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1.Steve Wozniak announces tech education platform Woz U (techcrunch.com)
578 points by _nh_ on Oct 13, 2017 [ext] | 114 comments [ext]
2.Handmade Hero – A complete game live-coded from scratch (handmadehero.org)
536 points by tejohnso on Oct 13, 2017 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
3.An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 (github.com/openrct2)
614 points by j_s on Oct 12, 2017 [ext] | 129 comments [ext]
4. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 90 days ago | hide | 148 comments
4.Someone Created a Tor Hidden Service to Phish My Tor Hidden Service (incoherency.co.uk)
273 points by jstanley on Oct 13, 2017 [ext] | 87 comments [ext]
5.ChrysaLisp – A 64-bit Lisp OS with GUI (github.com/vygr)
306 points by bespoke_engnr on Oct 13, 2017 [ext] | 121 comments [ext]
6.Colorizing black and white photos with deep learning (floydhub.com)
247 points by saip on Oct 13, 2017 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
7. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
7.An anarchist takes on Big Pharma by teaching patients to make their own meds (statnews.com)
371 points by anarbadalov on Oct 13, 2017 [ext] | 273 comments [ext]
8.Using Haskell to debug a C chess engine (michaelburge.us)
125 points by mrkgnao on Oct 13, 2017 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
9.SmallerC – Small, Simple, Self-Compiling, Single Pass C Compiler (github.com/alexfru)
155 points by peter_d_sherman on Oct 13, 2017 [ext] | 59 comments [ext]
10. Why you care for your dog better than yourself β€” and the fix (web.archive.org)
420 points by guz3550 602 days ago | hide | 25 comments
10.HPAT – A compiler-based framework for big data in Python (github.com/intellabs)
104 points by rbanffy on Oct 13, 2017 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
11.The Thoughts of Chairman Xi (bbc.co.uk)
175 points by princetman on Oct 13, 2017 [ext] | 99 comments [ext]
12.A Lisp that runs Python (2016) (cmu.edu)
81 points by malloryerik on Oct 13, 2017 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
13. Blind Spots in the West: Why Every Chinese VC Studies Our Podcasts (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 219 days ago | hide | 175 comments
13.Qutebrowser – a keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI (qutebrowser.org)
221 points by ashitlerferad on Oct 12, 2017 [ext] | 91 comments [ext]
14.ProseMirror 1.0 (marijnhaverbeke.nl)
287 points by bpierre on Oct 13, 2017 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
15.Questions to ask in interviews (cternus.net)
231 points by obi1kenobi on Oct 13, 2017 [ext] | 104 comments [ext]
16. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 60 days ago | hide | 65 comments
16.Basic Survival Methods in R (github.com/pavopax)
103 points by antipaul on Oct 13, 2017 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
17.Stretching Spokes (githubengineering.com)
92 points by stablemap on Oct 13, 2017 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
18.Twitter Is Crawling with Bots and Lacks Incentive to Expel Them (bloomberg.com)
236 points by rayuela on Oct 13, 2017 [ext] | 183 comments [ext]
19. A 27M-Parameter Model That Quietly Undermines Scaling Orthodoxy (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 261 days ago | hide | 150 comments
19.Quantifying Decentralization (21.co)
74 points by dEnigma on Oct 13, 2017 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
20.The Radioactive Boy Scout (1999) (dangerouslaboratories.org)
87 points by napolux on Oct 13, 2017 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
21.Purism Collaborates with Cryptocurrency Monero to Enable Mobile Payments (puri.sm)
117 points by petethomas on Oct 13, 2017 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
22. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
22.Finish your stuff (250bpm.com)
232 points by Oxitendwe on Oct 13, 2017 [ext] | 99 comments [ext]
23.Two scientists quietly revolutionising the study and practice of interrogation (theguardian.com)
290 points by snthd on Oct 13, 2017 [ext] | 231 comments [ext]
24.What’s Inside Every iPhone, from Retina Displays to Cameras (bloomberg.com)
232 points by shawndumas on Oct 13, 2017 [ext] | 93 comments [ext]
25. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments
25.Tech Giants, Once Seen as Saviors, Are Now Viewed as Threats (nytimes.com)
176 points by elsewhen on Oct 13, 2017 [ext] | 123 comments [ext]
26.Atom's new concurrency-friendly buffer implementation (atom.io)
192 points by madspindel on Oct 12, 2017 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
27.No Comments (alxdavids.xyz)
99 points by savara on Oct 13, 2017 [ext] | 22 comments [ext]
28. The Three Ingredients Behind Jitse Groen's Takeaway.com Conquest Of Europe (linkedin.com)
154 points by krz3514 374 days ago | hide | 13 comments
28.Is there an upside to having no social life? (bbc.com)
196 points by hvo on Oct 13, 2017 [ext] | 140 comments [ext]
29.Peer-to-peer social networking with Rotonde and Beaker (louis.center)
181 points by jimpick on Oct 13, 2017 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
30.How the Benzene Tree Polluted the World (theatlantic.com)
95 points by anarbadalov on Oct 13, 2017 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
31. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments

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