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1.
Cruise Shows Off Level 4 Skills in SF, Passing Uber and Maybe Waymo (driverless.id)
371 points by paul on Jan 28, 2017 | 143 comments
2.
Carbon monoxide poisoning from 3D laser printer may have killed Berkeley couple (cbslocal.com)
425 points by mbgaxyz on Jan 28, 2017 | 210 comments
3.
Site Reliability Engineering (landing.google.com)
540 points by packetslave on Jan 27, 2017 | 111 comments
4.
Show HN: Magnetissimo – Self-hosted torrent search engine written in Elixir (github.com/sergiotapia)
403 points by sergiotapia on Jan 28, 2017 | 107 comments
5.
Java Without If (ashtonkemerling.com)
352 points by tretiy3 on Jan 27, 2017 | 208 comments
6.
Hackers hit D.C. police closed-circuit camera network, city officials disclose (washingtonpost.com)
164 points by eplanit on Jan 28, 2017 | 32 comments
7.
Time to Take a Stand (samaltman.com)
1131 points by sama on Jan 28, 2017 | 992 comments
8.
'Shimmers' are the newest tool for stealing credit card info (cbc.ca)
180 points by petethomas on Jan 28, 2017 | 86 comments
9.
Why Your Best Thinking Is in the Shower (2014) (openculture.com)
173 points by panabee on Jan 27, 2017 | 66 comments
10.
Show HN: Pydb – a lightweight database with Python syntax queries, using ZeroMQ (github.com/asrp)
130 points by asrp on Jan 28, 2017 | 31 comments
11.
Resources for electronic engineers and hobbyists (github.com/monostable)
183 points by kasbah on Jan 28, 2017 | 31 comments
12.
The Fallacy of Premature Optimization (2009) (acm.org)
137 points by ingve on Jan 28, 2017 | 59 comments
13.
My Next Mac Mini (rustyshelf.org)
426 points by ingve on Jan 28, 2017 | 346 comments
14.
After a century failing to crack an ancient script, linguists turn to machines (theverge.com)
141 points by seycombi on Jan 28, 2017 | 27 comments
15.
A Four Planet System in Orbit, Directly Imaged and Remarkable (nasa.gov)
226 points by hrldcpr on Jan 27, 2017 | 12 comments
16.
Seattle Is Opening First in U.S. “Safe Injection Facility” for Heroin Addicts (buzzfeed.com)
150 points by danso on Jan 28, 2017 | 180 comments
17.
Information Theory and the Foundation of Life (quantamagazine.org)
100 points by alexwg on Jan 26, 2017 | 12 comments
18.
Scientists unveil new form of matter: Time crystals (eurekalert.org)
200 points by mpweiher on Jan 28, 2017 | 69 comments
19.
How Mail.Ru Reduced Email Storage From 50 To 32 PB (smashingmagazine.com)
147 points by riqbal on Jan 28, 2017 | 47 comments
20.
Finding a bug in Win10 BOOTMGR when chaining to NTLDR (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
126 points by yuhong on Jan 27, 2017 | 46 comments
21.
Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return for spring semester (whitehouse.gov)
599 points by obi1kenobi on Jan 28, 2017 | 359 comments
22.
Homebrew, but with Docker images (github.com/bfirsh)
95 points by juanpabloaj on Jan 27, 2017 | 40 comments
23.
Dopamine Cells Influence Our Perception of Time (simonsfoundation.org)
116 points by JabavuAdams on Jan 28, 2017 | 31 comments
24.
Kids can't use computers (2013) (coding2learn.org)
181 points by jjuhl on Jan 28, 2017 | 129 comments
25.
Pull request review mistakes (scottnonnenberg.com)
96 points by scottnonnenberg on Jan 28, 2017 | 30 comments
26.
Forth: The Hacker’s Language (hackaday.com)
216 points by mpweiher on Jan 28, 2017 | 108 comments
27.
Notes on John D. Rockefeller (johnloeber.com)
82 points by johnloeber on Jan 28, 2017 | 50 comments
28.
A college student’s individual analysis of productivity of four years (2016) (medium.com/tiffanyqi)
86 points by dirtyaura on Jan 28, 2017 | 36 comments
29.
Bibliomania: the strange history of compulsive book buying (theguardian.com)
91 points by diodorus on Jan 28, 2017 | 28 comments
30.
Piet – A programming language in which programs look like abstract paintings (dangermouse.net)
152 points by fny on Jan 27, 2017 | 12 comments

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