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1.
Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through security community (thehill.com)
664 points by rbanffy on Aug 4, 2017 | 334 comments
2.
Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud (washingtonpost.com)
752 points by fmihaila on Aug 4, 2017 | 587 comments
3.
Roman Ruins Found in France Are Called ‘Exceptional’ (nytimes.com)
275 points by whocansay on Aug 4, 2017 | 145 comments
4.
US Supreme Court will require electronic filings and post them free online (washingtonpost.com)
259 points by scott00 on Aug 4, 2017 | 32 comments
5.
Prodigy: A new tool for radically efficient machine teaching (explosion.ai)
286 points by Young_God on Aug 4, 2017 | 69 comments
6.
Apple has proven me wrong about HomeKit (theverge.com)
187 points by tambourine_man on Aug 4, 2017 | 71 comments
7.
Learn GraphQL with GitHub (github.com/blog)
191 points by happy-go-lucky on Aug 4, 2017 | 35 comments
8.
Porting 4.5K lines of C to Go (kowalczyk.info)
245 points by ingve on Aug 4, 2017 | 143 comments
9.
Languages Which Almost Became CSS (cloudflare.com)
301 points by zackbloom on Aug 3, 2017 | 136 comments
10.
Vermont Medical School Says Goodbye to Lectures (npr.org)
109 points by happy-go-lucky on Aug 4, 2017 | 66 comments
11.
Software is narrative (infiniteundo.com)
92 points by dhaneshnm on Aug 4, 2017 | 41 comments
12.
The slow currentTimeMillis() (pzemtsov.github.io)
323 points by jsnell on Aug 4, 2017 | 52 comments
13.
Mono for Unreal Engine (mono-ue.github.io)
146 points by markatkinson on Aug 4, 2017 | 95 comments
14.
The Loyal Engineers Steering NASA’s Voyager Probes Across the Universe (nytimes.com)
307 points by gaius on Aug 4, 2017 | 51 comments
15.
Update on Bitcoin Cash (coinbase.com)
276 points by ahoang18 on Aug 3, 2017 | 226 comments
16.
Building account systems (plan99.net)
138 points by jsnell on Aug 4, 2017 | 56 comments
17.
A Dinosaur So Well Preserved It Looks Like a Statue (theatlantic.com)
310 points by brisance on Aug 4, 2017 | 27 comments
18.
Introducing the Keybase filesystem (keybase.io)
256 points by tosh on Aug 3, 2017 | 79 comments
19.
Ryzen CPU HyperThreads break if 100% busy and interrupted to top of Memory (freebsd.org)
169 points by sounds on Aug 4, 2017 | 66 comments
20.
Waiting for Apache Open Office (lwn.net)
119 points by dankohn1 on Aug 4, 2017 | 72 comments
21.
Apple Plans to Release a Cellular-Capable Watch to Break iPhone Ties (bloomberg.com)
131 points by calvin_c on Aug 4, 2017 | 120 comments
22.
Stackblitz – Online VS Code Editor for Angular and React (stackblitz.com)
240 points by uptown on Aug 4, 2017 | 72 comments
23.
Roman Britain in Black and White (the-tls.co.uk)
99 points by DanBC on Aug 4, 2017 | 99 comments
24.
Digital coins may be on the verge of going mainstream (nytimes.com)
190 points by jonbaer on Aug 3, 2017 | 224 comments
25.
'That Fentanyl – That's Death': A Story of Recovery in Baltimore (npr.org)
106 points by Mz on Aug 3, 2017 | 113 comments
26.
Go reliability and durability at Dropbox (sourcegraph.com)
194 points by astdb on Aug 4, 2017 | 101 comments
27.
Can you make your brain not see this circle illusion? (syfy.com)
186 points by sohkamyung on Aug 4, 2017 | 71 comments
28.
Distribution of scientific results should be in the hands of the scientist (experiment.com)
69 points by breck on Aug 3, 2017 | 14 comments
29.
I was wrong (part 2) (liorpachter.wordpress.com)
95 points by adenadel on Aug 3, 2017 | 38 comments
30.
The Development of Chez Scheme (2006) [pdf] (indiana.edu)
98 points by tosh on Aug 3, 2017 | 21 comments

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