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1. The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Amazon and Apple (bloomberg.com)
2493 points by Osiris30 on Oct 4, 2018 | 770 comments
2. The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found (adafruit.com)
379 points by mmastrac on Oct 4, 2018 | 87 comments
3. 'Siri I'm getting pulled over': New shortcut can automatically record the police (businessinsider.com)
566 points by cascom on Oct 3, 2018 | 338 comments
4. Kubernetes for personal projects? No thanks (carlosrdrz.es)
481 points by carlosrdrz on Oct 3, 2018 | 269 comments
5. Sans Forgetica, a font designed to help you remember your study notes (sansforgetica.rmit)
502 points by lysp on Oct 3, 2018 | 174 comments
6. GoogleMeetRoulette: Joining random meetings (martinvigo.com)
371 points by yowie on Oct 4, 2018 | 74 comments
7. Why Do Computers Use So Much Energy? (scientificamerican.com)
221 points by tshannon on Oct 4, 2018 | 166 comments
8. SQL as an API language (simonwillison.net)
201 points by craigkerstiens on Oct 4, 2018 | 157 comments
9. First-ever DNSSEC root key rollover (redhat.com)
132 points by danyork on Oct 4, 2018 | 70 comments
10. Running Your Company by Patrick Collison [video] (youtube.com)
153 points by charleshan on Oct 4, 2018 | 14 comments
11. Someone used my IPFS gateway for phishing (incoherency.co.uk)
170 points by jstanley on Oct 4, 2018 | 40 comments
12. Literate raytracer: a simple implementation of raytracing in Javascript (tmcw.github.io)
196 points by jadk157 on Oct 3, 2018 | 25 comments
13. About the ZipCPU (zipcpu.com)
178 points by peter_d_sherman on Oct 4, 2018 | 46 comments
14. Rethink Robotics shuts down (theverge.com)
137 points by ph0rque on Oct 4, 2018 | 53 comments
15. The interesting ideas in Datasette (simonwillison.net)
135 points by simonw on Oct 4, 2018 | 11 comments
16. Study: Artificial sweeteners toxic to digestive gut bacteria (cnbc.com)
299 points by shawn on Oct 3, 2018 | 130 comments
17. The Big Hack: Statements From Amazon, Apple, Supermicro, Chinese Government (bloomberg.com)
466 points by okket on Oct 4, 2018 | 209 comments
18. “Social network” of brains lets people transmit thoughts to each other’s heads (technologyreview.com)
153 points by rbanffy on Oct 4, 2018 | 56 comments
19. Blazor, a framework for browser-based .NET apps using WebAssembly [video] (youtube.com)
139 points by quickthrower2 on Oct 4, 2018 | 139 comments
20. Go hits the concurrency nail on the head (thegreenplace.net)
284 points by nikbackm on Oct 4, 2018 | 304 comments
21. A remaster with no old code: Crash Bandicoot was rebuilt nearly from scratch (arstechnica.com)
131 points by Tomte on Oct 4, 2018 | 76 comments
22. Ask HN: How to start a startup that requires a high amount of initial capital?
149 points by break_the_bank on Oct 4, 2018 | 83 comments
23. 60 Years Photographing the North American Railroad (hyperallergic.com)
92 points by blueatlas on Oct 4, 2018 | 8 comments
24. IQ Matters Less Than You Think (nautil.us)
260 points by dnetesn on Oct 4, 2018 | 323 comments
25. The Devil Is in the Details of Project Verify’s Goal to Eliminate Passwords (eff.org)
90 points by DiabloD3 on Oct 2, 2018 | 36 comments
26. Open-source crypto is no better than closed-source crypto (kudelskisecurity.com)
83 points by throwawaymath on Oct 3, 2018 | 58 comments
27. Twenty Questions Of Maddening, Delicious Geometry (mathwithbaddrawings.com)
133 points by sohkamyung on Oct 4, 2018 | 9 comments
28. On McNeil Island, the only residents are dangerous sex offenders (theguardian.com)
82 points by prawn on Oct 4, 2018 | 48 comments
29. A Minimal C64 Datasette Program Loader (pagetable.com)
77 points by ingve on Oct 3, 2018 | 29 comments
30. Cloudera and Hortonworks merge (cnbc.com)
112 points by moritzplassnig on Oct 3, 2018 | 56 comments

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