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1.
Bottery – A conversational agent prototyping platform (github.com/google)
336 points by manojlds on Oct 31, 2017 | 73 comments
2.
Show HN: Frappe Charts – GitHub inspired JavaScript charting with zero dependencies (frappe.github.io)
474 points by rushabh on Oct 31, 2017 | 87 comments
3.
We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2016) (danluu.com)
910 points by indy on Oct 31, 2017 | 625 comments
4.
Show HN: Airborn – Private Google Docs Alternative (airbornos.com)
469 points by twiss on Oct 31, 2017 | 203 comments
5.
A Pentagon-funded contest spawned many of today’s self-driving startups (bloomberg.com)
195 points by TrickyRick on Oct 31, 2017 | 94 comments
6.
Google is shutting down the QPX Express API for airfare data
324 points by imartin2k on Oct 31, 2017 | 190 comments
7.
HTTP 103 – An HTTP Status Code for Indicating Hints (ietf.org)
417 points by snomad on Oct 30, 2017 | 120 comments
8.
Bitcoin Futures Could Open the Floodgates for Institutional Investors (bloomberg.com)
196 points by chollida1 on Oct 31, 2017 | 226 comments
9.
Node.js 8 Moves into Long-Term Support, Node.js 9 Becomes Current Release Line (medium.com/nodejs)
211 points by styfle on Oct 31, 2017 | 81 comments
10.
Nasa’s ambitious plan to save Earth from a supervolcano (bbc.com)
182 points by jostmey on Oct 31, 2017 | 98 comments
11.
An Introduction to Deep Learning for Language Modeling (ofir.io)
206 points by oDot on Oct 31, 2017 | 11 comments
12.
Butterfly iQ – A cheap handheld ultrasound tool with AI smarts inside (ieee.org)
238 points by taion on Oct 30, 2017 | 147 comments
13.
RCN is much more data efficient than traditional Deep Neural Networks (vicarious.com)
235 points by barbolo on Oct 30, 2017 | 46 comments
14.
Permissionless innovation (learnliberty.org)
144 points by tomhoward on Oct 31, 2017 | 108 comments
15.
Hashcat – advanced password recovery (hashcat.net)
160 points by gphilip on Oct 31, 2017 | 27 comments
16.
Eager Execution: An imperative, define-by-run interface to TensorFlow (googleblog.com)
125 points by alextp on Oct 31, 2017 | 35 comments
17.
D-Wave system used to detect particle signature of the Higgs boson (nature.com)
74 points by zeristor on Oct 29, 2017 | 28 comments
18.
Cryptographic filesystem for the cloud (github.com/cryfs)
83 points by j_s on Oct 31, 2017 | 28 comments
19.
Renewed demand for the metal cobalt is breathing new life into Cobalt, the town (bloomberg.com)
110 points by rbanffy on Oct 31, 2017 | 44 comments
20.
Chip Hall of Fame: Atmel ATmega8 (ieee.org)
128 points by retSava on Oct 31, 2017 | 64 comments
21.
Show HN: Open Source alternative to services like Intercom.io and Smooch (github.com/minimalchat)
163 points by mihok on Oct 30, 2017 | 24 comments
22.
Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology (kapwing.com)
205 points by justswim on Oct 31, 2017 | 180 comments
23.
“It's been great to see Wireguard mature over the years” (plus.google.com)
86 points by zx2c4 on Oct 31, 2017 | 61 comments
24.
Batteries with 50 per cent more energy with pure silicon anode (ecn.nl)
135 points by Gravityloss on Oct 31, 2017 | 75 comments
25.
OVH increases pricing with the rise of their next generation DDoS Protection (sinfulforums.net)
86 points by dx034 on Oct 31, 2017 | 32 comments
26.
Algorithmic Approaches to Playing Minesweeper (2015) (dash.harvard.edu)
95 points by lainon on Oct 30, 2017 | 32 comments
27.
NPL: A programming language for neural networks, 3d simulation and visualization (github.com/lixizhi)
90 points by zhangtaii on Oct 30, 2017 | 8 comments
28.
Why Most Unit Testing Is Waste [pdf] (rbcs-us.com)
258 points by quickthrower2 on Oct 31, 2017 | 158 comments
29.
Show HN: WebGL Voxel Engine (github.com/lallassu)
113 points by nergal on Oct 31, 2017 | 39 comments
30.
Racket v6.11 (racket-lang.org)
154 points by nickmain on Oct 31, 2017 | 34 comments

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