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1. We've failed: open access is winning and we must change our approach (wiley.com)
626 points by mathgenius on Sept 16, 2017 | 377 comments
2. Eclipse OpenJ9 – Open-source JVM (github.com/eclipse)
322 points by jsiepkes on Sept 16, 2017 | 104 comments
3. Three Years in Identity Theft Hell (bloomberg.com)
315 points by ColinWright on Sept 16, 2017 | 187 comments
4. As Electric Motors Impove, More Things Are Being Electrified (economist.com)
208 points by jkuria on Sept 16, 2017 | 76 comments
5. Alan Kay is still waiting for his dream to come true (fastcompany.com)
337 points by sohkamyung on Sept 15, 2017 | 288 comments
6. Western Digital Ships 12 TB WD Gold HDD: 8 Platters and Helium (anandtech.com)
168 points by el_duderino on Sept 16, 2017 | 108 comments
7. Why Dropbox decided to build its own infrastructure and network (techcrunch.com)
317 points by zachperret on Sept 16, 2017 | 152 comments
8. Wind energy used to mine cryptocurrency to fund climate research (julianoliver.com)
206 points by kawera on Sept 16, 2017 | 66 comments
9. Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989) (utexas.edu)
383 points by tosh on Sept 16, 2017 | 112 comments
10. Michel Foucault in Death Valley: A Boom Interview with Simeon Wade (boomcalifornia.com)
57 points by samclemens on Sept 15, 2017 | 22 comments
11. To treat back pain, look to the brain not the spine (aeon.co)
212 points by kawera on Sept 16, 2017 | 140 comments
12. Watching Larry Ellison Become Larry Ellison (2014) (steveblank.com)
143 points by tosh on Sept 16, 2017 | 46 comments
13. Court OKs child porn prosecution of minors distributing pictures of themselves (washingtonpost.com)
260 points by ikeboy on Sept 15, 2017 | 302 comments
14. Electric vehicle price is rising, but cost-per-mile is falling (arstechnica.com)
65 points by jseliger on Sept 16, 2017 | 49 comments
15. Sleeping barber problem (wikipedia.org)
119 points by Sami_Lehtinen on Sept 16, 2017 | 27 comments
16. Cost of iPhone X in 1957 (bradford-delong.com)
279 points by lsh123 on Sept 16, 2017 | 167 comments
17. The Unlikely Return of Cat Stevens (newyorker.com)
117 points by ScottBurson on Sept 16, 2017 | 59 comments
18. Unicore: A new Unikernel project (xen.org)
107 points by ingve on Sept 16, 2017 | 22 comments
19. Europilot: A toolkit for Euro Truck Simulator to develop self-driving algorithms (github.com/marshq)
254 points by daftshady on Sept 16, 2017 | 39 comments
20. Equifax Releases Details on Cybersecurity Incident, Announces Personnel Changes (equifax.com)
180 points by diggernet on Sept 15, 2017 | 178 comments
21. Amazon Is Hungry and Coming for Cable Channels (nbcnews.com)
84 points by Mz on Sept 16, 2017 | 37 comments
22. AllenNLP – An open-source NLP research library, built on PyTorch (allennlp.org)
194 points by varunagrawal on Sept 16, 2017 | 25 comments
23. The Realities of Being a FOSS Maintainer (caddy.community)
215 points by jwcrux on Sept 16, 2017 | 120 comments
24. Improbably Frequent Lottery Winners (cjr.org)
197 points by peterkshultz on Sept 16, 2017 | 97 comments
25. Scilab – Open source software for numerical computation (scilab.org)
139 points by zuron7 on Sept 16, 2017 | 45 comments
26. Njalla – A privacy aware domain registration service (njal.la)
65 points by Tomte on Sept 16, 2017 | 12 comments
27. Linear Algebra for AI (github.com/fastai)
318 points by stablemap on Sept 16, 2017 | 37 comments
28. Patching is hard; so what? (cryptographyengineering.com)
120 points by runesoerensen on Sept 15, 2017 | 61 comments
29. New oscillator system in Zenith mechanical watches (hodinkee.com)
167 points by nichodges on Sept 16, 2017 | 63 comments
30. PenTesting Active Directory Environments (2016) (varonis.com)
40 points by wolframio on Sept 16, 2017 | 2 comments

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