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1. Japan's Hometown Tax (kalzumeus.com)
847 points by gwern on Oct 19, 2018 | 249 comments
2. Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great Engineer, and Happiness (triplebyte.com)
712 points by aacook on Oct 18, 2018 | 340 comments
3. Apple CEO Tim Cook Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story (buzzfeednews.com)
530 points by minimaxir on Oct 19, 2018 | 317 comments
4. Show HN: Applying for jobs? Manage all your interviews in one place (afterinterview.com)
306 points by ohsik on Oct 19, 2018 | 126 comments
5. Intel 9th Gen Review (anandtech.com)
221 points by endorphone on Oct 19, 2018 | 174 comments
6. New York Attorney General Expands Inquiry into Net Neutrality Comments (nytimes.com)
184 points by shadowtree on Oct 19, 2018 | 41 comments
7. Consistency Without Clocks: FaunaDB's Distributed Transaction Protocol (fauna.com)
171 points by evanweaver on Oct 19, 2018 | 101 comments
8. Did Facebook’s faulty data push publishers to make terrible decisions on video? (niemanlab.org)
207 points by laurex on Oct 19, 2018 | 106 comments
9. Asterix in Translation: The Genius of Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge (auntymuriel.com)
161 points by DanBC on Oct 19, 2018 | 70 comments
10. Let’s talk about PAKE (cryptographyengineering.com)
138 points by stargrave on Oct 19, 2018 | 98 comments
11. “Whole Earth” origin (1976) (longnow.org)
85 points by josephpmay on Oct 19, 2018 | 17 comments
12. Sunshine Helps Kill Germs Indoors (npr.org)
205 points by lnguyen on Oct 19, 2018 | 183 comments
13. This Old Lisp (thisoldlisp.com)
238 points by lispm on Oct 19, 2018 | 106 comments
14. Show HN: Coffee Chat – Trade your expertise (coffeechat.app)
182 points by lw on Oct 17, 2018 | 78 comments
15. A Hacker from South Africa Rescued the First NASA Computer in Space (2016) (atlasobscura.com)
140 points by DoreenMichele on Oct 19, 2018 | 5 comments
16. I woke up unable to speak English (bbc.com)
262 points by dcminter on Oct 17, 2018 | 100 comments
17. The Bookish Life: How to Read and Why (firstthings.com)
160 points by diodorus on Oct 17, 2018 | 67 comments
18. Hackintosh-KVM Guide: High Sierra+ Using QEMU's I440fx Chipset (passthroughpo.st)
248 points by walterbell on Oct 19, 2018 | 95 comments
19. Winamp 5.8 Release – First update in 5 years (winamp.com)
283 points by Jhsto on Oct 19, 2018 | 135 comments
20. Bosnians who speak medieval Spanish (bbc.com)
171 points by MiriamWeiner on Oct 18, 2018 | 79 comments
21. A tutorial on Principal Component Analysis (tkv.io)
156 points by tehnokv on Oct 19, 2018 | 16 comments
22. Reservoir computing (wikipedia.org)
99 points by gyre007 on Oct 18, 2018 | 20 comments
23. Church-Turing Thesis Cannot Possibly Be True [video] (microsoft.com)
174 points by espeed on Oct 19, 2018 | 147 comments
24. Mill vs. Spectre: Performance and Security [video] (youtube.com)
71 points by leoc on Oct 19, 2018 | 31 comments
25. Microservices Are Something You Grow Into, Not Begin With (nickjanetakis.com)
338 points by fagnerbrack on Oct 19, 2018 | 153 comments
26. FT8 – Tipping Point for Ham Radio? (flexradio.com)
158 points by lightlyused on Oct 19, 2018 | 113 comments
27. Postcards from Big Brother: The Curious Propaganda of a Brutal Soviet Era (collectorsweekly.com)
93 points by prismatic on Oct 18, 2018 | 76 comments
28. Improving AI language understanding by combining multiple word representations (fb.com)
86 points by jamesjue on Oct 19, 2018 | 7 comments
29. How to price a product, sell it to customers, and build a sales team (stripe.com)
265 points by petethomas on Oct 18, 2018 | 21 comments
30. GraphSense – A Scalable Cryptocurrency Analytics Platform (graphsense.info)
77 points by lainon on Oct 19, 2018 | 10 comments

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