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1.
Facebook Container for Firefox (mozilla.org)
1274 points by aaossa on April 17, 2018 | 394 comments
2.
GraalVM: Run Programs Faster Anywhere (graalvm.org)
731 points by nirvdrum on April 17, 2018 | 207 comments
3.
Mylo: A leather-like material made from mycelium (boltthreads.com)
574 points by tuanx5 on April 17, 2018 | 160 comments
4.
Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician (quantamagazine.org)
492 points by digital55 on April 17, 2018 | 173 comments
5.
Distributed architecture concepts I learned when building a large payment system (pragmaticengineer.com)
441 points by gregdoesit on April 16, 2018 | 74 comments
6.
Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to European authorities (theregister.co.uk)
545 points by chasontherobot on April 17, 2018 | 311 comments
7.
FDA permits marketing of AI-based device to detect diabetes-related eye problems (fda.gov)
274 points by nradov on April 17, 2018 | 97 comments
8.
Microsoft built its own custom Linux kernel for its new IoT service (techcrunch.com)
321 points by dbasedweeb on April 16, 2018 | 289 comments
9.
I was Zuckerberg’s speechwriter (vox.com)
347 points by superhumanuser on April 17, 2018 | 254 comments
10.
Proof-Of-Work is a Decentralized Clock (grisha.org)
232 points by gtrubetskoy on April 17, 2018 | 124 comments
11.
A step-by-step guide to the “World Models” AI paper (applied-data.science)
261 points by datashrimp on April 17, 2018 | 37 comments
12.
San Francisco’s Seismic Gamble (nytimes.com)
310 points by montrose on April 17, 2018 | 202 comments
13.
United States v. Microsoft Corp. Dismissed [pdf] (supremecourt.gov)
220 points by ahakki on April 17, 2018 | 144 comments
14.
Show HN: Hacker Daily, a daily podcast for Hacker News readers (hackerdaily.co)
199 points by dzohrob on April 16, 2018 | 57 comments
15.
Text Embedding Models Contain Bias (googleblog.com)
222 points by gajju3588 on April 17, 2018 | 202 comments
16.
A Contagious Cancer That Jumped Between Species (theatlantic.com)
103 points by katiey on April 17, 2018 | 23 comments
17.
Parsing: a timeline (jeffreykegler.github.io)
326 points by janvdberg on April 17, 2018 | 85 comments
18.
An enzyme that digests plastic could boost recycling (economist.com)
251 points by dberhane on April 17, 2018 | 122 comments
19.
An Augmented Reality Microscope for Cancer Detection (googleblog.com)
114 points by kbyatnal on April 17, 2018 | 15 comments
20.
Mode Studio – Python, R and SQL Editor (modeanalytics.com)
172 points by beigebrucewayne on April 17, 2018 | 44 comments
21.
Taste is increasingly dictated by algorithms (racked.com)
161 points by raleighm on April 17, 2018 | 80 comments
22.
The Boring Company raises $112M from Musk, early employees (sec.gov)
166 points by rory096 on April 16, 2018 | 182 comments
23.
Everything You Wanted to Know About Synchronization (2013) [pdf] (sigops.org)
109 points by g0xA52A2A on April 17, 2018 | 4 comments
24.
Improved Hubble data provide fresh evidence for new physics (jhu.edu)
64 points by rbanffy on April 17, 2018 | 26 comments
25.
You Share Everything with Your Friends, Even Brain Waves (nytimes.com)
124 points by montrose on April 17, 2018 | 45 comments
26.
Using GnuCash as a Freelancer to Track Finances and Prepare Taxes (nickjanetakis.com)
239 points by nickjj on April 17, 2018 | 184 comments
27.
Eminent Philosophers Name the Most Important Philosophy Books from 1950-2000 (openculture.com)
185 points by madacoo on April 17, 2018 | 159 comments
28.
Elementary Algebra (1971) (softwarepreservation.org)
97 points by tosh on April 16, 2018 | 20 comments
29.
France’s government is building its own encrypted messenger service (reuters.com)
239 points by lnguyen on April 17, 2018 | 130 comments
30.
Quake III Arena GPL Source Release (2012) (github.com/id-software)
265 points by tosh on April 17, 2018 | 79 comments

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