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1.
Magic Lantern (magiclantern.fm)
707 points by chris_overseas on Feb 18, 2019 | 234 comments
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I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 Megapixel image of the moon (reddit.com)
873 points by sohkamyung on Feb 18, 2019 | 113 comments
3.
A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency (news.mit.edu)
584 points by salvadormon on Feb 18, 2019 | 815 comments
4.
LD_PRELOAD: The Hero We Need and Deserve (jessfraz.com)
352 points by ingve on Feb 17, 2019 | 139 comments
5.
Harder programming questions do a worse job of predicting outcomes (triplebyte.com)
507 points by Harj on Feb 18, 2019 | 511 comments
6.
Muscle memory discovery ends 'use it or lose it' dogma (sciencedaily.com)
236 points by lxm on Feb 17, 2019 | 125 comments
7.
Cache Eviction: When Are Randomized Algorithms Better Than LRU? (2014) (danluu.com)
235 points by zwliew on Feb 18, 2019 | 42 comments
8.
Drug Combo Creates New Neurons from Neighboring Cells (technologynetworks.com)
226 points by lettergram on Feb 18, 2019 | 52 comments
9.
Advent of Code 2018, in Coq (github.com/lysxia)
149 points by szemet on Feb 18, 2019 | 43 comments
10.
Kodak's Discovery of A-Bomb Testing (2016) (popularmechanics.com)
186 points by howard941 on Feb 18, 2019 | 47 comments
11.
Japanese government will access home devices in security survey (nhk.or.jp)
186 points by sprague on Feb 18, 2019 | 94 comments
12.
Explaining Code Using ASCII Art (regehr.org)
209 points by dmit on Feb 18, 2019 | 47 comments
13.
Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (2018) [pdf] (incompleteideas.net)
205 points by atomroflbomber on Feb 18, 2019 | 23 comments
14.
Hexagonal Grids (2013) (redblobgames.com)
337 points by skilled on Feb 17, 2019 | 46 comments
15.
WorldWideWeb (adactio.com)
96 points by aaronbrethorst on Feb 18, 2019 | 30 comments
16.
Home-built 737 cockpit (flightdeck737.be)
157 points by ycombonator on Feb 18, 2019 | 31 comments
17.
BlazingSQL – GPU SQL Engine Now Runs Over 20X Faster Than Apache Spark (blazingdb.com)
192 points by felipe_aramburu on Feb 18, 2019 | 76 comments
18.
National Sword (99percentinvisible.org)
189 points by danso on Feb 18, 2019 | 70 comments
19.
The Single Rotation rule: simple and rich reversible cellular automaton (2013) (dmishin.blogspot.com)
112 points by bemmu on Feb 18, 2019 | 19 comments
20.
JPL Institutional Coding Standard for the C Programming Language (2009) [pdf] (nasa.gov)
135 points by Alupis on Feb 18, 2019 | 79 comments
21.
AWS Nitro System (mvdirona.com)
161 points by ingve on Feb 17, 2019 | 8 comments
22.
The shady economics of ‘buy one, get one free’ deals (thehustle.co)
295 points by zzaner on Feb 18, 2019 | 239 comments
23.
How the US has hidden its empire (theguardian.com)
224 points by unmole on Feb 18, 2019 | 97 comments
24.
Implementing End-To-End Encryption in Matrix Clients (matrix.org)
122 points by Sami_Lehtinen on Feb 18, 2019 | 22 comments
25.
Space Based ADS-B (radarbox24.com)
79 points by zeristor on Feb 18, 2019 | 15 comments
26.
How I Built the Flying Cart (1960) [pdf] (vintageprojects.com)
39 points by spking on Feb 17, 2019 | 10 comments
27.
A Man Who Questioned Everything (nybooks.com)
73 points by Elof on Feb 17, 2019 | 16 comments
28.
Warning: Debian stable kernel upgrade breaks most ARM SBC (debian.org)
132 points by geppetto on Feb 17, 2019 | 37 comments
29.
JavaScript-Based Spreadsheet-Like Formulas in Google Docs (chrome.google.com)
74 points by MikaelMayer on Feb 18, 2019 | 23 comments
30.
How Badly Is Google Books Search Broken, and Why? (sappingattention.blogspot.com)
134 points by longdefeat on Feb 18, 2019 | 98 comments

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