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1. Apple is sharing your facial wireframe with apps (washingtonpost.com)
556 points by lisper on Dec 4, 2017 | 141 comments
2. Fewer toys at once may help toddlers to focus better and play more creatively (sciencedirect.com)
468 points by antman on Dec 4, 2017 | 200 comments
3. Books I read this year (gatesnotes.com)
511 points by borisjabes on Dec 4, 2017 | 255 comments
4. How Stripe Designs Websites (leejamesrobinson.com)
484 points by leerob on Dec 3, 2017 | 104 comments
5. Using Rust in Mercurial (mercurial-scm.org)
341 points by oblio on Dec 4, 2017 | 147 comments
6. What happens when patients find out how good their doctors are? (2004) (newyorker.com)
314 points by adenadel on Dec 4, 2017 | 224 comments
7. Debugging an evil Go runtime bug (marcan.st)
498 points by cmsimike on Dec 4, 2017 | 48 comments
8. The Old-School Fire Effect and Bare-Metal Programming (hanshq.net)
154 points by zmodem on Dec 1, 2017 | 27 comments
9. Evolution of <img>: Gif without the GIF (perfplanet.com)
259 points by cflat on Dec 4, 2017 | 138 comments
10. Rocket – A Rust game running on WASM (aochagavia.github.io)
329 points by wofo on Dec 4, 2017 | 55 comments
11. Apple Agrees to Deal with Ireland Over $15B Unpaid Tax Issue (wsj.com)
171 points by antr on Dec 4, 2017 | 184 comments
12. Reflecting on Haskell in 2017 (stephendiehl.com)
330 points by setra on Dec 4, 2017 | 190 comments
13. High-Speed Trading: Lines, Radios, and Cables (tabbforum.com)
158 points by deegles on Dec 4, 2017 | 49 comments
14. Andrew Wiles on the struggle and beauty of mathematics (sciencemuseum.org.uk)
120 points by ColinWright on Dec 4, 2017 | 18 comments
15. How Jet Built a GPU-Powered Fulfillment Engine with F# and CUDA (nvidia.com)
203 points by kungfudoi on Dec 4, 2017 | 44 comments
16. Nations agree to ban fishing in Arctic Ocean for at least 16 years (sciencemag.org)
293 points by jonbaer on Dec 4, 2017 | 28 comments
17. SEC Emergency Action Halts PlexCoin ICO (sec.gov)
220 points by Permit on Dec 4, 2017 | 133 comments
18. Bat cave solves mystery of SARS virus (nature.com)
96 points by nature24 on Dec 4, 2017 | 40 comments
19. Theoretical Machine Learning Lecture Series: Deep Learning and Cognition (ias.edu)
136 points by nabla9 on Dec 3, 2017 | 2 comments
20. Hands-on with the PocketBeagle: a $25 Linux computer with lots of I/O pins (righto.com)
208 points by kens on Dec 3, 2017 | 64 comments
21. Using LD_PRELOAD to cheat, inject features and investigate programs (2013) (rafalcieslak.wordpress.com)
142 points by striking on Dec 4, 2017 | 86 comments
22. Never edit a method, always rewrite it? (cheney.net)
199 points by pdq on Dec 1, 2017 | 117 comments
23. Mal Lisp for TempleOS (github.com/bagnalla)
120 points by bagnalla on Dec 3, 2017 | 36 comments
24. Some of China's greatest advances depend heavily on local conditions (bloomberg.com)
117 points by iamthirsty on Dec 3, 2017 | 88 comments
25. Web Assembly now supported across all browsers (infoq.com)
240 points by ternaryoperator on Dec 4, 2017 | 106 comments
26. Integrating “safe” languages into OpenBSD? (marc.info)
258 points by dmm on Dec 4, 2017 | 330 comments
27. Nara – the typeface that never existed (2011) (typotheque.com)
85 points by thiagoharry on Dec 4, 2017 | 17 comments
28. 'Snoopers' charter' changes put forward (bbc.co.uk)
126 points by colinscape on Dec 2, 2017 | 70 comments
29. I tried emailing like a CEO and it made my life better (buzzfeed.com)
309 points by ajoy on Dec 4, 2017 | 145 comments
30. The Trouble with Politicians Sharing Passwords (troyhunt.com)
156 points by robin_reala on Dec 4, 2017 | 64 comments

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