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1.
Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (nytimes.com)
1131 points by shill on Nov 20, 2016 | 548 comments
2.
Scientist discovers particular seaweed nearly eliminates cow methane emissions (cbc.ca)
442 points by tankenmate on Nov 20, 2016 | 147 comments
3.
US launches next-gen weather satellite that will revolutionize forecasting (washingtonpost.com)
185 points by crivabene on Nov 20, 2016 | 97 comments
4.
New for AWS Lambda – Environment Variables and Serverless Application Model (amazon.com)
264 points by luhn on Nov 20, 2016 | 83 comments
5.
Why does it take so long for us to form our first memory? (bbc.com)
180 points by logikblok on Nov 20, 2016 | 73 comments
6.
Beginning Woodworking (woodgears.ca)
259 points by Tomte on Nov 19, 2016 | 88 comments
7.
Wal-Mart Tells Workers: Don’t Download Labor Group’s Chat App (wsj.com)
279 points by miraj on Nov 20, 2016 | 249 comments
8.
Computer Science courses with video lectures (github.com/developer-y)
347 points by yogeshp on Nov 20, 2016 | 23 comments
9.
German Cities Are Solving the Age-Old Public Toilet Problem (fastcoexist.com)
269 points by doener on Nov 20, 2016 | 170 comments
10.
Let’s replace Twitter with something much better (cpbotha.net)
227 points by cpbotha on Nov 20, 2016 | 182 comments
11.
Why the MacBook Pro Is Limited to 16GB of RAM (macdaddy.io)
257 points by feelix on Nov 20, 2016 | 349 comments
12.
12-Foot Traffic Lanes Are Bad for Safety and Should Be Replaced (2014) (citylab.com)
174 points by panic on Nov 19, 2016 | 143 comments
13.
WebExtensions in Firefox 52 (blog.mozilla.org)
167 points by AndrewDucker on Nov 20, 2016 | 69 comments
14.
Second Chinese Firm in a Week Found Hiding Backdoor in Android Devices (bleepingcomputer.com)
186 points by doener on Nov 20, 2016 | 47 comments
15.
A $900B Oil Treasure Lies Beneath West Texas Desert (bloomberg.com)
140 points by hourislate on Nov 20, 2016 | 157 comments
16.
Tutorial – Write a System Call (brennan.io)
198 points by zerognowl on Nov 20, 2016 | 16 comments
17.
Spikey Spheres (solipsys.co.uk)
116 points by ColinWright on Nov 20, 2016 | 45 comments
18.
The rise of miniature 'microfactories' (bbc.com)
65 points by kafkaesq on Nov 20, 2016 | 25 comments
19.
Increasing Attacker Cost Using Immutable Infrastructure (diogomonica.com)
110 points by diogomonicapt on Nov 20, 2016 | 36 comments
20.
Learning to Superoptimize Programs (arxiv.org)
121 points by chivalrous on Nov 20, 2016 | 24 comments
21.
Scheduling Algorithms in Big Data: A Survey [pdf] (ijecs.in)
49 points by Katydid on Nov 20, 2016 | 5 comments
22.
New Material Technology to Enhance Efficiency in Artificial Photosynthesis (fujitsu.com)
68 points by kevlened on Nov 20, 2016
23.
The high-tech ideas of Bucky Fuller (aeon.co)
49 points by antigizmo on Nov 19, 2016 | 15 comments
24.
Reinforcement learning with unsupervised auxiliary tasks (deepmind.com)
102 points by joaorico on Nov 20, 2016 | 2 comments
25.
Anatomy of a Program in Memory (2009) (duartes.org)
129 points by Tomte on Nov 20, 2016 | 6 comments
26.
Homestuck in review (medium.com/bbctol)
73 points by networked on Nov 19, 2016 | 23 comments
27.
The Math That’s Too Difficult for Physics (quantamagazine.org)
86 points by nature24 on Nov 20, 2016 | 11 comments
28.
Proof of Stake (avc.com)
73 points by jarsin on Nov 20, 2016 | 77 comments
29.
Programming Has Changed My Life (professorbeekums.com)
139 points by beekums on Nov 19, 2016 | 39 comments
30.
Learn X in Y minutes (learnxinyminutes.com)
161 points by anonu on Nov 20, 2016 | 22 comments

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