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1.Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages (arxiv-vanity.com)
721 points by bfirsh on Oct 23, 2017 [ext] | 134 comments [ext]
2.Stripe Atlas: Getting your first 10 customers (stripe.com)
598 points by nozzlegear on Oct 23, 2017 [ext] | 130 comments [ext]
3.No human genome has ever been completely sequenced (statnews.com)
241 points by shpx on Oct 23, 2017 [ext] | 86 comments [ext]
4. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 105 days ago | hide | 48 comments
4.United States Census Bureau APIs (census.gov)
322 points by stevewilhelm on Oct 23, 2017 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
5.Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs (paw.cloud)
264 points by michaelsbradley on Oct 23, 2017 [ext] | 118 comments [ext]
6.Games Look Bad: HDR and Tone Mapping (ventspace.wordpress.com)
374 points by megaman22 on Oct 23, 2017 [ext] | 215 comments [ext]
7. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
7.Why ProtonMail is more secure than Gmail (protonmail.com)
440 points by balderdash on Oct 23, 2017 [ext] | 300 comments [ext]
8.Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an Android app (termux.com)
338 points by fanf2 on Oct 22, 2017 [ext] | 139 comments [ext]
9.Insects Are in Serious Trouble (theatlantic.com)
292 points by ALee on Oct 23, 2017 [ext] | 159 comments [ext]
10. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 211 days ago | hide | 32 comments
10.Tesla Strikes Deal With Shanghai to Build Factory in China (wsj.com)
292 points by lxm on Oct 23, 2017 [ext] | 179 comments [ext]
11.Riot – Full-text search engine in Go (github.com/go-ego)
221 points by veni0 on Oct 23, 2017 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
12.Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start (reuters.com)
249 points by iamthirsty on Oct 23, 2017 [ext] | 649 comments [ext]
13. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 60 days ago | hide | 65 comments
13.Chevy Bolt: the First Practical, Mass-Market Electric Vehicle (marketwatch.com)
278 points by helloworld on Oct 22, 2017 [ext] | 287 comments [ext]
14.Seven habits of effective text editing (2000) (moolenaar.net)
323 points by laktak on Oct 23, 2017 [ext] | 237 comments [ext]
15.Cray and Microsoft Bring Supercomputing to Azure (cray.com)
148 points by rbanffy on Oct 23, 2017 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
16. Stealth Lock-In Is Actually Locking Your Customers Out (joelonsoftware.com)
292 points by ksk4362 203 days ago | hide | 110 comments
16.Newfound Wormhole Allows Information to Escape Black Holes (quantamagazine.org)
128 points by digital55 on Oct 23, 2017 [ext] | 36 comments [ext]
17.Social Media Endangers Knowledge (wired.com)
147 points by DiabloD3 on Oct 22, 2017 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
18.An ode to pack: gzip’s forgotten decompressor (vidarholen.net)
200 points by ingve on Oct 23, 2017 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
19. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
19.Filesystem error handling (danluu.com)
158 points by Veelox on Oct 23, 2017 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
20.Please Stop Writing Secure Messaging Tools (2015) (dymaxion.org)
151 points by Jtsummers on Oct 23, 2017 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
21.AWS bastions and assume-role (coinbase.com)
157 points by grahar64 on Oct 23, 2017 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
22. The power-strip life: picking work that plugs into everything (shaanpuri.com)
249 points by bom7529 398 days ago | hide | 12 comments
22.Intel vs. NuFlare in multi-beam race (semiengineering.com)
55 points by gooftiff on Oct 23, 2017 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
23.Swagger is now the OpenAPI Specification (buildazure.com)
156 points by RyanZAG on Oct 23, 2017 [ext] | 74 comments [ext]
24.Returning to Second Life (arstechnica.com)
157 points by rbanffy on Oct 23, 2017 [ext] | 67 comments [ext]
25. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 114 days ago | hide | 68 comments
25.11-year-old girl inspired by Flint water crisis creates cheap kit to test lead (abcnews.go.com)
152 points by MaysonL on Oct 23, 2017 [ext] | 96 comments [ext]
26.An experimental software development environment (isomorf.io)
145 points by nuriaion on Oct 23, 2017 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
27.Nov 10 CHM: Live Xerox Alto demo with original PARC development team (computerhistory.org)
54 points by fernly on Oct 23, 2017 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
28. The Hidden Architecture of How Biology Labs Actually Get Funded (guzey.com)
271 points by prl1591 602 days ago | hide | 193 comments
28.My personal site is a terminal (karlsteltenpohl.com)
193 points by madchops1 on Oct 23, 2017 [ext] | 133 comments [ext]
29.The Linux Scheduler: A Decade of Wasted Cores (2016) (acolyer.org)
179 points by pmoriarty on Oct 23, 2017 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
30.Date/Time Inputs Enabled on Firefox Nightly (nightly.mozilla.org)
265 points by abhinickz on Oct 23, 2017 [ext] | 201 comments [ext]
31. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 253 days ago | hide | 150 comments

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