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1.
Replacing exploit-ridden firmware with a Linux kernel [pdf] (schd.ws)
368 points by dmmalam on Oct 29, 2017 | 78 comments
2.
The often-overlooked random forest kernel (rmarcus.info)
201 points by stablemap on Oct 29, 2017 | 20 comments
3.
One pixel attack for deceiving deep neural networks (arxiv.org)
260 points by astdb on Oct 29, 2017 | 129 comments
4.
California Wildfires Burned Irreplaceable Documents on Silicon Valley History (pressdemocrat.com)
237 points by curtis on Oct 29, 2017 | 97 comments
5.
Wines Are No Longer Free to Travel Across State Lines (nytimes.com)
173 points by lxm on Oct 29, 2017 | 113 comments
6.
Nothing to Hide – a documentary about surveillance and you [video] (vimeo.com)
276 points by Moru on Oct 29, 2017 | 44 comments
7.
Who Will Rein in Facebook? Challengers Are Lining Up (wsj.com)
185 points by eplanit on Oct 29, 2017 | 171 comments
8.
Facebook denies 'listening' to conversations (bbc.com)
302 points by Jerry2 on Oct 29, 2017 | 404 comments
9.
I cured my tech fatigue by ditching feeds (techcrunch.com)
294 points by lxm on Oct 29, 2017 | 228 comments
10.
The data economy demands a new approach to antitrust rules (economist.com)
152 points by ravij465 on Oct 29, 2017 | 86 comments
11.
Chess master Lev Alburt teaches strategy, patience, and prognostication (bloomberg.com)
98 points by funkylexoo on Oct 29, 2017 | 32 comments
12.
Why would anyone choose Docker over fat binaries? (smashcompany.com)
297 points by signa11 on Oct 29, 2017 | 173 comments
13.
An anti-aging strategy that works in mice is about to be tested in humans (scientificamerican.com)
221 points by molecule on Oct 29, 2017 | 64 comments
14.
The Students Who Discovered Dieselgate (spiegel.de)
151 points by tomohawk on Oct 27, 2017 | 41 comments
15.
Fable: F# to JavaScript compiler (fable.io)
155 points by galfarragem on Oct 29, 2017 | 73 comments
16.
Outlawry, Supervillians, and Modern Law (2010) (lawandthemultiverse.com)
41 points by Mz on Oct 29, 2017 | 26 comments
17.
Torus Earth (2014) (aleph.se)
110 points by mef on Oct 29, 2017 | 17 comments
18.
A Simply Arited Concatenative Language (suhr.github.io)
80 points by jamesbowman on Oct 28, 2017 | 21 comments
19.
Learning Depth-Three Neural Networks in Polynomial Time (arxiv.org)
80 points by abecedarius on Oct 29, 2017 | 26 comments
20.
How to Be a C.E.O., From a Decade’s Worth of Them (nytimes.com)
215 points by dsr12 on Oct 29, 2017 | 72 comments
21.
Man flies over South Africa in a chair tied to helium balloons [video] (theguardian.com)
101 points by tommywilliams on Oct 29, 2017 | 50 comments
22.
A Visit to a Synthetic Cadaver Factory (atlasobscura.com)
82 points by bryanrasmussen on Oct 29, 2017 | 12 comments
23.
Language Models, Word2Vec, and Efficient Softmax Approximations (rohanvarma.me)
117 points by rvarma on Oct 29, 2017 | 33 comments
24.
AMD takes on Intel with new Ryzen processors for laptops (theverge.com)
234 points by qzio on Oct 29, 2017 | 138 comments
25.
Oral History of John Backus (2006) [video] (youtube.com)
42 points by _culy on Oct 29, 2017
26.
4Clojure Easy Problems Updated on Clojurecademy (clojurecademy.com)
81 points by ertucetin on Oct 29, 2017 | 10 comments
27.
Show HN: Xmysql – One command to serve REST APIs for any MySql database (github.com/o1lab)
72 points by o1lab on Oct 29, 2017 | 49 comments
28.
Memory inside Linux containers (2014) (fabiokung.com)
65 points by aburan28 on Oct 29, 2017 | 9 comments
29.
Surviving Your First Year (backblaze.com)
105 points by bshanks on Oct 27, 2017 | 7 comments
30.
When did the golden age of The Simpsons end? (nathancunn.com)
219 points by miiiiiike on Oct 29, 2017 | 107 comments

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