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1.Hyperloop One Becomes ‘Virgin Hyperloop One’ (techcrunch.com)
364 points by mpweiher on Oct 12, 2017 [ext] | 503 comments [ext]
2.Exploding Git Repositories (kate.io)
447 points by ingve on Oct 12, 2017 [ext] | 73 comments [ext]
3.TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghetti code (github.com/raxod502)
577 points by warent on Oct 12, 2017 [ext] | 282 comments [ext]
4. Switching Costs Are Falling, But Three Moats Still Hold ()
322 points by oik7062 61 days ago | hide | 65 comments
4.Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in age bias (facebook.com)
644 points by KentBeck on Oct 12, 2017 [ext] | 419 comments [ext]
5.John Carmack's Keynote at Oculus 4 Live Stream [video] (facebook.com)
353 points by staunch on Oct 12, 2017 [ext] | 112 comments [ext]
6.Digging for treasure in Aladdin’s source code (gamehistory.org)
303 points by j_s on Oct 12, 2017 [ext] | 77 comments [ext]
7. The Polish Recluse Who Cracked the Forgetting Curve (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 479 days ago | hide | 22 comments
7.Google commits $1B in grants to train U.S. workers for high-tech jobs (techcrunch.com)
366 points by thesanerguy on Oct 12, 2017 [ext] | 351 comments [ext]
8.Exploiting the Wi-Fi Stack on Apple Devices (googleprojectzero.blogspot.com)
347 points by archimag0 on Oct 12, 2017 [ext] | 83 comments [ext]
9.A Little Story About the `yes` Unix Command (matthias-endler.de)
452 points by mre on Oct 11, 2017 [ext] | 172 comments [ext]
10. 72 Million Trades Reveal a Hidden Wealth Transfer on Kalshi (jbecker.dev)
380 points by orz1950 91 days ago | hide | 148 comments
10.How to Set Up a Company in Germany for English-Speaking People (datacircle.io)
225 points by _0c71 on Oct 12, 2017 [ext] | 135 comments [ext]
11.New periodic orbits of the three-body problem (phys.org)
163 points by msuvakov on Oct 12, 2017 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
12.Containers and Distributed Systems: Where They Came from and Where They’re Going (mesosphere.com)
288 points by florianleibert on Oct 12, 2017 [ext] | 41 comments [ext]
13. Two grad students bet biology can eat the chemicals industry by 2030 (centuryofbio.com)
297 points by pun2167 601 days ago | hide | 170 comments
13.Securing Microservices (facilelogin.com)
162 points by prabaths on Oct 12, 2017 [ext] | 56 comments [ext]
14.Go Python, Go: Stream Processing for Python (wallaroolabs.com)
251 points by spooneybarger on Oct 12, 2017 [ext] | 66 comments [ext]
15.Equifax takes down web page after reports of new hack (reuters.com)
240 points by SirLJ on Oct 12, 2017 [ext] | 136 comments [ext]
16. When Compute-Only Wins Hit the Garbage Can of Real Work (dbreunig.com)
54 points by kem2154 262 days ago | hide | 150 comments
16.The Toxic Saga of the Tsukiji Fish Market (eater.com)
140 points by fern12 on Oct 12, 2017 [ext] | 76 comments [ext]
17.Gluon – Deep Learning API from AWS and Microsoft (amazon.com)
191 points by jeffbarr on Oct 12, 2017 [ext] | 82 comments [ext]
18.The Forces Behind Toutiao, China’s Content King (blog.ycombinator.com)
125 points by anuh on Oct 12, 2017 [ext] | 71 comments [ext]
19. Why Dollar Reserves Hit a 31-Year Low Despite Rising Treasury Holdings (wolfstreet.com)
488 points by gon322 114 days ago | hide | 68 comments
19.The Case for Writing a Kernel in Rust [pdf] (virginia.edu)
181 points by lainon on Oct 12, 2017 [ext] | 58 comments [ext]
20.UPX – Ultimate Packer for Executables (upx.github.io)
117 points by jsnathan on Oct 12, 2017 [ext] | 80 comments [ext]
21.Arabic characters found woven into burial costumes from Viking boat graves (bbc.com)
171 points by sohkamyung on Oct 12, 2017 [ext] | 166 comments [ext]
22. The Provincial Incentive Loop: Decoding China’s Hyper-Competitive Industrial Scaling Model (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 220 days ago | hide | 175 comments
22.Equifax website hacked again, this time to redirect to fake Flash update (arstechnica.com)
390 points by Larrikin on Oct 12, 2017 [ext] | 96 comments [ext]
23.Show HN: Twitter bot which tweets Magic cards with appropriate GIFs superimposed (github.com/minimaxir)
138 points by minimaxir on Oct 11, 2017 [ext] | 38 comments [ext]
24.Plato Would Have Wanted Us to Unplug (eidolon.pub)
112 points by fern12 on Oct 12, 2017 [ext] | 72 comments [ext]
25. Elon's $140 Billion, Maduro's Capture, and a $30K Polymarket Windfall (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 86 days ago | hide | 122 comments
25.The /bin/true Command and Copyright (1990) (trillian.mit.edu)
125 points by tosh on Oct 12, 2017 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
26.How to Interpret Site Performance Tests (fly.io)
60 points by TheMissingPiece on Oct 12, 2017 [ext] | 14 comments [ext]
27.Show HN: Vue-Model – Models with HTTP Actions for Vue.js (github.com/aarondfrancis)
109 points by aarondf on Oct 12, 2017 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
28. Outsource your willpower: a protocol for couples who want to ship (web.archive.org)
420 points by guz3550 603 days ago | hide | 25 comments
28.Intuition, Incubation, and Insight: Implicit Cognition in Problem Solving (1996) (ist-socrates.berkeley.edu)
58 points by lainon on Oct 12, 2017 [ext] | 9 comments [ext]
29.What happened to distributed programming languages? [video] (youtube.com)
68 points by panic on Oct 11, 2017 [ext] | 4 comments [ext]
30.Remaking Lightbeam as a browser extension (hacks.mozilla.org)
50 points by JoshTriplett on Oct 12, 2017 [ext]
31. Why Shipping Software Is the Worst Way to Monetize It ()
374 points by ium4024 71 days ago | hide | 174 comments

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