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1.Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness (phys.org)
851 points by maxwell on Aug 9, 2018 | 332 comments
2.Julia 1.0 (julialang.org)
915 points by montalbano on Aug 9, 2018 | 434 comments
3.A Dutch first: Ingenious BMW theft attempt (mrooding.me)
537 points by rapnie on Aug 9, 2018 | 309 comments
4.Show HN: Retool – build internal tools faster (tryretool.com)
592 points by dvdhsu on Aug 9, 2018 | 109 comments
5.America's first big offshore wind farm sets record low price (reneweconomy.com.au)
224 points by Osiris30 on Aug 9, 2018 | 124 comments
6.Utah expands public transportation with rapid bus transit, free until 2021 (rideuta.com)
316 points by _lx4l on Aug 8, 2018 | 180 comments
7.I don't trust Signal (drewdevault.com)
523 points by Bl4ckb0ne on Aug 9, 2018 | 455 comments
8.A $250 Biohack That’s Revolutionizing Life with Diabetes (bloomberg.com)
317 points by rbanffy on Aug 8, 2018 | 157 comments
9.Problem Solving and Clojure 1.9 with Rich Hickey (case-podcast.org)
231 points by tosh on Aug 9, 2018 | 91 comments
10.A Comcast Security Flaw Exposed Millions of Customers’ Personal Information (buzzfeednews.com)
256 points by minimaxir on Aug 8, 2018 | 74 comments
11.IPOs are expensive and cumbersome – Try a direct listing, like we did at Spotify (ft.com)
206 points by rayhano on Aug 9, 2018 | 109 comments
12.New York Times Co. Reports $24M Profit, Thanks to Digital Subscribers (nytimes.com)
361 points by aaronbrethorst on Aug 9, 2018 | 329 comments
13.A Guide to Python's Magic Methods (2012) (rszalski.github.io)
194 points by apsec112 on Aug 9, 2018 | 45 comments
14.Gerald M. Weinberg has died (facebook.com)
374 points by pbowyer on Aug 8, 2018 | 66 comments
15.First drug to prevent chronic migraines approved by EU (theguardian.com)
113 points by al_ramich on Aug 9, 2018 | 61 comments
16.Discovery of nitrogen-fixing corn variety could reduce need for added fertilizer (ucdavis.edu)
272 points by selimthegrim on Aug 9, 2018 | 105 comments
17.WireGuarding the mainline (lwn.net)
206 points by thinxer on Aug 9, 2018 | 95 comments
18.Show HN: NES Party – Online Multiplayer NES Emulator Using WebRTC (nes.party)
237 points by hauxir on Aug 9, 2018 | 60 comments
19.Engineering whiteboard interviews: yay or nay? (keyvalues.com)
196 points by lynnetye on Aug 9, 2018 | 359 comments
20.The terrible 'what if': how OCD makes every day a matter of life or death (theguardian.com)
262 points by pmcpinto on Aug 8, 2018 | 134 comments
21.Getting Alexa to Respond to Sign Language Using Your Webcam and TensorFlow.js (medium.com/tensorflow)
213 points by hardmaru on Aug 9, 2018 | 27 comments
22.Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are removed (thehill.com)
266 points by anigbrowl on Aug 9, 2018 | 524 comments
23.Understanding Simpson’s Paradox (2013) [pdf] (ucla.edu)
81 points by stevewilhelm on Aug 9, 2018 | 15 comments
24.Librem 5 general development report (puri.sm)
116 points by Nelkins on Aug 9, 2018 | 58 comments
25.How Globalization Has Broken the Chain of Responsibility (sapiens.org)
159 points by JoachimOfFiore on Aug 9, 2018 | 102 comments
26.Blogging with Emacs org-mode (sadiqpk.org)
109 points by pksadiq on Aug 8, 2018 | 33 comments
27.The pfSense Book (netgate.com)
121 points by ingve on Aug 8, 2018 | 43 comments
28.Unknown Unknowns: The Problem of Hypocognition (scientificamerican.com)
95 points by draenei on Aug 9, 2018 | 37 comments
29.Causal Models (stanford.edu)
112 points by zerealshadowban on Aug 8, 2018 | 19 comments
30.First “Photos” of Ocean Carbon Molecules Hold Clues to Future Warming (scientificamerican.com)
41 points by draenei on Aug 8, 2018 | 5 comments

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