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1.
Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (2008) (joelonsoftware.com)
393 points by diziet on Sept 11, 2016 | 227 comments
2.
Rolls-Royce’s single-crystal turbine blade casting foundry (theengineer.co.uk)
339 points by pcl on Sept 11, 2016 | 73 comments
3.
Upgrading Autopilot: Seeing the World in Radar (tesla.com)
396 points by _miqu on Sept 11, 2016 | 247 comments
4.
Command-line tools can be faster than a Hadoop cluster (2014) (aadrake.com)
362 points by 0xmohit on Sept 11, 2016 | 171 comments
5.
Why Do Tourists Visit Ancient Ruins Everywhere Except the United States? (priceonomics.com)
292 points by ryan_j_naughton on Sept 11, 2016 | 274 comments
6.
Machine Learning in a Year (medium.com/learning-new-stuff)
359 points by ingve on Sept 11, 2016 | 65 comments
7.
Time crystals might exist after all (phys.org)
143 points by dnetesn on Sept 11, 2016 | 53 comments
8.
Show HN: Colors Used by Popular Sites (paulhebertdesigns.com)
179 points by paulhebert on Sept 11, 2016 | 38 comments
9.
Startup employees don't earn more (80000hours.org)
255 points by z0a on Sept 11, 2016 | 153 comments
10.
The Falling Man (esquire.com)
170 points by kareemm on Sept 11, 2016 | 79 comments
11.
The careless errors of credit reporting agencies (washingtonpost.com)
247 points by jackgavigan on Sept 11, 2016 | 301 comments
12.
How to teach computational thinking (backchannel.com)
130 points by deepakkarki on Sept 11, 2016 | 44 comments
13.
China Will Resurrect the World's Largest Plane (popsci.com)
171 points by lxm on Sept 11, 2016 | 112 comments
14.
Can computers read through a book page by page without opening it? (media.mit.edu)
192 points by triplesec on Sept 11, 2016 | 47 comments
15.
Let's Build a Simple Interpreter, Part 1 (2015) (ruslanspivak.com)
142 points by rspivak on Sept 11, 2016 | 25 comments
16.
The MI6 Spy Who Perfected the Art of the 'Honey Trap' (atlasobscura.com)
127 points by lermontov on Sept 9, 2016 | 40 comments
17.
22nd Century C (procedural.github.io)
130 points by Procedural on Sept 11, 2016 | 101 comments
18.
Why I’m dropping Rust (medium.com/kingoipo)
276 points by posthoctorate on Sept 11, 2016 | 158 comments
19.
Videos of Evolution in Action (theatlantic.com)
128 points by tim_sw on Sept 10, 2016 | 34 comments
20.
When Will New York City Sink? (nymag.com)
92 points by lxm on Sept 11, 2016 | 50 comments
21.
The biggest surprises from living in a simulated Martian habitat for a full year (newatlas.com)
103 points by curtis on Sept 10, 2016 | 59 comments
22.
New report examines how AI might affect urban life (news.harvard.edu)
59 points by ozdave on Sept 11, 2016 | 14 comments
23.
Przybylski's Star (wikipedia.org)
96 points by sgt101 on Sept 10, 2016 | 27 comments
24.
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (justice.gov)
75 points by cinquemb on Sept 11, 2016 | 31 comments
25.
Getting Stuck While Doing TDD, Part 3: Triangulation to the Rescue (tddfellow.com)
62 points by waterlink on Sept 11, 2016 | 40 comments
26.
The Painstaking, Secretive Process of Designing New Money (fastcodesign.com)
78 points by lnguyen on Sept 10, 2016 | 27 comments
27.
Early evidence on “predictive policing” and civil rights (teamupturn.com)
78 points by miraj on Sept 9, 2016 | 76 comments
28.
How Pittsburgh Became Uber’s Driverless Testing Ground (nytimes.com)
70 points by sethbannon on Sept 11, 2016 | 41 comments
29.
The study of acoustic signals and the supposed spoken language of the dolphins (sciencedirect.com)
79 points by darrhiggs on Sept 11, 2016 | 11 comments
30.
The GNU Privacy Handbook (1999) (gnupg.org)
90 points by wieczorek1990 on Sept 11, 2016 | 15 comments

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