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1.		The mysterious case of the Linux Page Table Isolation patches (pythonsweetness.tumblr.com)
		988 points by KirinDave on Jan 1, 2018 \| 254 comments
2.		Zero-Width Characters: Invisibly fingerprinting text (zachaysan.com)
		572 points by based2 on Jan 1, 2018 \| 146 comments
3.		IOHIDeous OS X Local Kernel Vulnerability (siguza.github.io)
		497 points by tptacek on Dec 31, 2017 \| 112 comments
4.		What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2018 (duke.edu)
		286 points by aw3c2 on Jan 1, 2018 \| 133 comments
5.		How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Job Hunt (stephanbehnke.com)
		295 points by rbanffy on Dec 31, 2017 \| 227 comments
6.		You are listening to San Francisco (youarelistening.to)
		247 points by sndean on Jan 1, 2018 \| 61 comments
7.		Why is writing mathematical proofs more fault-proof than writing code? (2011) (cs.stackexchange.com)
		238 points by dgellow on Jan 1, 2018 \| 132 comments
8.		Tiny, weird online communities made a comeback in 2017 (theverge.com)
		268 points by lxm on Jan 1, 2018 \| 84 comments
9.		Copy-on-write friendly Python garbage collection (engineering.instagram.com)
		196 points by happy-go-lucky on Jan 1, 2018 \| 52 comments
10.		Former Google and Facebook execs are sounding alarms about the power of tech (theguardian.com)
		250 points by DrNuke on Jan 1, 2018 \| 189 comments
11.		A Real-Time Mario Kart AI Using CNNs, Offline Search, and Dagger (github.com/rameshvarun)
		152 points by lainon on Jan 1, 2018 \| 9 comments
12.		Pen Plotter Art and Algorithms (mattdesl.svbtle.com)
		127 points by ingve on Dec 31, 2017 \| 12 comments
13.		Wav2letter: Automatic Speech Recognition Toolkit from Facebook AI Research (github.com/facebookresearch)
		116 points by stablemap on Dec 31, 2017 \| 5 comments
14.		Ask HN: What’s your favorite talk from 2017?
		418 points by dev_256 on Jan 1, 2018 \| 106 comments
15.		OpenTracing: A vendor-neutral open standard for distributed network tracing (opentracing.io)
		141 points by based2 on Jan 1, 2018 \| 24 comments
16.		Generating inspirational quotes with Markov chains (ramtin.xyz)
		160 points by ramtinalami on Jan 1, 2018 \| 32 comments
17.		Alibaba’s UC Browser is dominating in Asian markets with lower-end smartphones (wsj.com)
		130 points by olivermarks on Jan 1, 2018 \| 125 comments
18.		Engineers Create Stable Plasma Ring in Open Air (caltech.edu)
		145 points by starpilot on Dec 31, 2017 \| 44 comments
19.		Chemists provide theoretical interpretation to understand chemical reactions (phys.org)
		65 points by dnetesn on Jan 1, 2018 \| 29 comments
20.		Show your work: The new terms for trust in journalism (pressthink.org)
		111 points by smacktoward on Jan 1, 2018 \| 73 comments
21.		RAM-less Buffers (emsea.github.io)
		123 points by emily-c on Dec 31, 2017 \| 38 comments
22.		ToySMT – simple SMT solver under 1500 SLOC of pure C (github.com/dennisyurichev)
		91 points by dennis714 on Jan 1, 2018 \| 7 comments
23.		How Do You Vote? 50M Google Images Give a Clue (nytimes.com)
		82 points by dsr12 on Jan 1, 2018 \| 53 comments
24.		Testing techniques in Go (segment.com)
		124 points by astdb on Jan 1, 2018 \| 9 comments
25.		Testing Microservices the sane way (medium.com/copyconstruct)
		160 points by alfiedotwtf on Jan 1, 2018 \| 45 comments
26.		A basic income experiment in Kenya (businessinsider.com)
		130 points by SQL2219 on Dec 31, 2017 \| 148 comments
27.		The CIA’s Insectothopter (ieee.org)
		107 points by jonbaer on Dec 31, 2017 \| 51 comments
28.		When volcanic ash stopped a Jumbo at 37000 feet (2010) (bbc.co.uk)
		78 points by andrewshadura on Jan 1, 2018 \| 34 comments
29.		Atari Video Music Teardown [video] (youtube.com)
		45 points by bane on Dec 31, 2017 \| 2 comments
30.		AI and Deep Learning in 2017 – A Year in Review (wildml.com)
		188 points by MrQuincle on Jan 1, 2018 \| 6 comments
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