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1.		The blockchain paradox: Why DLTs may do little to transform the economy (ox.ac.uk)
		39 points by jboynyc 2 hours ago \| hide \| 39 comments
2.		Indian scientists are experimenting with drone seed-bombing to plant a forest (factordaily.com)
		207 points by ston3r 7 hours ago \| hide \| 31 comments
3.		The Hidden Cost of Privatization (ineteconomics.org)
		8 points by frgtpsswrdlame 15 minutes ago \| hide \| discuss
4.		Show HN: GitHub for Microsoft Word (simuldocs.com)
		21 points by ben-morris 1 hour ago \| hide \| 7 comments
5.		SQLite small blob storage: 35% Faster Than the Filesystem (sqlite.org)
		428 points by i_feel_great 12 hours ago \| hide \| 142 comments
6.		Rust as a gateway drug to Haskell (xion.io)
		262 points by miqkt 9 hours ago \| hide \| 101 comments
7.		The Machine of Tomorrow Today: Quantum Computing on the Verge (bloomberg.com)
		36 points by jonbaer 3 hours ago \| hide \| 9 comments
8.		Cosmic voids (askamathematician.com)
		22 points by CarolineW 4 hours ago \| hide \| 2 comments
9.		MNIST for ML Beginners: The Bayesian Way (alpha-i.co)
		117 points by tbs1980 10 hours ago \| hide \| 20 comments
10.		The true legacy of the Cornell professor who invented the chicken nugget (atlasobscura.com)
		22 points by samclemens 4 hours ago \| hide \| 10 comments
11.		Password Cracking with 8x Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti GPUs (servethehome.com)
		150 points by EvgeniyZh 14 hours ago \| hide \| 75 comments
12.		Visualizing binaries with space-filling curves (2011) (corte.si)
		60 points by camtarn 8 hours ago \| hide \| 4 comments
13.		A 12-Month Campaign of Fake News to Influence Elections Costs $400,000 (bleepingcomputer.com)
		7 points by KasianFranks 25 minutes ago \| hide \| 2 comments
14.		What would a very simple quantum program look like? (stackexchange.com)
		15 points by tangue 55 minutes ago \| hide \| 1 comment
15.		Writing a Unix Shell – Part II (indradhanush.github.io)
		183 points by dhanush 15 hours ago \| hide \| 18 comments
16.		Chuck Thacker has died (acm.org)
		467 points by mpweiher 16 hours ago \| hide \| 31 comments
17.		Captain401 (YC S15) is hiring product managers, engineers, and customer support (captain401.com)
		2 hours ago \| hide
18.		KARL – kernel address randomized link (marc.info)
		32 points by hobarrera 9 hours ago \| hide \| 4 comments
19.		The Workings of an Ancient Nuclear Reactor (2009) (scientificamerican.com)
		6 points by Hooke 3 hours ago \| hide \| discuss
20.		A new trick for calculating Jacobian vector products (j-towns.github.io)
		54 points by rosstex 10 hours ago \| hide \| 7 comments
21.		Verizon closes $4.5B acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer resigns (techcrunch.com)
		701 points by pyprism 22 hours ago \| hide \| 361 comments
22.		The Viral Ecology of Earth (nautil.us)
		38 points by dnetesn 9 hours ago \| hide \| 1 comment
23.		Minimizing FPGA Resource Utilization (zipcpu.com)
		65 points by jsnell 15 hours ago \| hide \| 4 comments
24.		Daisy: A private blockchain where blocks are SQLite databases, in Go (github.com)
		91 points by syncopate 15 hours ago \| hide \| 24 comments
25.		Ironists of a Vanished Empire (nybooks.com)
		16 points by lermontov 8 hours ago \| hide \| 5 comments
26.		Escape from systemd (davmac.wordpress.com)
		7 points by ingve 5 hours ago \| hide \| 1 comment
27.		Dan Jones, Artist of London's East End (spitalfieldslife.com)
		4 points by prismatic 3 hours ago \| hide \| discuss
28.		How is GNU `yes` so fast? (reddit.com)
		816 points by ruleabidinguser 1 day ago \| hide \| 324 comments
29.		The most accurate map for August 21’s total solar eclipse (nasa.gov)
		274 points by cyanbane 21 hours ago \| hide \| 152 comments
30.		Turbid: A High-Entropy Random Generator (2005) (av8n.com)
		20 points by Tomte 11 hours ago \| hide \| 1 comment
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