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1. Intel Has a Big Problem (bloomberg.com)
780 points by MilnerRoute on Jan 20, 2018 | 337 comments
2. Learn FFmpeg the hard way (github.com/leandromoreira)
586 points by dreampeppers99 on Jan 20, 2018 | 79 comments
3. Training Your Brain So That You Don’t Need Reading Glasses (2017) (nytimes.com)
540 points by walterbell on Jan 20, 2018 | 137 comments
4. Relativ – A VR headset that you can build yourself for $100 (github.com/relativty)
449 points by realusername on Jan 20, 2018 | 84 comments
5. Atari Tempest: Dave Theurer’s Masterpiece (arcadeblogger.com)
232 points by videotopia on Jan 19, 2018 | 61 comments
6. Blockchains from a Distributed Computing Perspective [pdf] (brown.edu)
235 points by rejectedalot on Jan 20, 2018 | 66 comments
7. The London Time Machine (arcgis.com)
85 points by kawera on Jan 20, 2018 | 17 comments
8. Mental Overload Detection with Respiration Variability Spectrogram (aqibsaeed.github.io)
75 points by koko20 on Jan 20, 2018 | 17 comments
9. Command Line Heroes Podcast (redhat.com)
140 points by terrencewells on Jan 20, 2018 | 16 comments
10. A Simple Decompiler (1988) (drdobbs.com)
60 points by userbinator on Jan 20, 2018 | 3 comments
11. NSA deleted surveillance data it pledged to preserve (politico.com)
278 points by tony101 on Jan 20, 2018 | 78 comments
12. MiniZinc: free and open-source constraint modeling language (minizinc.org)
179 points by bjourne on Jan 20, 2018 | 33 comments
13. Clinical trial finds blood-plasma infusions for Alzheimer’s safe, promising (stanford.edu)
107 points by monort on Jan 20, 2018 | 24 comments
14. Stream and Go: News feeds for 300M users, built on RocksDB and Raft (stackshare.io)
207 points by tschellenbach on Jan 20, 2018 | 63 comments
15. Joe Frank, Spinner of Strange Radio Tales, Has Died (nytimes.com)
58 points by klenwell on Jan 20, 2018 | 7 comments
16. The DNA of Iceland's First Known Black Man, Recreated from Living Descendants (theatlantic.com)
96 points by curtis on Jan 19, 2018 | 27 comments
17. A prime number whose binary representation looks like a giraffe (reddit.com)
264 points by svenfaw on Jan 20, 2018 | 76 comments
18. Fermented Shark, Anyone? (1843magazine.com)
49 points by Thevet on Jan 19, 2018 | 59 comments
19. GoPro has discontinued its developer program (gopro.com)
115 points by byteCoder on Jan 19, 2018 | 92 comments
20. PostgreSQL 10: Partitions of partitions (joaodlf.com)
140 points by joaodlf on Jan 20, 2018 | 48 comments
21. The Untreatable: The Spanish Flu of 1918 (lrb.co.uk)
96 points by Vigier on Jan 19, 2018 | 105 comments
22. Paul Bocuse, Celebrated French Chef, Dies at 91 (nytimes.com)
163 points by NaOH on Jan 20, 2018 | 43 comments
23. Advanced Distributed Systems (illinois.edu)
202 points by blueSky1989 on Jan 20, 2018 | 11 comments
24. C as an intermediate language (2012) (yosefk.com)
133 points by yinso on Jan 20, 2018 | 60 comments
25. Show HN: Hyperfine – a command-line benchmarking tool (github.com/sharkdp)
126 points by sharkdp on Jan 20, 2018 | 19 comments
26. Linear regression by hand (dsgazette.com)
129 points by tarheeljason on Jan 20, 2018 | 34 comments
27. I Was a Bank Robber Until I Read Kant (thewalrus.ca)
131 points by lermontov on Jan 20, 2018 | 46 comments
28. Switzerland “Should Become the Crypto-Nation” Says Minister (trustnodes.com)
173 points by svaja on Jan 20, 2018 | 90 comments
29. JS things I didn’t know existed (air.ghost.io)
275 points by fagnerbrack on Jan 20, 2018 | 98 comments
30. Rejoiner: Unified GraphQL schema from gRPC microservices (github.com/google)
108 points by patrickaljord on Jan 20, 2018 | 31 comments

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