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1. How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions (thedailybeast.com)
638 points by DLay on July 29, 2018 | 230 comments
2. Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know (lesswrong.com)
711 points by cepp on July 28, 2018 | 263 comments
3. Detecting the use of "curl | bash" server-side (idontplaydarts.com)
500 points by rubyn00bie on July 29, 2018 | 145 comments
4. Refresh: concept for a new kind of web browser (refresh.study)
575 points by davidbarker on July 29, 2018 | 146 comments
5. A Spectre is Haunting Unicode (dampfkraft.com)
353 points by hardmaru on July 29, 2018 | 110 comments
6. If you put chalk under a powerful microscope (twitter.com/ferrisjabr)
380 points by DanBC on July 28, 2018 | 76 comments
7. Code with Mu: a simple Python editor for beginner programmers (codewith.mu)
281 points by miduil on July 29, 2018 | 73 comments
8. TSA is tracking regular travelers like terrorists in secret surveillance program (bostonglobe.com)
327 points by Anechoic on July 29, 2018 | 162 comments
9. Is Cobol holding you hostage with Math? (medium.com/bellmar)
200 points by mbellotti on July 29, 2018 | 115 comments
10. The Blockchain Bubble Will Pop, What Next? (approximatelycorrect.com)
238 points by baxtr on July 29, 2018 | 321 comments
11. Police accused of deploying facial recognition 'by stealth' in London (independent.co.uk)
161 points by pmoriarty on July 28, 2018 | 68 comments
12. I created the exact same app in React and Vue (medium.com/javascript-in-plain-english)
301 points by techbio on July 29, 2018 | 180 comments
13. A Rogue Tesla Mechanic Resurrecting Salvaged Cars [video] (youtube.com)
209 points by CaliforniaKarl on July 28, 2018 | 124 comments
14. Turbo Button (wikipedia.org)
195 points by tosh on July 29, 2018 | 113 comments
15. Microfilm Lasts Half a Millennium (theatlantic.com)
164 points by adrian_mrd on July 28, 2018 | 102 comments
16. Dying Alone in Japan: The Industry Devoted to What’s Left Behind (bloomberg.com)
124 points by axiomdata316 on July 29, 2018 | 103 comments
17. Java's Magic Sauce (azul.com)
108 points by wheresvic1 on July 29, 2018 | 71 comments
18. Fear of Macros (greghendershott.com)
129 points by tosh on July 29, 2018 | 11 comments
19. Teens Debate Big Issues on Instagram Flop Accounts (theatlantic.com)
91 points by tylerhou on July 28, 2018 | 57 comments
20. London’s Super-Recognizer Police Force (2016) (newyorker.com)
81 points by Tomte on July 29, 2018 | 32 comments
21. Macbook eGPU Redux: Sticking a GTX 1080 in an AKiTiO Thunder2 (archagon.net)
125 points by archagon on July 27, 2018 | 58 comments
22. Tuple Spaces – Good Ideas Don't Always Win (2011) (software-carpentry.org)
109 points by panic on July 28, 2018 | 43 comments
23. A new shape called the scutoid has been discovered in our cells (gizmodo.com)
80 points by ColinWright on July 28, 2018 | 16 comments
24. When conductor and soloist clash, a performance can turn into a contest of wills (theamericanscholar.org)
70 points by tintinnabula on July 28, 2018 | 7 comments
25. The mysterious heart of the Roland TR-808 drum machine (secretlifeofsynthesizers.com)
151 points by souterrain on July 28, 2018 | 29 comments
26. Setting Up a Fast, Comprehensive Search Routine with PostgreSQL (conery.io)
99 points by craigkerstiens on July 29, 2018 | 49 comments
27. Double Faults (phil-opp.com)
86 points by octosphere on July 29, 2018 | 8 comments
28. Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man: Mel Brooks in His 90s (theatlantic.com)
71 points by johnny313 on July 28, 2018 | 15 comments
29. My Name is Brian and I Build Supercomputers in My Spare Time (2014) (parallella.org)
84 points by peter_d_sherman on July 28, 2018 | 32 comments
30. Dads Pass on More Than Genetics in Their Sperm (smithsonianmag.com)
191 points by pagutierrezn on July 28, 2018 | 87 comments

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