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1.Worst Computer Bugs in History: Therac-25 (2017) (bugsnag.com)
301 points by dangom on Aug 11, 2018 | 110 comments
2.Myth Debugging: Is the Wii More Demanding to Emulate Than the GameCube? (dolphin-emu.org)
287 points by _ugfj on Aug 11, 2018 | 23 comments
3.The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3 (ietf.org)
255 points by dochtman on Aug 11, 2018 | 67 comments
4.Meteor showers from space (meteorshowers.org)
164 points by okket on Aug 11, 2018 | 23 comments
5.Bayesian analysis suggests that John Lennon wrote the music for 'In My Life' (npr.org)
148 points by henrik_w on Aug 11, 2018 | 73 comments
6.The VU Meter and How It Got That Way (hackaday.com)
98 points by sohkamyung on Aug 10, 2018 | 6 comments
7.The Art of Not Dying: the First Emperor’s Pursuit of Immortality (laphamsquarterly.org)
101 points by lermontov on Aug 10, 2018 | 78 comments
8.The Xi Text Engine CRDT (github.com/google)
235 points by jxub on Aug 11, 2018 | 39 comments
9.Xinu – A small, elegant operating system (purdue.edu)
229 points by rspivak on Aug 10, 2018 | 73 comments
10.TinyEditor: A functional HTML/CSS/JS editor in less than 400 bytes (github.com/umpox)
244 points by known on Aug 11, 2018 | 21 comments
11.Beautiful maths simplification: quaternion from two vectors (2013) (lolengine.net)
118 points by sytelus on Aug 10, 2018 | 16 comments
12.GitLab is now running on GCP (twitter.com/gitlabstatus)
253 points by sahin on Aug 11, 2018 | 152 comments
13.Google Public DNS turns 8.8.8.8 years old (googleblog.com)
197 points by tomweingarten on Aug 11, 2018 | 172 comments
14.Show HN: A parser for electronic component descriptions (github.com/monostable)
126 points by kasbah on Aug 11, 2018 | 19 comments
15.What the interns have wrought, 2018 edition (janestreet.com)
190 points by yminsky on Aug 10, 2018 | 132 comments
16.What Caused the Dinosaur Extinction? (theatlantic.com)
88 points by bkudria on Aug 11, 2018 | 42 comments
17.On Apple's Love Affair with Swift (stefan-lesser.com)
154 points by doener on Aug 11, 2018 | 239 comments
18.A Botulism Outbreak Gave Rise to America’s Food Safety System (smithsonianmag.com)
64 points by samclemens on Aug 10, 2018 | 9 comments
19.Introducing Electron Fiddle (medium.com/felixrieseberg)
165 points by rmason on Aug 11, 2018 | 67 comments
20.Ristretto – A technique for constructing prime order elliptic curve groups (ristretto.group)
67 points by based2 on Aug 10, 2018 | 9 comments
21.Prefab housing complex for UC Berkeley students goes up in four days (berkeleyside.com)
159 points by protomyth on Aug 11, 2018 | 162 comments
22.Factor: An impressive stack-based language environment (junglecoder.com)
111 points by yumaikas on Aug 9, 2018 | 34 comments
23.Mysterious Musical Stones of Ringing Rocks Park in Pennsylvania (strangesounds.org)
69 points by Earth_Change on Aug 11, 2018 | 19 comments
24.Hollywood gets its own open-source foundation (techcrunch.com)
92 points by madmax108 on Aug 11, 2018 | 45 comments
25.'Go mod download' (to cache) and 'go mod why' added (golang.org)
76 points by soroso on Aug 11, 2018 | 11 comments
26.The End of the TV Writers’ Room? (vanityfair.com)
59 points by JustSomeNobody on Aug 10, 2018 | 51 comments
27.Vkvg: Vulkan vector drawing, trying to stay close to Cairo API (github.com/jpbruyere)
78 points by adamnemecek on Aug 11, 2018 | 10 comments
28.Redshift – A better flux program for Linux (2014) (jeppson.org)
141 points by foo101 on Aug 11, 2018 | 81 comments
29.GSoC wrap-up – Splitting Servo's script crate (servo.org)
37 points by wyoh on Aug 10, 2018 | 2 comments
30.Publii – open source static CMS for everyone (github.com/getpublii)
98 points by BobMitro on Aug 11, 2018 | 43 comments

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