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1. CenturyLink is blocking customer internet, saying Utah legislators told them to (richsnapp.com)
830 points by snapwich on Dec 14, 2018 | 283 comments
2. Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra: Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares (stanford.edu)
938 points by yarapavan on Dec 14, 2018 | 123 comments
3. UCLA asked faculty to consider declining to review for Elsevier journals (chronicle.com)
619 points by faitswulff on Dec 14, 2018 | 128 comments
4. Experts Urge U.S. To Continue Support for Nuclear Fusion Research (scientificamerican.com)
344 points by tshannon on Dec 14, 2018 | 227 comments
5. Facebook says new bug allowed apps access to private photos of up to 6.8M users (washingtonpost.com)
512 points by chrisseldo on Dec 14, 2018 | 261 comments
6. China’s Economy Slows Sharply (nytimes.com)
389 points by lxm on Dec 14, 2018 | 244 comments
7. Turtletoy (turtletoy.net)
382 points by njn on Dec 14, 2018 | 61 comments
8. SIPC Says It Has Serious Concerns About Robinhood's New Product (bloomberg.com)
480 points by jakarta on Dec 14, 2018 | 305 comments
9. Remote code execution vulnerability in SQLite (tencent.com)
444 points by LinuxBender on Dec 14, 2018 | 147 comments
10. Write Your Own Virtual Machine (justinmeiners.github.io)
546 points by vedosity on Dec 14, 2018 | 77 comments
11. Pytext: A natural language modeling framework based on PyTorch (github.com/facebookresearch)
219 points by benryon on Dec 14, 2018 | 16 comments
12. Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft (bmj.com)
370 points by pentestercrab on Dec 14, 2018 | 110 comments
13. Verizon signals its Yahoo and AOL divisions are almost worthless (nbcnews.com)
347 points by krn on Dec 12, 2018 | 228 comments
14. A new neural network design could overcome challenges in AI (technologyreview.com)
143 points by nmstoker on Dec 12, 2018 | 11 comments
15. Everything you should know about certificates and PKI but are too afraid to ask (smallstep.com)
387 points by zodvik on Dec 14, 2018 | 52 comments
16. Switzerland to test ‘hyperloop’ train technologies (swissinfo.ch)
118 points by baazaar on Dec 14, 2018 | 66 comments
17. Snowboarding for Geeks (xfive.co)
299 points by lubos76 on Dec 14, 2018 | 216 comments
18. How AI Training Scales (blog.openai.com)
176 points by giacaglia on Dec 14, 2018 | 15 comments
19. Debt Worldwide Hits Record $86k per Person (bloomberg.com)
226 points by rfinney on Dec 14, 2018 | 272 comments
20. How Sketch Took on Adobe (producthabits.com)
226 points by pmp301 on Dec 12, 2018 | 180 comments
21. Google Earth Studio (google.com)
211 points by duck on Dec 14, 2018 | 80 comments
22. UC Berkeley to build open-source secure enclave using RISC-V (hackaday.com)
160 points by walterbell on Dec 14, 2018 | 51 comments
23. Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (arxiv.org)
240 points by asparagui on Dec 13, 2018 | 60 comments
24. DevHub: TweetDeck for GitHub – Android, iOS and Web with 99% Code Sharing (github.com/devhubapp)
149 points by pvinis on Dec 13, 2018 | 36 comments
25. Compiler Explorer (godbolt.org)
208 points by gnanesh on Dec 13, 2018 | 44 comments
26. An experiment in controlling how much of Scrabble is luck (nautil.us)
72 points by dnetesn on Dec 14, 2018 | 59 comments
27. FLI: A binary interface to let Scheme use Python, Lua, Ruby etc's Library (github.com/guenchi)
104 points by guenchi on Dec 14, 2018 | 16 comments
28. Bootstrap 3.4.0 released (getbootstrap.com)
206 points by pplonski86 on Dec 14, 2018 | 64 comments
29. FBI secretly collected data on Aaron Swartz earlier than was thought (gizmodo.com)
333 points by ahakki on Dec 14, 2018 | 116 comments
30. Show HN: Minimal Google Analytics Snippet (minimalanalytics.com)
171 points by davidkuennen on Dec 13, 2018 | 70 comments

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