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1. Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, Seed the Eyes of Victims (scientificamerican.com)
433 points by tshannon on Dec 10, 2018 | 189 comments
2. Nasa's Voyager 2 probe 'leaves the Solar System' (bbc.co.uk)
405 points by grahamel on Dec 10, 2018 | 100 comments
3. The cold start problem: how to build your machine learning portfolio (towardsdatascience.com)
340 points by sharemywin on Dec 10, 2018 | 99 comments
4. Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds (nytimes.com)
448 points by pcl on Dec 10, 2018 | 168 comments
5. On Shutting Down (blog.ycombinator.com)
306 points by craigcannon on Dec 10, 2018 | 84 comments
6. Why Not to Use Quora (waxy.org)
500 points by undefined1 on Dec 10, 2018 | 186 comments
7. Tracking leaks on NDA beta Xbox 360s by embedding serial number on-screen (twitter.com/cullend)
357 points by danso on Dec 9, 2018 | 140 comments
8. House Oversight Committee Report on Equifax Breach [pdf] (house.gov)
238 points by finnigja on Dec 10, 2018 | 139 comments
9. IPFS, The Interplanetary File System, Simply Explained (achainofblocks.com)
261 points by acob on Dec 10, 2018 | 52 comments
10. Qualcomm wins preliminary China import ruling against some iPhone models (reuters.com)
126 points by tooltalk on Dec 10, 2018 | 72 comments
11. Why Aren’t Rich People Happy With the Money They Have? (theatlantic.com)
316 points by gscott on Dec 9, 2018 | 342 comments
12. Seemingly Impossible Swift Programs (fewbutripe.com)
179 points by wool_gather on Dec 10, 2018 | 89 comments
13. Making Games in Lisp with Hypergiant and Chicken Scheme (alex-charlton.com)
155 points by bananicorn on Dec 10, 2018 | 22 comments
14. Bézier moi (cormullion.github.io)
190 points by one-more-minute on Dec 8, 2018 | 35 comments
15. Nextcloud introduces social features, joins the fediverse (nextcloud.com)
194 points by Kye on Dec 10, 2018 | 122 comments
16. LED Strain (ledstrain.org)
162 points by profdithering on Dec 10, 2018 | 217 comments
17. The Life of a Backpacker in Asia in the 1970s (perceptivetravel.com)
226 points by I-M-S on Dec 9, 2018 | 90 comments
18. Callbacks in C++ using template functors (1994) (tutok.sk)
66 points by tosh on Dec 10, 2018 | 50 comments
19. Making Penicillin at Home (doomandbloom.net)
178 points by gscott on Dec 10, 2018 | 75 comments
20. Using Bayesian Methods to Clean Up Human Labels (dominodatalab.com)
85 points by gk1 on Dec 10, 2018 | 1 comment
21. Show HN: A mobile-friendly, web-based, countries of the world game (geogee.me)
112 points by emurph55 on Dec 10, 2018 | 58 comments
22. 'Say hello to my little vacuum cleaner': US DEA puts spycams in cleaner's kit (theregister.co.uk)
101 points by snazz on Dec 9, 2018 | 29 comments
23. Apple Airplay on Raspberry Pi in 7 Easy Steps (appcodelabs.com)
295 points by 3chelon on Dec 10, 2018 | 111 comments
24. Intel: EUV-Enabled 7nm Process Tech is on Track (anandtech.com)
103 points by kristianp on Dec 10, 2018 | 63 comments
25. AlphaFold at CASP13: What just happened? (moalquraishi.wordpress.com)
188 points by sytelus on Dec 10, 2018 | 61 comments
26. When Your Profiler Lies (randomascii.wordpress.com)
94 points by nikbackm on Dec 10, 2018 | 14 comments
27. For Home Prices in London, Check the Tokyo Listings (imf.org)
63 points by akyuu on Dec 10, 2018 | 8 comments
28. UK spies: You know how we said bulk device hacking would be used sparingly? (theregister.co.uk)
221 points by wglb on Dec 8, 2018 | 95 comments
29. Malicious sites abuse 11-year-old Firefox bug that Mozilla failed to fix (zdnet.com)
163 points by EpicEng on Dec 10, 2018 | 79 comments
30. Madoff’s Victims Are Close to Getting Their $19B Back (bloomberg.com)
157 points by motiw on Dec 10, 2018 | 186 comments

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