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1.
Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo (blog.ycombinator.com)
1080 points by cbcowans on Aug 15, 2017 | 1501 comments
2.
Show HN: A stop-motion video of an engine (howacarworks.com)
845 points by AlexMuir on Aug 15, 2017 | 188 comments
3.
Gates Makes Largest Donation Since 2000 with $4.6B Pledge (bloomberg.com)
447 points by adventured on Aug 15, 2017 | 285 comments
4.
I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked (vice.com)
460 points by slyall on Aug 15, 2017 | 318 comments
5.
APIs as infrastructure: future-proofing Stripe with versioning (stripe.com)
498 points by darwhy on Aug 15, 2017 | 50 comments
6.
Selection bias is the most powerful force in education (fredrikdeboer.com)
385 points by gfredtech on Aug 14, 2017 | 178 comments
7.
Dung Beetles Navigate via the Milky Way (nationalgeographic.org)
192 points by komuW on Aug 15, 2017 | 53 comments
8.
Rustgo: Calling Rust from Go with near-zero overhead (filippo.io)
282 points by FiloSottile on Aug 15, 2017 | 68 comments
9.
Ask HN: Is Georgia Tech's Online Master in CS Worth It?
489 points by soneca on Aug 15, 2017 | 210 comments
10.
The HDFS Juggernaut (shodan.io)
144 points by josephscott on Aug 15, 2017 | 59 comments
11.
Feeling bad about feeling bad can make you feel worse (news.berkeley.edu)
263 points by RKoutnik on Aug 14, 2017 | 133 comments
12.
Bezos should put his billions in public libraries (wired.com)
247 points by steven on Aug 15, 2017 | 235 comments
13.
Researchers unravel the biosynthesis of psilocybin (acs.org)
277 points by robin_reala on Aug 15, 2017 | 88 comments
14.
Rust for the Web (thefullsnack.com)
244 points by huydotnet on Aug 15, 2017 | 95 comments
15.
Learnings from One Year of Building an Open Source Elixir Application (achariam.com)
197 points by achariam on Aug 15, 2017 | 23 comments
16.
MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO (techcrunch.com)
206 points by abhi3 on Aug 15, 2017 | 104 comments
17.
Plans for partitioning in PostgreSQL v11 (rhaas.blogspot.com)
241 points by anarazel on Aug 15, 2017 | 44 comments
18.
Text Messages Between Travis Kalanick and Anthony Levandowski (ieee.org)
164 points by edshiro on Aug 15, 2017 | 119 comments
19.
DJI adds an offline mode to its drones for clients with ‘sensitive operations’ (techcrunch.com)
114 points by janober on Aug 14, 2017 | 73 comments
20.
The Rising Return to Non-Cognitive Skill [pdf] (iza.org)
135 points by luu on Aug 15, 2017 | 60 comments
21.
Writing parsers like it is 2017 (acolyer.org)
259 points by ingve on Aug 15, 2017 | 110 comments
22.
Native Encryption for ZFS on Linux (github.com/zfsonlinux)
169 points by funkaster on Aug 14, 2017 | 92 comments
23.
FTC says Uber took a wrong turn with misleading privacy, security promises (ftc.gov)
102 points by artsandsci on Aug 15, 2017 | 28 comments
24.
Teaching an AI to play a simple game using Q-learning (practicalai.io)
118 points by ml-student on Aug 15, 2017 | 8 comments
25.
On Melissa O’Neill’s PCG random number generator (lemire.me)
104 points by ozanonay on Aug 15, 2017 | 83 comments
26.
High-process-count support added to master (dragonflybsd.org)
84 points by tiffanyh on Aug 15, 2017 | 26 comments
27.
Real-time 3D visualization of geospatial data with Blender (github.com/ptabriz)
116 points by based2 on Aug 15, 2017 | 24 comments
28.
The dwarfs of our vocabulary (oup.com)
60 points by Petiver on Aug 15, 2017 | 16 comments
29.
Hand powered drilling tools and machines (lowtechmagazine.com)
91 points by sea6ear on Aug 14, 2017 | 71 comments
30.
The Dao Programming Language (daoscript.org)
99 points by copx on Aug 15, 2017 | 26 comments

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