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1. Power Worth Less Than Zero Spreads as Green Energy Floods the Grid (bloomberg.com)
537 points by bumholio on Aug 7, 2018 | 407 comments
2. Facebook Field Guide to Machine Learning – video series (fb.com)
552 points by tosh on Aug 7, 2018 | 63 comments
3. Engineers teach a drone to herd birds away from airports autonomously (techxplore.com)
264 points by dnetesn on Aug 7, 2018 | 105 comments
4. Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool (gizmodo.com)
580 points by uptown on Aug 7, 2018 | 167 comments
5. Startup School 2018 – Curriculum (blog.ycombinator.com)
339 points by katm on Aug 7, 2018 | 61 comments
6. Seaweed could be scrubbing more carbon from the atmosphere than expected (2017) (oceana.org)
338 points by propman on Aug 7, 2018 | 159 comments
7. The Structure of Stand-Up Comedy (pudding.cool)
444 points by nniroclax on Aug 6, 2018 | 93 comments
8. EPA is allowing asbestos back into manufacturing (archpaper.com)
560 points by okket on Aug 7, 2018 | 338 comments
9. Where Vim Came From (twobithistory.org)
420 points by janvdberg on Aug 6, 2018 | 259 comments
10. Study Finds Increased Incarceration Has Marginal-To-Zero Impact on Crime (eji.org)
325 points by mpweiher on Aug 6, 2018 | 182 comments
11. Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker (cryptoaustralia.org.au)
337 points by gszathmari on Aug 6, 2018 | 288 comments
12. Plan to replicate 50 high-impact cancer papers shrinks to just 18 (sciencemag.org)
253 points by nonbel on Aug 6, 2018 | 191 comments
13. Dungeons Tome – Tool for generating dungeons for RPGs (dungeonstome.com)
289 points by _Zoran_ on Aug 7, 2018 | 102 comments
14. Speech-to-Text Benchmark: Framework for benchmarking speech-to-text engines (github.com/picovoice)
195 points by kenarsa on Aug 7, 2018 | 64 comments
15. Announcing Dart 2 Stable and the Dart Web Platform (medium.com/dartlang)
246 points by ScottWRobinson on Aug 7, 2018 | 253 comments
16. Voting system to be used in West Virginia elections is vulnerable (twitter.com/gossithedog)
277 points by grey-area on Aug 7, 2018 | 154 comments
17. Horrors of Using Azure Kubernetes Service in Production (movingfulcrum.com)
371 points by pdeva1 on Aug 6, 2018 | 136 comments
18. Very few owners of Alexa-powered devices use them for shopping (techcrunch.com)
201 points by confiscate on Aug 7, 2018 | 183 comments
19. The Byzantine Generals Problem (1982) [pdf] (lamport.azurewebsites.net)
127 points by xkgt on Aug 6, 2018 | 21 comments
20. What can defend against off-the-shelf drone weapons? (dw.com)
141 points by pmoriarty on Aug 7, 2018 | 187 comments
21. How I gained commit access to Homebrew in 30 minutes (medium.com/vesirin)
415 points by bgentry on Aug 7, 2018 | 85 comments
22. Nim partners with Status.im (nim-lang.org)
174 points by dom96 on Aug 7, 2018 | 55 comments
23. Show HN: Dancemusic.wtf – Quiz Game for Learning Electronic Dance Music Styles (dancemusic.wtf)
152 points by Tjorvens on Aug 6, 2018 | 55 comments
24. The Foundry at the Heart of DARPA’s Plan to Let Old Fabs Beat New Ones (ieee.org)
74 points by rbanffy on Aug 7, 2018 | 21 comments
25. Leaked white paper proposes U.S. Congressional regulation of social media (cjr.org)
189 points by walterbell on Aug 7, 2018 | 152 comments
26. Shortage of charging stations to become a bottleneck to mass adoption of EVs? (fresnobee.com)
83 points by lxm on Aug 7, 2018 | 210 comments
27. Balloon Pirate Radio (2007) (idlewords.com)
66 points by rfreytag on Aug 7, 2018 | 15 comments
28. Android Pie SDK is now more Kotlin-friendly (googleblog.com)
121 points by ingve on Aug 7, 2018 | 73 comments
29. In Praise of Defensive Football (popula.com)
99 points by Thevet on Aug 6, 2018 | 18 comments
30. An incomplete history of the QED Text Editor (2004) (bell-labs.com)
60 points by shawndumas on Aug 7, 2018 | 3 comments

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