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1.Jupyter Receives the ACM Software System Award (jupyter.org)
714 points by williamstein on May 2, 2018 [ext] | 133 comments [ext]
2.Python startup time: milliseconds matter (python.org)
662 points by vanni on May 2, 2018 [ext] | 378 comments [ext]
3.Proton Native – React Native for the desktop (proton-native.js.org)
575 points by zengid on May 2, 2018 [ext] | 283 comments [ext]
4. From Shortlist to Shipped: A Tournament Method for Picking Life's Work (guzey.com)
110 points by coz850 602 days ago | hide | 97 comments
4.I've spent the last two years building a new email client (ivelope.com)
874 points by muszc-master on May 2, 2018 [ext] | 593 comments [ext]
5.'Anti-authority' tech rebels take on ISPs, connect NYC with cheap Wi-Fi (cbc.ca)
417 points by standeven on May 2, 2018 [ext] | 228 comments [ext]
6.Google Maps Platform (cloud.google.com)
342 points by petethomas on May 2, 2018 [ext] | 257 comments [ext]
7. The Dota result Altman calls closest to real-world decision making (blog.samaltman.com)
487 points by htx5127 610 days ago | hide | 15 comments
7.Open-sourcing gVisor, a sandboxed container runtime (googleblog.com)
448 points by rbanffy on May 2, 2018 [ext] | 114 comments [ext]
8.PicoLisp (picolisp.com)
256 points by kqr on May 2, 2018 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
9.TIC-80, a fantasy computer to learn programming (tic.computer)
360 points by zeveb on May 1, 2018 [ext] | 72 comments [ext]
10. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 105 days ago | hide | 48 comments
10.Adding BigInts to V8 (v8project.blogspot.com)
214 points by ingve on May 2, 2018 [ext] | 84 comments [ext]
11.Tesla beats expectations with $3.4B in revenue (techcrunch.com)
303 points by GW150914 on May 2, 2018 [ext] | 172 comments [ext]
12.EEG Accurately Predicts Autism as Early as 3 Months of Age (sciencedaily.com)
154 points by contourtrails on May 1, 2018 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
13. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
13.Lobe – Deep Learning Made Simple (lobe.ai)
390 points by adammenges on May 2, 2018 [ext] | 73 comments [ext]
14.How to send local files to Chromecast with Python (rinzewind.org)
242 points by rinze on May 1, 2018 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
15.My OTP 21 Highlights (erlang.org)
172 points by mischov on May 2, 2018 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
16. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments
16.Towards λ-calculus (lambdaway.free.fr)
178 points by martyalain on May 1, 2018 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
17.Amazon Offers Retailers Discounts to Adopt Payment System (bloomberg.com)
99 points by uptown on May 2, 2018 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
18.The Internals of Postgres – Concurrency Control (interdb.jp)
197 points by samaysharma on May 1, 2018 [ext] | 7 comments [ext]
19. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
19.Illnesses from Mosquito, Tick, and Flea Bites Increasing in the US (cdc.gov)
164 points by indescions_2018 on May 1, 2018 [ext] | 120 comments [ext]
20.Free SSL on Github Pages with a custom domain: Part 2 – Let's Encrypt (degoe.de)
163 points by bartdegoede on May 2, 2018 [ext] | 39 comments [ext]
21.Cincinnati's Abandoned Subway (cincinnati-transit.net)
135 points by gscott on May 1, 2018 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
22. Adoption, Not Product, Is What Kills Vertical Software Bets ()
374 points by ium4024 70 days ago | hide | 174 comments
22.What's in those mysterious cabinets? (plover.com)
148 points by jamesbowman on May 1, 2018 [ext] | 86 comments [ext]
23.Linux RNG flaws (chromium.org)
182 points by tbodt on May 1, 2018 [ext] | 65 comments [ext]
24.Why an expert in counterterrorism became a beat cop (newyorker.com)
157 points by ivank on May 2, 2018 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
25. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 333 days ago | hide | 88 comments
25.The Challenge of Cross-Language Interoperability (2013) (acm.org)
45 points by mpweiher on May 1, 2018 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
26.Running FFmpeg on AWS Lambda for 1.9% the Cost of AWS Elastic Transcoder (intoli.com)
214 points by foob on May 2, 2018 [ext] | 53 comments [ext]
27.C64 RPi 3 conversion (amigalove.com)
97 points by erickhill on May 2, 2018 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
28. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 115 days ago | hide | 193 comments
28.A new project untangles the handwritten texts in the Vatican's collections (theatlantic.com)
80 points by fraqed on May 2, 2018 [ext] | 16 comments [ext]
29.Travis merges private and open source repositories into one platform (travis-ci.com)
116 points by robinhood on May 2, 2018 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
30.A Radically Conservative Solution for Cosmology’s Biggest Mystery (quantamagazine.org)
45 points by cfadvan on May 1, 2018 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
31. The Three Ingredients Behind Jitse Groen's Takeaway.com Conquest Of Europe (linkedin.com)
154 points by krz3514 374 days ago | hide | 13 comments

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