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1.		Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps (abhijittomar.com)
		549 points by motiw on Nov 25, 2018 \| 190 comments
2.		Time to break academic publishing's stranglehold on research (newscientist.com)
		697 points by joeyespo on Nov 24, 2018 \| 300 comments
3.		Dive – A tool for exploring each layer in a Docker image (github.com/wagoodman)
		684 points by boyter on Nov 25, 2018 \| 42 comments
4.		LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members (techcrunch.com)
		619 points by sidcool on Nov 25, 2018 \| 138 comments
5.		How I changed the law with a GitHub pull request (arstechnica.com)
		503 points by chha on Nov 25, 2018 \| 115 comments
6.		AI Mistakes Bus-Side Ad for Famous CEO, Charges Her With Jaywalking (caixinglobal.com)
		576 points by breitling on Nov 25, 2018 \| 397 comments
7.		Vladimir Lukyanov's hydraulic computer (pruned.blogspot.com)
		317 points by bogidon on Nov 25, 2018 \| 72 comments
8.		Swathing is going out of fashion, as most farmers desiccate to ripen their crops (nautil.us)
		206 points by dnetesn on Nov 25, 2018 \| 137 comments
9.		Two Years, Four Nanodegree Programs, and a New Career (udacity.com)
		167 points by gabor-meszaros on Nov 25, 2018 \| 83 comments
10.		Researchers Created Fake 'Master' Fingerprints to Unlock Smartphones (vice.com)
		235 points by known on Nov 25, 2018 \| 66 comments
11.		Optimization in the context of machine learning (algorithmia.com)
		143 points by bourbakis on Nov 25, 2018 \| 26 comments
12.		Ask HN: Is there a better way to document complex software architectures?
		406 points by dvasdekis on Nov 22, 2018 \| 235 comments
13.		Strato Pi – An Industrial Raspberry Pi (sferalabs.cc)
		182 points by camtarn on Nov 25, 2018 \| 79 comments
14.		Comparison of the Best NSFW Image Moderation APIs 2018 (adityaananthram.com)
		192 points by aadityaa on Nov 22, 2018 \| 70 comments
15.		Many free mobile VPN apps are based in China or have Chinese ownership (zdnet.com)
		182 points by wglb on Nov 25, 2018 \| 56 comments
16.		AOL acquires Netscape in $4.2B deal (1998) (cnn.com)
		143 points by kkaefer on Nov 24, 2018 \| 60 comments
17.		The “bicameral mind” 30 years on: A reappraisal of Jaynes’ hypothesis (2007) (functionalneurology.com)
		147 points by hliyan on Nov 24, 2018 \| 92 comments
18.		WebAssembly doesn’t make unsafe languages safe (00f.net)
		161 points by paraboul on Nov 25, 2018 \| 83 comments
19.		The Burning of Library.nu (2014) (knowledgeutopia.wordpress.com)
		94 points by dongping on Nov 24, 2018 \| 50 comments
20.		U.S. Supreme Court to hear Apple App Store antitrust dispute (reuters.com)
		178 points by danbtl on Nov 25, 2018 \| 255 comments
21.		Cytoscape.js – Graph theory / network library for analysis and visualisation (cytoscape.org)
		145 points by octosphere on Nov 25, 2018 \| 18 comments
22.		The Shinkansen Story [video] (youtube.com)
		113 points by dsego on Nov 24, 2018 \| 62 comments
23.		Tau Prolog: A Prolog Interpreter in JavaScript (tau-prolog.org)
		97 points by aarroyoc on Nov 24, 2018 \| 7 comments
24.		How the Irresistible Lure of Curiosity Is Generated in the Brain (biorxiv.org)
		102 points by laurex on Nov 25, 2018 \| 9 comments
25.		VPN Extensions are not for privacy (innerht.ml)
		94 points by EdOverflow on Nov 22, 2018 \| 37 comments
26.		World’s Oldest Fossils Now Appear to Be Squished Rocks (quantamagazine.org)
		75 points by pseudolus on Nov 24, 2018 \| 4 comments
27.		Speeding up the charting of sensor information as a waveform graph (kdab.com)
		152 points by wuschelhase on Nov 22, 2018 \| 6 comments
28.		How the World Learned About the Pentagon’s Sky-High Nuclear Testing (theatlantic.com)
		48 points by danso on Nov 24, 2018 \| 11 comments
29.		W.E.B. Du Bois’ Infographics (smithsonianmag.com)
		73 points by Vigier on Nov 25, 2018 \| 14 comments
30.		Why Chips Die (semiengineering.com)
		97 points by Lind5 on Nov 24, 2018 \| 30 comments
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