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Stories from December 24, 2017
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1.LisaOS to be open-sourced and donated to Computer History Museum (twitter.com/6502lane)
259 points by mpweiher on Dec 24, 2017 [ext] | 84 comments [ext]
2.Axiom Beta – Digital cinema camera built around FOSS and open hardware (apertus.org)
264 points by jarmitage on Dec 24, 2017 [ext] | 94 comments [ext]
3.Papercraft with Blender (matiasmorant.wordpress.com)
333 points by wvlia5 on Dec 24, 2017 [ext] | 50 comments [ext]
4. How Autodesk, Cadence, and Synopsys built the deepest moats in software (felicis.com)
443 points by pal3183 593 days ago | hide | 193 comments
4.The Effect of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing on American Mortality Patterns [pdf] (keithameyers.com)
216 points by stablemap on Dec 24, 2017 [ext] | 118 comments [ext]
5.Academic success is either a crapshoot or a scam (grasshoppermouse.github.io)
309 points by mpweiher on Dec 23, 2017 [ext] | 102 comments [ext]
6.Text-only news sites are slowly making a comeback (poynter.org)
259 points by georgecmu on Dec 24, 2017 [ext] | 104 comments [ext]
7. Asymmetric leverage how Iran holds twenty percent of global oil supply hostage (martinvol.pe)
429 points by pex8279 1 day ago | hide | 150 comments
7.The Only McLaren F1 Technician in North America (roadandtrack.com)
219 points by iamben on Dec 21, 2017 [ext] | 87 comments [ext]
8.Molly Houses: Gay Bars in 18th-Century Britain (atlasobscura.com)
117 points by apollinaire on Dec 21, 2017 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
9.Formal Verification: The Gap Between Perfect Code and Reality (raywang.tech)
222 points by tom_mellior on Dec 24, 2017 [ext] | 102 comments [ext]
10. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 252 days ago | hide | 170 comments
10.Repairing a 1960s mainframe: Fixing the IBM 1401's core memory and power supply (righto.com)
145 points by fernly on Dec 24, 2017 [ext] | 18 comments [ext]
11.Undefined vs. Unsafe in Rust (manishearth.github.io)
160 points by ingve on Dec 24, 2017 [ext] | 47 comments [ext]
12.Algorithmic Solution to My Insomnia (sukhar.com)
253 points by csmajorfive on Dec 23, 2017 [ext] | 79 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.Writing GUI Apps Using the Red Programming Language (wesleyhill.co.uk)
182 points by stesch on Dec 24, 2017 [ext] | 114 comments [ext]
14.Apple Autocorrects Names of Some Medications to Names of Different Medications (twitter.com/slatestarcodex)
248 points by Houshalter on Dec 24, 2017 [ext] | 128 comments [ext]
15.Earthworms can reproduce in Mars soil simulant (wur.nl)
138 points by scadge on Dec 21, 2017 [ext] | 75 comments [ext]
16. Montreux convention traps Russia's Mediterranean task force (theconversation.com)
67 points by jek5337 490 days ago | hide | 26 comments
16.The Big Business of Prisoner Care Packages (themarshallproject.org)
86 points by scarface74 on Dec 22, 2017 [ext] | 40 comments [ext]
17.Bruce McCandless, First Astronaut to Fly Untethered in Space, Has Died (npr.org)
129 points by lyk on Dec 24, 2017 [ext] | 21 comments [ext]
18.Reasoning About Program Behavior Algebraically [pdf] (stephendiehl.com)
113 points by rwosync on Dec 24, 2017 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
19. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments
19.How to Print Integers Really Fast (pvk.ca)
169 points by signa11 on Dec 24, 2017 [ext] | 46 comments [ext]
20.Analyzing One Million Robots.txt Files (intoli.com)
157 points by foob on Dec 21, 2017 [ext] | 25 comments [ext]
21.Inferno OS for Raspberry Pi (bitbucket.org/infpi)
140 points by rcarmo on Dec 23, 2017 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
22. From development to productionalization: The next evolution of the software shop ()
46 points by gin5806 1 day ago | hide | 47 comments
22.Dubsmash: Scaling to 200M Users with 3 Engineers (stackshare.io)
180 points by yarapavan on Dec 22, 2017 [ext] | 45 comments [ext]
23.Fungi Saved the World (2014) (feedthedatamonster.com)
95 points by bentaber on Dec 21, 2017 [ext] | 12 comments [ext]
24.Open Source .NET three years later (mattwarren.org)
216 points by matthewwarren on Dec 24, 2017 [ext] | 185 comments [ext]
25. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
25.Electric currency could trash cash (1999) (theguardian.com)
74 points by monort on Dec 24, 2017 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
26.Russian submarine activity increases around Atlantic internet cables: report (thehill.com)
117 points by erowtom on Dec 24, 2017 [ext] | 62 comments [ext]
27.I Got Paid $0 from the Uber Security Bug Bounty (medium.com/bread-and-circuses)
624 points by GregoryVPerry on Dec 24, 2017 [ext] | 152 comments [ext]
28. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 85 days ago | hide | 122 comments
28.Key compromise and root cert with exposed key in German lawyer software (beA) (groups.google.com)
84 points by DyslexicAtheist on Dec 24, 2017 [ext] | 20 comments [ext]
29.The current state of kernel page-table isolation (lwn.net)
81 points by jsnell on Dec 24, 2017 [ext] | 13 comments [ext]
30.Stopping Plastic Pollution with the Power of Bubbles (hakaimagazine.com)
42 points by jmadsen on Dec 21, 2017 [ext] | 5 comments [ext]
31. The Venture Drug: How $20M Seeds Kill Founder Optionality ()
491 points by nrx2341 120 days ago | hide | 105 comments

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