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1.Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on April 11 (cloud.google.com)
799 points by sgrytoyr on April 13, 2016 [ext] | 350 comments [ext]
2.Cruise (samaltman.com)
580 points by sama on April 13, 2016 [ext] | 386 comments [ext]
3.Tinker with a Neural Network in Your Browser (tensorflow.org)
855 points by shancarter on April 12, 2016 [ext] | 116 comments [ext]
4. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 478 days ago | hide | 22 comments
4.Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium (nytimes.com)
346 points by jonathanehrlich on April 13, 2016 [ext] | 244 comments [ext]
5.Regulators Propose Banning Theranos Founder from Blood Testing (wsj.com)
260 points by trimbo on April 13, 2016 [ext] | 193 comments [ext]
6.40 year old study could have reshaped American diet, was never fully published (washingtonpost.com)
300 points by garycomtois on April 13, 2016 [ext] | 110 comments [ext]
7. Beyond Vocabulary: Why Clear Thinking is the Engine of Articulate Speech (youtube.com)
43 points by jan967 251 days ago | hide | 128 comments
7.Skylake's Linux power management is dreadful you shouldn't buy until it's fixed (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
334 points by edward on April 13, 2016 [ext] | 154 comments [ext]
8.Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Written in Rust (github.com/pravic)
216 points by adamnemecek on April 13, 2016 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
9.Apple Jumps on the WebRTC Bandwagon (nojitter.com)
273 points by blaccspotmedia on April 13, 2016 [ext] | 123 comments [ext]
10. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 57 days ago | hide | 13 comments
10.Announcing TensorFlow 0.8 – now with distributed computing support (googleresearch.blogspot.com)
214 points by mrry on April 13, 2016 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
11.Russian photographer matches random people with social network photos (rbth.com)
259 points by davesailer on April 13, 2016 [ext] | 129 comments [ext]
12.NES classic ‘Punch-Out’ has an Easter egg that went undiscovered for 29 years (thenextweb.com)
239 points by ant6n on April 13, 2016 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
13. The communication technique that subverts taking turns on purpose (togetherlondon.com)
195 points by dem3275 169 days ago | hide | 48 comments
13.Vim 8.0 is coming (github.com/vim)
649 points by mrzool on April 13, 2016 [ext] | 412 comments [ext]
14.Velocipedia (gianlucagimini.it)
430 points by modernerd on April 12, 2016 [ext] | 107 comments [ext]
15.Calculus Learning Guide (betterexplained.com)
472 points by fauria on April 12, 2016 [ext] | 97 comments [ext]
16. How Google’s new ‘TurboQuant’ AI might end the current RAM price hike crisis (tech.sportskeeda.com)
312 points by gul702 10 hours ago | hide | 19 comments
16.CaptionBot by Microsoft (captionbot.ai)
230 points by afshinmeh on April 13, 2016 [ext] | 160 comments [ext]
17.Adding JavaScript modules to the web platform (whatwg.org)
123 points by sonnyp on April 13, 2016 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
18.Chip, Implanted in Brain, Helps Paralyzed Man Regain Control of Hand (nytimes.com)
100 points by dekayed on April 13, 2016 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
19. The Three Jobs Every Startup Career Eventually Demands ()
133 points by dtx7003 279 days ago | hide | 57 comments
19.Introducing Kindle Oasis (amazon.com)
164 points by piquadrat on April 13, 2016 [ext] | 376 comments [ext]
20.CCTV Cameras Sold on Amazon Come with Pre-Installed Malware (artfulhacker.com)
168 points by walterbell on April 13, 2016 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
21.Atom text editor 1.7.0 released (github.com/atom)
170 points by alanfranz on April 13, 2016 [ext] | 139 comments [ext]
22. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
22.Obama Forgives Student Debt Of 400,000 Americans (marketwatch.com)
242 points by randomname2 on April 13, 2016 [ext] | 266 comments [ext]
23.Docker 1.11: The first OCI-compliant runtime, built on containerd (docker.com)
153 points by ah3rz on April 13, 2016 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
24.Redex: an Android bytecode optimizer developed by Facebook (fbredex.com)
107 points by folz on April 12, 2016 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
25. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 367 days ago | hide | 7 comments
25.Facebook Rights Manager (fb.com)
129 points by 6stringmerc on April 13, 2016 [ext] | 104 comments [ext]
26.Linux QoS for humans (github.com/firehol)
138 points by ktsaou on April 13, 2016 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
27.A music programming language for musicians (github.com/alda-lang)
118 points by gnocchi on April 13, 2016 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
28. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
28.The Untouchables – Why it’s getting harder to stop multinational corporations (foreignpolicy.com)
150 points by AndrewKemendo on April 12, 2016 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
29.Job hopping helped Silicon Valley thrive. Why do other states restrict it? (vox.com)
136 points by molecule on April 12, 2016 [ext] | 132 comments [ext]
30.Why ContentEditable Is Terrible, Or: How the Medium Editor Works (2014) (medium.com/medium-eng)
155 points by rfreytag on April 13, 2016 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
31. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 84 days ago | hide | 177 comments

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