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1. Compare career levels across companies (levels.fyi)
832 points by kposehn on Oct 31, 2018 | 411 comments
2. JPEG image of Shakespeare which is also a zip file containing his complete works (twitter.com/david3141593)
689 points by firasd on Oct 30, 2018 | 132 comments
3. We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook approved all of them (vice.com)
970 points by pulisse on Oct 30, 2018 | 332 comments
4. JavaScript is now required to sign in to Google (googleblog.com)
593 points by amaccuish on Oct 31, 2018 | 499 comments
5. My somewhat complete salary history as a software engineer (humanwhocodes.com)
726 points by jodooshi on Oct 31, 2018 | 650 comments
6. Build Your Own Professional-Grade Audio Amp on the Sort-Of Cheap (ieee.org)
444 points by chablent on Oct 31, 2018 | 256 comments
7. System76 on US Manufacturing and Open Hardware (system76.com)
404 points by reddotX on Oct 31, 2018 | 157 comments
8. The SOS in my Halloween decorations (bbc.com)
394 points by tlrobinson on Oct 30, 2018 | 70 comments
9. When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Improves (npr.org)
477 points by sverige on Oct 31, 2018 | 515 comments
10. Clojure at Netflix (2013) [slides] (speakerdeck.com)
369 points by tosh on Oct 31, 2018 | 300 comments
11. Unicode Dicks (revk.uk)
536 points by henkdevries on Oct 31, 2018 | 102 comments
12. How to Make a Roguelike (gamasutra.com)
408 points by danso on Oct 30, 2018 | 105 comments
13. Why Pencils Are Yellow (2017) (artsy.net)
303 points by colinprince on Oct 31, 2018 | 109 comments
14. Hawaii Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Building Thirty Meter Telescope (staradvertiser.com)
208 points by okket on Oct 31, 2018 | 80 comments
15. Two Objects Not Namespaced by the Linux Kernel (2017) (jessfraz.com)
169 points by setra on Oct 31, 2018 | 58 comments
16. Available on Google Cloud: Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory (cloud.google.com)
167 points by eicnix on Oct 31, 2018 | 70 comments
17. TensorFlow Code for Google Research's BERT: Pre-Training Method for NLP Tasks (github.com/google-research)
129 points by ArtWomb on Oct 31, 2018 | 13 comments
18. Show HN: Basilica – word2vec for anything (basilica.ai)
153 points by hiphipjorge on Oct 31, 2018 | 77 comments
19. The Masterless People: Pirates, Maroons, and the Struggle to Live Free (longreads.com)
211 points by kawera on Oct 30, 2018 | 80 comments
20. Reinforcement Learning with Prediction-Based Rewards (blog.openai.com)
165 points by lainon on Oct 31, 2018 | 38 comments
21. CFDPython: A sequence of Jupyter notebooks featuring "12 Steps to Navier-Stokes" (github.com/barbagroup)
126 points by arunmp on Oct 31, 2018 | 5 comments
22. Japanese Woodblock Print Search (ukiyo-e.org)
121 points by stareatgoats on Oct 31, 2018 | 29 comments
23. Transforming Wikipedia into a cultural knowledge quiz (medium.com/mjbaldwin)
132 points by crazygringo on Oct 31, 2018 | 46 comments
24. Primitive – recreate your photos with vector-based geometric primitives (primitive.lol)
182 points by ngzhian on Oct 31, 2018 | 22 comments
25. Advantages of Using R Notebooks Instead of Jupyter Notebooks (2017) (minimaxir.com)
142 points by breckuh on Oct 31, 2018 | 47 comments
26. Actors for Squeak Smalltalk (tonyg.github.io)
81 points by tonyg on Oct 30, 2018 | 26 comments
27. Tiny Books Fit in One Hand. Will They Change the Way We Read? (nytimes.com)
196 points by ingve on Oct 30, 2018 | 180 comments
28. Inspection Paradox (2015) (allendowney.blogspot.com)
69 points by happy-go-lucky on Oct 31, 2018 | 13 comments
29. Show HN: Giraffe – Functional ASP.NET Core web framework for F# (github.com/giraffe-fsharp)
121 points by dustinmoris on Oct 30, 2018 | 14 comments
30. Windows Defender detects malware in DMD (dlang.org)
112 points by vintagedave on Oct 31, 2018 | 68 comments

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