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1. Filament: Physically-based rendering engine (google.github.io)
599 points by corysama on Aug 3, 2018 | 125 comments
2. 4D toys (4dtoys.com)
592 points by wenderen on Aug 4, 2018 | 110 comments
3. Make a “Literary Clock” from a Jailbroken Kindle (instructables.com)
446 points by codesections on Aug 4, 2018 | 73 comments
4. Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can Be Dangerously Useful (torrentfreak.com)
566 points by okket on Aug 4, 2018 | 170 comments
5. Pilots who risk their lives flying tiny planes over the Atlantic (bbc.com)
199 points by curtis on Aug 4, 2018 | 100 comments
6. Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused (codingnest.com)
368 points by ScottWRobinson on Aug 3, 2018 | 90 comments
7. Internet Archive, decentralized (archive.org)
242 points by justin_ on Aug 4, 2018 | 84 comments
8. Secure Secure Shell (2015) (stribika.github.io)
224 points by ingve on Aug 4, 2018 | 23 comments
9. Show HN: Polyhedra Viewer (tessera.li)
123 points by tesseralis on Aug 4, 2018 | 30 comments
10. Generating random points inside a sphere (karthikkaranth.me)
252 points by kkaranth on Aug 4, 2018 | 121 comments
11. The Disturbing Fate of a Planet Made of Blueberries (atlasobscura.com)
110 points by DmenshunlAnlsis on Aug 3, 2018 | 37 comments
12. Ask HN: How to get web development career on track from being homeless?
305 points by pdxHomelessDev on Aug 3, 2018 | 196 comments
13. The Mind: Most polarizing card game of the year? (arstechnica.com)
187 points by Tomte on Aug 4, 2018 | 60 comments
14. How did you get it to run on a Gameboy? (20dollarlolita.tumblr.com)
172 points by jordigh on Aug 3, 2018 | 24 comments
15. Tindallgrams (tindallgrams.net)
112 points by thestoicattack on Aug 4, 2018 | 13 comments
16. Always-on Alibaba office app fuels backlash among Chinese workers (businessinsider.com)
165 points by lnguyen on Aug 3, 2018 | 84 comments
17. New attack on WPA using PMKID (hashcat.net)
228 points by newman8r on Aug 4, 2018 | 75 comments
18. Life lessons from differential equations (2015) (johndcook.com)
102 points by magoghm on Aug 3, 2018 | 20 comments
19. Vectorized processing for Apache Arrow (github.com/dremio)
103 points by gizmodo59 on Aug 4, 2018 | 8 comments
20. User guide and WASM demos for nphysics: Rust physics engine with multibodies (nphysics.org)
100 points by sebcrozet on Aug 4, 2018 | 8 comments
21. Markdeep markup language (casual-effects.com)
174 points by aparashk on Aug 4, 2018 | 59 comments
22. ThinkPad X220 MacOS High Sierra Installation (mcdonnelltech.com)
248 points by walterbell on Aug 4, 2018 | 238 comments
23. Tracking collars reveal just how extreme a wild cheetah’s movements can be (nationalgeographic.com)
110 points by curtis on Aug 4, 2018 | 42 comments
24. Computer Virus Cripples Several Taiwan Semiconductor Plants (bloomberg.com)
123 points by dosy on Aug 4, 2018 | 96 comments
25. Build a VM step by step with Rust (subnetzero.io)
188 points by ngaut on Aug 4, 2018 | 9 comments
26. Systemisers are better at maths (nature.com)
103 points by lainon on Aug 3, 2018 | 50 comments
27. Chaff Bugs: Deterring Attackers by Making Software Buggier (arxiv.org)
100 points by fniephaus on Aug 4, 2018 | 30 comments
28. Legal AI and the Industrialisation of Cognition (2017) (artificiallawyer.com)
60 points by raleighm on Aug 3, 2018 | 15 comments
29. One Year Without AMP (alexkras.com)
124 points by ingve on Aug 3, 2018 | 58 comments
30. The Joy programming language (kevinalbrecht.com)
57 points by autocorr on Aug 4, 2018 | 11 comments

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