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1. WhatsApp Cofounder on How It Reached 1.3B Users Without Losing Its Focus (fastcompany.com)
295 points by davidgomes on Sept 2, 2017 | 173 comments
2. SharknAT&To: Vulnerabilities in AT&T U-verse modems (nomotion.net)
344 points by dankohn1 on Sept 3, 2017 | 167 comments
3. “Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic silent EOL of the product” (twitter.com/webmink)
753 points by sengork on Sept 3, 2017 | 387 comments
4. Fucking Sue Me (2011) (pud.com)
295 points by quickthrower2 on Sept 2, 2017 | 114 comments
5. You are not 'behind' (zackkanter.com)
471 points by mooreds on Sept 2, 2017 | 209 comments
6. FE-Schrift: forgery-impeding typeface (wikipedia.org)
227 points by chki on Sept 2, 2017 | 51 comments
7. Delete Facebook Account (deletefacebook.com)
440 points by _9w7z on Sept 3, 2017 | 193 comments
8. Machine Learning: An Applied Econometric Approach [pdf] (scholar.harvard.edu)
165 points by lainon on Sept 3, 2017 | 9 comments
9. The Netherlands has become an agricultural giant (nationalgeographic.com)
334 points by deegles on Sept 3, 2017 | 287 comments
10. Hell is a multi-threaded C++ program (2006) (codemines.blogspot.com)
223 points by mpweiher on Sept 2, 2017 | 122 comments
11. Children's books with humans have greater moral impact than animals, study finds (theguardian.com)
172 points by gpresot on Sept 1, 2017 | 60 comments
12. Wells Fargo uncovers up to 1.4M more fake accounts (cnn.com)
184 points by cinquemb on Sept 2, 2017 | 91 comments
13. To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider Janitors (nytimes.com)
390 points by jessup on Sept 3, 2017 | 672 comments
14. Making a GTK Video Player with Haskell (lettier.github.io)
183 points by lettier on Sept 1, 2017 | 39 comments
15. A black market where people pay for Instagram verification (mashable.com)
190 points by gfredtech on Sept 2, 2017 | 67 comments
16. Emotionless chatbots are taking over customer service (theconversation.com)
123 points by CarolineW on Sept 3, 2017 | 85 comments
17. EleVR leaving Y Combinator Research (elevr.com)
173 points by alanfalcon on Sept 3, 2017 | 111 comments
18. JavaScript string encoding (inburke.com)
103 points by iamwil on Sept 3, 2017 | 90 comments
19. Panic Button: Lessons for the Tech-for-Good Sector (theengineroom.org)
70 points by jacobr on Sept 2, 2017 | 24 comments
20. 100 days of postmarketOS (postmarketos.org)
177 points by yuvadam on Sept 3, 2017 | 45 comments
21. Common Misconceptions about ICO Law (stellar.org)
83 points by omarchowdhury on Sept 2, 2017 | 26 comments
22. Is there a winning strategy in Tetris? (mathoverflow.net)
94 points by lainon on Sept 2, 2017 | 36 comments
23. Zello: The ‘Cajun Navy’s’ secret weapon for saving lives (washingtonpost.com)
73 points by curtis on Sept 3, 2017 | 33 comments
24. What do people mean when they say “transpiler”? (composition.al)
77 points by tosh on Sept 2, 2017 | 74 comments
25. You See Sneakers, These Guys See Hundreds of Millions in Resale Profit (2014) (fivethirtyeight.com)
74 points by t23 on Sept 2, 2017 | 33 comments
26. The DUNGEON (Zork I) source (github.com/devshane)
94 points by geospeck on Sept 1, 2017 | 50 comments
27. Physicists want to rebuild quantum theory from scratch (wired.com)
90 points by cgmg on Sept 3, 2017 | 41 comments
28. Understanding Misunderstandings in Source Code [pdf] (nyu.edu)
54 points by lainon on Sept 3, 2017 | 8 comments
29. Summary of the 2038 BoF at DC17 (debian.org)
48 points by edward on Sept 2, 2017 | 24 comments
30. Searching a Million Lines of Lisp (wilfred.me.uk)
73 points by pmoriarty on Sept 1, 2017 | 25 comments

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