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1.
The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business (theatlantic.com)
699 points by Firebrand on Nov 8, 2017 | 255 comments
2.
Creating a Modern OCR Pipeline Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning (dropbox.com)
460 points by wwarner on Nov 9, 2017 | 125 comments
3.
Skyrim rendered in text (medium.com/filiph)
459 points by ellinokon on Nov 9, 2017 | 106 comments
4.
Low-cost, non-invasive melanoma detector wins award (jamesdysonaward.org)
312 points by ductionist on Nov 9, 2017 | 50 comments
5.
Sean Parker unloads on Facebook “exploiting” human psychology (axios.com)
603 points by jbuild on Nov 9, 2017 | 223 comments
6.
Writing a basic x86-64 JIT compiler from scratch in stock Python (csl.name)
325 points by csl on Nov 9, 2017 | 50 comments
7.
Niagara Falls without water in 1969 (niagarafrontier.com)
175 points by howrude on Nov 9, 2017 | 55 comments
8.
How We Deliver Global SSL with Let's Encrypt (fly.io)
177 points by jnunemaker on Nov 9, 2017 | 65 comments
9.
Russian Peasant Multiplication (virtualspecies.com)
167 points by sayham28 on Nov 9, 2017 | 57 comments
10.
Quake on an oscilloscope (2014) (lofibucket.com)
322 points by Ivoah on Nov 9, 2017 | 26 comments
11.
.IO domain name reliability issues and how we’re working around them (getstream.io)
279 points by sbierwagen on Nov 9, 2017 | 153 comments
12.
Learning Go by porting a medium-sized web back end from Python (benhoyt.com)
242 points by benhoyt on Nov 8, 2017 | 195 comments
13.
As epidemic rages, ER study finds opioids no better than Advil and Tylenol (arstechnica.com)
186 points by rbanffy on Nov 9, 2017 | 156 comments
14.
China's Race to Find Aliens First (theatlantic.com)
215 points by anarbadalov on Nov 8, 2017 | 147 comments
15.
The GraphQL stack: How everything fits together (apollodata.com)
210 points by quodestabsurdum on Nov 8, 2017 | 113 comments
16.
Plastic-eating caterpillars: An escape from a shopping bag triggers an idea (economist.com)
139 points by rahulshiv on Nov 9, 2017 | 43 comments
17.
Much ado about iOS app architecture (aplus.rs)
171 points by prawn on Nov 9, 2017 | 95 comments
18.
'Zombie ant' brains left intact by fungal parasite (phys.org)
184 points by dnetesn on Nov 8, 2017 | 91 comments
19.
TensorForce 0.3: End-to-end computation graphs for reinforcement learning (reinforce.io)
109 points by k_f on Nov 9, 2017 | 4 comments
20.
Electric Sheep on Ubuntu Linux 17.10 (openbloc.fr)
118 points by blaze33 on Nov 9, 2017 | 50 comments
21.
I bought a Switch from Nintendo and they threatened me with legal action (headmelted.com)
408 points by headmelted on Nov 9, 2017 | 361 comments
22.
Entrepreneurs Aren’t a Special Breed – They’re Mostly Rich Kids (asia.finance)
454 points by monsieurpng on Nov 9, 2017 | 256 comments
23.
What happens when you sell your startup? (techcrunch.com)
141 points by gk1 on Nov 8, 2017 | 37 comments
24.
Using neural networks to detect car crashes in dashcam footage (insightdatascience.com)
119 points by gk1 on Nov 9, 2017 | 25 comments
25.
Dead grasshopper discovered in van Gogh painting (theguardian.com)
77 points by brudgers on Nov 9, 2017 | 25 comments
26.
Fast and precise type checking for JavaScript (acolyer.org)
98 points by deltux on Nov 8, 2017 | 38 comments
27.
Impact of the Amazon-Whole Foods Deal on Instacart (forbes.com/sites/bizcarson)
101 points by whocansay on Nov 9, 2017 | 75 comments
28.
Try to see things from a manager's perspective (acm.org)
127 points by tchalla on Nov 8, 2017 | 33 comments
29.
The Antique Cannabis Book (antiquecannabisbook.com)
102 points by wilsonfiifi on Nov 9, 2017 | 30 comments
30.
Two new books about the history of paper (chicagotribune.com)
49 points by well_i_never on Nov 9, 2017 | 5 comments

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