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1. Walkable Streets Are More Economically Productive (strongtowns.org)
662 points by oftenwrong on Jan 18, 2018 | 415 comments
2. Wine 3.0 Released (winehq.org)
724 points by etiam on Jan 18, 2018 | 222 comments
3. JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake (jspaint.ml)
906 points by hjek on Jan 18, 2018 | 248 comments
4. Restructuring a giant, ancient codebase to make LibreOffice work well everywhere (fosdem.org)
489 points by buovjaga on Jan 18, 2018 | 101 comments
5. CIA rendition flights from rustic North Carolina called to account by citizens (theguardian.com)
306 points by pera on Jan 18, 2018 | 166 comments
6. Oxidizing Source Maps with Rust and WebAssembly (hacks.mozilla.org)
207 points by mnemonik on Jan 18, 2018 | 30 comments
7. Microsoft MakeCode (makecode.com)
407 points by mdturnerphys on Jan 17, 2018 | 90 comments
8. It is not possible to detect and block Chrome headless (intoli.com)
360 points by foob on Jan 18, 2018 | 166 comments
9. Building an Operating System for the Raspberry Pi (jsandler18.github.io)
331 points by gregorymichael on Jan 18, 2018 | 79 comments
10. Scaling Kubernetes to 2,500 Nodes (blog.openai.com)
265 points by stanzheng on Jan 18, 2018 | 33 comments
11. Keep Webpack Fast: A Field Guide for Better Build Performance (slack.engineering)
214 points by firloop on Jan 18, 2018 | 47 comments
12. Ten Years' Worth of Learning About Pricing (tomtunguz.com)
247 points by gk1 on Jan 18, 2018 | 43 comments
13. Fuze for Nintendo Switch: An easy-to-learn text-based programming language (fuze.co.uk)
245 points by E765 on Jan 18, 2018 | 102 comments
14. Stream Processing for Go (wallaroolabs.com)
198 points by spooneybarger on Jan 18, 2018 | 30 comments
15. CloudFlair: Bypassing CloudFlare using Internet-wide scan data (christophetd.fr)
151 points by 68c12c16 on Jan 18, 2018 | 48 comments
16. An old theory of quantized gravity is gaining new life (quantamagazine.org)
110 points by bcaulfield on Jan 18, 2018 | 66 comments
17. Rust and QML: a timely example (vandenoever.info)
144 points by gilrain on Jan 18, 2018 | 20 comments
18. Dear SaaS vendors (liip.ch)
160 points by market_arts on Jan 18, 2018 | 90 comments
19. Life in the age of noise (powells.com)
169 points by fern12 on Jan 16, 2018 | 65 comments
20. Indistinguishable from Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips (2012) [video] (youtube.com)
183 points by taspeotis on Jan 18, 2018 | 52 comments
21. Nintendo Labo: make, play, and discover (nintendo.co.uk)
302 points by cyanbane on Jan 17, 2018 | 2 comments
22. The Woman Behind Two Men and a Truck (fortune.com)
158 points by lxm on Jan 17, 2018 | 72 comments
23. Classic RAND Papers (rand.org)
125 points by miobrien on Jan 17, 2018 | 21 comments
24. Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders (scientificamerican.com)
275 points by jrwan on Jan 18, 2018 | 321 comments
25. Clojure Numerics: Orthogonalization and Least Squares (dragan.rocks)
118 points by dragandj on Jan 18, 2018 | 20 comments
26. Cape Town could be the first city to run out of water (bbc.com)
204 points by tonteldoos on Jan 18, 2018 | 138 comments
27. Amazon announces candidate cities for HQ2 (amazon.com)
325 points by uptown on Jan 18, 2018 | 721 comments
28. So You Want to Compete with Steam (fortressofdoors.com)
244 points by eugenekolo on Jan 17, 2018 | 215 comments
29. On the global survival of mafias (the-tls.co.uk)
64 points by benbreen on Jan 16, 2018 | 29 comments
30. Visual tour of classical electromagnetism (web.mit.edu)
96 points by adamnemecek on Jan 15, 2018 | 13 comments

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