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1.Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company (bloomberg.com)
1070 points by uptown on Jan 30, 2018 [ext] | 520 comments [ext]
2.Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS (redhat.com)
997 points by noahl on Jan 30, 2018 [ext] | 197 comments [ext]
3.Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video] (recurse.com)
750 points by davidbalbert on Jan 30, 2018 [ext] | 295 comments [ext]
4. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
4.Matrix Calculus for Deep Learning (usfca.edu)
573 points by jph00 on Jan 30, 2018 [ext] | 81 comments [ext]
5.Facebook is banning all ads promoting cryptocurrencies (recode.net)
551 points by imartin2k on Jan 30, 2018 [ext] | 239 comments [ext]
6.Regexper – Regular expressions visualizer (regexper.com)
510 points by xchip on Jan 30, 2018 [ext] | 102 comments [ext]
7. Asymmetric leverage how Iran holds twenty percent of global oil supply hostage (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 21 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
7.U.S. Regulators to Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether (bloomberg.com)
495 points by chollida1 on Jan 30, 2018 [ext] | 404 comments [ext]
8.How to Work Out What to Charge Clients (smashingmagazine.com)
388 points by charlysl on Jan 30, 2018 [ext] | 186 comments [ext]
9.EFF's Fight to End Warrantless Device Searches at the Border (eff.org)
469 points by DiabloD3 on Jan 29, 2018 [ext] | 99 comments [ext]
10. The Dota result Altman calls closest to real-world decision making (blog.samaltman.com)
487 points by htx5127 610 days ago | hide | 15 comments
10.UK mass digital surveillance regime ruled unlawful (theguardian.com)
501 points by robin_reala on Jan 30, 2018 [ext] | 186 comments [ext]
11.A Man Who Volunteered for Auschwitz (2012) (theatlantic.com)
348 points by Moodles on Jan 30, 2018 [ext] | 140 comments [ext]
12.Garbage collectors open a library with abandoned books (cnn.com)
217 points by wowsig on Jan 30, 2018 [ext] | 87 comments [ext]
13. From Shortlist to Shipped: A Tournament Method for Picking Life's Work (guzey.com)
110 points by coz850 602 days ago | hide | 97 comments
13.PID Without a PhD (2016) [pdf] (wescottdesign.com)
301 points by darshanrai on Jan 29, 2018 [ext] | 114 comments [ext]
14.How Apple Built a Chip Powerhouse to Threaten Qualcomm and Intel (bloomberg.com)
223 points by walterbell on Jan 30, 2018 [ext] | 146 comments [ext]
15.Minigo: An open-source implementation of the AlphaGo Zero algorithm (github.com/tensorflow)
206 points by brilee on Jan 29, 2018 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
16. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 170 days ago | hide | 48 comments
16.Nanopore MinION – $1k solid-state DNA sequencers (nanoporetech.com)
189 points by incompatible on Jan 30, 2018 [ext] | 107 comments [ext]
17.Kodak’s Dubious Blockchain Gamble (nytimes.com)
162 points by IntronExon on Jan 30, 2018 [ext] | 84 comments [ext]
18.Audio Adversarial Examples (carlini.com)
124 points by moultano on Jan 29, 2018 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
19. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 85 days ago | hide | 122 comments
19.Can We Copy the Brain? (ieee.org)
198 points by wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB on Jan 30, 2018 [ext] | 82 comments [ext]
20.Ten days in Shenzhen (karimyaghmour.com)
276 points by babkayaga on Jan 29, 2018 [ext] | 141 comments [ext]
21.Google winning 98% ad spots it auctions off, after order to treat others equally (wsj.com)
167 points by hadenew119 on Jan 30, 2018 [ext] | 105 comments [ext]
22. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
22.Why we wrote our Kafka Client in Pony (wallaroolabs.com)
137 points by hackmanytrades on Jan 30, 2018 [ext] | 95 comments [ext]
23.Fools and their crypto (techcrunch.com)
190 points by rbanffy on Jan 30, 2018 [ext] | 123 comments [ext]
24.Advanced Denanonymization through Strava (steveloughran.blogspot.com)
141 points by dsr12 on Jan 30, 2018 [ext] | 75 comments [ext]
25. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
25.On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git (sethrobertson.github.io)
157 points by signa11 on Jan 30, 2018 [ext] | 8 comments [ext]
26.ARM immediate value encoding (2014) (mcdiarmid.org)
97 points by JoshTriplett on Jan 30, 2018 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
27.Mice can inherit learned sensitivity to a smell (2013) (sciencedaily.com)
67 points by marojejian on Jan 30, 2018 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
28. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 263 days ago | hide | 183 comments
28.What's Hiding Inside Egypt's Great Pyramid? Tiny Robots May Find Out (livescience.com)
72 points by DrScump on Jan 30, 2018 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
29.Paradigm shifts for the decentralized Web (verborgh.org)
107 points by quickfox on Jan 30, 2018 [ext] | 30 comments [ext]
30.A therapy chatbot and app for depression and anxiety (businessinsider.com)
141 points by nopinsight on Jan 29, 2018 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
31. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments

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