Hacker News

1.		Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea (qz.com)
		169 points by ValentineC 4 hours ago \| hide \| 82 comments
2.		The Making of Apple’s Emoji (medium.com)
		105 points by Doubleguitars 5 hours ago \| hide \| 36 comments
3.		Intel Security Issue Update: Addressing Reboot Issues (intel.com)
		158 points by bcantrill 8 hours ago \| hide \| 77 comments
4.		Social Media Is Making Us Dumber (nytimes.com)
		68 points by pratap103 4 hours ago \| hide \| 29 comments
5.		How to Think Like a Medieval Monk (2017) (laphamsquarterly.org)
		40 points by diodorus 4 hours ago \| hide \| 17 comments
6.		Economics is overdue for a quantum revolution (aeon.co)
		10 points by tgragnato 2 hours ago \| hide \| 3 comments
7.		Wood gas vehicles: firewood in the fuel tank (lowtechmagazine.com)
		93 points by aphextron 8 hours ago \| hide \| 44 comments
8.		New DHS policy on demands for passwords to travelers’ electronic devices (papersplease.org)
		191 points by tehwebguy 4 hours ago \| hide \| 110 comments
9.		In the eating disorder unit (lrb.co.uk)
		16 points by fern12 3 hours ago \| hide \| discuss
10.		Fifty Years of Shannon Theory (1998) [pdf] (princeton.edu)
		55 points by avastmick 7 hours ago \| hide \| 5 comments
11.		Intel Security Issue Update: Initial Performance Data Results for Client Systems (intel.com)
		44 points by taspeotis 6 hours ago \| hide \| 23 comments
12.		Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share (nytimes.com)
		226 points by axg 11 hours ago \| hide \| 170 comments
13.		Why humans need to rethink their place in the animal kingdom (newstatesman.com)
		25 points by Petiver 4 hours ago \| hide \| 9 comments
14.		The Widow, the Bank, and the $8B Verdict (dmagazine.com)
		6 points by ALee 2 hours ago \| hide \| 2 comments
15.		Real World Crypto 2018 (iacr.org)
		9 points by altro 1 hour ago \| hide \| 3 comments
16.		Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryption to Skype (signal.org)
		717 points by Aissen 19 hours ago \| hide \| 310 comments
17.		Buried Ice Water Discovered on Mars (nasa.gov)
		281 points by almost_usual 12 hours ago \| hide \| 44 comments
18.		Making tab switching faster in Firefox with tab warming (mikeconley.ca)
		130 points by bpierre 13 hours ago \| hide \| 71 comments
19.		A Blue Sky in Beijing? It’s Not a Fluke, Says Greenpeace (nytimes.com)
		28 points by fspeech 7 hours ago \| hide \| 5 comments
20.		McCarthy Math (sdf.org)
		15 points by geocar 4 hours ago \| hide \| 1 comment
21.		Update Regarding ACME TLS-SNI and Shared Hosting Infrastructure (letsencrypt.org)
		109 points by okket 13 hours ago \| hide \| 37 comments
22.		Great React style guide by Airbnb (github.com)
		22 points by owens99 2 hours ago \| hide \| 4 comments
23.		Cierge – passwordless authentication (pwdless.github.io)
		61 points by zeveb 9 hours ago \| hide \| 31 comments
24.		Protecting Google Cloud customers without impacting performance (blog.google)
		423 points by theDoug 17 hours ago \| hide \| 113 comments
25.		The Human Diagnosis Project is hiring software engineers (humandx.org)
		3 hours ago \| hide
26.		William James and the philosophy of pragmatism (neh.gov)
		57 points by benbreen 12 hours ago \| hide \| 16 comments
27.		With ‘Downsized’ DNA, Flowering Plants Took Over the World (quantamagazine.org)
		20 points by sohkamyung 7 hours ago \| hide \| 1 comment
28.		YC Bio (ycombinator.com)
		303 points by jameshk 16 hours ago \| hide \| 139 comments
29.		Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO (bloomberg.com)
		412 points by richiezc 18 hours ago \| hide \| 255 comments
30.		Neurology in Ancient Faces (2001) [pdf] (nih.gov)
		7 points by benbreen 4 hours ago \| hide \| discuss
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