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1. Academic Torrents – Making 27TB of research data available (academictorrents.com)
1082 points by jacquesm on Aug 12, 2018 | 140 comments
2. What the f*** is the edge? (arcentry.com)
269 points by wolframhempel on Aug 9, 2018 | 182 comments
3. Frink (frinklang.org)
243 points by tosh on Aug 12, 2018 | 62 comments
4. Traveling to the Sun: Why Won’t Parker Solar Probe Melt? (nasa.gov)
311 points by shreyanshd on Aug 12, 2018 | 121 comments
5. Thank you HN
1370 points by throwAwayXYZ69 on Aug 12, 2018 | 137 comments
6. Show HN: Didyougogo – An Altavista slayer (didyougogo.com)
269 points by misterman0 on Aug 12, 2018 | 124 comments
7. MacOS System 6, Version 6.0.8: run in browser (archive.org)
178 points by akeck on Aug 12, 2018 | 57 comments
8. A visual history of the future (2014) [pdf] (service.gov.uk)
78 points by raleighm on Aug 12, 2018 | 2 comments
9. Growers Are Beaming Over the Success of Lasers to Stave Off Birds (npr.org)
146 points by ryan_j_naughton on Aug 12, 2018 | 142 comments
10. PC-Retro Motherboard Kit: Build a faithful reproduction of the 1982 IBM PC 5150 (mtmscientific.com)
120 points by peter_d_sherman on Aug 12, 2018 | 66 comments
11. Google's censored Chinese search engine: a catalogue of ethical violations? (theconversation.com)
188 points by cpeterso on Aug 12, 2018 | 175 comments
12. Show HN: WorldBrain – full text, local search of your browsing history (worldbrain.io)
229 points by _mlxl on Aug 12, 2018 | 69 comments
13. What Wal-Mart Knows About Customers' Habits (2004) (nytimes.com)
46 points by heinrichf on Aug 11, 2018 | 22 comments
14. Regex Dictionary (visca.com)
90 points by cosmiccartel on Aug 11, 2018 | 6 comments
15. Maria Konnikova Shows Her Cards (nytimes.com)
148 points by dnetesn on Aug 10, 2018 | 54 comments
16. K-anonymity (wikipedia.org)
136 points by dedalus on Aug 10, 2018 | 11 comments
17. Porting SBCL to the RISC-V (rhodes.io)
133 points by pome on Aug 11, 2018 | 38 comments
18. Tech-support scammers know everything about my computer, Dell customer says (arstechnica.com)
115 points by MilnerRoute on Aug 11, 2018 | 25 comments
19. Vert.x native: how to run a JVM app in 10Mb of RAM (jetdrone.xyz)
150 points by based2 on Aug 11, 2018 | 41 comments
20. Yagni (2015) (martinfowler.com)
101 points by mooreds on Aug 11, 2018 | 59 comments
21. Show HN: A cross platform app for mirroring the clipboard between synced devices (github.com/tiagovtristao)
57 points by _wlad on Aug 11, 2018 | 29 comments
22. PC Monitors: The Evolution of LED Backlights (pcmonitors.info)
86 points by walterbell on Aug 11, 2018 | 25 comments
23. V.S. Naipaul has died (nytimes.com)
100 points by stokedmartin on Aug 12, 2018 | 23 comments
24. Tide-Predicting Machine No. 2 (wikipedia.org)
82 points by Hooke on Aug 12, 2018 | 13 comments
25. Where does logical language come from? The social bootstrapping hypothesis (babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com)
50 points by dsr12 on Aug 11, 2018 | 15 comments
26. You could have invented that Bluetooth attack (trailofbits.com)
94 points by octosphere on Aug 12, 2018 | 17 comments
27. Bombing forest fires sounds ridiculous, but is grounded in physics (popularmechanics.com)
81 points by raleighm on Aug 11, 2018 | 78 comments
28. From Harlem to Herrang: An Original Lindy Hopper Blooms in Sweden (nytimes.com)
51 points by Tomte on Aug 11, 2018 | 2 comments
29. Two years with CloudFormation: lessons learned (sanderknape.com)
107 points by kiyanwang on Aug 12, 2018 | 85 comments
30. Beijing struggles to defuse anger over China's P2P lending crisis (reuters.com)
104 points by lnguyen on Aug 12, 2018 | 101 comments

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