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1.
US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to consumer telephone data (medium.com/philipn)
1273 points by benaadams on Oct 15, 2017 | 301 comments
2.
Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) (moreisdifferent.com)
373 points by dralley on Oct 15, 2017 | 293 comments
3.
What is Nix and why you should try it (branchable.com)
461 points by vletrmx on Oct 15, 2017 | 193 comments
4.
New Research on How Ride-Hailing Impacts Travel Behavior (planetizen.com)
604 points by WisNorCan on Oct 15, 2017 | 441 comments
5.
My 20-Year Experience of Software Development Methodologies (zwischenzugs.wordpress.com)
413 points by zwischenzug on Oct 15, 2017 | 147 comments
6.
The real roots of early city states may rip up the textbooks (newscientist.com)
133 points by walterbell on Oct 14, 2017 | 77 comments
7.
Jeremy the Lefty Snail Is Dead, but His Offspring Are All Right (nytimes.com)
176 points by elijahparker on Oct 15, 2017 | 41 comments
8.
Boiling lead and black art: a history of mathematical typography (practicallyefficient.com)
138 points by fanf2 on Oct 15, 2017 | 39 comments
9.
Notes on Data Structures and Programming Techniques (yale.edu)
276 points by aportnoy on Oct 14, 2017 | 27 comments
10.
Michel Jouvet, Who Unlocked REM Sleep’s Secrets, Dies at 91 (nytimes.com)
81 points by SREinSF on Oct 14, 2017 | 6 comments
11.
As the 747 Begins Its Final Approach, a Pilot Takes a Flight Down Memory Lane (nytimes.com)
176 points by danso on Oct 15, 2017 | 117 comments
12.
The trouble with text-only email (lwn.net)
191 points by corbet on Oct 15, 2017 | 152 comments
13.
Switching from Common Lisp to Julia (tpapp.github.io)
140 points by fanf2 on Oct 15, 2017 | 72 comments
14.
An Interview with Stanley Kubrick (1969) (visual-memory.co.uk)
104 points by helloworld on Oct 15, 2017 | 12 comments
15.
A Boy and His Atom: Smallest Stop-Motion Film [video] (youtube.com)
115 points by ssijak on Oct 14, 2017 | 32 comments
16.
Unbalanced reads from SSDs in software RAID mirrors in Linux (utcc.utoronto.ca)
113 points by zdw on Oct 15, 2017 | 47 comments
17.
GNU UPC (gccupc.org)
85 points by 0x4542 on Oct 15, 2017 | 21 comments
18.
Nsjail – A light-weight process isolation tool for Linux (nsjail.com)
87 points by LaFolle on Oct 15, 2017 | 21 comments
19.
Death of the Nile (bbc.co.uk)
156 points by dberhane on Oct 15, 2017 | 61 comments
20.
Show HN: Two grpc microservices with mutual TLS and token authentication in Go (github.com/enricofoltran)
61 points by enricofoltran on Oct 15, 2017 | 6 comments
21.
Cognitive Biases in Programming (medium.com/evidanary)
109 points by yranadive on Oct 15, 2017 | 47 comments
22.
Paperclips (decisionproblem.com)
257 points by yangyang on Oct 14, 2017 | 112 comments
23.
Calamine: Excel file reader, written in Rust (github.com/tafia)
120 points by TAForObvReasons on Oct 15, 2017 | 35 comments
24.
A “negative emissions” plant has opened in Iceland (qz.com)
129 points by jonbaer on Oct 15, 2017 | 58 comments
25.
Rv8: a high performance RISC-V to x86 binary translator [pdf] (carrv.github.io)
71 points by ingve on Oct 15, 2017 | 20 comments
26.
Arithmetic Gas (mathematicalgarden.wordpress.com)
82 points by pizza on Oct 15, 2017 | 3 comments
27.
Predicting, Decrypting, and Abusing WPA2/802.11 Group Keys [pdf] (usenix.org)
243 points by hadronzoo on Oct 15, 2017 | 49 comments
28.
WebJack: Two-way communication between the browser and Arduino using SoftModem (webjack.io)
76 points by unterbahn on Oct 15, 2017 | 8 comments
29.
Making the Case for Feature-Rich Memory Systems (2016) [pdf] (utah.edu)
43 points by ingve on Oct 15, 2017 | 15 comments
30.
OCLint (oclint.org)
65 points by 0x4542 on Oct 15, 2017 | 7 comments

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