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1.
Essential Phone, available now (essential.com)
818 points by Garbage on Aug 17, 2017 | 672 comments
2.
Peanut allergy cured in majority of children in immunotherapy trial (theguardian.com)
479 points by DanBC on Aug 17, 2017 | 169 comments
3.
Why We Terminated Daily Stormer (cloudflare.com)
857 points by SamWhited on Aug 16, 2017 | 1526 comments
4.
How Postgres Makes Transactions Atomic (brandur.org)
374 points by craigkerstiens on Aug 16, 2017 | 48 comments
5.
Blood Test That Spots Tumor-Derived DNA in Early-Stage Cancers (hopkinsmedicine.org)
361 points by ncw96 on Aug 17, 2017 | 63 comments
6.
Wekan: An open-source Trello-like kanban (wekan.github.io)
306 points by mcone on Aug 17, 2017 | 92 comments
7.
Making Visible Watermarks More Effective (googleblog.com)
292 points by runesoerensen on Aug 17, 2017 | 96 comments
8.
Assume positive intent (rickmanelius.com)
237 points by mooreds on Aug 17, 2017 | 131 comments
9.
The Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat (bloomberg.com)
225 points by JumpCrisscross on Aug 17, 2017 | 433 comments
10.
Ask HN: What mistakes in your experience does management keep making?
451 points by oggyfredcake on Aug 17, 2017 | 379 comments
11.
BYTE Magazine's Lisp issue (1979) [pdf] (archive.org)
250 points by pmoriarty on Aug 17, 2017 | 151 comments
12.
Concurrency in Swift: One possible approach (gist.github.com)
188 points by spearo77 on Aug 17, 2017 | 103 comments
13.
Hacker claims to have decrypted Apple's Secure Enclave firmware (techrepublic.com)
181 points by runesoerensen on Aug 17, 2017 | 43 comments
14.
FBI pushes private sector to cut ties with Kaspersky (cyberscoop.com)
190 points by drewchainzz on Aug 17, 2017 | 77 comments
15.
A big, successful trial of probiotics (theatlantic.com)
260 points by ValentineC on Aug 17, 2017 | 65 comments
16.
WebRender newsletter (mozillagfx.wordpress.com)
142 points by aorth on Aug 17, 2017 | 15 comments
17.
A programming language from scratch: 3 steps to an interpreter (francisstokes.wordpress.com)
217 points by FrancisStokes on Aug 17, 2017 | 33 comments
18.
Investor Bulletin, July 25: Initial Coin Offerings (sec.gov)
160 points by ops7eng5 on Aug 17, 2017 | 48 comments
19.
Build your own Linux (buildyourownlinux.com)
187 points by ashitlerferad on Aug 16, 2017 | 48 comments
20.
More on Dota 2 (blog.openai.com)
252 points by darwhy on Aug 16, 2017 | 96 comments
21.
Cisco's Feud with Former Star Executive Turns Personal and Costly (foxbusiness.com)
80 points by kjw on Aug 17, 2017 | 57 comments
22.
Forever Labs preserves young stem cells (techcrunch.com)
91 points by janober on Aug 17, 2017 | 18 comments
23.
Elixir in Depth – Reading and personal notes (digitalfreepen.com)
337 points by rudi-c on Aug 17, 2017 | 146 comments
24.
Twenty Questions for Donald Knuth (2014) (informit.com)
111 points by yamaneko on Aug 17, 2017 | 17 comments
25.
When did software go off the rails? (jasonhanley.com)
244 points by jasonhanley on Aug 16, 2017 | 323 comments
26.
Peer-to-Peer Communication Across Network Address Translators (2005) (brynosaurus.com)
119 points by alanfranz on Aug 17, 2017 | 45 comments
27.
Dilution of whisky – the molecular perspective (nature.com)
134 points by Tomte on Aug 17, 2017 | 68 comments
28.
How Reliable Are FinFETs? (semiengineering.com)
72 points by Lind5 on Aug 17, 2017 | 28 comments
29.
X: The First Fully Modular Software Disaster (art.net)
206 points by handpickednames on Aug 17, 2017 | 136 comments
30.
LSU Sues Elsevier for Breach of Contract (arl.org)
211 points by atakan_gurkan on Aug 17, 2017 | 56 comments

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