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1.
Documenting the Web together (windows.com)
1210 points by marvinpinto on Oct 18, 2017 | 203 comments
2.
75% decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas (plos.org)
901 points by kawera on Oct 18, 2017 | 432 comments
3.
AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch (deepmind.com)
923 points by stablemap on Oct 18, 2017 | 311 comments
4.
New law bans California employers from asking applicants their prior salary (sfgate.com)
835 points by ssaxena80 on Oct 18, 2017 | 651 comments
5.
Just own the damn robots (thereformedbroker.com)
474 points by npalli on Oct 17, 2017 | 342 comments
6.
UK spies using social media data for mass surveillance (techcrunch.com)
207 points by infodroid on Oct 17, 2017 | 148 comments
7.
Napa.js: A multi-threaded JavaScript runtime (github.com/microsoft)
419 points by rimher on Oct 18, 2017 | 204 comments
8.
Word vectors are awesome but you don’t need a neural network to find them (stitchfix.com)
276 points by blopeur on Oct 18, 2017 | 66 comments
9.
Dollar General Hits a Gold Mine in Rural America (bloomberg.com)
227 points by trevin on Oct 18, 2017 | 311 comments
10.
It Takes Just $1k to Track Someone's Location with Mobile Ads (wired.com)
292 points by AndrewDucker on Oct 18, 2017 | 102 comments
11.
Selling My Bootstrapped SaaS Business (indiehackers.com)
311 points by AlikhanPeleg on Oct 18, 2017 | 120 comments
12.
A Neural Network in 11 Lines of Python (2015) (iamtrask.github.io)
234 points by williamtrask on Oct 18, 2017 | 26 comments
13.
30k medical studies may be invalid due to contaminated cell cultures (sciencealert.com)
145 points by anigbrowl on Oct 17, 2017 | 58 comments
14.
Show HN: Writing – A lightweight distraction-free editor (MathJax and Markdown) (github.com/josephernest)
133 points by josephernest on Oct 17, 2017 | 48 comments
15.
The Looming Decline of the Public Research University (washingtonmonthly.com)
152 points by stablemap on Oct 18, 2017 | 146 comments
16.
Feynman’s Breakthrough: Disregard Others (stepsandleaps.wordpress.com)
375 points by knight17 on Oct 18, 2017 | 122 comments
17.
MIT Economist Has a New Theory of Finance (bloomberg.com)
129 points by allenleee on Oct 18, 2017 | 59 comments
18.
On the pleasures of stumbling upon books in the wrong places (theparisreview.org)
123 points by diodorus on Oct 18, 2017 | 39 comments
19.
What Is QSB Stock and Why Does It Matter for Startups? (capitalandgrowth.org)
94 points by jkuria on Oct 17, 2017 | 21 comments
20.
WePay's (YC S09) next chapter (wepay.com)
147 points by stevewepay on Oct 18, 2017 | 81 comments
21.
Stealing Sensitive Browser Data with the W3C Ambient Light Sensor API (lukaszolejnik.com)
105 points by epaga on Oct 18, 2017 | 26 comments
22.
Linotype Typesetting (1960) [video] (youtube.com)
76 points by CaliforniaKarl on Oct 17, 2017 | 49 comments
23.
Pixel Visual Core: Google’s first custom-designed co-processor (blog.google)
172 points by dazbradbury on Oct 17, 2017 | 95 comments
24.
Data Center TCP: TCP Congestion Control for Data Centers (ietf.org)
87 points by okket on Oct 18, 2017 | 15 comments
25.
Stellar collision confirms theoretical predictions about the periodic table (nature.com)
92 points by rstoj on Oct 17, 2017 | 59 comments
26.
The Mars company has sponsored hundreds of studies to show cocoa is good (vox.com)
178 points by inertial on Oct 18, 2017 | 122 comments
27.
Practical Public Key Cryptography (hackaday.com)
153 points by rbanffy on Oct 18, 2017 | 35 comments
28.
Responsibility and the Encryption Debate: A Response to DAG Rosenstein (justsecurity.org)
47 points by cratermoon on Oct 18, 2017 | 14 comments
29.
Hey Siri: An On-Device DNN-Powered Voice Trigger for Apple’s Personal Assistant (machinelearning.apple.com)
134 points by gok on Oct 18, 2017 | 81 comments
30.
TiDB – a global scale distributed DB (pingcap.github.io)
163 points by eigenrick on Oct 18, 2017 | 39 comments

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