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1. Go 2 Draft Designs (googlesource.com)
909 points by conroy on Aug 28, 2018 | 473 comments
2. Sen. Wyden Confirms Cell-Site Simulators Disrupt Emergency Calls (eff.org)
518 points by DiabloD3 on Aug 28, 2018 | 122 comments
3. NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your current internet connection (nycmesh.net)
550 points by tony101 on Aug 28, 2018 | 170 comments
4. How the Dutch created a casual biking culture (vox.com)
388 points by jseliger on Aug 28, 2018 | 383 comments
5. Write – A word processor for handwriting (styluslabs.com)
412 points by krupan on Aug 28, 2018 | 88 comments
6. What You Need to Know Before Considering a PhD (fast.ai)
348 points by hardmaru on Aug 27, 2018 | 187 comments
7. We are rewriting CodeMirror (codemirror.net)
342 points by tobr on Aug 28, 2018 | 73 comments
8. Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environmental cost (economist.com)
271 points by lazerpants on Aug 28, 2018 | 420 comments
9. Yahoo, Bucking Industry, Scans Emails for Data to Sell Advertisers (wsj.com)
239 points by hemancuso on Aug 28, 2018 | 109 comments
10. Long-sought decay of Higgs boson observed at CERN (home.cern)
243 points by chmaynard on Aug 28, 2018 | 83 comments
11. Salmon, a Python Mail Server (salmon-mail.readthedocs.io)
214 points by tosh on Aug 28, 2018 | 52 comments
12. Why Static Websites Need HTTPS (troyhunt.com)
328 points by edward on Aug 28, 2018 | 253 comments
13. How Netflix outsmarted everyone else in TV (recode.net)
150 points by dsr12 on Aug 28, 2018 | 131 comments
14. LyX: combine the power of LaTeX with the ease of use of a graphical interface (lyx.org)
198 points by delib on Aug 28, 2018 | 68 comments
15. Fuzzing the .NET JIT Compiler (mattwarren.org)
73 points by matthewwarren on Aug 28, 2018 | 19 comments
16. Cracking Litter Box DRM (davidhampgonsalves.com)
121 points by dh-g on Aug 28, 2018 | 49 comments
17. Why Love Generative Art? (artnome.com)
248 points by Artnome on Aug 27, 2018 | 81 comments
18. JSON Changelog with SQLite (budgetwithbuckets.com)
113 points by iffycan on Aug 27, 2018 | 23 comments
19. Ask HN: Have you built a house?
356 points by gonvaled on Aug 28, 2018 | 220 comments
20. Novel Attack Technique Uses Smart Light Bulbs to Steal Data (bleepingcomputer.com)
84 points by yaseen-rob on Aug 28, 2018 | 39 comments
21. Is Rails still relevant in 2018? (eq8.eu)
306 points by bdcravens on Aug 28, 2018 | 333 comments
22. Zero-Day Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Leaked on Twitter (twitter.com/sandboxescaper)
332 points by tzury on Aug 28, 2018 | 123 comments
23. Building a Treasury Bond Ladder (terenz.io)
140 points by john2373 on Aug 28, 2018 | 99 comments
24. ‘Why didn’t you think this baby was ill?’ Decision-making in acute paediatrics (bmj.com)
88 points by DanBC on Aug 27, 2018 | 72 comments
25. Service Workers (frontendian.co)
126 points by andRyanMiller on Aug 28, 2018 | 66 comments
26. Russian archeologists have found an exceptionally rare 'beard kopek' (dailymail.co.uk)
47 points by rutenspitz on Aug 27, 2018 | 19 comments
27. A Genetic Condition That 21 People Are Known to Have (nytimes.com)
70 points by js2 on Aug 28, 2018 | 48 comments
28. A walkthrough the AcridRain password stealer (stormshield.com)
77 points by _cacao on Aug 28, 2018 | 14 comments
29. RssHub – A feed aggregator that can generate feeds from pretty much everything (rsshub.app)
235 points by tvvocold on Aug 28, 2018 | 60 comments
30. JupyterCon: I don't like Notebooks [slides] (docs.google.com)
312 points by tosh on Aug 28, 2018 | 106 comments

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