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1.
Eigentechno – Principal Component Analysis applied to electronic music (uci.edu)
315 points by umutisik on May 14, 2017 | 58 comments
2.
Badger – A fast key-value store written natively in Go (dgraph.io)
355 points by michaelangerman on May 14, 2017 | 96 comments
3.
Intel and Samsung Gang Up on Qualcomm, Backing FTC Monopoly Suit (bloomberg.com)
181 points by xbmcuser on May 14, 2017 | 118 comments
4.
Tagger News takes a subset of HN articles, analyzes using ML, and applies tags (techcrunch.com)
308 points by var_explained on May 14, 2017 | 64 comments
5.
Why We Are Self-Publishing the Aviary Cookbook (medium.com/nickkokonas)
236 points by wnm on May 14, 2017 | 76 comments
6.
Lockdown – The coming war on general-purpose computing (2012) (boingboing.net)
298 points by ryukafalz on May 14, 2017 | 96 comments
7.
Lessons from last week’s cyberattack (blogs.microsoft.com)
377 points by ycitm on May 14, 2017 | 282 comments
8.
The Brain Can Only Take So Much Focus (hbr.org)
348 points by lxm on May 13, 2017 | 69 comments
9.
WannaCry – New Variants Detected (comae.io)
265 points by remx on May 14, 2017 | 159 comments
10.
What made Bell Labs special? (2012) [pdf] (columbia.edu)
144 points by sndean on May 14, 2017 | 35 comments
11.
Data Science Workflow: Overview and Challenges (acm.org)
211 points by azizsaya on May 14, 2017 | 31 comments
12.
Spanner: Becoming a SQL System [pdf] (acm.org)
162 points by elvinyung on May 14, 2017 | 38 comments
13.
Show HN: Howmanypeoplearearound – Use wifi to calculate number of people around (github.com/schollz)
199 points by qrv3w on May 13, 2017 | 47 comments
14.
Space-Efficient Construction of Compressed Indexes in Deterministic Linear Time (arxiv.org)
197 points by luu on May 14, 2017 | 40 comments
15.
Intel AMT Checker for Linux (github.com/mjg59)
227 points by laamalif on May 14, 2017 | 87 comments
16.
Startup School 12: Alan Kay, Part II [video] (startupschool.org)
137 points by sama on May 13, 2017 | 51 comments
17.
Lisp, Smalltalk, and the Power of Symmetry (2014) (insearchofsecrets.com)
136 points by saturnian on May 13, 2017 | 58 comments
18.
How to Spot a Spook (1974) (cryptome.org)
130 points by mercer on May 14, 2017 | 63 comments
19.
Death by Fire (longreads.com)
78 points by DiabloD3 on May 11, 2017 | 16 comments
20.
HODLR: Fast direct solver and determinant computation for dense linear systems (github.com/sivaramambikasaran)
69 points by sndean on May 14, 2017 | 8 comments
21.
Netflix confirms it is blocking rooted/unlocked Android devices (androidpolice.com)
212 points by msq on May 14, 2017 | 219 comments
22.
WannaCry – The largest ransom-ware infection in history (comae.io)
138 points by remx on May 14, 2017 | 76 comments
23.
Imperfect Forward Secrecy: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice (2015) [pdf] (weakdh.org)
65 points by remx on May 14, 2017 | 6 comments
24.
A Mathematician’s Lament (2002) [pdf] (maa.org)
159 points by Tomte on May 13, 2017 | 27 comments
25.
Programmer’s guide to homogeneous coordinates (hackernoon.com)
102 points by signa11 on May 14, 2017 | 13 comments
26.
Fingerprinting SDN controllers (arxiv.org)
29 points by hadiazz on May 14, 2017 | 2 comments
27.
Your tl;dr by an ai: a deep reinforced model for abstractive summarization (metamind.io)
120 points by etiam on May 13, 2017 | 24 comments
28.
Fwaf – Machine Learning Driven Web Application Firewall (fsecurify.com)
79 points by Faizann20 on May 14, 2017 | 18 comments
29.
Engraving is now reportedly the most automated profession (qz.com)
67 points by bilifuduo on May 14, 2017 | 40 comments
30.
The Lockheed Sea Shadow and the Hughes Mining Barge (aviationintel.com)
71 points by mercantile on May 13, 2017 | 17 comments

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