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1.
Doomsday planning for less crazy folk (coredump.cx)
575 points by mcone on Aug 27, 2017 | 330 comments
2.
BGP leaks causing internet outages in Japan and beyond (bgpmon.net)
311 points by zakki on Aug 27, 2017 | 59 comments
3.
DIY Powerwall Builders Are Using Recycled Laptop Batteries to Power Their Homes (vice.com)
304 points by lxm on Aug 27, 2017 | 178 comments
4.
Maybe We All Need a Little Less Balance (nytimes.com)
197 points by tim_sw on Aug 26, 2017 | 82 comments
5.
The Hindu Temple as a Model of Fractal Cosmology (2015) (dataisnature.com)
266 points by vkreso on Aug 27, 2017 | 38 comments
6.
One of the most complex wristwatches ever made (wired.co.uk)
195 points by wilsonfiifi on Aug 27, 2017 | 143 comments
7.
Qantas wants to fly from Sydney to New York or London nonstop (bloomberg.com)
119 points by JumpCrisscross on Aug 26, 2017 | 196 comments
8.
The Most Officialest SkiFree Home Page (2010) (ihoc.net)
173 points by tosh on Aug 27, 2017 | 41 comments
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Google Issuing Refunds to Advertisers Over Fake Traffic, Plans New Safeguard (wsj.com)
204 points by nkurz on Aug 27, 2017 | 207 comments
10.
How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2017 (medium.com/front-end-hacking)
310 points by eropple on Aug 27, 2017 | 161 comments
11.
Trying to corner the market on legal marijuana (gq.com)
124 points by seoguru on Aug 24, 2017 | 64 comments
12.
What makes a good REPL? (vvvvalvalval.github.io)
168 points by mjmein on Aug 27, 2017 | 170 comments
13.
Breaking up the Container Monolith (redhat.com)
104 points by perpetualcrayon on Aug 26, 2017 | 32 comments
14.
Katherine Johnson Biography (nasa.gov)
120 points by wglb on Aug 27, 2017 | 14 comments
15.
“Holy Grail” Bugs in Emulation, Part 2 (mgba.io)
128 points by MBCook on Aug 27, 2017 | 30 comments
16.
Collection of letters by Alan Turing found in filing cabinet (theguardian.com)
152 points by synthmeat on Aug 27, 2017 | 26 comments
17.
BuckleScript: An OCaml to JavaScript compiler (yawar.blogspot.com)
154 points by jasim on Aug 27, 2017 | 84 comments
18.
China's New Wave of Internet Censorship: Name Verification for Online Commenting (thediplomat.com)
217 points by malloryerik on Aug 27, 2017 | 202 comments
19.
Veeder-Root Gasoline Pump Computer Service Manual (gaspumps.us)
82 points by userbinator on Aug 27, 2017 | 16 comments
20.
Uncovering Somalia's forgotten music of the 1970s (aljazeera.com)
84 points by miraj on Aug 27, 2017 | 20 comments
21.
Environmental impacts of food consumption by dogs and cats (plos.org)
165 points by abpavel on Aug 27, 2017 | 89 comments
22.
Electrons flowing like liquid in graphene start a new wave of physics (phys.org)
98 points by carapace on Aug 27, 2017 | 16 comments
23.
A French wine trade war (nytimes.com)
93 points by edu on Aug 27, 2017 | 100 comments
24.
Making Your Own Custom USB Cables (geekhack.org)
101 points by mindcrime on Aug 26, 2017 | 39 comments
25.
Fast geodesic measurements in Go (github.com/jamesmilneruk)
64 points by mapsnapps on Aug 27, 2017 | 10 comments
26.
Why CSP matters I: Keeping things in sync (2016) (reaktor.com)
67 points by tosh on Aug 27, 2017 | 12 comments
27.
The Return of the Cray files (2011) (modularcircuits.com)
40 points by mr_tyzik on Aug 27, 2017 | 13 comments
28.
Vast deposits of lithium could change the global politics of battery production (smithsonianmag.com)
113 points by Mz on Aug 26, 2017 | 42 comments
29.
Kim Dotcom Spying Operation Was Illegal, NZ High Court Rules (torrentfreak.com)
226 points by tg180 on Aug 27, 2017 | 29 comments
30.
A data science investigation of IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and Fandango (freecodecamp.org)
98 points by funspectre on Aug 26, 2017 | 38 comments

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