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1.		CenturyLink is blocking customer internet, saying Utah legislators told them to (richsnapp.com)
		830 points by snapwich on Dec 14, 2018 \| 283 comments
2.		Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra: Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares (stanford.edu)
		938 points by yarapavan on Dec 14, 2018 \| 123 comments
3.		UCLA asked faculty to consider declining to review for Elsevier journals (chronicle.com)
		619 points by faitswulff on Dec 14, 2018 \| 128 comments
4.		Experts Urge U.S. To Continue Support for Nuclear Fusion Research (scientificamerican.com)
		344 points by tshannon on Dec 14, 2018 \| 227 comments
5.		Facebook says new bug allowed apps access to private photos of up to 6.8M users (washingtonpost.com)
		512 points by chrisseldo on Dec 14, 2018 \| 261 comments
6.		China’s Economy Slows Sharply (nytimes.com)
		389 points by lxm on Dec 14, 2018 \| 244 comments
7.		Turtletoy (turtletoy.net)
		382 points by njn on Dec 14, 2018 \| 61 comments
8.		SIPC Says It Has Serious Concerns About Robinhood's New Product (bloomberg.com)
		480 points by jakarta on Dec 14, 2018 \| 305 comments
9.		Remote code execution vulnerability in SQLite (tencent.com)
		444 points by Bender on Dec 14, 2018 \| 147 comments
10.		Write Your Own Virtual Machine (justinmeiners.github.io)
		546 points by vedosity on Dec 14, 2018 \| 77 comments
11.		Pytext: A natural language modeling framework based on PyTorch (github.com/facebookresearch)
		219 points by benryon on Dec 14, 2018 \| 16 comments
12.		Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft (bmj.com)
		370 points by pentestercrab on Dec 14, 2018 \| 110 comments
13.		Verizon signals its Yahoo and AOL divisions are almost worthless (nbcnews.com)
		347 points by krn on Dec 12, 2018 \| 228 comments
14.		A new neural network design could overcome challenges in AI (technologyreview.com)
		143 points by nmstoker on Dec 12, 2018 \| 11 comments
15.		Everything you should know about certificates and PKI but are too afraid to ask (smallstep.com)
		387 points by zodvik on Dec 14, 2018 \| 52 comments
16.		Switzerland to test ‘hyperloop’ train technologies (swissinfo.ch)
		118 points by baazaar on Dec 14, 2018 \| 66 comments
17.		Snowboarding for Geeks (xfive.co)
		299 points by lubos76 on Dec 14, 2018 \| 216 comments
18.		How AI Training Scales (blog.openai.com)
		176 points by giacaglia on Dec 14, 2018 \| 15 comments
19.		Debt Worldwide Hits Record $86k per Person (bloomberg.com)
		226 points by rfinney on Dec 14, 2018 \| 272 comments
20.		How Sketch Took on Adobe (producthabits.com)
		226 points by pmp301 on Dec 12, 2018 \| 180 comments
21.		Google Earth Studio (google.com)
		211 points by duck on Dec 14, 2018 \| 80 comments
22.		UC Berkeley to build open-source secure enclave using RISC-V (hackaday.com)
		160 points by walterbell on Dec 14, 2018 \| 51 comments
23.		Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (arxiv.org)
		240 points by asparagui on Dec 13, 2018 \| 60 comments
24.		DevHub: TweetDeck for GitHub – Android, iOS and Web with 99% Code Sharing (github.com/devhubapp)
		149 points by pvinis on Dec 13, 2018 \| 36 comments
25.		Compiler Explorer (godbolt.org)
		208 points by gnanesh on Dec 13, 2018 \| 44 comments
26.		An experiment in controlling how much of Scrabble is luck (nautil.us)
		72 points by dnetesn on Dec 14, 2018 \| 59 comments
27.		FLI: A binary interface to let Scheme use Python, Lua, Ruby etc's Library (github.com/guenchi)
		104 points by guenchi on Dec 14, 2018 \| 16 comments
28.		Bootstrap 3.4.0 released (getbootstrap.com)
		206 points by pplonski86 on Dec 14, 2018 \| 64 comments
29.		FBI secretly collected data on Aaron Swartz earlier than was thought (gizmodo.com)
		333 points by ahakki on Dec 14, 2018 \| 116 comments
30.		Show HN: Minimal Google Analytics Snippet (minimalanalytics.com)
		171 points by davidkuennen on Dec 13, 2018 \| 70 comments
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