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1. Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler (hacks.mozilla.org)
912 points by markdog12 on Jan 17, 2018 | 220 comments
2. System Bus Radio: Transmits AM radio on computers without transmitting hardware (github.com/fulldecent)
515 points by yarapavan on Jan 17, 2018 | 120 comments
3. Who the Hell Uses Onion Juice? (markbittman.com)
448 points by 0xbadcafebee on Jan 17, 2018 | 207 comments
4. BitConnect Closes Exchange as States Warn of Unregulated Sales (bloomberg.com)
389 points by JumpCrisscross on Jan 17, 2018 | 248 comments
5. Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38B in foreign cash taxes (reuters.com)
369 points by chollida1 on Jan 17, 2018 | 502 comments
6. Indefinite solitary confinement in Canadian prisons ruled unconstitutional (cbc.ca)
255 points by joering2 on Jan 17, 2018 | 135 comments
7. Turning Soybeans into Diesel Fuel Is Costing Billions (npr.org)
225 points by happy-go-lucky on Jan 17, 2018 | 138 comments
8. DNS over HTTPS (github.com/curl)
284 points by sohkamyung on Jan 17, 2018 | 181 comments
9. Elixir v1.6 released: code formatter, dynamic supervisors, and more (elixir-lang.org)
341 points by josevalim on Jan 17, 2018 | 39 comments
10. Go Is a Great Fit for Lambda (brandur.org)
187 points by craigkerstiens on Jan 17, 2018 | 113 comments
11. Sudden savant syndrome, in which exceptional abilities emerge after brain injury (bbc.com)
221 points by clouddrover on Jan 17, 2018 | 102 comments
12. Fast base64 encoding and decoding (lemire.me)
210 points by joeyespo on Jan 17, 2018 | 77 comments
13. Datomic Cloud (datomic.com)
264 points by grzm on Jan 17, 2018 | 106 comments
14. Google IT Support Professional Certificate (blog.google)
215 points by peterkshultz on Jan 17, 2018 | 166 comments
15. Long-Term Consequences of Spectre and Its Mitigations (ocallahan.org)
136 points by sankha93 on Jan 17, 2018 | 68 comments
16. Changes to the YouTube Partner Program (googleblog.com)
233 points by tomkwok on Jan 17, 2018 | 253 comments
17. California bullet train cost surges by $2.8B (latimes.com)
184 points by protomyth on Jan 17, 2018 | 476 comments
18. Some thoughts on Spectre and Meltdown (daemonology.net)
203 points by cperciva on Jan 17, 2018 | 65 comments
19. How to Measure the Working Set Size on Linux (brendangregg.com)
133 points by ingve on Jan 17, 2018 | 8 comments
20. Why code that never goes wrong can still be wrong (pathsensitive.com)
134 points by matt_d on Jan 17, 2018 | 55 comments
21. SPAs are harder and always will be (2013) (wgross.net)
181 points by donatj on Jan 17, 2018 | 180 comments
22. Membarrier system call performance and the future of Userspace RCU on Linux (lttng.org)
71 points by readmodwrite on Jan 16, 2018 | 4 comments
23. Instruction explosion in Guile (wingolog.org)
111 points by sctb on Jan 17, 2018 | 3 comments
24. Some thoughts on security after ten years of Qmail 1.0 (acolyer.org)
137 points by gcd883 on Jan 17, 2018 | 120 comments
25. Lithium chloride kills a honey bee parasite by a systemic mode of action (nature.com)
91 points by curtis on Jan 17, 2018 | 29 comments
26. Microsoft and the UWP for Enterprise Delusion (deanchalk.com)
150 points by garganzol on Jan 16, 2018 | 146 comments
27. Ex-CIA Officer Suspected of Compromising Chinese Informants Is Arrested (nytimes.com)
130 points by ryanlol on Jan 17, 2018 | 130 comments
28. NeoPG – an opiniated fork of GnuPG 2 (neopg.io)
112 points by sphinxc0re on Jan 17, 2018 | 43 comments
29. Machine Learning-Based End-To-End CRISPR/Cas9 Guide Design (crispr.ml)
64 points by indescions_2018 on Jan 17, 2018 | 15 comments
30. Measuring the Tendency of CNNs to Learn Surface Statistical Regularities (arxiv.org)
66 points by tim_sw on Jan 17, 2018 | 36 comments

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