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1.PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux (azure.microsoft.com)
1217 points by platz on Aug 18, 2016 [ext] | 760 comments [ext]
2.Page Dewarping (mzucker.github.io)
743 points by pietrofmaggi on Aug 18, 2016 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
3.Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons (washingtonpost.com)
859 points by okket on Aug 18, 2016 [ext] | 358 comments [ext]
4. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 199 days ago | hide | 18 comments
4.A minimal raytracer (mzucker.github.io)
395 points by ingve on Aug 18, 2016 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
5.How I wrote and published my novel using only open source tools (medium.com/gabrielgambetta)
391 points by ggambetta on Aug 18, 2016 [ext] | 180 comments [ext]
6.TCP Puzzlers (joyent.com)
468 points by jsnell on Aug 18, 2016 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
7. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 260 days ago | hide | 150 comments
7.Otto joins Uber (ot.to)
289 points by ktta on Aug 18, 2016 [ext] | 201 comments [ext]
8.Grokking Deep Learning (iamtrask.github.io)
530 points by williamtrask on Aug 18, 2016 [ext] | 112 comments [ext]
9.AMD Zen Microarchitecture: Dual Schedulers, Micro-Op Cache and Memory Hierarchy (anandtech.com)
190 points by dineshp2 on Aug 18, 2016 [ext] | 131 comments [ext]
10. Discord's Real Lesson: The Meta-Layer Enterprise Slack Can't Build (kwokchain.com)
448 points by aok168 431 days ago | hide | 83 comments
10.Announcing Rust 1.11 (rust-lang.org)
321 points by eslaught on Aug 18, 2016 [ext] | 92 comments [ext]
11.Decentralization is about diversity (sandstorm.io)
169 points by ingve on Aug 18, 2016 [ext] | 93 comments [ext]
12.Technology was meant to herald a new way of working, but that’s not the case (bbc.com)
248 points by pogbywg8 on Aug 18, 2016 [ext] | 182 comments [ext]
13. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 367 days ago | hide | 7 comments
13.F# for Fun and Profit (gitbook.com)
258 points by rajadigopula on Aug 18, 2016 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
14.Organisms might be quantum machines (bbc.com)
171 points by tropicalfruit on Aug 18, 2016 [ext] | 119 comments [ext]
15.Evidence on how to find the right career (80000hours.org)
214 points by robertwiblin on Aug 17, 2016 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
16. How Google’s new ‘TurboQuant’ AI might end the current RAM price hike crisis (tech.sportskeeda.com)
312 points by gul702 8 hours ago | hide | 19 comments
16.Formal – Interruption free communication (formalapp.com)
159 points by gkr on Aug 18, 2016 [ext] | 116 comments [ext]
17.Show HN: WebGL Fire Simulation (ghostinthecode.net)
143 points by jharsman on Aug 18, 2016 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
18.America’s housing system still has not been properly reformed (economist.com)
164 points by martincmartin on Aug 18, 2016 [ext] | 144 comments [ext]
19. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 84 days ago | hide | 14 comments
19.US ready to 'hand over' the internet's naming system (bbc.co.uk)
170 points by dcminter on Aug 18, 2016 [ext] | 133 comments [ext]
20.Facebook is building its own Steam-style desktop gaming platform with Unity (techcrunch.com)
164 points by lxm on Aug 18, 2016 [ext] | 195 comments [ext]
21.Hololens Commercial Suite (microsoft.com)
113 points by runesoerensen on Aug 17, 2016 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
22. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 262 days ago | hide | 183 comments
22.Drawing isometric boxes in the correct order (shaunlebron.github.io)
161 points by _qc3o on Aug 18, 2016 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
23.Show HN: A Web Extension to save a page or selection as eBook (github.com/alexadam)
106 points by eg312 on Aug 18, 2016 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
24.The Secret Button (codersnotes.com)
241 points by ingve on Aug 18, 2016 [ext] | 117 comments [ext]
25. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 478 days ago | hide | 22 comments
25.Human joins Mapbox (human.co)
96 points by Doctor_Fegg on Aug 18, 2016 [ext] | 24 comments [ext]
26.What Do Public Library Workers Do? (2011) (laurensmith.wordpress.com)
87 points by Mz on Aug 18, 2016 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
27.Intel Announces Knights Mill: A Xeon Phi for Deep Learning (anandtech.com)
94 points by scaz on Aug 17, 2016 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
28. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
28.Uber’s First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month (bloomberg.com)
289 points by ghosh on Aug 18, 2016 [ext] | 237 comments [ext]
29.Was There a Problem with the Rio Pool? (swimswam.com)
229 points by furyg3 on Aug 18, 2016 [ext] | 96 comments [ext]
30.An Illustrated Guide to Guy Debord’s ‘The Society of the Spectacle’ (hyperallergic.com)
87 points by chippy on Aug 18, 2016 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
31. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 57 days ago | hide | 13 comments

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