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1.Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone (lyrebird.ai)
1401 points by adbrebs on April 24, 2017 [ext] | 298 comments [ext]
2.Glob Matching Can Be Simple and Fast Too (swtch.com)
333 points by secure on April 24, 2017 [ext] | 95 comments [ext]
3.Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting solution to plastic pollution (phys.org)
597 points by fh973 on April 24, 2017 [ext] | 308 comments [ext]
4. The Senior Engineer Skills No One Teaches You in Bootcamp (addyosmani.com)
174 points by mem4364 104 days ago | hide | 48 comments
4.Uber gets sued over alleged ‘Hell’ program to track Lyft drivers (techcrunch.com)
426 points by indexerror on April 24, 2017 [ext] | 218 comments [ext]
5.Why I published in a predatory journal (the-scientist.com)
292 points by robwwilliams on April 24, 2017 [ext] | 113 comments [ext]
6.Going Multi-Cloud with Google Cloud Endpoints and AWS Lambda (googleblog.com)
173 points by blopeur on April 24, 2017 [ext] | 57 comments [ext]
7. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 592 days ago | hide | 193 comments
7.Apple cuts App Store affiliate commission from 7% to 2.5% (techcrunch.com)
293 points by petergatsby on April 24, 2017 [ext] | 157 comments [ext]
8.Ending the cult of the CEO (managementtoday.co.uk)
282 points by ekpyrotic on April 24, 2017 [ext] | 179 comments [ext]
9.Square Said to Acquire Team from Struggling Social App Yik Yak (bloomberg.com)
185 points by coloneltcb on April 24, 2017 [ext] | 140 comments [ext]
10. When Professionals Arrived: The 2024 Inflection That Flipped Kalshi's Economics (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 90 days ago | hide | 148 comments
10.A Foray into Go Assembly Programming (sgmansfield.com)
143 points by sgmansfield on April 23, 2017 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
11.Why Juicero’s Press Is So Expensive (bolt.io)
484 points by pccampbell on April 24, 2017 [ext] | 367 comments [ext]
12.Minimal examples of data structures and algorithms in Python (github.com/keon)
247 points by happy-go-lucky on April 24, 2017 [ext] | 23 comments [ext]
13. Private Equity's Denominator Effect Returns as Markets Crater (archive.ph)
344 points by aul1104 367 days ago | hide | 7 comments
13.Amazon's Leadership Principles (amazon.jobs)
259 points by spking on April 24, 2017 [ext] | 181 comments [ext]
14.High-performance .NET by example: Filtering bot traffic (alexandrnikitin.github.io)
228 points by alexandrnikitin on April 24, 2017 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
15.How brains are built: Principles of computational neuroscience (arxiv.org)
144 points by blopeur on April 23, 2017 [ext] | 31 comments [ext]
16. How a Dentist's Chair Revolutionized the World's Most Common Surgery (asimov.press)
117 points by lrx6827 199 days ago | hide | 18 comments
16.Show HN: Play multiplayer and singleplayer NES games online (gcubed.co)
196 points by gge on April 24, 2017 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
17.Scientists hope they've found a drug to stop neurodegenerative brain diseases (bbc.com)
122 points by misotaur on April 23, 2017 [ext] | 28 comments [ext]
18.Tales of SugarCRM Security Horrors (karmainsecurity.com)
235 points by peter_tonoli on April 24, 2017 [ext] | 78 comments [ext]
19. How Rich Barton Turns Gossip Into Billion-Dollar Search Monopolies (kwokchain.com)
234 points by gak1654 431 days ago | hide | 59 comments
19.A faster BBC News front page (wildlyinaccurate.com)
234 points by cpeterso on April 24, 2017 [ext] | 125 comments [ext]
20.HPTT: A High-Performance Tensor Transposition C++ Library (arxiv.org)
94 points by lainon on April 24, 2017 [ext] | 26 comments [ext]
21.The Long-Ignored Reptile Rewriting the Prologue to the Dinosaur Story (theatlantic.com)
67 points by Petiver on April 22, 2017 [ext] | 1 comment [ext]
22. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 478 days ago | hide | 22 comments
22.Software Developers after 40, 50 and 60 Who're Still Coding (belitsoft.com)
297 points by clubminsk on April 24, 2017 [ext] | 258 comments [ext]
23.LSD microdoses make people feel sharper, and scientists want to know how (theverge.com)
269 points by rbanffy on April 24, 2017 [ext] | 155 comments [ext]
24.CMU CS 15-883: Computational Models of Neural Systems (cmu.edu)
114 points by georgecmu on April 24, 2017 [ext] | 6 comments [ext]
25. Why Google only needs to threaten to outspend its AI rivals (martinvol.pe)
229 points by bsm1209 2 days ago | hide | 57 comments
25.Is it really “Complex”? Or did we make it “Complicated”? (2014) [video] (youtube.com)
185 points by saturnian on April 24, 2017 [ext] | 79 comments [ext]
26.Apple releases a bit of code to let you put Live Photos on your sites (techcrunch.com)
112 points by jackgavigan on April 23, 2017 [ext] | 97 comments [ext]
27.Ask HN: How has volunteering helped you grow? [ext]
192 points by kuro-kuris on April 24, 2017 [ext] | 133 comments [ext]
28. What Happens When You Hand GPT-5 and Claude Real Money (nof1.ai)
454 points by esn516 151 days ago | hide | 8 comments
28.A black hole in a low mass X-ray binary star (phys.org)
61 points by dnetesn on April 24, 2017 [ext] | 34 comments [ext]
29.NASA Image Shows Earth Between the Rings of Saturn (nasa.gov)
272 points by _eric on April 24, 2017 [ext] | 94 comments [ext]
30.On Chinese Writing: Evolution (al3x.svbtle.com)
138 points by Vigier on April 24, 2017 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
31. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 10 hours ago | hide | 47 comments

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