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1. Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket (bbc.com)
830 points by farseer on Oct 11, 2018 | 370 comments
2. What's a CPU to do when it has nothing to do? (lwn.net)
394 points by reddotX on Oct 10, 2018 | 144 comments
3. EU drops rule that would prevent self-driving car data from being copyrighted (boingboing.net)
224 points by lnguyen on Oct 11, 2018 | 124 comments
4. Asterisks in Python (treyhunner.com)
222 points by ingve on Oct 11, 2018 | 106 comments
5. Delete Your Account Now: A Conversation with Jaron Lanier (lareviewofbooks.org)
339 points by lxm on Oct 10, 2018 | 202 comments
6. Show HN: Tableau-Like Data Visualizations in JavaScript (charts.com)
361 points by pallavn on Oct 11, 2018 | 114 comments
7. Self-healing material can build itself from carbon in the air (news.mit.edu)
279 points by extraterra on Oct 11, 2018 | 82 comments
8. Ask HN: Ex-FAANG developers, where are you now and why?
537 points by macca321 on Oct 11, 2018 | 437 comments
9. Parallel Supercomputing for Astronomy with Julia (juliacomputing.com)
161 points by SiempreViernes on Oct 11, 2018 | 61 comments
10. How I Faked My Way to the Top of Paris Fashion Week [video] (youtube.com)
289 points by tlrobinson on Oct 10, 2018 | 129 comments
11. Millions of workers believe they are bound by non-binding contracts (thespeakernewsjournal.com)
269 points by sprechen on Oct 11, 2018 | 170 comments
12. Listen to a SIM-Jacking, Account-Stealing Ransom (vice.com)
167 points by petethomas on Oct 11, 2018 | 92 comments
13. Faster R with FastR (medium.com/graalvm)
162 points by nirvdrum on Oct 11, 2018 | 78 comments
14. What we lose by reading 100,000 words every day (washingtonpost.com)
198 points by pepys on Oct 9, 2018 | 105 comments
15. Tale of Three Probabilistic Families: Discriminative, Descriptive and Generative (arxiv.org)
97 points by ArtWomb on Oct 11, 2018 | 6 comments
16. Rust has a static “garbage collector” (steveklabnik.com)
240 points by steveklabnik on Oct 10, 2018 | 200 comments
17. Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data (arstechnica.com)
175 points by ivank on Oct 10, 2018 | 319 comments
18. NetLogo – A multi-agent programmable modeling environment (northwestern.edu)
95 points by tosh on Oct 9, 2018 | 32 comments
19. An eclipse gave researchers an inside look at how bees respond to light (smithsonianmag.com)
92 points by shawn on Oct 11, 2018 | 36 comments
20. Merging a Hasselblad 500C/M and a FujiFilm Instax 9 (isaacblankensmith.com)
149 points by eddiecohen2 on Oct 9, 2018 | 34 comments
21. Polly: LLVM Framework for High-Level Loop and Data-Locality Optimizations (llvm.org)
82 points by luu on Oct 10, 2018 | 16 comments
22. Sandsifter: x86 processor fuzzer (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
105 points by wrench4916 on Oct 9, 2018 | 17 comments
23. FISK – It's a floppy disk fax machine (twitter.com/foone)
169 points by pentestercrab on Oct 11, 2018 | 61 comments
24. Yossi Appleboum on How Bloomberg is Positioning His Research Against Supermicro (servethehome.com)
143 points by pjf on Oct 10, 2018 | 58 comments
25. Anti-social Punishment (lesswrong.com)
358 points by type0 on Oct 11, 2018 | 118 comments
26. Real Differences Between OT and CRDT for Co-Editors (arxiv.org)
100 points by shunza on Oct 11, 2018 | 62 comments
27. What happened when Buffer stopped using Slack on Fridays (fastcompany.com)
108 points by lxm on Oct 11, 2018 | 119 comments
28. How to Identify Almost Anyone in a Consumer Gene Database (scientificamerican.com)
70 points by extraterra on Oct 11, 2018 | 7 comments
29. The program to build NASA’s moon rocket could double in price to $9B (washingtonpost.com)
78 points by hef19898 on Oct 11, 2018 | 118 comments
30. Children poisoned by lead on U.S. Army bases (reuters.com)
170 points by petethomas on Oct 11, 2018 | 56 comments

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