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1. An Experimental Course on Operating Systems (stanford.edu)
967 points by jzoch on Jan 12, 2018 | 243 comments
2. Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two words for tea (qz.com)
788 points by ValentineC on Jan 12, 2018 | 317 comments
3. Protecting Google Cloud customers without impacting performance (blog.google)
465 points by theDoug on Jan 11, 2018 | 129 comments
4. Understanding the React Source Code, Part 1 (hackernoon.com)
210 points by adamnemecek on Jan 11, 2018 | 33 comments
5. How to sleep a million years (2013) (popcount.org)
208 points by bemmu on Jan 12, 2018 | 21 comments
6. DNSFS – Store files in others' DNS resolver caches (benjojo.co.uk)
243 points by benjojo12 on Jan 12, 2018 | 36 comments
7. H3: A Hexagonal Hierarchical Geospatial Indexing System (github.com/uber)
140 points by omot on Jan 12, 2018 | 45 comments
8. Improving Ourselves to Death (newyorker.com)
281 points by kawera on Jan 10, 2018 | 101 comments
9. Website Glitch Let Me Overstock My Coinbase (krebsonsecurity.com)
287 points by wglb on Jan 11, 2018 | 130 comments
10. Harvard Study Shows Why Big Telecom Is Terrified of Community-Run Broadband (vice.com)
379 points by owens99 on Jan 12, 2018 | 144 comments
11. Buried Ice Water Discovered on Mars (nasa.gov)
338 points by almost_usual on Jan 11, 2018 | 60 comments
12. A proof-of-concept system for counter-surveillance against spy drones (wired.com)
136 points by breck on Jan 12, 2018 | 68 comments
13. Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share (nytimes.com)
280 points by axg on Jan 12, 2018 | 213 comments
14. Intel Security Issue Update: Addressing Reboot Issues (intel.com)
259 points by bcantrill on Jan 12, 2018 | 117 comments
15. Dogecoin's inventor looks to the past for insight into the future (vice.com)
269 points by thisisit on Jan 12, 2018 | 247 comments
16. IoT Sensors Monitor a 1,400-Kilometer Canal in China (ieee.org)
74 points by sohkamyung on Jan 12, 2018 | 33 comments
17. The Making of Apple’s Emoji (medium.com/agzmn)
261 points by Doubleguitars on Jan 11, 2018 | 107 comments
18. Mechanical Computing Systems Using Only Links and Rotary Joints (arxiv.org)
112 points by lainon on Jan 12, 2018 | 26 comments
19. Kotlin: The Problem with null (arturdryomov.online)
128 points by bmc7505 on Jan 12, 2018 | 107 comments
20. How to Think Like a Medieval Monk (2017) (laphamsquarterly.org)
178 points by diodorus on Jan 12, 2018 | 57 comments
21. Wood gas vehicles: firewood in the fuel tank (lowtechmagazine.com)
144 points by aphextron on Jan 12, 2018 | 67 comments
22. Making tab switching faster in Firefox with tab warming (mikeconley.ca)
153 points by bpierre on Jan 11, 2018 | 100 comments
23. Show HN: Bato – A Filipino Programming Language (github.com/jjuliano)
159 points by jjuliano on Jan 12, 2018 | 123 comments
24. Rat poison from pot farms is poisoning owls, study finds (sfchronicle.com)
149 points by anigbrowl on Jan 12, 2018 | 67 comments
25. A Security Issue in Intel’s Active Management Technology (f-secure.com)
143 points by buovjaga on Jan 12, 2018 | 33 comments
26. Update Regarding ACME TLS-SNI and Shared Hosting Infrastructure (letsencrypt.org)
116 points by okket on Jan 11, 2018 | 42 comments
27. Fifty Years of Shannon Theory (1998) [pdf] (princeton.edu)
126 points by avastmick on Jan 12, 2018 | 22 comments
28. Things you must know before you can understand Meltdown as a developer (razorpay.com)
235 points by captn3m0 on Jan 12, 2018 | 94 comments
29. New DHS policy on demands for passwords to travelers’ electronic devices (papersplease.org)
365 points by tehwebguy on Jan 12, 2018 | 278 comments
30. Tesla: Art of Transmitting Electrical Energy through the Natural Mediums (1900) (patents.google.com)
107 points by hownottowrite on Jan 11, 2018 | 22 comments

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