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1. LisaOS to be open-sourced and donated to Computer History Museum (twitter.com/6502lane)
259 points by mpweiher on Dec 24, 2017 | 84 comments
2. Axiom Beta – Digital cinema camera built around FOSS and open hardware (apertus.org)
264 points by jarmitage on Dec 24, 2017 | 94 comments
3. Papercraft with Blender (matiasmorant.wordpress.com)
333 points by wvlia5 on Dec 24, 2017 | 50 comments
4. The Effect of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing on American Mortality Patterns [pdf] (keithameyers.com)
216 points by stablemap on Dec 24, 2017 | 118 comments
5. Academic success is either a crapshoot or a scam (grasshoppermouse.github.io)
309 points by mpweiher on Dec 23, 2017 | 102 comments
6. Text-only news sites are slowly making a comeback (poynter.org)
259 points by georgecmu on Dec 24, 2017 | 104 comments
7. The Only McLaren F1 Technician in North America (roadandtrack.com)
219 points by iamben on Dec 21, 2017 | 87 comments
8. Molly Houses: Gay Bars in 18th-Century Britain (atlasobscura.com)
117 points by apollinaire on Dec 21, 2017 | 12 comments
9. Formal Verification: The Gap Between Perfect Code and Reality (raywang.tech)
222 points by tom_mellior on Dec 24, 2017 | 102 comments
10. Repairing a 1960s mainframe: Fixing the IBM 1401's core memory and power supply (righto.com)
145 points by fernly on Dec 24, 2017 | 18 comments
11. Undefined vs. Unsafe in Rust (manishearth.github.io)
160 points by ingve on Dec 24, 2017 | 47 comments
12. Algorithmic Solution to My Insomnia (sukhar.com)
253 points by csmajorfive on Dec 23, 2017 | 79 comments
13. Writing GUI Apps Using the Red Programming Language (wesleyhill.co.uk)
182 points by stesch on Dec 24, 2017 | 114 comments
14. Apple Autocorrects Names of Some Medications to Names of Different Medications (twitter.com/slatestarcodex)
248 points by Houshalter on Dec 24, 2017 | 128 comments
15. Earthworms can reproduce in Mars soil simulant (wur.nl)
138 points by scadge on Dec 21, 2017 | 75 comments
16. The Big Business of Prisoner Care Packages (themarshallproject.org)
86 points by scarface74 on Dec 22, 2017 | 40 comments
17. Bruce McCandless, First Astronaut to Fly Untethered in Space, Has Died (npr.org)
129 points by lyk on Dec 24, 2017 | 21 comments
18. Reasoning About Program Behavior Algebraically [pdf] (stephendiehl.com)
113 points by rwosync on Dec 24, 2017 | 12 comments
19. How to Print Integers Really Fast (pvk.ca)
169 points by signa11 on Dec 24, 2017 | 46 comments
20. Analyzing One Million Robots.txt Files (intoli.com)
157 points by foob on Dec 21, 2017 | 25 comments
21. Inferno OS for Raspberry Pi (bitbucket.org/infpi)
140 points by rcarmo on Dec 23, 2017 | 20 comments
22. Dubsmash: Scaling to 200M Users with 3 Engineers (stackshare.io)
180 points by yarapavan on Dec 22, 2017 | 45 comments
23. Fungi Saved the World (2014) (feedthedatamonster.com)
95 points by bentaber on Dec 21, 2017 | 12 comments
24. Open Source .NET three years later (mattwarren.org)
216 points by matthewwarren on Dec 24, 2017 | 185 comments
25. Electric currency could trash cash (1999) (theguardian.com)
74 points by monort on Dec 24, 2017 | 43 comments
26. Russian submarine activity increases around Atlantic internet cables: report (thehill.com)
117 points by erowtom on Dec 24, 2017 | 62 comments
27. I Got Paid $0 from the Uber Security Bug Bounty (medium.com/bread-and-circuses)
624 points by GregoryVPerry on Dec 24, 2017 | 152 comments
28. Key compromise and root cert with exposed key in German lawyer software (beA) (groups.google.com)
84 points by DyslexicAtheist on Dec 24, 2017 | 20 comments
29. The current state of kernel page-table isolation (lwn.net)
81 points by jsnell on Dec 24, 2017 | 13 comments
30. Stopping Plastic Pollution with the Power of Bubbles (hakaimagazine.com)
42 points by jmadsen on Dec 21, 2017 | 5 comments

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