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1.
Counterintuitive problem: People in a room keep giving dollars to random others (decisionsciencenews.com)
555 points by aqsalose on July 9, 2017 | 240 comments
2.
Writing a Service Worker (hacklabo.com)
227 points by kayfloriven on July 9, 2017 | 55 comments
3.
Minimal PDF (brendanzagaeski.appspot.com)
363 points by ingve on July 8, 2017 | 99 comments
4.
Why People from Manchester Are Mancunians, Not Manchesterians (atlasobscura.com)
186 points by sohkamyung on July 8, 2017 | 131 comments
5.
DRM Is Toxic to Culture (meshedinsights.com)
394 points by jrepinc on July 9, 2017 | 250 comments
6.
Show HN: Very basic blockchain-free cryptocurrency PoC in Python (github.com/dutchgraa)
171 points by Graa on July 9, 2017 | 65 comments
7.
Underrated Startup Success Factors (capitalandgrowth.org)
218 points by yinso on July 9, 2017 | 63 comments
8.
Postgres Job Queues and Failure by MVCC (brandur.org)
112 points by craigkerstiens on July 9, 2017 | 48 comments
9.
How startups such as Dropbox, Airbnb, Groupon acquired their first users (reddit.com)
251 points by catherinezng on July 9, 2017 | 49 comments
10.
California Health and Human Services Open Data Portal (ca.gov)
96 points by ruffrey on July 9, 2017 | 12 comments
11.
BayesDB: A probabilistic programming platform (csail.mit.edu)
222 points by erwan on July 9, 2017 | 15 comments
12.
Show HN: Using functions to construct Regex in Python (github.com/iogf)
105 points by iogf on July 9, 2017 | 55 comments
13.
Verdi – Formally Verifying Distributed Systems (2016) (uwplse.org)
166 points by mindcrime on July 9, 2017 | 32 comments
14.
Startups that were massively funded that died in 2017 (businessinsider.com)
216 points by altstar on July 9, 2017 | 107 comments
15.
It's been 191 days since Google Drive worked for me (dynalist.io)
500 points by wabi-sabi on July 9, 2017 | 230 comments
16.
Understanding Support Vector Machine via Examples (sadanand-singh.github.io)
142 points by sadanand4singh on July 9, 2017
17.
Steve Jobs and the Missing “Intel Inside” Sticker (kensegall.com)
187 points by drawkbox on July 8, 2017 | 107 comments
18.
Abandoned Soviet Space Shuttles [video] (youtube.com)
159 points by enricotal on July 9, 2017 | 40 comments
19.
Using chip memory more efficiently (news.mit.edu)
81 points by redtuesday on July 9, 2017 | 12 comments
20.
The Matrix Cookbook (2012) [pdf] (dtu.dk)
103 points by nabla9 on July 8, 2017 | 9 comments
21.
Beipanjiang Bridge, suspended 565m above China’s south-west mountains [video] (bbc.com)
169 points by mudil on July 9, 2017 | 101 comments
22.
Cameras are about to get a lot smaller (economist.com)
193 points by spuz on July 8, 2017 | 86 comments
23.
Common Data Structures Explained with Videos and Exercises (freecodecamp.org)
156 points by quincyla on July 9, 2017 | 15 comments
24.
Show HN: Console based email client with Lua scripting (lumail.org)
78 points by stevekemp on July 9, 2017 | 22 comments
25.
Porting NetBSD to Allwinner H3 SoCs (netbsd.org)
65 points by zdw on July 9, 2017 | 10 comments
26.
Grsecurity: Potential contributory infringement and breach of contract risk (perens.com)
121 points by SwellJoe on July 9, 2017 | 120 comments
27.
How Much Should Expectation Drive Science? (nautil.us)
42 points by urahara on July 9, 2017
28.
17th Century Shopping List Discovered Under Floorboards of English Home (smithsonianmag.com)
124 points by samclemens on July 9, 2017 | 22 comments
29.
Diskhash – Disk-based, persistent hash tables (metarabbit.wordpress.com)
68 points by tekacs on July 8, 2017 | 36 comments
30.
Architect explains why large development in LA seems to be luxury development (reddit.com)
123 points by intull on July 9, 2017 | 59 comments

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