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1. Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Comparison Allowed (perens.com)
1318 points by jeswin on Aug 23, 2018 | 484 comments
2. Craft: A simple Minecraft clone written in C using OpenGL shaders (github.com/fogleman)
578 points by sbjs on Aug 23, 2018 | 154 comments
3. Netflix is the latest company to try bypassing Apple’s app store (marketwatch.com)
378 points by gbaygon on Aug 23, 2018 | 462 comments
4. Disable SMT/Hyperthreading in all Intel BIOSes (marc.info)
384 points by carlesfe on Aug 23, 2018 | 153 comments
5. How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites (dejanseo.com.au)
766 points by lukestevens on Aug 23, 2018 | 309 comments
6. Home Assistant: Open-source home automation platform running on Python 3 (home-assistant.io)
540 points by fanf2 on Aug 23, 2018 | 196 comments
7. Spyware Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ of Selfies, Messages, Location Data Exposed (vice.com)
356 points by wglb on Aug 23, 2018 | 141 comments
8. Mistakes we made in our company’s first 8 years (hackernoon.com)
231 points by brennanm on Aug 23, 2018 | 81 comments
9. Jepsen: Dgraph 1.0.2 (jepsen.io)
183 points by aphyr on Aug 23, 2018 | 124 comments
10. Elusive mitochondrial connection to inflammation uncovered (nature.com)
242 points by dtawfik1 on Aug 23, 2018 | 53 comments
11. Life as a bug bounty hunter (technologyreview.com)
131 points by mkm416 on Aug 23, 2018 | 75 comments
12. The Apocalyptic Architecture of One 1970s Retail Chain (atlasobscura.com)
303 points by yaseen-rob on Aug 22, 2018 | 84 comments
13. Ask HN: Codebase at my work is a complete mess, what should I do?
406 points by anonR4nd0m on Aug 22, 2018 | 333 comments
14. Eventbrite S-1 (sec.gov)
139 points by coloneltcb on Aug 23, 2018 | 102 comments
15. OpenAI Five at Dota 2 – The International [video] (youtube.com)
209 points by nerform on Aug 22, 2018 | 168 comments
16. Designing Solo, a new U2F/FIDO2 Token (conorpp.com)
144 points by ecesena on Aug 23, 2018 | 93 comments
17. Magic Leap One Teardown (ifixit.com)
310 points by jrnkntl on Aug 23, 2018 | 136 comments
18. Microsoft Bug Testers Unionized, Then They Were Dismissed (bloomberg.com)
222 points by fludlight on Aug 23, 2018 | 168 comments
19. Show HN: BuzzFeed open source SSO (buzzfeed.com)
166 points by itwasntandy on Aug 23, 2018 | 36 comments
20. Italy’s famous dome is cracking, and muon imaging may help (arstechnica.com)
133 points by LinuxBender on Aug 22, 2018 | 37 comments
21. 24-core CPU and I can’t type an email – part two (randomascii.wordpress.com)
249 points by MBCook on Aug 23, 2018 | 98 comments
22. Nuclear Weapons Nerds (gizmodo.com)
132 points by smogcutter on Aug 22, 2018 | 42 comments
23. The Book “Computer Networks: A Systems Approach” is now open source (github.com/systemsapproach)
327 points by tzury on Aug 23, 2018 | 14 comments
24. Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981) (virginia.edu)
81 points by molteanu on Aug 23, 2018 | 30 comments
25. A study of musical scales (2017) (ianring.com)
225 points by rwnspace on Aug 22, 2018 | 41 comments
26. Driverless Startup Zoox Suddenly Removes CEO (bloomberg.com)
120 points by kuusisto on Aug 22, 2018 | 48 comments
27. Monitoring and Observability in the .NET Runtime (mattwarren.org)
103 points by matthewwarren on Aug 22, 2018 | 5 comments
28. Single-decryption EM-based attack reveals private keys from Android phones [pdf] (usenix.org)
111 points by dhx on Aug 22, 2018 | 45 comments
29. Depression marks on seafloor suggest whales visiting prospective mining sites (phys.org)
62 points by dnetesn on Aug 22, 2018 | 37 comments
30. The Vanishing Idealism of Burning Man (newrepublic.com)
168 points by devy on Aug 23, 2018 | 166 comments

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