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1.AWS CEO Jassy follows Apple in calling for retraction of Chinese spy chip story (cnbc.com)
461 points by magoghm on Oct 22, 2018 [ext] | 267 comments [ext]
2.WebAssembly’s post-MVP future (hacks.mozilla.org)
512 points by steveklabnik on Oct 22, 2018 [ext] | 204 comments [ext]
3.Repl.it raises $4.5M from A16Z, Paul Graham, and others (repl.it)
424 points by amasad on Oct 22, 2018 [ext] | 222 comments [ext]
4. When Peak AI Capability Arrives at Impractical Prices, Deployment Lags (tobyord.com)
290 points by oox1230 1 day ago | hide | 120 comments
4.The Secretive Business of Facial-Recognition Software in Retail Stores (nymag.com)
275 points by NN88 on Oct 22, 2018 [ext] | 162 comments [ext]
5.Writing an OS in Rust: Hardware Interrupts (phil-opp.com)
398 points by ingve on Oct 22, 2018 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
6.The rise of the robot farmer (theguardian.com)
219 points by YeGoblynQueenne on Oct 20, 2018 [ext] | 184 comments [ext]
7. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 84 days ago | hide | 14 comments
7.An invitation to category theory (chalkdustmagazine.com)
387 points by sytelus on Oct 21, 2018 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
8.GM’s data mining is just the beginning of the in-car advertising blitz (theverge.com)
164 points by uptown on Oct 22, 2018 [ext] | 206 comments [ext]
9.Rust can be difficult to learn and frustrating, but it's also very exciting (influxdata.com)
287 points by pauldix on Oct 22, 2018 [ext] | 274 comments [ext]
10. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 262 days ago | hide | 183 comments
10.Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution (starterstory.com)
246 points by patwalls on Oct 22, 2018 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
11.The Marvel API (marvel.com)
239 points by gavreh on Oct 22, 2018 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
12.Delaunay and Voronoi on a sphere (redblobgames.com)
250 points by guiambros on Oct 22, 2018 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
13. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 199 days ago | hide | 18 comments
13.The Single Board Computer Database (board-db.org)
198 points by peter_d_sherman on Oct 21, 2018 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
14.Announcing the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines (lists.gnu.org)
596 points by stargrave on Oct 22, 2018 [ext] | 396 comments [ext]
15.The Chamber of Guf (slatestarcodex.com)
100 points by crunchiebones on Oct 19, 2018 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
16. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 367 days ago | hide | 168 comments
16.Are our brains Bayesian? (2016) (wiley.com)
154 points by sajid on Oct 21, 2018 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
17.Pushback against Saudi funding endangers Silicon Valley valuations (epsilontheory.com)
226 points by AndrewBissell on Oct 22, 2018 [ext] | 203 comments [ext]
18.Falcon: A high-performance web server for Ruby, supporting HTTP/2 and HTTPS (github.com/socketry)
187 points by ksec on Oct 21, 2018 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
19. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
19.Superpermutations (gregegan.net)
117 points by sohkamyung on Oct 22, 2018 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
20.Even After Fix, Windows 10 Update Is Botching File Operations (gizmodo.com.au)
170 points by sharjeelsayed on Oct 21, 2018 [ext] | 152 comments [ext]
21.World’s Oldest Fossils Now Appear to Be Squished Rocks (quantamagazine.org)
91 points by gotocake on Oct 22, 2018 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
22. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 57 days ago | hide | 13 comments
22.The Hardest Woods (wood-database.com)
221 points by shawndumas on Oct 21, 2018 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
23.How IBM’s ThinkPad Became a Design Icon (2017) (fastcompany.com)
171 points by _culy on Oct 22, 2018 [ext] | 139 comments [ext]
24.UBeam CEO Meredith Perry steps aside amidst B2B pivot (techcrunch.com)
126 points by Ice_cream_suit on Oct 22, 2018 [ext] | 144 comments [ext]
25. The Cybersecurity Stack Was Built on Assumptions AI Just Broke ()
486 points by gtm4646 84 days ago | hide | 150 comments
25.First-Class Automatic Differentiation in Swift (gist.github.com)
111 points by bmc7505 on Oct 22, 2018 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
26.Transferring GitHub stars (francisco.io)
100 points by franciscop on Oct 20, 2018 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
27.Heinlein and Clarke discuss the Moon landings as they happen (2016) (arstechnica.com)
71 points by Hooke on Oct 22, 2018 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
28. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 84 days ago | hide | 122 comments
28.The Early Days of GitHub – Interview with Tom Preston-Werner (heavybit.com)
111 points by icey on Oct 19, 2018 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
29.Space Transportation System (wikipedia.org)
87 points by benbreen on Oct 21, 2018 [ext] | 60 comments [ext]
30.Sears Kit Homes Changed Housing (curbed.com)
109 points by lxm on Oct 20, 2018 [ext] | 90 comments [ext]
31. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 10 hours ago | hide | 150 comments

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