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1. Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate (medium.com/the-set-list)
948 points by nate on Aug 8, 2018 | 386 comments
2. Show HN: Pts.js – A library for visualization and creative coding (ptsjs.org)
611 points by wmnn on Aug 8, 2018 | 71 comments
3. GLB: GitHub's open source load balancer (githubengineering.com)
478 points by csteinbe on Aug 8, 2018 | 62 comments
4. To Remember Everything You Learn, Surrender to This Algorithm (2008) (wired.com)
740 points by colinprince on Aug 7, 2018 | 208 comments
5. Holloway Guide to Equity Compensation (holloway.com)
384 points by doosey2 on Aug 8, 2018 | 71 comments
6. Tomu, a tiny ARM microprocessor which fits in your USB port (tomu.im)
302 points by ris on Aug 8, 2018 | 86 comments
7. The Secret API of Banks (gduverger.com)
373 points by gduverger on Aug 8, 2018 | 252 comments
8. Unix Syscalls (john-millikin.com)
287 points by rspivak on Aug 7, 2018 | 13 comments
9. Snap’s Drop in Active Users Could Signal a Social Media Peak (nytimes.com)
309 points by gk1 on Aug 8, 2018 | 285 comments
10. µUBSan: clean-room reimplementation of the Undefined Behavior Sanitizer runtime (netbsd.org)
182 points by ingve on Aug 8, 2018 | 60 comments
11. Dev.to is now open source (github.com/thepracticaldev)
212 points by agrinman on Aug 8, 2018 | 62 comments
12. The magic of asyncio explained (hackernoon.com)
168 points by apoorvgarg on Aug 6, 2018 | 89 comments
13. Python 3 is now available on App Engine standard environment (cloud.google.com)
277 points by stewart27 on Aug 8, 2018 | 79 comments
14. Shannon Labs – $100K Fellowship to support independent researchers (shannonlabs.co)
176 points by dhash on Aug 8, 2018 | 46 comments
15. Warner Music Group Sells Entire Stake in Spotify (variety.com)
158 points by lxm on Aug 8, 2018 | 94 comments
16. Hyperpolyglot: Lisp (hyperpolyglot.org)
127 points by tosh on Aug 8, 2018 | 17 comments
17. False Advertising for College Is Pretty Much the Norm (bloomberg.com)
182 points by jseliger on Aug 8, 2018 | 246 comments
18. The Weight of Numbers: Air Pollution and PM2.5 (undark.org)
117 points by anarbadalov on Aug 8, 2018 | 67 comments
19. Sadly, I must say goodbye to Leaf, my programming language (mortoray.com)
183 points by ingve on Aug 7, 2018 | 127 comments
20. Tokyo medical school admits changing results to exclude women (theguardian.com)
208 points by prawn on Aug 8, 2018 | 173 comments
21. Manners in Early Modern England (theguardian.com)
80 points by pulisse on Aug 8, 2018 | 33 comments
22. New York’s success provides road map for others taking aim at pedestrian deaths (cbc.ca)
122 points by okket on Aug 7, 2018 | 149 comments
23. Internal Facebook Note: Here Is A “Psychological Trick” To Target Teens (buzzfeednews.com)
196 points by tortilla on Aug 7, 2018 | 77 comments
24. CMU Engineers Find Innovative Way to Make a Low-Cost 3D Bioprinter (healthtechmagazine.net)
99 points by walterbell on Aug 8, 2018 | 7 comments
25. Bail has become a way to lock up the poor regardless of guilt or threat (globalcitizen.org)
296 points by dsr12 on Aug 8, 2018 | 181 comments
26. Photography Composition (antongorlin.com)
256 points by angor on Aug 8, 2018 | 68 comments
27. Catching Cheating Servers in Decentralized Storage Networks (hackingdistributed.com)
90 points by siavosh on Aug 6, 2018 | 11 comments
28. Filter Before You Parse: Faster Analytics on Raw Data with Sparser (stanford.edu)
86 points by bandwitch on Aug 8, 2018 | 14 comments
29. DeepTAM: Deep Tracking and Mapping (uni-freiburg.de)
81 points by lainon on Aug 8, 2018 | 7 comments
30. Sclack: The best CLI client for Slack, because everything is terrible (github.com/haskellcamargo)
142 points by pavel_lishin on Aug 7, 2018 | 34 comments

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