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1.
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (dataintensive.net)
598 points by wooola on Oct 8, 2017 | 59 comments
2.
Fairchild Semiconductor: 60th Anniversary (medium.com/chmcore)
173 points by carlosgg on Oct 8, 2017 | 27 comments
3.
Deutsche Bank makes source code publicly available for the first time (db.com)
482 points by Khaine on Oct 8, 2017 | 201 comments
4.
Show HN: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find, written in Rust (github.com/sharkdp)
456 points by sharkdp on Oct 8, 2017 | 215 comments
5.
Show HN: An API for filling out PDF forms (formapi.io)
209 points by nathan_f77 on Oct 8, 2017 | 85 comments
6.
Internet speed guarantees must be realistic, says Ofcom (bbc.com)
199 points by ohjeez on Oct 8, 2017 | 187 comments
7.
Menuet – A pre-emptive, real-time and multiprocessor OS written in assembly (menuetos.net)
164 points by walterbell on Oct 8, 2017 | 71 comments
8.
Visualizations for machine learning datasets (github.com/pair-code)
178 points by happy-go-lucky on Oct 8, 2017 | 7 comments
9.
Origins and History of Unix, 1969-1995 (2003) (catb.org)
147 points by 0x4542 on Oct 8, 2017 | 36 comments
10.
Changing Lanes (99percentinvisible.org)
152 points by misnamed on Oct 8, 2017 | 64 comments
11.
Tensorflow sucks (nicodjimenez.github.io)
399 points by nicodjimenez on Oct 8, 2017 | 125 comments
12.
Thoughts on Microsoft's Time-Travel Debugger (ocallahan.org)
233 points by JoshTriplett on Oct 8, 2017 | 72 comments
13.
On the devastating effects of a year in space (brisbanetimes.com.au)
259 points by hunglee2 on Oct 8, 2017 | 130 comments
14.
No Bitcoin-based protocol can handle more than 20M users per month (runeksvendsen.github.io)
276 points by runeks on Oct 8, 2017 | 190 comments
15.
Australian police sting brings down paedophile forum on dark web (theguardian.com)
142 points by kristofferR on Oct 7, 2017 | 108 comments
16.
Scam baiter: Why I risk death threats to expose online cons (bbc.com)
114 points by uladzislau on Oct 7, 2017 | 43 comments
17.
Persisting state between AWS EC2 spot instances (peteris.rocks)
109 points by p8donald on Oct 8, 2017 | 77 comments
18.
Personal Observations on Reliability of Shuttle (1986) (nasa.gov)
109 points by michaelsbradley on Oct 8, 2017 | 15 comments
19.
Rowing across the Atlantic in 48 days (travelmap.net)
118 points by clementmas on Oct 8, 2017 | 32 comments
20.
The Seven Deadly Sins of AI Predictions (technologyreview.com)
155 points by bglusman on Oct 8, 2017 | 87 comments
21.
Are Hunter-Gatherers The Happiest Humans To Inhabit Earth? (npr.org)
99 points by joeyespo on Oct 7, 2017 | 131 comments
22.
Show HN: ciTools – Quickly calculate uncertainty intervals in R (github.com/jthaman)
48 points by jth0 on Oct 8, 2017 | 7 comments
23.
Demonstration of Communication using Neutrinos (2012) (arxiv.org)
65 points by lainon on Oct 8, 2017 | 23 comments
24.
The Cavendish banana is under threat from a fungus (washingtonpost.com)
66 points by lisper on Oct 7, 2017 | 45 comments
25.
The 7th Continent: An ambitious Choose Your Own Adventure-inspired board game (arstechnica.com)
99 points by Tomte on Oct 8, 2017 | 35 comments
26.
Lightning aircraft crash at Hatfield (2013) (fearoflanding.com)
92 points by davesailer on Oct 8, 2017 | 5 comments
27.
Symbolic Algebraic Library written entirely in C# (github.com/ibluesun)
86 points by ahmgeek on Oct 7, 2017 | 26 comments
28.
Computing pioneer Bob Frankston says algorithms are the new bureaucracy [audio] (factordaily.com)
76 points by ston3r on Oct 8, 2017 | 14 comments
29.
When is an Erlang iolist an iovec? (cipht.net)
63 points by luu on Oct 8, 2017 | 4 comments
30.
Ask HN: Learning NoSQL, papers and books
142 points by wareotie on Oct 8, 2017 | 43 comments

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