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1.
Criticizing Google got me fired (washingtonpost.com)
1010 points by pyrophane on Aug 31, 2017 | 440 comments
2.
ESPN Football Analyst Walks Away, Disturbed by Brain Trauma on Field (nytimes.com)
436 points by daegloe on Aug 31, 2017 | 383 comments
3.
Announcing Rust 1.20 (rust-lang.org)
468 points by steveklabnik on Aug 31, 2017 | 272 comments
4.
Astronomers have found the stars responsible for an explosion recorded in 1437 (theatlantic.com)
285 points by curtis on Aug 31, 2017 | 60 comments
5.
Interview with Ryan Dahl, Creator of Node.js (mappingthejourney.com)
393 points by WhiteSource1 on Aug 31, 2017 | 228 comments
6.
LogDevice: a distributed data store for logs (facebook.com)
186 points by vquemener on Aug 31, 2017 | 40 comments
7.
Transformer: A Novel Neural Network Architecture for Language Understanding (googleblog.com)
280 points by andrew3726 on Aug 31, 2017 | 19 comments
8.
A Game of Life on Penrose Tilings (arxiv.org)
138 points by sohkamyung on Aug 31, 2017 | 34 comments
9.
The FCC.gov Website Lets You Upload Malware Using Its Own Public API Key (hackernoon.com)
324 points by knaik94 on Aug 31, 2017 | 100 comments
10.
Tesla Model S battery degradation data (steinbuch.wordpress.com)
267 points by dabeeeenster on Aug 31, 2017 | 251 comments
11.
A candy man revolutionized the sushi industry (bloombergquint.com)
172 points by pshaw on Aug 31, 2017 | 111 comments
12.
Object detection: an overview in the age of Deep Learning (tryolabs.com)
180 points by mfagio on Aug 31, 2017 | 20 comments
13.
Data-driven Scala Programming (buildo.io)
98 points by francescogior on Aug 31, 2017 | 25 comments
14.
Databases and Distributed Deadlocks: A FAQ (citusdata.com)
114 points by fdr on Aug 31, 2017 | 9 comments
15.
Iowa's handout to Apple illustrates the folly of corporate welfare deals (latimes.com)
198 points by sverige on Aug 31, 2017 | 230 comments
16.
Repeating Radio Signals Coming from Distant Galaxy Detected (newsweek.com)
193 points by revicon on Aug 30, 2017 | 149 comments
17.
Cost-Based Optimizer in Apache Spark 2.2 (databricks.com)
98 points by dmatrix on Aug 31, 2017 | 5 comments
18.
Your load is too heavy: Zork deep reading (zarfhome.com)
231 points by panic on Aug 31, 2017 | 32 comments
19.
Is Romantic Desire Predictable? Machine Learning Applied to Initial Attraction (nih.gov)
118 points by kolbe on Aug 31, 2017 | 63 comments
20.
Naval Ravikant on Time [audio] (factordaily.com)
102 points by ston3r on Aug 30, 2017 | 27 comments
21.
How NASA Kept the ISS Flying While Harvey Hit Mission Control (theverge.com)
162 points by Tomte on Aug 31, 2017 | 49 comments
22.
Epsilon: Graphing calculator operating system (github.com/numworks)
106 points by shawndumas on Aug 30, 2017 | 64 comments
23.
The Why and How of Google AMP at Condé Nast (condenast.com)
104 points by taveras on Aug 30, 2017 | 91 comments
24.
Neural networks meet space (symmetrymagazine.org)
74 points by qubitcoder on Aug 31, 2017 | 30 comments
25.
Rural America Is Building Its Own Internet Because No One Else Will (vice.com)
135 points by leotravis10 on Aug 31, 2017 | 89 comments
26.
Impact of breast milk on IQ, brain size and white matter development (2010) (nih.gov)
169 points by lainon on Aug 31, 2017 | 156 comments
27.
Mailable Live Animals (usps.com)
189 points by aaronbrethorst on Aug 31, 2017 | 129 comments
28.
The Blind Traveler (mentalfloss.com)
41 points by BobbyVsTheDevil on Aug 31, 2017 | 3 comments
29.
WiMonitor: Wi-Fi Threat Monitoring Simplified (hackerarsenal.com)
63 points by PenAcad on Aug 30, 2017 | 39 comments
30.
Bootstrapping Kubernetes Google Cloud Platform without scripts (github.com/kelseyhightower)
153 points by kelseyhightower on Aug 31, 2017 | 25 comments

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