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1.Spain Fines Facebook Over Tracking Users Without Consent (tomshardware.com)
645 points by thg on Sept 14, 2017 [ext] | 193 comments [ext]
2.Face ID, Touch ID, No ID, PINs and Pragmatic Security (troyhunt.com)
612 points by louis-paul on Sept 14, 2017 [ext] | 305 comments [ext]
3.Windows for Linux Nerds (jessfraz.com)
615 points by geostyx on Sept 13, 2017 [ext] | 381 comments [ext]
4. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 57 days ago | hide | 13 comments
4.I don’t know who the Web Audio API is designed for (mecheye.net)
388 points by gulbanana on Sept 13, 2017 [ext] | 178 comments [ext]
5.Autonomous Robots Plant, Tend, and Harvest Entire Crop of Barley (ieee.org)
348 points by bansheehash on Sept 13, 2017 [ext] | 143 comments [ext]
6.Building a working game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life (codegolf.stackexchange.com)
512 points by Xophmeister on Sept 14, 2017 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
7. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 119 days ago | hide | 105 comments
7.Artificial Intelligence Uses Videogame Footage to Recreate Game Engine (gatech.edu)
254 points by ingve on Sept 13, 2017 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
8.Equihax (krypt3ia.wordpress.com)
396 points by mzs on Sept 14, 2017 [ext] | 202 comments [ext]
9.MacOS 10.12.6 Source (opensource.apple.com)
324 points by tosh on Sept 14, 2017 [ext] | 218 comments [ext]
10. The Three Ingredients Behind Jitse Groen's Takeaway.com Conquest Of Europe (linkedin.com)
154 points by krz3514 373 days ago | hide | 13 comments
10.There Are Only Four Billion Floats, So Test Them All (2014) (randomascii.wordpress.com)
329 points by tosh on Sept 14, 2017 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
11.S3 was down (amazon.com)
359 points by rabidonrails on Sept 14, 2017 [ext] | 176 comments [ext]
12.Nestlé Takes Majority Stake in Blue Bottle (nytimes.com)
188 points by joshcarr on Sept 14, 2017 [ext] | 139 comments [ext]
13. Blind Spots in the West: Why Every Chinese VC Studies Our Podcasts (youtube.com)
325 points by hol5935 218 days ago | hide | 175 comments
13.Organizers have unionized 5,000 contract workers at Apple, Facebook, Yahoo (bloomberg.com)
295 points by spking on Sept 14, 2017 [ext] | 438 comments [ext]
14.Startup wants to build tools for lawyers to speed up legal services (washingtonpost.com)
234 points by thelock85 on Sept 14, 2017 [ext] | 101 comments [ext]
15.How to compare two functions for equivalence, as in (λx.2*x) == (λx.x+x)? (stackoverflow.com)
176 points by tosh on Sept 14, 2017 [ext] | 63 comments [ext]
16. The crypto scheme where auditors told on the promoters (archive.ph)
222 points by orz6622 332 days ago | hide | 88 comments
16.A Peek Inside a 400G Cisco Network Chip (nextplatform.com)
176 points by protomyth on Sept 14, 2017 [ext] | 32 comments [ext]
17.Java Reflection, 1000x Faster (norswap.com)
139 points by norswap on Sept 13, 2017 [ext] | 55 comments [ext]
18.Managed SSL for Google App Engine (googleblog.com)
162 points by lklig on Sept 14, 2017 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
19. Why isn't anyone panicking? (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 9 hours ago | hide | 150 comments
19.Polari: the dead language of gay British men (theconversation.com)
165 points by Phithagoras on Sept 13, 2017 [ext] | 68 comments [ext]
20.The Man Behind Windows PowerShell (heavybit.com)
167 points by sbrown12 on Sept 14, 2017 [ext] | 128 comments [ext]
21.Energy Efficiency Across Programming Languages (sites.google.com)
188 points by foob on Sept 14, 2017 [ext] | 139 comments [ext]
22. A German philologist explains how dictatorship hides inside daily busyness (press.uchicago.edu)
129 points by bsk2489 210 days ago | hide | 32 comments
22.Deprecated Linux networking commands and their replacements (dougvitale.wordpress.com)
211 points by nailer on Sept 13, 2017 [ext] | 64 comments [ext]
23.Cassini's “Grand Finale” Will Be a Blaze of Glory (scientificamerican.com)
140 points by okket on Sept 14, 2017 [ext] | 51 comments [ext]
24.Cost goals met, the DoE is moving on to address grid reliability in solar (arstechnica.com)
166 points by vasili111 on Sept 14, 2017 [ext] | 90 comments [ext]
25. Discord's Real Lesson: The Meta-Layer Enterprise Slack Can't Build (kwokchain.com)
448 points by aok168 431 days ago | hide | 83 comments
25.Wilson’s Algorithm (ocks.org)
212 points by bemmu on Sept 14, 2017 [ext] | 15 comments [ext]
26.How Eve Players Pulled Off the Biggest Betrayal in Its History (kotaku.com)
263 points by bdr on Sept 14, 2017 [ext] | 182 comments [ext]
27.Building the DOM faster: speculative parsing, async, defer and preload (hacks.mozilla.org)
149 points by nachtigall on Sept 14, 2017 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
28. Inside the Lonely Experiment to Remember Everything You Learn (wired.com)
244 points by auz7944 478 days ago | hide | 22 comments
28.InfluxDB now supports Prometheus remote reads and writes natively (influxdata.com)
101 points by pauldix on Sept 14, 2017 [ext] | 33 comments [ext]
29.The Customization Curve (blog.ycombinator.com)
78 points by janober on Sept 14, 2017 [ext] | 29 comments [ext]
30.Interesting commands for the Linux shell (lopezferrando.com)
372 points by victorlf on Sept 14, 2017 [ext] | 129 comments [ext]
31. The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack (diff.substack.com)
216 points by iam5056 262 days ago | hide | 183 comments

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