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1. NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students (wsj.com)
931 points by mudil on Aug 16, 2018 | 507 comments
2. Who Left Open The Cookie Jar? (wholeftopenthecookiejar.eu)
412 points by pmoriarty on Aug 16, 2018 | 138 comments
3. Introduction to A* (1997) (stanford.edu)
337 points by tosh on Aug 16, 2018 | 31 comments
4. OpenPGPjs has passed an independent security audit (protonmail.com)
245 points by testloop on Aug 16, 2018 | 122 comments
5. FDA approves first generic version of EpiPen (washingtonpost.com)
319 points by MBCook on Aug 16, 2018 | 82 comments
6. Show HN: Wayland compositor in around 500 lines of annotated C (gist.github.com)
332 points by ddevault on Aug 16, 2018 | 122 comments
7. Traveling the World on a Third World Passport (bucketlistly.blog)
342 points by cirrus-clouds on Aug 16, 2018 | 308 comments
8. The Hacker News Habit (hackernewslater.com)
315 points by burritofanatic on Aug 16, 2018 | 109 comments
9. How to Hire (hbr.org)
274 points by devy on Aug 16, 2018 | 223 comments
10. Battery breakthrough: Double performance lithium battery that doesn’t catch fire (umich.edu)
237 points by vezycash on Aug 16, 2018 | 77 comments
11. The Akrasia Effect: Why We Don’t Follow Through on What We Set Out to Do (jamesclear.com)
389 points by melling on Aug 15, 2018 | 149 comments
12. Pixelblaze V2 – An advanced LED pattern development engine and controller (bhencke.com)
248 points by _fx6v on Aug 16, 2018 | 78 comments
13. Google Needs to Come Clean About Its Chinese Plans (eff.org)
268 points by panarky on Aug 16, 2018 | 140 comments
14. Solo – Open-source FIDO2 security key (solokeys.com)
174 points by fabiofederici on Aug 16, 2018 | 64 comments
15. Botched CIA Communications System Helped Blow Cover of Chinese Agents (foreignpolicy.com)
277 points by mkeeter on Aug 16, 2018 | 199 comments
16. A dull, resilient stream processor in Go (github.com/jeffail)
199 points by ngaut on Aug 16, 2018 | 30 comments
17. A high bias low-variance introduction to Machine Learning for physicists (bu.edu)
200 points by yoquan on Aug 16, 2018 | 21 comments
18. An introduction to libuv (2016) (nikhilm.github.io)
125 points by eatonphil on Aug 16, 2018 | 38 comments
19. Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused – part 2 (codingnest.com)
154 points by aw1621107 on Aug 16, 2018 | 15 comments
20. Firms That Bossed Agriculture for a Century Face New Threat: Farmers (wsj.com)
65 points by JumpCrisscross on Aug 16, 2018 | 21 comments
21. Taking on a Patent Troll: Caveat Troglodytarum (bitmovin.com)
105 points by kfarr on Aug 16, 2018 | 21 comments
22. Saving Lives with Tech Amid Syria’s Endless Civil War (wired.com)
56 points by halasystems on Aug 16, 2018 | 15 comments
23. Algorithm and Blues: The Tyranny of the Coming Smart-Tech Utopia (stanford.edu)
77 points by raleighm on Aug 15, 2018 | 44 comments
24. Bleak New Estimates in Drug Epidemic: A Record 72,000 Overdose Deaths in 2017 (nytimes.com)
149 points by Alex3917 on Aug 16, 2018 | 204 comments
25. China’s first ‘fully homegrown’ web browser found to be Google Chrome clone (shanghai.ist)
321 points by dexterpe on Aug 16, 2018 | 171 comments
26. Exploring Error Handling Patterns in Go (8thlight.com)
133 points by trptcolin on Aug 15, 2018 | 77 comments
27. Show HN: Eno – A lightning fast, user-friendly YAML/TOML alternative
102 points by simonrepp on Aug 15, 2018 | 65 comments
28. The TTY demystified (2008) (linusakesson.net)
98 points by kjeetgill on Aug 15, 2018 | 12 comments
29. Engineers Say They've Created a Way to Detect Bombs and Guns Using Basic Wifi (gizmodo.com)
116 points by kiyanwang on Aug 16, 2018 | 48 comments
30. Search Engine for Web Page Source Code with 300M Sites Indexed (publicwww.com)
101 points by ArtWomb on Aug 15, 2018 | 24 comments

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