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1.Terrain rendering in fewer than 20 lines of code (github.com/s-macke)
793 points by blaze33 on Nov 24, 2017 [ext] | 93 comments [ext]
2.A growing number of young Americans are leaving desk jobs to farm (washingtonpost.com)
600 points by blueatlas on Nov 24, 2017 [ext] | 416 comments [ext]
3.“I fell down a bit of a ruins research rabbit-hole” (twitter.com/paulmmcooper)
586 points by caiobegotti on Nov 24, 2017 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
4. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 85 days ago | hide | 122 comments
4.SSH vs. OpenVPN for Tunneling (backslasher.net)
363 points by setra on Nov 24, 2017 [ext] | 110 comments [ext]
5.The Girl with the Brick Earring (lucaswoltmann.de)
377 points by plumbumsel on Nov 24, 2017 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
6.Clojure Design Patterns (mishadoff.com)
315 points by simonpure on Nov 24, 2017 [ext] | 126 comments [ext]
7. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 251 days ago | hide | 170 comments
7.The Western Elite from a Chinese Perspective (americanaffairsjournal.org)
533 points by monsieurpng on Nov 24, 2017 [ext] | 224 comments [ext]
8.Sending a Spacecraft to the Interstellar Asteroid (arxiv.org)
223 points by DanielleMolloy on Nov 24, 2017 [ext] | 73 comments [ext]
9.Free online courses from top universities (openculture.com)
257 points by andrevoget on Nov 24, 2017 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
10. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
10.Amazon Merchants Continue to Find Ways to Cheat (bloomberg.com)
171 points by non_sequitur on Nov 24, 2017 [ext] | 80 comments [ext]
11.Drilling Reawakens Sleeping Faults in Texas, Leads to Earthquakes (scientificamerican.com)
121 points by JJLongusa on Nov 24, 2017 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
12.The sequence 1 1 ∞ 5 6 3 3 3 (ipfs.io)
305 points by quickthrower2 on Nov 24, 2017 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
13. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 90 days ago | hide | 148 comments
13.The Profit Motive Behind Financial Complexity (bloomberg.com)
110 points by chollida1 on Nov 24, 2017 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
14.Using a logbook to improve your programming (routley.io)
295 points by jmlr on Nov 23, 2017 [ext] | 74 comments [ext]
15.Automate GitHub Pages with IFTTT, Glitch and Jekyll (webrender.net)
138 points by webrender on Nov 24, 2017 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
16. The Dota result Altman calls closest to real-world decision making (blog.samaltman.com)
487 points by htx5127 609 days ago | hide | 15 comments
16.Capsule Networks Tutorial [video] (youtube.com)
140 points by isp on Nov 24, 2017 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
17.Hijacking Bitcoin: Routing Attacks on Cryptocurrencies (ethz.ch)
141 points by federicoponzi on Nov 23, 2017 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
18.Atari and the dawn of video game culture (thesixfifty.com)
116 points by mariuz on Nov 23, 2017 [ext]
19. The carriage maker's dilemma: Why imminent disruption requires drastic current effort (marginalrevolution.com)
376 points by kol5306 2 days ago | hide | 127 comments
19.Designing a Lock-free, Wait-free Hash Map (shlomisteinberg.com)
185 points by striking on Nov 24, 2017 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
20.Don't Feed Them After Midnight: Reverse-Engineering the Furby Connect (contextis.com)
106 points by pdjstone on Nov 24, 2017 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
21.Beorg – an Emacs org-mode companion for iOS (beorgapp.com)
178 points by yankcrime on Nov 24, 2017 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
22. A Basket of Tiny Currencies Is Eating the Dollar's Reserve Share (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 113 days ago | hide | 68 comments
22.AI-controlled brain implants for mood disorders tested in people (nature.com)
116 points by doener on Nov 23, 2017 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
23.Can an Autonomous Sailboat Cross the Atlantic? (bbc.com)
61 points by grkvlt on Nov 24, 2017 [ext] | 35 comments [ext]
24.A logarithmic image transformation (2008) (josleys.com)
87 points by aekt on Nov 23, 2017 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
25. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
25.Armed with tough computer chips, scientists are ready to return to Venus (sciencemag.org)
147 points by okket on Nov 23, 2017 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
26.How the sandwich consumed Britain (theguardian.com)
108 points by irb on Nov 24, 2017 [ext] | 137 comments [ext]
27.Faecal transplant effectively treats recurrent or unresponsive Clostridium diff (nihr.ac.uk)
106 points by DanBC on Nov 23, 2017 [ext] | 49 comments [ext]
28. The Trump Adviser Openly Calling Treasury Reserve Status A Burden (archive.ph)
308 points by gsm5278 368 days ago | hide | 168 comments
28.What Is a Computational Essay? (stephenwolfram.com)
63 points by signa11 on Nov 24, 2017 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
29.Facebook Founder’s Favor Comes with Complications (nytimes.com)
93 points by augustocallejas on Nov 24, 2017 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
30.Impact of Depression and Its Treatment on Productivity (acesounderglass.com)
77 points by luu on Nov 23, 2017 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
31. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments

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