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1. Discover the world of microcontrollers through Rust (japaric.github.io)
527 points by ingve on Sept 17, 2017 | 128 comments
2. How the Bitcoins Were Stolen from Mt. Gox [video] (davidgerard.co.uk)
563 points by davidgerard on Sept 17, 2017 | 186 comments
3. The iPhone X’s notch is basically a Kinect (theverge.com)
418 points by Tomte on Sept 17, 2017 | 224 comments
4. Buffett wins $1M decade-old bet that the S&P500 would outperform hedgefunds (aei.org)
786 points by yurisagalov on Sept 17, 2017 | 312 comments
5. Show HN: No Coin – A browser extension to block coin miners (github.com/keraf)
254 points by keraf on Sept 17, 2017 | 261 comments
6. China Makes Chat Group Administrators Criminally Liable for Unlawful Messages (globalvoices.org)
229 points by Sami_Lehtinen on Sept 17, 2017 | 161 comments
7. NixOps – Declarative cloud provisioning and deployment with NixOS (nixos.org)
248 points by mrkgnao on Sept 17, 2017 | 66 comments
8. Expressive Writing Cools Brain on Stressful Tasks (msu.edu)
151 points by happy-go-lucky on Sept 17, 2017 | 49 comments
9. The Minsky circle algorithm (nbickford.wordpress.com)
200 points by fanf2 on Sept 16, 2017 | 22 comments
10. Understanding V8’s Bytecode (medium.com/dailyjs)
114 points by kiyanwang on Sept 17, 2017 | 24 comments
11. Why is memory reclamation so important for lock-free algorithms? (concurrencyfreaks.blogspot.com)
165 points by qznc on Sept 17, 2017 | 42 comments
12. Two museums having an informative fight on Twitter (newstatesman.com)
238 points by wglb on Sept 16, 2017 | 39 comments
13. The Debate Over Neighborhood Zoning Could Hold Up Fast 5G Wireless for Years (fastcompany.com)
95 points by hourislate on Sept 17, 2017 | 80 comments
14. A simple heap memory allocator in about 230 lines of C (github.com/ccareaga)
186 points by ingve on Sept 17, 2017 | 103 comments
15. A Prehistory of the Ethereum Protocol (vitalik.ca)
161 points by CryptoPunk on Sept 17, 2017 | 15 comments
16. HP Updates Z8 Workstations: Up to 56 Cores, 3 TB RAM, 9 PCIe Slots, 1700W (anandtech.com)
136 points by jseliger on Sept 16, 2017 | 122 comments
17. Random Write Considered Harmful in SSDs (2012) [pdf] (usenix.org)
88 points by mpweiher on Sept 17, 2017 | 22 comments
18. Xanadu (xanadu.com)
171 points by tosh on Sept 17, 2017 | 86 comments
19. Why is value flowing to ICOs? It's diversification of Bitcoin (jonathannen.com)
85 points by jwilliams on Sept 16, 2017 | 81 comments
20. Schrödinger’s Tcl – Values that differ if you look at them (github.com/aidanhs)
86 points by networked on Sept 17, 2017 | 31 comments
21. Sockey – A P2P multiplayer soccer game based on WebRTC (sockey.eu)
68 points by MagicNumber on Sept 17, 2017 | 39 comments
22. What Is Life? (1944) [pdf] (clemson.edu)
109 points by MichaelAO on Sept 17, 2017 | 24 comments
23. Runtime type information for JavaScript (medium.com/fhinkel)
84 points by stablemap on Sept 17, 2017 | 14 comments
24. Is There a Cryptocurrency Bubble? Just Ask Doge (nytimes.com)
157 points by nemild on Sept 17, 2017 | 152 comments
25. Chrome to force .dev domains to HTTPS via preloaded HSTS (ma.ttias.be)
193 points by Mojah on Sept 17, 2017 | 210 comments
26. Western fast food companies are aggressively expanding in Brazil (nytimes.com)
100 points by acalmon on Sept 17, 2017 | 85 comments
27. Fundamentals of Electric Propulsion: Ion and Hall Thrusters (2008) [pdf] (nasa.gov)
53 points by hownottowrite on Sept 17, 2017 | 6 comments
28. Open Compute Project (opencompute.org)
62 points by federicoponzi on Sept 17, 2017 | 5 comments
29. Arrested DevOps Live – with Andrew Clay Shafer and Bryan Cantrill [video] (youtube.com)
47 points by tosh on Sept 17, 2017 | 15 comments
30. Finding UX in the Trash (f2.svbtle.com)
105 points by 0xF2 on Sept 17, 2017 | 94 comments

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