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1.They Used To Last 50 Years (recraigslist.com)
1359 points by teslacar on March 19, 2017 [ext] | 860 comments [ext]
2.Distill: a modern machine learning journal (distill.pub)
930 points by jasikpark on March 20, 2017 [ext] | 105 comments [ext]
3.The last patent on AC-3 (Dolby Digital) expires at midnight (ac3freedomday.org)
578 points by robbiet480 on March 20, 2017 [ext] | 222 comments [ext]
4. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
4.The Document Which Used to Be Called the MIT Lockpicking Guide (1992) (blurofinsanity.com)
355 points by Tomte on March 20, 2017 [ext] | 114 comments [ext]
5.Tears (meltingasphalt.com)
417 points by urs on March 20, 2017 [ext] | 115 comments [ext]
6.I've decided to move on to Distill (colah.github.io)
353 points by apsec112 on March 20, 2017 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
7. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
7.SHA-1 Collision Detection on GitHub.com (github.com/blog)
374 points by samlambert on March 20, 2017 [ext] | 90 comments [ext]
8.A hot bath has benefits similar to exercise (theconversation.com)
298 points by walterbell on March 20, 2017 [ext] | 226 comments [ext]
9.Show HN: How to write a recursive descent parser (craftinginterpreters.com)
347 points by munificent on March 20, 2017 [ext] | 148 comments [ext]
10. Structure Over Style: How Knowledge and Practice Beat Natural Speaking Talent (m.youtube.com)
81 points by pom4591 229 days ago | hide | 180 comments
10.It's Better To Animate a Film Alone, Even If It Takes Years (vice.com)
227 points by curtis on March 19, 2017 [ext] | 104 comments [ext]
11.Bloaty McBloatface: a size profiler for binaries (reverberate.org)
202 points by haberman on March 20, 2017 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
12.Two Executives to Leave Uber, Adding to Departures (nytimes.com)
354 points by flyingramen on March 20, 2017 [ext] | 250 comments [ext]
13. Why Most Marketplace Network Effects Are Surprisingly Easy to Replicate ()
257 points by pen4647 496 days ago | hide | 50 comments
13.How to Learn New Things as an Adult (theatlantic.com)
296 points by pmcpinto on March 19, 2017 [ext] | 113 comments [ext]
14.What makes gambling wrong but insurance right? (bbc.com)
294 points by sohkamyung on March 20, 2017 [ext] | 255 comments [ext]
15.The Antidesktop (2002) (archive.org)
196 points by yankcrime on March 20, 2017 [ext] | 121 comments [ext]
16. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 262 days ago | hide | 183 comments
16.Comprehensive and biased comparison of OpenBSD and FreeBSD [pdf] (bsdfrog.org)
170 points by oherrala on March 20, 2017 [ext] | 74 comments [ext]
17.Hash indexes are faster than btree indexes? (amitkapila16.blogspot.com)
200 points by dhd415 on March 20, 2017 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
18.Whiteboard problems in pure Lambda Calculus (jtolds.com)
200 points by jtolds on March 20, 2017 [ext] | 41 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.Has Li-battery genius John Goodenough done it again? Colleagues are skeptical (qz.com)
170 points by M_Grey on March 20, 2017 [ext] | 154 comments [ext]
20.TreeMaker: Origami Design Software (langorigami.com)
155 points by poppingtonic on March 19, 2017 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
21.The D Garbage Collector (dlang.org)
139 points by sconxu on March 20, 2017 [ext] | 87 comments [ext]
22. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
22.The Intel Edison: Linux Maker Machine in a Matchbox (linux.com)
87 points by JoshTriplett on March 20, 2017 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
23.Why I Dissented (medium.com/neelkashkari)
129 points by Mz on March 19, 2017 [ext] | 61 comments [ext]
24.Ask HN: Competitor is successful with black hat SEO [ext]
255 points by throwmesomeseo on March 20, 2017 [ext] | 102 comments [ext]
25. Four Macro Forces Quietly Manufacturing the Global Populist Wave (kwokchain.com)
327 points by lrm6947 431 days ago | hide | 93 comments
25.DeepMind in โ€œvery early stageโ€ talks with National Grid to reduce UK energy use (arstechnica.co.uk)
254 points by rbanffy on March 20, 2017 [ext] | 110 comments [ext]
26.SimplCommerce: Simple, cross-platform, modularized ecommerce system on .NET Core (github.com/simplcommerce)
86 points by maherjend on March 20, 2017 [ext] | 19 comments [ext]
27.YC W17 Launch: Wifi.com.ng โ€“ Uncapped ISP for Africa (blog.ycombinator.com)
143 points by craigcannon on March 20, 2017 [ext] | 75 comments [ext]
28. How a PVC rig in a Dallas garage became a $500M chemicals company (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 600 days ago | hide | 170 comments
28.Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting in Neural Networks (rylanschaeffer.github.io)
123 points by RSchaeffer on March 19, 2017 [ext] | 11 comments [ext]
29.Epoll is broken โ€“ part 2/2 (popcount.org)
108 points by protomyth on March 20, 2017 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
30.Most Electronics Being Banned on Certain US-Bound Flights (bloomberg.com)
249 points by BWStearns on March 20, 2017 [ext] | 450 comments [ext]
31. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments

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