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1.
A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance (apple.com)
1176 points by jayachdee on Dec 28, 2017 | 832 comments
2.
Effective Engineer – Notes (gist.github.com)
751 points by signa11 on Dec 28, 2017 | 225 comments
3.
Economics of Minecraft (alicemaz.com)
642 points by scribu on Dec 28, 2017 | 112 comments
4.
India’s IT industry laid off more than 56k employees this year (qz.com)
495 points by codesternews on Dec 27, 2017 | 394 comments
5.
No boundaries for user identities: Web trackers exploit browser login managers (freedom-to-tinker.com)
265 points by randomwalker on Dec 27, 2017 | 62 comments
6.
Learning from Scratch by Thinking Fast and Slow (davidbarber.github.io)
335 points by rusht on Dec 27, 2017 | 14 comments
7.
The Digital Advertising Duopoly (avc.com)
149 points by kernelv on Dec 28, 2017 | 110 comments
8.
Building a Distributed Log from Scratch: Data Replication (bravenewgeek.com)
217 points by bhattisatish on Dec 28, 2017 | 21 comments
9.
Apollo Guidance Computer Talk (ccc.de)
115 points by StanAngeloff on Dec 28, 2017 | 18 comments
10.
The lucrative business of America’s opioid crisis (nytimes.com)
263 points by dpflan on Dec 28, 2017 | 192 comments
11.
C++17 constexpr everything, or as much as the compiler can (solarianprogrammer.com)
182 points by AlexeyBrin on Dec 28, 2017 | 116 comments
12.
Road map to clean energy using laser beam ignition of boron-hydrogen fusion (cambridge.org)
146 points by richardw on Dec 28, 2017 | 55 comments
13.
Building a Thermal Camera (damow.net)
167 points by jjwiseman on Dec 27, 2017 | 39 comments
14.
Reading Mathematics (2002) [pdf] (cornell.edu)
172 points by kercker on Dec 27, 2017 | 20 comments
15.
Zerg: Boot a VM instance per request, all in under 250 ms (erlangonxen.org)
162 points by tylerhou on Dec 27, 2017 | 91 comments
16.
High Sierra macOS freezing and stops (discussions.apple.com)
319 points by mhasbini on Dec 28, 2017 | 327 comments
17.
/bin/false is not security (2005) (semicomplete.com)
110 points by jessaustin on Dec 28, 2017 | 65 comments
18.
New California law allows liquor companies to pay for free rides (sacbee.com)
89 points by lxm on Dec 27, 2017 | 75 comments
19.
How I Find Consulting Clients (gkogan.co)
333 points by gk1 on Dec 28, 2017 | 42 comments
20.
My Favorite Deep Learning Papers of 2017 (cachestocaches.com)
172 points by gjstein on Dec 28, 2017 | 13 comments
21.
Why TLS 1.3 isn't in browsers yet (cloudflare.com)
190 points by el_duderino on Dec 26, 2017 | 116 comments
22.
Neuroscientist Ben Barres has died (stanford.edu)
95 points by alexholehouse on Dec 28, 2017 | 12 comments
23.
What Amazon's Alexa economy pays the people building its skills (cnet.com)
119 points by bcaulfield on Dec 27, 2017 | 63 comments
24.
Understanding image histograms with OpenCV (lmcaraig.com)
88 points by se7entyse7en on Dec 28, 2017 | 12 comments
25.
Travel, Budget Beds, and the Homeless (ricksteves.com)
112 points by wallflower on Dec 27, 2017 | 36 comments
26.
Face2Face: Real-Time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos (niessnerlab.org)
109 points by signa11 on Dec 28, 2017 | 14 comments
27.
Evidence-Based Guidelines for Writing Questions on Stack Overflow (arxiv.org)
75 points by lainon on Dec 26, 2017 | 57 comments
28.
DO Installer – An installer for getting apps running quickly on DigitalOcean (71m.us)
64 points by styfle on Dec 28, 2017 | 14 comments
29.
Functional architecture is Ports and Adapters (2016) (ploeh.dk)
77 points by mpweiher on Dec 27, 2017 | 9 comments
30.
A Tech-Driven Boom Is Coming; Please Be Patient (wsj.com)
130 points by lxm on Dec 28, 2017 | 123 comments

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