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1. Paper Airplane Designs (foldnfly.com)
1753 points by wilsonfiifi on Oct 18, 2018 | 206 comments
2. Repair is as important as innovation (economist.com)
598 points by sinak on Oct 18, 2018 | 217 comments
3. Encrypted SNI Comes to Firefox Nightly (blog.mozilla.org)
326 points by okket on Oct 18, 2018 | 147 comments
4. Modern Microprocessors – A 90-Minute Guide (2001-2016) (lighterra.com)
443 points by projectileboy on Oct 16, 2018 | 87 comments
5. Caroll Spinney Leaves ‘Sesame Street’ After Nearly 50 Years (nytimes.com)
177 points by uptown on Oct 17, 2018 | 44 comments
6. Seals Used to Protect Voting Machines Can Be Opened With a Shim from a Soda Can (vice.com)
226 points by ProAm on Oct 17, 2018 | 96 comments
7. Building a better gov.uk, step by step (gds.blog.gov.uk)
283 points by open-source-ux on Oct 18, 2018 | 82 comments
8. Decision Tables (hillelwayne.com)
166 points by dailymorn on Oct 17, 2018 | 49 comments
9. Calculus Made Easy (1910) (calculusmadeeasy.org)
378 points by luisb on Oct 18, 2018 | 68 comments
10. Ways people trying to do good accidentally do harm instead and how to avoid them (80000hours.org)
322 points by robertwiblin on Oct 17, 2018 | 144 comments
11. New law lets you defer capital gains taxes by investing in opportunity zones (recode.net)
196 points by rmason on Oct 18, 2018 | 243 comments
12. An Introduction to GPU Programming in Julia (nextjournal.com)
290 points by simondanisch on Oct 18, 2018 | 46 comments
13. PostgreSQL 11 Released (postgresql.org)
621 points by MarkusWinand on Oct 18, 2018 | 161 comments
14. US Announces Withdraw From Postal Treaty (bbc.com)
412 points by walterbell on Oct 18, 2018 | 374 comments
15. Amazon Employee: We Shouldn’t Sell Facial Recognition Tech to Police (medium.com/s)
313 points by venturis_voice on Oct 17, 2018 | 266 comments
16. L.A.'s Most Derided Piece of Public Art Is About to Light Up Again (atlasobscura.com)
138 points by extraterra on Oct 18, 2018 | 51 comments
17. OpenBSD 6.4 released (openbsd.org)
309 points by fcambus on Oct 18, 2018 | 175 comments
18. Microplastics found in 90 percent of table salt (nationalgeographic.com)
403 points by Shivetya on Oct 18, 2018 | 215 comments
19. Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Could Replace Traffic Lights, Shorten Commutes (ieee.org)
151 points by GG2 on Oct 18, 2018 | 138 comments
20. Uber’s Big Data Platform: 100+ Petabytes with Minute Latency (uber.com)
211 points by eaguyhn on Oct 17, 2018 | 68 comments
21. Show HN: Meeting Stats – Show your boss how much of your life is in meetings (execution.com)
127 points by remyp on Oct 18, 2018 | 86 comments
22. Solving Sol (solvingsol.com)
152 points by bpierre on Oct 17, 2018 | 25 comments
23. Haskell's kind system: a primer (diogocastro.com)
221 points by ristem on Oct 18, 2018 | 51 comments
24. Building a Cross-Browser, Cross-Platform, Real-Time Game Streaming Protocol (rainway.io)
120 points by andrewmd5 on Oct 17, 2018 | 24 comments
25. The CumEx-Files – How Europe's taxpayers have been swindled of €55B (cumex-files.com)
357 points by hansen on Oct 18, 2018 | 105 comments
26. Python's New Package Landscape (andrewsforge.com)
325 points by teajunky on Oct 18, 2018 | 165 comments
27. Tell HN: I went and saw CSIRAC, the only first-generation computer still intact
114 points by ObsoleteNerd on Oct 17, 2018 | 26 comments
28. Domain Storytelling: A DDD tool to visualize domain stories in the browser (domainstorytelling.org)
137 points by mablae on Oct 18, 2018 | 15 comments
29. Orkney islands could get first electric plane service (bbc.co.uk)
68 points by m-i-l on Oct 17, 2018 | 28 comments
30. Robert and Virginia Heinlein's Colorado Springs House (nitrosyncretic.com)
100 points by benbreen on Oct 18, 2018 | 73 comments

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