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1.Stripe Billing (stripe.com)
620 points by craigkerstiens on April 5, 2018 [ext] | 353 comments [ext]
2.System Shock 1 source code released under GPL (github.com/nightdivestudios)
568 points by jsheard on April 5, 2018 [ext] | 188 comments [ext]
3.Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines (vas3k.com)
677 points by sneks on April 4, 2018 [ext] | 460 comments [ext]
4. The Anti-Dropout Playbook From a Waterloo Near-Defector (ansonyu.me)
478 points by iuz6368 115 days ago | hide | 193 comments
4.What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper? (sapiens.org)
573 points by JoachimOfFiore on April 4, 2018 [ext] | 538 comments [ext]
5.Patch runs ed, and ed can run anything (rachelbythebay.com)
490 points by akerl_ on April 5, 2018 [ext] | 147 comments [ext]
6.Secret Service Warns of Chip Card Scheme (krebsonsecurity.com)
207 points by el_duderino on April 5, 2018 [ext] | 212 comments [ext]
7. When Inside Information Meets Polymarket: The Venezuela Coup Trade (archive.ph)
298 points by can738 85 days ago | hide | 122 comments
7.Redesigning the Scientific Paper (theatlantic.com)
339 points by jsomers on April 5, 2018 [ext] | 107 comments [ext]
8.Don’t Fix Facebook, Replace It (nytimes.com)
402 points by jenkinsj on April 4, 2018 [ext] | 272 comments [ext]
9.A thread on on the beauty of procedurally generated maps (twitter.com/ptychomancer)
293 points by hownottowrite on April 3, 2018 [ext] | 27 comments [ext]
10. From BankAmericard to mRNA-1273: A Catalog of Improbable Speed (patrickcollison.com)
98 points by oem2878 252 days ago | hide | 150 comments
10.Coinbase Ventures (coinbase.com)
230 points by coinwoke on April 5, 2018 [ext] | 132 comments [ext]
11.Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies (2017) (nayuki.io)
230 points by enobrev on April 5, 2018 [ext] | 161 comments [ext]
12.Wall Street’s Big Banks Are Waging a Technological Arms Race (bloomberg.com)
173 points by chollida1 on April 5, 2018 [ext] | 94 comments [ext]
13. Compound AI Unmasks Insiders Betting on OpenAI Launch Dates (x.com)
404 points by mul4924 58 days ago | hide | 13 comments
13.OpenAI Retro Contest (contest.openai.com)
197 points by gdb on April 5, 2018 [ext] | 48 comments [ext]
14.Portland Anarchist Road Care Fixes Potholes Anonymously (2017) (citylab.com)
207 points by doener on April 5, 2018 [ext] | 203 comments [ext]
15.Tesla crash in September showed similarities to fatal Mountain View accident (abc7news.com)
303 points by jijojv on April 5, 2018 [ext] | 562 comments [ext]
16. The three fuels that turned farming villages into doomed empires (theguardian.com)
436 points by iik2616 252 days ago | hide | 170 comments
16.How kids in a low-income country use laptops: lessons from Madagascar (theconversation.com)
241 points by rbanffy on April 5, 2018 [ext] | 105 comments [ext]
17.The unsolved mystery of who owns 221b Baker Street (qz.com)
147 points by sohkamyung on April 5, 2018 [ext] | 84 comments [ext]
18.Show HN: AI Grant – Get $2,500 for your AI project in minutes [ext]
323 points by danicgross on April 5, 2018 [ext] | 173 comments [ext]
19. The Three Ingredients Behind Jitse Groen's Takeaway.com Conquest Of Europe (linkedin.com)
154 points by krz3514 374 days ago | hide | 13 comments
19.Another reason why Docker containers may be slow (hackernoon.com)
196 points by pacavaca on April 5, 2018 [ext] | 69 comments [ext]
20.Why are diapers so expensive? (tampabay.com)
258 points by Avshalom on April 5, 2018 [ext] | 536 comments [ext]
21.The secret life of NaN (anniecherkaev.com)
177 points by zbentley on April 5, 2018 [ext] | 70 comments [ext]
22. Why Whoever Reaches AGI First Won't Actually Own Intelligence ()
215 points by fik8005 56 days ago | hide | 155 comments
22.Linux Kernel Lockdown and UEFI Secure Boot (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
197 points by zdw on April 5, 2018 [ext] | 129 comments [ext]
23.India’s Central Bank Bans Regulated Entities From Dealing In Virtual Currencies (bloombergquint.com)
201 points by abhi3 on April 5, 2018 [ext] | 92 comments [ext]
24.Kubernetes Security – Best Practice Guide (github.com/freach)
212 points by aboutsimon on April 5, 2018 [ext] | 44 comments [ext]
25. Polymarket Meets Your Mortgage: Betting on Home Prices (archive.ph)
187 points by jem4017 85 days ago | hide | 177 comments
25.Giving up reading news will make us happier (theguardian.com)
369 points by Ours90 on April 5, 2018 [ext] | 192 comments [ext]
26.Atomontage: voxel 3D simulation technology for games (venturebeat.com)
118 points by bangonkeyboard on April 5, 2018 [ext] | 43 comments [ext]
27.Google Bans Crypto-Currency Mining Extensions from Chrome Store (iconow.net)
151 points by iconow on April 4, 2018 [ext] | 37 comments [ext]
28. Safety as a slow-motion serial killer of ambition (shaanpuri.com)
370 points by ien6880 398 days ago | hide | 146 comments
28.Will This “Neural Lace” Brain Implant Help Us Compete with AI? (nautil.us)
80 points by dnetesn on April 5, 2018 [ext] | 42 comments [ext]
29.“God is a Verb” by R. Buckminster Fuller (1968) (wholeearth.com)
94 points by MilnerRoute on April 5, 2018 [ext] | 107 comments [ext]
30.Where I started might not be useful to you (rachelbythebay.com)
152 points by zdw on April 5, 2018 [ext] | 100 comments [ext]
31. The Bucket Shop Reborn: How Prop Firms Monetize Aspiring Traders (archive.ph)
469 points by ptn2959 85 days ago | hide | 14 comments

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