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1.		How Google Code Search Worked: Regex Matching with a Trigram Index (2012) (swtch.com)
		434 points by kbumsik on Dec 2, 2018 \| 70 comments
2.		Monarch butterfly populations in U.S. west are down an order of magnitude (qz.com)
		382 points by lxm on Nov 30, 2018 \| 173 comments
3.		I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me happier (cnbc.com)
		574 points by lxm on Dec 2, 2018 \| 312 comments
4.		What makes BeOS and Haiku unique (osvoyager.wordpress.com)
		303 points by valeg on Dec 2, 2018 \| 219 comments
5.		Amazon FBA Experiment (fbaexperiment.com)
		319 points by testimoni on Dec 2, 2018 \| 161 comments
6.		Receiving NOAA Weather Satellite Images with $10 USB SDR Device (2014) [video] (youtube.com)
		195 points by peter_d_sherman on Dec 2, 2018 \| 33 comments
7.		The Octopus Is Smart as Heck, But Why? (nytimes.com)
		280 points by dnetesn on Dec 1, 2018 \| 146 comments
8.		Madrid bans polluting vehicles from city centre (theguardian.com)
		250 points by purple_ducks on Nov 30, 2018 \| 165 comments
9.		New Metal-Air Transistor Replaces Semiconductors (ieee.org)
		216 points by joak on Dec 2, 2018 \| 101 comments
10.		Moving to GitLab (haskell.org)
		189 points by sahin on Dec 2, 2018 \| 58 comments
11.		Amazon's cloud business is competing with its own customers (cnbc.com)
		212 points by NicoJuicy on Nov 30, 2018 \| 177 comments
12.		Dark web dealers voluntarily ban deadly fentanyl (theguardian.com)
		164 points by cribbles on Dec 1, 2018 \| 160 comments
13.		Valve creates new revenue sharing tiers to give big sellers a break (gamasutra.com)
		156 points by 2calazm on Dec 2, 2018 \| 184 comments
14.		Paleotronic's 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Year One: 1980 (paleotronic.com)
		104 points by empressplay on Dec 2, 2018 \| 23 comments
15.		Ansel Adams’ pictures of LA recall an era of war factories and 10-cent hot dogs (californiasun.co)
		167 points by prismatic on Nov 30, 2018 \| 127 comments
16.		How we built the largest database of police use of force in N.J. history (nj.com)
		160 points by danso on Nov 29, 2018 \| 72 comments
17.		Researchers have significantly increased the scope of the Rowhammer threat (wired.com)
		157 points by 0x4542 on Dec 1, 2018 \| 50 comments
18.		Distributed Erlang: From Datacenter to Planetary Scale Applications [video] (youtube.com)
		120 points by cmeiklejohn on Nov 30, 2018 \| 2 comments
19.		Facebook's Open-Source Reinforcement Learning Platform – A Deep Dive (xaviergeerinck.com)
		118 points by thebillkidy on Dec 2, 2018 \| 10 comments
20.		Guessing the pressed keyboard keys by analyzing the audio from the microphone (github.com/ggerganov)
		194 points by Osiris30 on Nov 30, 2018 \| 33 comments
21.		Mozilla hit with takedown request for anti-paywall addons (github.com/nextgens)
		311 points by AndrewDucker on Dec 2, 2018 \| 387 comments
22.		Why Don’t We Forget How to Ride a Bike? (scientificamerican.com)
		141 points by Deinos on Dec 1, 2018 \| 136 comments
23.		Boden cross-platform framework: Native C++11, native widgets, no JavaScript (github.com/ashampoosystems)
		143 points by gitoby on Nov 30, 2018 \| 96 comments
24.		Designing cities to counter loneliness? Let's explore the possibilities (theconversation.com)
		156 points by wallflower on Nov 30, 2018 \| 158 comments
25.		Mjs – An interpreter for ECMAScript 1st edition written in C++17 (github.com/mras0)
		82 points by eatonphil on Dec 2, 2018 \| 25 comments
26.		What are you waiting for? (science.sciencemag.org)
		141 points by lemoncurd on Dec 1, 2018 \| 37 comments
27.		BladeRF 2.0 micro (nuand.com)
		92 points by peter_d_sherman on Dec 2, 2018 \| 41 comments
28.		Spectre Mitigations Part 2 (wasmjit.org)
		71 points by cejetvole on Dec 2, 2018 \| 27 comments
29.		YugaByteDB – A Transactional Database with Cassandra, Redis and PostgreSQL APIs (github.com/yugabyte)
		115 points by mountainview on Dec 1, 2018 \| 31 comments
30.		A Very Sleepy MySQL Attack (cotten.io)
		70 points by cottenio on Dec 2, 2018 \| 43 comments
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