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1.		The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (newyorker.com)
		1663 points by lordnacho on Aug 8, 2019 \| 777 comments
2.		AMD lands Google, Twitter as customers with newest server chip (reuters.com)
		837 points by jonbaer on Aug 8, 2019 \| 255 comments
3.		Apple Confirms $1M Reward for Anyone Who Can Hack an iPhone (forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster)
		773 points by tareqak on Aug 8, 2019 \| 282 comments
4.		Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye (linuxjournal.com)
		838 points by akulbe on Aug 8, 2019 \| 356 comments
5.		Facebook has been granted patent on shadow banning (uspto.gov)
		650 points by smsm42 on Aug 8, 2019 \| 244 comments
6.		GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, free for public repositories (github.blog)
		680 points by dstaheli on Aug 8, 2019 \| 231 comments
7.		NY State alleges ExxonMobil knew risks of climate change and defrauded investors (esquire.com)
		321 points by colinprince on Aug 8, 2019 \| 116 comments
8.		Uber Posts $5.2B Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate (nytimes.com)
		425 points by jumelles on Aug 8, 2019 \| 501 comments
9.		One job, many roles: The different skills needed to be a successful CTO (madewithlove.be)
		346 points by andreascreten on Aug 8, 2019 \| 68 comments
10.		Racket: Lisp for Learning (lwn.net)
		221 points by chmaynard on Aug 8, 2019 \| 148 comments
11.		Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do (krebsonsecurity.com)
		204 points by hsnewman on Aug 8, 2019 \| 57 comments
12.		The Death of Social Reciprocity in the Era of Digital Distraction (scientificamerican.com)
		242 points by headalgorithm on Aug 8, 2019 \| 114 comments
13.		What has to happen with Unix virtual memory when you have no swap space (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		214 points by stargrave on Aug 8, 2019 \| 88 comments
14.		Apple Is Locking iPhone Batteries to Discourage Repair (ifixit.com)
		361 points by miles on Aug 8, 2019 \| 252 comments
15.		Svalbard is as close as you can get to a place with open borders (thenation.com)
		177 points by daddy_drank on Aug 8, 2019 \| 253 comments
16.		How the new open-source typeface used by GitHub and Mozilla came to be (figma.com)
		213 points by twog on Aug 8, 2019 \| 37 comments
17.		Living Off the Land in Linux (gtfobins.github.io)
		163 points by DyslexicAtheist on Aug 8, 2019 \| 35 comments
18.		How to Get into Farming with No Money (1980) (smallfarmersjournal.com)
		123 points by docbrown on Aug 8, 2019 \| 42 comments
19.		Old Paris Is No More (laphamsquarterly.org)
		167 points by collapse on Aug 8, 2019 \| 101 comments
20.		Sentient: Classified artificial brain being developed by US intelligence (theverge.com)
		129 points by ajay-d on Aug 7, 2019 \| 54 comments
21.		Computer Science Illustrated (2014) (csillustrated.berkeley.edu)
		184 points by signa11 on Aug 8, 2019 \| 16 comments
22.		Launch HN: Quirk (YC S19) – Open-Source Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
		196 points by flaque on Aug 8, 2019 \| 93 comments
23.		We may not be running out of helium after all (2015) (newatlas.com)
		87 points by welder on Aug 7, 2019 \| 78 comments
24.		Advice to my younger self: become allergic to the churn (lambdaisland.com)
		231 points by galfarragem on Aug 8, 2019 \| 209 comments
25.		Better Encrypted Group Chat (trailofbits.com)
		156 points by UkiahSmith on Aug 7, 2019 \| 39 comments
26.		Air Force Reveals Tests of Supposed Record-Setting Scramjet from N. Grumman (thedrive.com)
		70 points by nwrk on Aug 7, 2019 \| 34 comments
27.		On the Road in 1980 (standpointmag.co.uk)
		52 points by mstats on Aug 8, 2019 \| 13 comments
28.		Suburb in the sky: how Jakartans built an entire village on top of a mall (theguardian.com)
		101 points by charlysl on Aug 6, 2019 \| 22 comments
29.		Circulating in China’s Financial System: More Than $200B in I.O.U.s (nytimes.com)
		101 points by nafizh on Aug 8, 2019 \| 85 comments
30.		TV detector van (wikipedia.org)
		151 points by rishabhd on Aug 8, 2019 \| 327 comments
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