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Stories from January 25, 2018
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1.Waze Carpool (waze.com)
754 points by artsandsci on Jan 25, 2018 [ext] | 390 comments [ext]
2.It’s About Time for Time Series Databases (nextplatform.com)
356 points by okket on Jan 25, 2018 [ext] | 148 comments [ext]
3.Former employees say Lyft staffers spied on passengers (techcrunch.com)
440 points by dhruvarora013 on Jan 25, 2018 [ext] | 243 comments [ext]
4. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 115 days ago | hide | 193 comments
4.2018 Stellar roadmap (stellar.org)
328 points by manojlds on Jan 25, 2018 [ext] | 146 comments [ext]
5.Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience” (nme.com)
330 points by lnguyen on Jan 24, 2018 [ext] | 519 comments [ext]
6.Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who support backdoors (gizmodo.com)
403 points by enraged_camel on Jan 25, 2018 [ext] | 257 comments [ext]
7. Asymmetric leverage how Iran holds twenty percent of global oil supply hostage (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 22 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
7.Some obscure C features (mort.coffee)
340 points by mort96 on Jan 25, 2018 [ext] | 156 comments [ext]
8.Zstandard – Real-time data compression algorithm (facebook.github.io)
286 points by josephscott on Jan 24, 2018 [ext] | 96 comments [ext]
9.Surviving 75 hours alone in the ocean (outsideonline.com)
298 points by DanBC on Jan 25, 2018 [ext] | 121 comments [ext]
10. The Dota result Altman calls closest to real-world decision making (blog.samaltman.com)
487 points by htx5127 610 days ago | hide | 15 comments
10.Burger King Has an Opinion on Net Neutrality (bloomberg.com)
347 points by Dangeranger on Jan 24, 2018 [ext] | 104 comments [ext]
11.An update on Redis Streams development (antirez.com)
220 points by djanowski on Jan 25, 2018 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
12.YC Series A Program (blog.ycombinator.com)
177 points by jameshk on Jan 25, 2018 [ext] | 35 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.The Eve programming language project is winding down (groups.google.com)
211 points by mrry on Jan 24, 2018 [ext] | 256 comments [ext]
14.Deep-copying in JavaScript (dassur.ma)
166 points by ingve on Jan 25, 2018 [ext] | 132 comments [ext]
15.gRPC-Go Engineering Practices (grpc.io)
140 points by tgma on Jan 25, 2018 [ext] | 82 comments [ext]
16. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 114 days ago | hide | 68 comments
16.The Founder’s Guide To Selling Your Company (2014) (justinkan.com)
170 points by itschekkers on Jan 25, 2018 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
17.Grumpy Cat wins payout in copyright lawsuit (bbc.com)
146 points by dcgudeman on Jan 25, 2018 [ext] | 101 comments [ext]
18.Building blocks of Amazon ECS (amazon.com)
116 points by ifcologne on Jan 24, 2018 [ext] | 54 comments [ext]
19. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
19.Ultraslow radio for decentralized global digital communication (2013) (mail-archive.com)
112 points by Tomte on Jan 25, 2018 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
20.With Fungi in the Mix, Concrete Can Fill Its Own Cracks (smithsonianmag.com)
139 points by bryanrasmussen on Jan 24, 2018 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
21.A tiny robot with moves inspired by caterpillars and jellyfish (nytimes.com)
42 points by IntronExon on Jan 24, 2018 [ext] | 14 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.Why social media bosses don’t use social media (theguardian.com)
275 points by imartin2k on Jan 25, 2018 [ext] | 125 comments [ext]
23.Ethics in Machine Learning: Interview with Dr. Hanie Sedghi, Google Brain (medium.com/royapak)
87 points by benbreen on Jan 23, 2018 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
24.Why is setState asynchronous? (github.com/facebook)
136 points by stablemap on Jan 25, 2018 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
25. Code Scarcity Was the Moat; It's Gone Now ()
322 points by oik7062 60 days ago | hide | 65 comments
25.Jawbone of Earliest Modern Human Out of Africa Discovered in Israeli Cave (nytimes.com)
113 points by thewayfarer on Jan 25, 2018 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
26.The Bad Hair, Incorrect Feathering, and Missing Skin Flaps of Dinosaur Art (atlasobscura.com)
161 points by ctrlp on Jan 24, 2018 [ext] | 52 comments [ext]
27.Kernel Feature Selection via Conditional Covariance Minimization (bair.berkeley.edu)
58 points by jonbaer on Jan 24, 2018 [ext]
28. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 333 days ago | hide | 88 comments
28.A New Recipe for Hunting Alien Life (scientificamerican.com)
110 points by JJLongusa on Jan 24, 2018 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
29.Robinhood Crypto – Invest in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies (robinhood.com)
259 points by uptown on Jan 25, 2018 [ext] | 312 comments [ext]
30.Why I left Google (HN search results) (hn.algolia.com)
324 points by kelukelugames on Jan 25, 2018 [ext] | 191 comments [ext]
31. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 263 days ago | hide | 183 comments

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