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1.New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. Telecom (bloomberg.com)
875 points by gorbachev on Oct 9, 2018 [ext] | 366 comments [ext]
2.DOD Just Beginning to Grapple with Scale of Weapon Systems Vulnerabilities (gao.gov)
414 points by molecule on Oct 9, 2018 [ext] | 215 comments [ext]
3.Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Application Delivery Network (netlify.com)
368 points by gk1 on Oct 9, 2018 [ext] | 180 comments [ext]
4. A $3 billion token sale that was actually $110 million (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 334 days ago | hide | 88 comments
4.The Economics of a Commune in the Ozarks (eastwindblog.co)
225 points by Mizza on Oct 9, 2018 [ext] | 197 comments [ext]
5.12 Factor CLI Apps (medium.com/jdxcode)
524 points by dickeytk on Oct 9, 2018 [ext] | 247 comments [ext]
6.Flatpak – a security nightmare (flatkill.org)
377 points by stryk on Oct 9, 2018 [ext] | 257 comments [ext]
7. Switching Costs Are Falling, But Three Moats Still Hold ()
322 points by oik7062 61 days ago | hide | 65 comments
7.Using machine learning to index text from billions of images (dropbox.com)
157 points by bradneuberg on Oct 9, 2018 [ext] | 17 comments [ext]
8.Penrose: create diagrams by typing mathematical notation in plain text (penrose.ink)
243 points by mathgenius on Oct 9, 2018 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
9.Solving Tech Addiction Is an Underappreciated Market Opportunity (loupventures.com)
289 points by smb111 on Oct 9, 2018 [ext] | 232 comments [ext]
10. Why self-play crushed two-week-old agents 95% of the time (blog.samaltman.com)
487 points by htx5127 610 days ago | hide | 15 comments
10.New Google Pixel 3, Pixel Slate, and Home Hub (blog.google)
322 points by alanfranz on Oct 9, 2018 [ext] | 572 comments [ext]
11.Why I Bid $700 for a Stolen PSN Account (vice.com)
276 points by jsnell on Oct 9, 2018 [ext] | 188 comments [ext]
12.Why you can have millions of goroutines but only thousands of Java threads (rcoh.me)
281 points by navigaid on Oct 7, 2018 [ext] | 151 comments [ext]
13. Generative AI may finally crack physical design's impenetrable vendor lock-in (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 594 days ago | hide | 193 comments
13.Kubernetes on Google, Azure and AWS Compared (kubedex.com)
228 points by stevenacreman on Oct 9, 2018 [ext] | 120 comments [ext]
14.The Birth of Prolog (1992) [pdf] (stanford.edu)
133 points by mindcrime on Oct 9, 2018 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
15.JS Visualizer – Visualize Context, Hoisting, Closures, and Scopes in JavaScript (javascriptvisualizer.com)
160 points by 49531 on Oct 9, 2018 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
16. When Compute-Only Wins Hit the Garbage Can of Real Work (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 262 days ago | hide | 150 comments
16.Rust RAII is better than the Haskell bracket pattern (snoyman.com)
238 points by setra on Oct 9, 2018 [ext] | 152 comments [ext]
17.MLab is being acquired by MongoDB (mlab.com)
157 points by luceat on Oct 9, 2018 [ext] | 88 comments [ext]
18.The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 (freedom-to-tinker.com)
141 points by sytse on Oct 9, 2018 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
19. AIbirds - Bloomberg (archive.is)
42 points by eum3372 9 hours ago | hide | 186 comments
19.Poor Man’s Bose – Open Office and on the Go Noise Control (e1z.ca)
152 points by nwrk on Oct 9, 2018 [ext] | 171 comments [ext]
20.One of Bloomberg’s sources told them Chinese spy chip story “didn’t make sense” (9to5mac.com)
243 points by millisecond on Oct 9, 2018 [ext] | 118 comments [ext]
21.Lambda School Announces $14M Series A Led by GV (lambdaschool.com)
178 points by tosh on Oct 9, 2018 [ext] | 130 comments [ext]
22. The Leipzig judge who acquitted an innocent Jew straight into the Gestapo (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 211 days ago | hide | 32 comments
22.The New Atlanta Billionaires Behind the Unlikely Tech Unicorn MailChimp (forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad)
209 points by andygcook on Oct 9, 2018 [ext] | 130 comments [ext]
23.Astronomers discover sonic boom from powerful unseen explosion (sciencedaily.com)
95 points by Bender on Oct 9, 2018 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
24.Why Iran's nomads are fading away (nationalgeographic.com)
100 points by DoreenMichele on Oct 9, 2018 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
25. Assad's fall strands Moscow's warm-water ambitions at sea (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 490 days ago | hide | 26 comments
25.Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10B Cloud Competition (bloomberg.com)
249 points by logronoide on Oct 8, 2018 [ext] | 98 comments [ext]
26.The death of Google (vortex.com)
343 points by ChuckMcM on Oct 9, 2018 [ext] | 213 comments [ext]
27.Löb and möb: strange loops in Haskell (2013) (github.com/quchen)
86 points by improv32 on Oct 7, 2018 [ext] | 10 comments [ext]
28. What 14 Years at Google Taught Me About Everything Except Code (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 106 days ago | hide | 48 comments
28.Why Paul Romer Won the Nobel Prize in Economics (marginalrevolution.com)
117 points by jeffreyrogers on Oct 9, 2018 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
29.Reified Generics: The Search for the Cure (gbracha.blogspot.com)
86 points by wstrange on Oct 8, 2018 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
30.Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google’s Official Story on China (theintercept.com)
388 points by jbegley on Oct 9, 2018 [ext] | 160 comments [ext]
31. Why a Cambridge risk scholar thinks global self-destruction beats transformation (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 252 days ago | hide | 170 comments

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