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  • 0 3

    7 Scandalous Weird Old Things About the C Preprocessor (blog.robertelder.org)
  • 0 17

    How to Improve a Legacy Codebase (jacquesmattheij.com)
  • 6 16

    The Lucas-Penrose Argument about Gödel's Theorem (2012) (www.iep.utm.edu)
  • 21 29

    U.S. may put emergency tariffs on solar imports (www.reuters.com)
  • 15 49

    AnyRoom – A self-hosted, Twilio-based system for temporary conference calls (anyroom.io)
  • 11 11

    What to say when they ask you: how much do you make? (nwus.co)
  • 46 60

    Ask HN: What job did you leave IT for?
  • Virool – Video Ad AI Platform Is Hiring an Account Manager (www.virool.com)
  • 121 146

    Essential Products - Andy Rubin’s new hardware company (www.essential.com)
  •   11

    Jared Kushner’s Other Real Estate Empire (www.nytimes.com)
  • 9 48

    Nile.js – A Peer-to-Peer Live Video Streaming Library built on WebTorrent (hackernoon.com)
  • 11 38

    Docker on OpenBSD 6.1 (medium.com)
  • 28 51

    Intel’s Core i9 Extreme Edition CPU is an 18-core beast (www.engadget.com)
  • 7 21

    Song Calling UK Leader “Liar” Hits Top 10; Radio Stations Won't Play (www.independent.co.uk)
  • 47 57

    Show HN: Will Robots Take My Job? (willrobotstakemyjob.com)
  • 11 35

    This dystopian device warns you when AI is trying to impersonate actual humans (www.sciencealert.com)
  • 68 130

    Intel Announces Skylake-X: Bringing 18-Core HCC Silicon to Consumers (www.anandtech.com)
  • 10 24

    Ask HN: Reached 1k+ paying or registered users without spending on ads?
  •   17

    Node.js needs to die in a fire and Golang is the perfect arsonist [backup] (react-etc.net)
  • 54 30

    For Hotels, There’s No Room Left for Online Travel Agencies (www.wsj.com)
  • 16 22

    It’s Time for Silicon Valley to Disrupt Its Toxic Asian Stereotypes (www.wired.com)
  • 141 260

    Someone forged my resignation letter (workplace.stackexchange.com)
  • 21 18

    Ask HN: How best to model a government programmatically?
  • 10 31

    Matchbox Cars Design and Production (1965) [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 19 168

    Mossberg Final Column: The Disappearing Computer (www.recode.net)
  • 39 65

    How to read more: Simple three-step system (deanyeong.com)
  • 48 75

    Moving forward at PhoneGap (blog.phonegap.com)
  • 24 70

    Notes on debugging Clojure code (eli.thegreenplace.net)
  • 66 93

    The world’s biggest problems and why they’re not what first comes to mind (80000hours.org)
  • Xix.ai (YC W17) Is Hiring an Engineering Lead (angel.co)
  • 5 26

    Winning the Battle for Riddler Nation; an Agent-Based Modelling Approach (ntguardian.wordpress.com)
  • 0 25

    Show HN: MXNet implementation of Pix2Pix (github.com)
  • 215 158

    As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating (www.nytimes.com)
  • 8 109

    Neil Hunt on Netflix and the Story of Netflix Streaming (www.internethistorypodcast.com)
  • 28 141

    V8, Advanced JavaScript, and the Next Performance Frontier [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 25 86

    How the failed deal with Waymo left Ford in the lurch (www.autonews.com)
  •   11

    An innocent-looking river in Yorkshire reportedly has a 100% fatality rate (www.dailymail.co.uk)
  • 6 47

    Android Malware Detection Using Machine Learning (arxiv.org)
  • 4 5

    What went wrong at BA? (www.bbc.com)
  • 30 52

    Giphy plans to build a real business (www.businessinsider.com)
  • 15 30

    China's 'sharing economy' booms, but can it last? (www.reuters.com)
  • Padlet, one of the largest sites in the world, is hiring a full-stack engineer (padlet.com)
  • 96 294

    Wikipedia’s Switch to HTTPS Has Successfully Fought Government Censorship (motherboard.vice.com)
  • 2 9

    Designing a Faster, Simpler Workflow to Build and Share Analytical Insights (open.nytimes.com)
  • 3 26

    Artificial Intelligence for Games (2009) [pdf] (lecturer.ukdw.ac.id)
  • 4 16

    Split Tunnel SMTP Exploit Explained (blog.securolytics.io)
  • 10 97

    An empirical study on the correctness of formally verified distributed systems (blog.acolyer.org)
  • 54 142

    Thoughts on Tokens (medium.com)
  • 117 333

    MoonScript, a programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua (moonscript.org)
  • 1 18

    ParlAI: A new software platform for dialog research (code.facebook.com)
  • 16 31

    Show HN: Whaller – create private social networks for your org and community
  • 0 15

    Torch – Scientific computing for LuaJIT (torch.ch)
  • 17 45

    Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes (www.platformonomics.com)
  • 16 55

    Could school subjects soon be a thing of the past in Finland? (www.bbc.com)
  • 2 14

    The Strong Story Hypothesis and the Directed Perception Hypothesis (2011) (dspace.mit.edu)
  • 9 67

    Fifty Years of Minimalism (2015) (www.moredarkthanshark.org)
  • 12 26

    Show HN: Search JavaScript libraries (li458-246.members.linode.com)
  • 8 33

    Michelson: The Language of Smart Contracts in Tezos (github.com)
  • 18 71

    Mathematics of shuffling by smooshing (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 61 192

    Extracting Chinese Hard Subs from a Video, Part 1 (www.kerrickstaley.com)
  • 0 5

    NASA’s First Close-Up of Jupiter Is Shocking and Surprising Everyone on Earth (observer.com)
  • 95 240

    Show HN: Early-stage Yahoo Pipes spiritual successor (www.pipes.digital)
  • 26 17

    It's time for the US to use the metric system (www.vox.com)
  • 1 9

    Eyeglass Vendor, Imprisoned for Terrorizing Consumers, Is Accused of Fraud (www.nytimes.com)
  • 4 25

    How Icelandair Opened Up Air Travel in the 1950s (www.fastcompany.com)
  • 1 22

    Machine Learning Techniques for Predictive Maintenance (www.infoq.com)
  • 90 374

    Tallest Lego building with 4 pieces? (medium.com)
  • 64 143

    The scourge of web analytics (www.stavros.io)
  • People.ai (YC S16) Is Hiring Senior Front-End and Back-End Engineers (peopleai.workable.com)
  • 31 64

    Deep learning box for $1700 (blog.slavv.com)
  • 462 315

    Why do so few people major in computer science? (danwang.co)
  •   8

    Show HN: UK election site – Don't vote Conservative (www.dontvoteconservativeuk.com)
  • 2 13

    MXNet implementation of Pix2Pix (github.com)
  • 63 37

    Ask HN: What does your diet look like?
  • 75 43

    Ask HN: Which games are you playing in free time?
  • 133 160

    Ask HN: Why isn't Prolog more popular?
  • 65 214

    Show HN: Legion, an as-simple-as-possible blockchain server written in Haskell (github.com)
  • 41 59

    Ask HN: Should I leave my company?
  • 150 145

    Ask HN: Ex-Founder. Should I take lowball buyout offer?
  • 5 21

    (take 8 (phil-hagelberg)) (2010) (blog.fogus.me)
  • 11 174

    Jailbreaking Super Mario World to Install a Hex Editor and Mod Loader [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 0 5

    Ten Longreads for the Long Weekend (mailchi.mp)
  • 43 179

    Green Threads Explained (c9x.me)
  • 10 54

    Catching Up with Intel's Python and AI Work at PyCon [audio] (talkpython.fm)
  • 65 106

    LibreOffice leverages Google’s OSS-Fuzz to improve quality of office suite (lwn.net)
  • 23 81

    On Becoming the Enemy (bostonreview.net)
  • 14 15

    Are CIA Officers as Bad Ass as in the Movies? (news.clearancejobs.com)
  •   7

    Bitcoin Price Boom 2017: Lucrative Opportunities Ahead for Early Adopters (hardavenue.com)
  • 15 24

    Could We Run Modern Society on Human Power Alone? (www.lowtechmagazine.com)
  • 130 180

    Browse Against the Machine (medium.com)
  • 9 25

    What Gets Called ‘Civil War’? (www.nybooks.com)
  • 66 41

    Food as medicine (theconversation.com)
  • 99 78

    The growth of the European startup scene (thenextweb.com)
  • 10 10

    Innovation Won't Overcome Stagnation (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 4 29

    The idea of extended organism in 20th century thought (2010) (www.ut.ee)
  • 170 311

    Unicode is hard (shkspr.mobi)
  • 4 9

    Greek Anarchists vs. The Islamic State (medium.com)
  • 1 7

    How to Understand Angela Merkel’s Comments about America and Britain (www.economist.com)
  • 23 33

    Plotting an escape from the quagmire of equality in Emacs Lisp (2012) (technomancy.us)
  • 124 388

    “They Basically Reset My Brain” (www.theplayerstribune.com)
  • Impraise (YC S14) Is Hiring a Systems Engineer in Amsterdam (jobs.impraise.com)
  • 12 80

    An 1874 Type Catalog (www.collectorsweekly.com)
  • 49 173

    Writing a Unix Shell (indradhanush.github.io)
  • 59 45

    Is 2017 the beginning of the end for the app economy? (thenextweb.com)
  • 12 39

    UpCloud+Kontena – all Suomi (Finnish) love (blog.kontena.io)
  • 29 88

    Harnessing the energy generated when freshwater meets saltwater (phys.org)
  • 94 68

    Could We Run Modern Society on Human Power Alone? (www.lowtechmagazine.com)
  • 8 60

    Noise: a JSON full text and ad-hoc query engine with example-based query syntax (noisesearch.org)
  • NYC Biotech HistoWiz (YC W16) Is Hiring a Lead Engineer
  • 260 612

    Ask HN: What are some examples of successful single-person businesses?
  • 30 78

    Two Different Approaches to Saving Bees (www.npr.org)
  • 36 86

    AES-GCM-SIV: AES-GCM with some forgiveness (www.imperialviolet.org)
  • 96 139

    The state of JavaScript modules (medium.com)
  •   5

    Node.js needs to die in a fire and Golang is the perfect arsonist (github.com)
  • 22 67

    Exploring DynamIQ and ARM’s New CPUs: Cortex-A75, Cortex-A55 (www.anandtech.com)
  •   39

    Accused of underpaying women, Google says it's too expensive to get wage data (www.theguardian.com)
  • Mission-driven startup hiring data scientist (summer)
  • 29 152

    Voronoi Tessellations (datagenetics.com)
  • 85 147

    China has become a major player in AI (www.nytimes.com)
  • 12 124

    In Memoriam: Jean E. Sammet 1928-2017 (cacm.acm.org)
  • 10 32

    China has become a major player in AI (www.nytimes.com)
  • 60 64

    Bracha v Felleisen “Types for an Untyped World” (2015) [video] (www.youtube.com)
  •   20

    Alaska Volcano Erupts Again; Aviation Alert Raised to Red (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 23 39

    How an undocumented immigrant from Mexico became a star at Goldman Sachs (www.bloomberg.com)
  • 0 15

    Where the sun rises first (1985) (www.nytimes.com)
  • 48 43

    The Weight Loss Trap (time.com)
  • 60 99

    Acquisitions accelerate as tech giants seek to build AI smarts (www.reuters.com)
  • 241 583

    How to Sleep (www.theatlantic.com)
  • 155 193

    Coffee from California (www.nytimes.com)
  • Gigster (on-demand developer teams) is hiring Sales Development Representatives (jobs.lever.co)
  • 4 16

    Archaeological Fantasies and Hoaxes (ampersand.wustl.edu)