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1.		Tesla's giant battery saved $40M during its first year, report says (electrek.co)
		781 points by touristtam on Dec 6, 2018 \| 323 comments
2.		A well-known URL for changing passwords (github.com/wicg)
		749 points by fanf2 on Dec 6, 2018 \| 172 comments
3.		Goodbye, EdgeHTML (blog.mozilla.org)
		1178 points by __michaelg on Dec 6, 2018 \| 657 comments
4.		Lyft Files for IPO (reuters.com)
		546 points by svtrent on Dec 6, 2018 \| 303 comments
5.		Facebook accused of striking 'secret deals over user data' (bbc.com)
		456 points by arduinomancer on Dec 6, 2018 \| 170 comments
6.		The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code (triplebyte.com)
		479 points by Harj on Dec 6, 2018 \| 313 comments
7.		Rust 2018 is here, but what is it? (hacks.mozilla.org)
		537 points by jsheard on Dec 6, 2018 \| 190 comments
8.		Serial Port SDR (hackaday.com)
		205 points by walterbell on Dec 6, 2018 \| 87 comments
9.		China backs bold plan to tear down journal paywalls (nature.com)
		217 points by Vinnl on Dec 6, 2018 \| 68 comments
10.		Five-Year Trends Available for Median Income, Poverty and Internet Use (census.gov)
		205 points by infodocket on Dec 6, 2018 \| 121 comments
11.		Kubernetes clusters being hijacked to mine cryptocurrencies (binaryedge.io)
		183 points by igama on Dec 6, 2018 \| 64 comments
12.		The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts (blog.google)
		283 points by fastest963 on Dec 6, 2018 \| 385 comments
13.		Faster and simpler with the command line: deep-comparing JSON files with jq (genius.engineering)
		206 points by wwarnerandrew on Dec 6, 2018 \| 84 comments
14.		The silent CVE in the heart of Kubernetes apiserver (gravitational.com)
		169 points by craigkerstiens on Dec 5, 2018 \| 13 comments
15.		Look ma, no locks (lucteo.ro)
		165 points by ingve on Dec 5, 2018 \| 41 comments
16.		GNU Mes 0.17: towards bootstrappable builds for GuixSD (lists.gnu.org)
		89 points by fanf2 on Dec 6, 2018 \| 14 comments
17.		BleedingBit: The hidden attack surface within BLE chips [pdf] (armis.com)
		70 points by keyme on Dec 6, 2018 \| 14 comments
18.		Mr. Wu (granta.com)
		148 points by apollinaire on Dec 5, 2018 \| 25 comments
19.		The Y Combinator Database (ycdb.co)
		196 points by milhouse1337 on Dec 5, 2018 \| 31 comments
20.		Google Will Pay Publishers for ‘The Night of the Yellow Ad’ (adexchanger.com)
		128 points by potench on Dec 6, 2018 \| 43 comments
21.		An Introduction to the EMACS Editor (1978) (dspace.mit.edu)
		154 points by _19qg on Dec 5, 2018 \| 81 comments
22.		Ko – A concurrent, immutable, functional language (github.com/kocircuit)
		116 points by petar on Dec 5, 2018 \| 65 comments
23.		Historians are using facial recognition to identify people in Civil War photos (slate.com)
		59 points by prismatic on Dec 5, 2018 \| 40 comments
24.		Australian parliament passes encryption laws unamended (abc.net.au)
		365 points by dhx on Dec 6, 2018 \| 393 comments
25.		The Squishiest, Sweetest Sleep (nytimes.com)
		70 points by kawera on Dec 6, 2018 \| 54 comments
26.		National Security Archive's complete index of NSA internal Cryptolog periodical (gwu.edu)
		80 points by pentestercrab on Dec 6, 2018 \| 12 comments
27.		Internal emails cause more trouble for Facebook and its C.E.O. (newyorker.com)
		342 points by jaytaylor on Dec 6, 2018 \| 241 comments
28.		HTTPS in the real world (robertheaton.com)
		162 points by mbaytas on Dec 5, 2018 \| 26 comments
29.		Differential coding of perception in the world’s languages (pnas.org)
		50 points by Osiris30 on Dec 5, 2018 \| 22 comments
30.		Microsoft Edge and open source collaboration (windows.com)
		376 points by xPaw on Dec 6, 2018 \| 292 comments
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