/bobevans1)
		266 points by samaysharma on Nov 5, 2018 \| 114 comments
30.		Two major research funders to bar grantees from publishing in hybrid journals (sciencemag.org)
		186 points by sohkamyung on Nov 5, 2018 \| 51 comments
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