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1. How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice Users Using WebRTC (discordapp.com)
649 points by jhgg on Sept 10, 2018 | 244 comments
2. Generative Art Finds Its Prodigy (artnome.com)
340 points by trueduke on Sept 10, 2018 | 106 comments
3. Actuarial science ranked as most valuable college major (bloomberg.com)
231 points by petethomas on Sept 10, 2018 | 187 comments
4. Australia's anti-encryption law will merely relocate the backdoors: Expert (zdnet.com)
278 points by axiomdata316 on Sept 10, 2018 | 133 comments
5. Glowing mercury thyratrons: inside a 1940s Teletype switching power supply (righto.com)
131 points by eaguyhn on Sept 10, 2018 | 49 comments
6. Build a better Bookshelf (huytd.github.io)
313 points by huydotnet on Sept 9, 2018 | 64 comments
7. The Last of the Universe’s Ordinary Matter Has Been Found (quantamagazine.org)
160 points by amaks on Sept 10, 2018 | 61 comments
8. Why Y? Deriving the Y Combinator in JavaScript (raganwald.com)
200 points by braythwayt on Sept 10, 2018 | 71 comments
9. Show HN: Hacklily – sheet music editor (hacklily.org)
285 points by jnetterf on Sept 10, 2018 | 49 comments
10. Pigeon Maps – Maps in React with no external dependencies (mariusandra.github.io)
310 points by mariusandra on Sept 10, 2018 | 55 comments
11. A file that’s both an acceptable HTML page and a JPEG (2012) (coredump.cx)
223 points by ScottWRobinson on Sept 10, 2018 | 69 comments
12. Atrium Raises $65M (forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad)
208 points by justin on Sept 10, 2018 | 68 comments
13. In Math Cram Sessions, Solving for Why (nytimes.com)
172 points by danso on Sept 10, 2018 | 80 comments
14. A doctor in Bangladesh has found a simple way to treat infant pneumonia (economist.com)
304 points by sohkamyung on Sept 9, 2018 | 51 comments
15. Lessons from Building and Scaling Reddit's Ad Serving Platform with Go (sourcegraph.com)
277 points by ngaut on Sept 10, 2018 | 126 comments
16. NAVEX: Precise and scalable exploit generation for dynamic web applications (acolyer.org)
65 points by godelmachine on Sept 10, 2018 | 8 comments
17. Starting an ISP: Deploying Fiber (chrishacken.com)
276 points by chrishacken on Sept 9, 2018 | 63 comments
18. Exploiting URL Parser in Programming Languages (2017) [pdf] (blackhat.com)
125 points by tosh on Sept 10, 2018 | 30 comments
19. Pinterest Is a Unicorn, It Just Doesn’t Act Like One (nytimes.com)
141 points by raleighm on Sept 10, 2018 | 63 comments
20. Can We Survive the Next Financial Crisis? (bloomberg.com)
246 points by chollida1 on Sept 10, 2018 | 288 comments
21. Show HN: Namegine – find a name for your startup or product (namegine.com)
121 points by kiechu on Sept 10, 2018 | 72 comments
22. A Friend of Beethoven, Now Rediscovered in His Own Right (nytimes.com)
86 points by CrocodileStreet on Sept 10, 2018 | 36 comments
23. Scientists discover how to turn light into matter after 80-year quest (2014) (phys.org)
114 points by peter_d_sherman on Sept 9, 2018 | 33 comments
24. Optical fibre made in orbit should be better than the terrestrial sort (economist.com)
107 points by godelmachine on Sept 10, 2018 | 111 comments
25. Why Socialists Don't Believe in Fun (1943) (orwell.ru)
278 points by monort on Sept 10, 2018 | 263 comments
26. Top Open-Source Static Site Generators (staticgen.com)
218 points by ColinWright on Sept 8, 2018 | 160 comments
27. Aspider: A lightweight, asynchronous micro-framework based on asyncio (github.com/howie6879)
56 points by howie6879 on Sept 10, 2018 | 10 comments
28. A map showing the steepness of streets (2013) (tobyeglesfield.com)
126 points by Tomte on Sept 9, 2018 | 21 comments
29. Computer Science Encyclopedia Can Fill a Gap (acm.org)
80 points by carlehewitt on Sept 10, 2018 | 29 comments
30. Show HN: Ghuser.io – Complete GitHub profiles (github.com/aurelienlourot)
157 points by lourot on Sept 10, 2018 | 50 comments

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