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1.Chrome is Not the Standard (chriskrycho.com)
807 points by chriskrycho on Dec 21, 2017 [ext] | 451 comments [ext]
2.Facebook’s Political Unit Enables Propaganda (bloomberg.com)
419 points by _jgvg on Dec 21, 2017 [ext] | 237 comments [ext]
3.Open-sourcing MonkeyType – Let your Python code type-hint itself (engineering.instagram.com)
427 points by ambivalence on Dec 21, 2017 [ext] | 229 comments [ext]
4. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
4.Start your open-source career (blog.algolia.com)
364 points by vvoyer on Dec 21, 2017 [ext] | 69 comments [ext]
5.Building a Distributed Log from Scratch, Part 1: Storage Mechanics (bravenewgeek.com)
278 points by tylertreat on Dec 21, 2017 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
6.Implementing Malloc: Students and Systems Programming [pdf] (cmu.edu)
283 points by ingve on Dec 20, 2017 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
7. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
7.Gamers Want DMCA Exemption for ‘Abandoned’ Online Games (torrentfreak.com)
346 points by duramato on Dec 21, 2017 [ext] | 75 comments [ext]
8.Hundreds ‘Rickrolled’ in Campus Prank at Cornell (cornellsun.com)
289 points by tdrnd on Dec 20, 2017 [ext] | 101 comments [ext]
9.Goldman Sachs Is Setting Up a Cryptocurrency Trading Desk (bloomberg.com)
346 points by chollida1 on Dec 21, 2017 [ext] | 466 comments [ext]
10. Bots as Antitrust: Letting Code Negotiate on Your Behalf (continuations.com)
215 points by doz2675 594 days ago | hide | 76 comments
10.Racing for Realism (pixar.com)
396 points by mariuz on Dec 21, 2017 [ext] | 150 comments [ext]
11.Berlin's Plan to Become a City for Cyclists (citylab.com)
240 points by mpweiher on Dec 20, 2017 [ext] | 184 comments [ext]
12.A Letter from the Publisher of Nautilus (nautil.us)
313 points by juretriglav on Dec 21, 2017 [ext] | 145 comments [ext]
13. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 105 days ago | hide | 48 comments
13.Romanian Hackers Infiltrated 65% of DC Outdoor Surveillance Cameras (cnn.io)
257 points by QAPereo on Dec 21, 2017 [ext] | 80 comments [ext]
14.SQL Injection Wiki (netspi.com)
346 points by sidcool on Dec 21, 2017 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
15.Libdill: Structured Concurrency for C (2016) (libdill.org)
232 points by jgrahamc on Dec 21, 2017 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
16. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
16.Rust in 2017: what we achieved (rust-lang.org)
403 points by steveklabnik on Dec 21, 2017 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
17.Intermediate Vim tips (kinbiko.com)
200 points by kinbiko on Dec 21, 2017 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
18.Massgate – The central server for the game World in Conflict (github.com/ubisoftinc)
118 points by Sytten on Dec 21, 2017 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
19. Why Most Marketplace Network Effects Are Surprisingly Easy to Replicate ()
257 points by pen4647 497 days ago | hide | 50 comments
19.Twelve Days in Xinjiang: How China’s Surveillance State Overwhelms Daily Life (wsj.com)
222 points by liscovich on Dec 21, 2017 [ext] | 129 comments [ext]
20.Eric Schmidt to become technical advisor to Alphabet (abc.xyz)
199 points by EwanToo on Dec 21, 2017 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
21.Apple Says Apps Must Now Disclose Odds for Loot Boxes (kotaku.com)
283 points by kelukelugames on Dec 21, 2017 [ext] | 123 comments [ext]
22. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
22.The Future of JQuery UI and JQuery Mobile (jqueryui.com)
139 points by apsdehal on Dec 21, 2017 [ext] | 93 comments [ext]
23.Johns Hopkins engineering students build custom walker for tiny toddler (jhu.edu)
126 points by jamessun on Dec 21, 2017 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
24.More Gotchas of Defer in Go, Part II (learngoprogramming.com)
105 points by inancgumus on Dec 21, 2017 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
25. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 18 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
25.Macchiato – A way to build Node web applications using ClojureScript (macchiato-framework.github.io)
132 points by tosh on Dec 21, 2017 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
26.The Art of Conducting (commentarymagazine.com)
87 points by whatami on Dec 21, 2017 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
27.Tax-Free Bitcoin-To-Ether Trading in US to End Under GOP Plan (bloomberg.com)
262 points by jeffwass on Dec 21, 2017 [ext] | 175 comments [ext]
28. Structure Over Style: How Knowledge and Practice Beat Natural Speaking Talent (m.youtube.com)
81 points by pom4591 230 days ago | hide | 180 comments
28.Netstat without netstat (staaldraad.github.io)
138 points by wolframio on Dec 20, 2017 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
29.The ABC conjecture has still not been proved (galoisrepresentations.wordpress.com)
148 points by thisisit on Dec 20, 2017 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
30.On Writing Short Papers (utexas.edu)
97 points by adenadel on Dec 20, 2017 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
31. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 251 days ago | hide | 128 comments

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