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1. Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability (securityweek.com)
757 points by tomtoise on Jan 29, 2018 | 315 comments
2. LinuxBoot: Linux as Firmware (linuxboot.org)
691 points by doener on Jan 29, 2018 | 178 comments
3. Plunging costs make solar, wind and battery storage cheaper than coal (reneweconomy.com.au)
478 points by tim333 on Jan 29, 2018 | 204 comments
4. My new favorite book of all time (gatesnotes.com)
651 points by yarapavan on Jan 29, 2018 | 396 comments
5. How Schopenhauer’s thought can illuminate a midlife crisis (aeon.co)
268 points by lermontov on Jan 28, 2018 | 91 comments
6. Software Complexity Is Killing Us (simplethread.com)
398 points by Tenhundfeld on Jan 29, 2018 | 287 comments
7. The paradigms of programming (acolyer.org)
319 points by godelmachine on Jan 29, 2018 | 106 comments
8. Qubes Air: Generalizing the Qubes Architecture (qubes-os.org)
183 points by andrewdavidwong on Jan 29, 2018 | 65 comments
9. Self-Crashing Cars (zachaysan.com)
248 points by devy on Jan 29, 2018 | 209 comments
10. Show HN: Card Proxy Generator – Generate printable game cards from JSON (mitchkeenan.com)
162 points by konamacona on Jan 29, 2018 | 44 comments
11. Status.im Invests $5M in Riot.im (status.im)
212 points by dyukqu on Jan 29, 2018 | 86 comments
12. Vulnerable industrial controls directly connected to Internet (arstechnica.com)
145 points by wglb on Jan 29, 2018 | 99 comments
13. How a malicious seed generation website stole $4M (thatoddmailbox.github.io)
242 points by ageitgey on Jan 29, 2018 | 71 comments
14. Why Personas Fail (nngroup.com)
182 points by adrian_mrd on Jan 29, 2018 | 117 comments
15. MPEG: A crisis, the causes and a solution (chiariglione.org)
189 points by clouddrover on Jan 29, 2018 | 147 comments
16. Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2018 (fast.ai)
389 points by jph00 on Jan 29, 2018 | 61 comments
17. The U.S. Gets Less Subway for Its Money Than Its Peers (citylab.com)
214 points by jseliger on Jan 29, 2018 | 167 comments
18. Primg – Generate prime numbers whose binary representation looks like any image (geonnave.github.io)
110 points by geonnave on Jan 29, 2018 | 53 comments
19. Why Japanese web design is so different (2013) (randomwire.com)
257 points by thecortado on Jan 29, 2018 | 153 comments
20. Paxos derived (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)
161 points by r4um on Jan 29, 2018 | 15 comments
21. Loss of Locational Privacy While Traveling in Your Automobile (2013) [pdf] (defcon.org)
92 points by rfreytag on Jan 28, 2018 | 21 comments
22. CoreRT – .NET Core runtime optimized for AOT compilation (github.com/dotnet)
135 points by jeswin on Jan 29, 2018 | 19 comments
23. PointCNN – A simple and general framework for feature learning from point cloud (yangyanli.github.io)
74 points by lainon on Jan 29, 2018 | 4 comments
24. A Mystery Manuscript Found in a Used Copy of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ (atlasobscura.com)
114 points by samclemens on Jan 28, 2018 | 18 comments
25. A16z Monthly Newsletter: Good things come in threes (mailchi.mp)
123 points by triplesec on Jan 29, 2018 | 17 comments
26. Dell could emerge as a public company through a reverse merger with VMware (cnbc.com)
183 points by _vvdf on Jan 29, 2018 | 36 comments
27. The Quantum Theory and Reality (1979) [pdf] (scientificamerican.com)
93 points by xtacy on Jan 28, 2018 | 163 comments
28. Linear logic and deep learning [pdf] (therisingsea.org)
170 points by adamnemecek on Jan 29, 2018 | 47 comments
29. Making Sense of Super Smash Bros. Melee (planetbanatt.net)
172 points by panic on Jan 29, 2018 | 62 comments
30. Easy laser-cut electronics cases for maker boards (2017) (climbers.net)
100 points by walterbell on Jan 29, 2018 | 38 comments

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