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1.		Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, Seed the Eyes of Victims (scientificamerican.com)
		433 points by tshannon on Dec 10, 2018 \| 189 comments
2.		Nasa's Voyager 2 probe 'leaves the Solar System' (bbc.co.uk)
		405 points by grahamel on Dec 10, 2018 \| 100 comments
3.		The cold start problem: how to build your machine learning portfolio (towardsdatascience.com)
		340 points by sharemywin on Dec 10, 2018 \| 99 comments
4.		Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds (nytimes.com)
		448 points by pcl on Dec 10, 2018 \| 168 comments
5.		On Shutting Down (blog.ycombinator.com)
		306 points by craigcannon on Dec 10, 2018 \| 84 comments
6.		Why Not to Use Quora (waxy.org)
		500 points by undefined1 on Dec 10, 2018 \| 186 comments
7.		Tracking leaks on NDA beta Xbox 360s by embedding serial number on-screen (twitter.com/cullend)
		357 points by danso on Dec 9, 2018 \| 140 comments
8.		House Oversight Committee Report on Equifax Breach [pdf] (house.gov)
		238 points by finnigja on Dec 10, 2018 \| 139 comments
9.		IPFS, The Interplanetary File System, Simply Explained (achainofblocks.com)
		261 points by acob on Dec 10, 2018 \| 52 comments
10.		Qualcomm wins preliminary China import ruling against some iPhone models (reuters.com)
		126 points by tooltalk on Dec 10, 2018 \| 72 comments
11.		Why Aren’t Rich People Happy With the Money They Have? (theatlantic.com)
		316 points by gscott on Dec 9, 2018 \| 342 comments
12.		Seemingly Impossible Swift Programs (fewbutripe.com)
		179 points by wool_gather on Dec 10, 2018 \| 89 comments
13.		Making Games in Lisp with Hypergiant and Chicken Scheme (alex-charlton.com)
		155 points by bananicorn on Dec 10, 2018 \| 22 comments
14.		Bézier moi (cormullion.github.io)
		190 points by one-more-minute on Dec 8, 2018 \| 35 comments
15.		Nextcloud introduces social features, joins the fediverse (nextcloud.com)
		194 points by Kye on Dec 10, 2018 \| 122 comments
16.		LED Strain (ledstrain.org)
		162 points by profdithering on Dec 10, 2018 \| 217 comments
17.		The Life of a Backpacker in Asia in the 1970s (perceptivetravel.com)
		226 points by I-M-S on Dec 9, 2018 \| 90 comments
18.		Callbacks in C++ using template functors (1994) (tutok.sk)
		66 points by tosh on Dec 10, 2018 \| 50 comments
19.		Making Penicillin at Home (doomandbloom.net)
		178 points by gscott on Dec 10, 2018 \| 75 comments
20.		Using Bayesian Methods to Clean Up Human Labels (dominodatalab.com)
		85 points by gk1 on Dec 10, 2018 \| 1 comment
21.		Show HN: A mobile-friendly, web-based, countries of the world game (geogee.me)
		112 points by emurph55 on Dec 10, 2018 \| 58 comments
22.		'Say hello to my little vacuum cleaner': US DEA puts spycams in cleaner's kit (theregister.co.uk)
		101 points by snazz on Dec 9, 2018 \| 29 comments
23.		Apple Airplay on Raspberry Pi in 7 Easy Steps (appcodelabs.com)
		295 points by 3chelon on Dec 10, 2018 \| 111 comments
24.		Intel: EUV-Enabled 7nm Process Tech is on Track (anandtech.com)
		103 points by kristianp on Dec 10, 2018 \| 63 comments
25.		AlphaFold at CASP13: What just happened? (moalquraishi.wordpress.com)
		188 points by sytelus on Dec 10, 2018 \| 61 comments
26.		When Your Profiler Lies (randomascii.wordpress.com)
		94 points by nikbackm on Dec 10, 2018 \| 14 comments
27.		For Home Prices in London, Check the Tokyo Listings (imf.org)
		63 points by akyuu on Dec 10, 2018 \| 8 comments
28.		UK spies: You know how we said bulk device hacking would be used sparingly? (theregister.co.uk)
		221 points by wglb on Dec 8, 2018 \| 95 comments
29.		Malicious sites abuse 11-year-old Firefox bug that Mozilla failed to fix (zdnet.com)
		163 points by EpicEng on Dec 10, 2018 \| 79 comments
30.		Madoff’s Victims Are Close to Getting Their $19B Back (bloomberg.com)
		157 points by motiw on Dec 10, 2018 \| 186 comments
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