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1.
On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs nets a higher return (erikrood.com)
739 points by qwerty2020 on June 4, 2017 | 640 comments
2.
Jean Sammet, co-creator of COBOL, has died (nytimes.com)
429 points by andrewbinstock on June 4, 2017 | 105 comments
3.
A list of practical projects that anyone can solve in any programming language (github.com/karan)
483 points by emersonrsantos on June 4, 2017 | 57 comments
4.
Identifying the dimensions used by the primate brain to decode faces (nytimes.com)
197 points by pk2200 on June 4, 2017 | 39 comments
5.
The Wonderful WiFi232: BBSing Has Never Been Easier (bytecellar.com)
195 points by ingve on June 4, 2017 | 23 comments
6.
SecureLogin Authentication Protocol 1.0 (medium.com/homakov)
243 points by digitalnalogika on June 4, 2017 | 186 comments
7.
Cryptoeconomics 101 (thecontrol.co)
264 points by ntomaino on June 4, 2017 | 112 comments
8.
UK PM wants to ban crypto: here's what it would cost, and why it won't work anyway (boingboing.net)
407 points by ColinWright on June 4, 2017 | 221 comments
9.
A Practical Intro to Macros in Rust (danielkeep.github.io)
188 points by jxub on June 4, 2017 | 24 comments
10.
Tuning Your DBMS Automatically with Machine Learning (amazon.com)
127 points by blopeur on June 3, 2017 | 24 comments
11.
Users report parallel compiling is causing segfault on Ryzen Linux (phoronix.com)
116 points by rnhmjoj on June 3, 2017 | 31 comments
12.
TeX Live 2017 released (tug.org)
161 points by l2dy on June 4, 2017 | 62 comments
13.
Dolphin Emulator Progress Report (dolphin-emu.org)
250 points by Nition on June 4, 2017 | 23 comments
14.
First draft of the new Artificial Intelligence and Games textbook available now (gameaibook.org)
124 points by togelius on June 3, 2017 | 15 comments
15.
FlexBox Cheatsheet (vudav.github.io)
227 points by mozillas on June 4, 2017 | 32 comments
16.
Convert a markdown manuscript to pdf/epub/mobi e-books (chrisanthropic.github.io)
118 points by accordionclown on June 4, 2017 | 27 comments
17.
ARM Pointer Authentication (lwn.net)
106 points by subleq on June 4, 2017 | 46 comments
18.
PG-Strom: SSD-To-GPU Direct SQL Execution (github.com/pg-strom)
124 points by blopeur on June 4, 2017 | 37 comments
19.
The Microarchitecture of Intel, AMD and VIA CPUs [pdf] (agner.org)
205 points by CalChris on June 4, 2017 | 15 comments
20.
Rosette – A solver-aided programming language that extends Racket (emina.github.io)
142 points by tosh on June 4, 2017 | 11 comments
21.
Differences between Tmux vs Screen (2015) (wtanaka.com)
186 points by 0x54MUR41 on June 4, 2017 | 88 comments
22.
Ask HN: Why does visual programming suck?
212 points by dvdhsu on June 4, 2017 | 315 comments
23.
IBM 5110 PALM (Put All Logic in Microcode) CPU from 1978 (rugged-portable.com)
67 points by peter_d_sherman on June 4, 2017 | 40 comments
24.
Clojure Linear Algebra Refresher: 1 – Vector Spaces (dragan.rocks)
142 points by tosh on June 4, 2017 | 29 comments
25.
China's new submarine engine (popsci.com)
129 points by smacktoward on June 4, 2017 | 70 comments
26.
Understanding the “GPL is a Contract” court case (perens.com)
130 points by sohkamyung on June 4, 2017 | 48 comments
27.
Getting Hacked, Lessons Learned (avc.com)
169 points by ikeboy on June 4, 2017 | 99 comments
28.
SpaceX sticks 11th rocket landing after launching first used Dragon capsule (theverge.com)
240 points by smb06 on June 3, 2017 | 69 comments
29.
Why we should love null results (the100.ci)
83 points by DanBC on June 4, 2017 | 26 comments
30.
Rory Sutherland on The Psychology of Advertising and more [audio] (libsyn.com)
52 points by da02 on June 4, 2017 | 5 comments

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