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1.
Detecting Chrome headless (antoinevastel.github.io)
375 points by avastel on Aug 5, 2017 | 157 comments
2.
832 TB – ZFS on Linux (jonkensy.com)
320 points by beagle3 on Aug 5, 2017 | 157 comments
3.
There Have Always Existed People Who’ve Simply Wanted to Be Alone (hazlitt.net)
429 points by fern12 on Aug 5, 2017 | 169 comments
4.
Can a Living Creature Be as Big as a Galaxy? (nautil.us)
269 points by dnetesn on Aug 5, 2017 | 189 comments
5.
Fangle: create interactive documents from plain text (jotux.github.io)
154 points by happy-go-lucky on Aug 5, 2017 | 16 comments
6.
Name-letter Effect (wikipedia.org)
165 points by privong on Aug 5, 2017 | 71 comments
7.
Publii – Open Source CMS for Static Websites (getpublii.com)
179 points by indigodaddy on Aug 5, 2017 | 71 comments
8.
A tall chimney to facilitate heat exchange in the atmosphere (superchimney.org)
286 points by chr1 on Aug 4, 2017 | 190 comments
9.
The Man Who Picked Victorian London's Unpickable Lock (mentalfloss.com)
123 points by benbreen on Aug 4, 2017 | 19 comments
10.
The Evolution of Lisp (1993) [pdf] (dreamsongs.com)
103 points by tosh on Aug 5, 2017 | 17 comments
11.
ThyssenKrupp Multi – world’s first rope-free elevator [video] (youtube.com)
248 points by based2 on Aug 5, 2017 | 196 comments
12.
Optimizing Hash-Array Mapped Tries for Fast Immutable JVM Collections (2015) [pdf] (steindorfer.name)
98 points by tosh on Aug 4, 2017 | 25 comments
13.
How to Design Programs, Second Edition (neu.edu)
213 points by tosh on Aug 4, 2017 | 40 comments
14.
What Sets Successful CEOs Apart (hbr.org)
157 points by happy-go-lucky on Aug 4, 2017 | 64 comments
15.
Markov's and Chebyshev's Inequalities Explained (intoli.com)
104 points by foob on Aug 4, 2017 | 9 comments
16.
Computational Category Theory (man.ac.uk)
92 points by noch on Aug 4, 2017 | 11 comments
17.
More people riding bikes makes cycling safer for everyone, major new study finds (cyclingweekly.com)
222 points by okket on Aug 5, 2017 | 175 comments
18.
Slight Street Sign Modifications Can Fool Machine Learning Algorithms (ieee.org)
194 points by itcrowd on Aug 5, 2017 | 131 comments
19.
Evidence that ancient farms had different origins than previously thought (arstechnica.com)
96 points by xaedes on Aug 4, 2017 | 40 comments
20.
Easy Code Visual Assembler IDE (easycode.cat)
97 points by networked on Aug 4, 2017 | 10 comments
21.
A polyglot's guide to multiple dispatch (2016) (thegreenplace.net)
63 points by tosh on Aug 4, 2017 | 16 comments
22.
A formalization of category theory in Coq (github.com/jwiegley)
109 points by noch on Aug 4, 2017 | 33 comments
23.
Emotional Intelligence Needs a Rewrite (nautil.us)
102 points by dnetesn on Aug 5, 2017 | 38 comments
24.
Redesigning the airport boarding pass (2010) (passfail.squarespace.com)
122 points by skanderbm on Aug 5, 2017 | 102 comments
25.
On the Effect of Semantically Enriched Context Models on Software Modularization (programming-journal.org)
36 points by mpweiher on Aug 5, 2017 | 6 comments
26.
A Virtual LAN using NATS, written in Go (github.com/rapidloop)
110 points by rapidloop on Aug 5, 2017 | 14 comments
27.
Perfectionism versus Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (psychologytoday.com)
79 points by DanBC on Aug 5, 2017 | 26 comments
28.
Anonymous LLC (l4sb.com)
103 points by wslh on Aug 5, 2017 | 69 comments
29.
Node.js: Initial experimental implementation of HTTP/2 (github.com/nodejs)
146 points by andrewbarba on Aug 5, 2017 | 18 comments
30.
How Amazon bought and killed PlanetAll, an early Facebook precursor (qz.com)
106 points by astdb on Aug 5, 2017 | 42 comments

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