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1. How We Bootstrapped Our SaaS Startup to Ramen Profitability (canny.io)
603 points by a13n on Oct 24, 2017 | 165 comments
2. Saying Goodbye to Firebug (hacks.mozilla.org)
805 points by kungfudoi on Oct 24, 2017 | 154 comments
3. Try quickly typing 1+ 2 + 3 into the iOS 11 Calculator (reddit.com)
886 points by danso on Oct 24, 2017 | 480 comments
4. If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the same five schools (interviewing.io)
631 points by leeny on Oct 24, 2017 | 479 comments
5. Speech Recognition Is Not Solved (awni.github.io)
435 points by allenleein on Oct 24, 2017 | 201 comments
6. Gmail Launches Add-ons (blog.google)
416 points by alooPotato on Oct 24, 2017 | 225 comments
7. The Uncanny Resurrection of Dungeons and Dragons (newyorker.com)
341 points by petethomas on Oct 24, 2017 | 238 comments
8. Coda, a “next-generation spreadsheet” – from rows and columns to custom apps (theverge.com)
262 points by wellokthen on Oct 24, 2017 | 160 comments
9. Dynamic Progamming: First Principles (flawlessrhetoric.com)
300 points by foxh0und on Oct 24, 2017 | 98 comments
10. SSH Escape Sequences (lonesysadmin.net)
392 points by tambourine_man on Oct 24, 2017 | 82 comments
11. Welp, there go my Git signatures (kornel.us)
204 points by CaliforniaKarl on Oct 23, 2017 | 46 comments
12. Why Are Hearing Aids So Expensive? (nytimes.com)
244 points by ezhil on Oct 23, 2017 | 252 comments
13. How we found rogerkver’s obfuscated wallet private key (freecodecamp.org)
301 points by monort on Oct 24, 2017 | 54 comments
14. Self-Control Relies on Glucose as a Limited Energy Source (2007) (fermatslibrary.com)
164 points by Goosee on Oct 24, 2017 | 113 comments
15. AMD Announces 307% Increase in Q3 Earnings (businessinsider.com)
284 points by baazaar on Oct 24, 2017 | 169 comments
16. Freedom of Information Release on Nikola Tesla (2011) (fbi.gov)
302 points by superhumanuser on Oct 24, 2017 | 109 comments
17. How Merkle Trees Enable the Decentralized Web (taravancil.com)
300 points by EGreg on Oct 24, 2017 | 52 comments
18. Short-Lived Certificates at Netflix (facilelogin.com)
102 points by prabaths on Oct 24, 2017 | 47 comments
19. A Grain That Tastes Like Wheat, but Grows Like a Prairie Grass (thenation.com)
189 points by stevekemp on Oct 24, 2017 | 127 comments
20. Stephen Hawking's Ph.D. Thesis Crashes Cambridge Site After It's Posted Online (npr.org)
157 points by endswapper on Oct 23, 2017 | 55 comments
21. Paying for Dirt: Where Have Home Values Detached from Construction Costs? (buildzoom.com)
123 points by erwtuif on Oct 23, 2017 | 116 comments
22. Show HN: Product Substitutes – what software top companies are replacing (siftery.com)
103 points by ayanb on Oct 24, 2017 | 50 comments
23. How to get an open source community to be interested in helping you (snoyman.com)
140 points by zdw on Oct 24, 2017 | 45 comments
24. Introduction to web scraping with Python (datawhatnow.com)
373 points by weenkus on Oct 24, 2017 | 60 comments
25. How the LIDAR tech GM just bought probably works (arstechnica.com)
109 points by deepnotderp on Oct 24, 2017 | 71 comments
26. Britain's 'concentration camp' in Russia (bbc.com)
117 points by antigizmo on Oct 24, 2017 | 91 comments
27. Why does one Nginx worker take all the load? (cloudflare.com)
164 points by porker on Oct 24, 2017 | 49 comments
28. Hadoop on IPFS [pdf] (unsw.edu.au)
93 points by usgroup on Oct 24, 2017 | 19 comments
29. The Long Way Round (2014) (lapsedhistorian.com)
191 points by matt_the_bass on Oct 23, 2017 | 27 comments
30. Sci-Hub: Public access to research papers (sci-hub.cc)
467 points by lorenzofeliz on Oct 24, 2017 | 157 comments

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