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1. Catching the Great American Eclipse at 35,000 Feet (alaskaair.com)
455 points by kylebarron on Aug 25, 2017 | 116 comments
2. Whatruns: Identify technologies used on any website (whatruns.com)
430 points by mcone on Aug 25, 2017 | 233 comments
3. I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
284 points by proberts on Aug 25, 2017 | 403 comments
4. Beginners Guide to Vulkan (khronos.org)
248 points by deafcalculus on Aug 25, 2017 | 74 comments
5. Mental processes of chess masters revealed how people become experts (2016) [pdf] (pdx.edu)
265 points by lainon on Aug 25, 2017 | 61 comments
6. VW engineering executive sentenced to 40-month prison term in diesel case (reuters.com)
288 points by rmason on Aug 25, 2017 | 217 comments
7. Decommissioned mobile devices as cheap energy-efficient compute nodes (usenix.org)
160 points by blacksmythe on Aug 25, 2017 | 72 comments
8. Rules for new FPGA designers (zipcpu.com)
190 points by jsnell on Aug 24, 2017 | 74 comments
9. Designing a Tree Diff Algorithm Using Dynamic Programming and A* (thume.ca)
230 points by yminsky on Aug 25, 2017 | 21 comments
10. Cooling the Earth with a cloud of small spacecraft near the inner Lagrange point (pnas.org)
216 points by abecedarius on Aug 25, 2017 | 248 comments
11. Windy.com (windy.com)
580 points by davesque on Aug 24, 2017 | 103 comments
12. An ancient Babylonian tablet may contain the first evidence of trigonometry (sciencemag.org)
141 points by sohkamyung on Aug 25, 2017 | 26 comments
13. The prior can generally only be understood in the context of the likelihood (arxiv.org)
94 points by selimthegrim on Aug 25, 2017 | 20 comments
14. Same day ACH: moving payments faster in the USA (nacha.org)
150 points by fanf2 on Aug 25, 2017 | 165 comments
15. How ACH works: A developer perspective (2014) (gusto.com)
364 points by alpb on Aug 25, 2017 | 219 comments
16. How to Write Your Own Compiler (2009) (polito.it)
246 points by yinso on Aug 25, 2017 | 42 comments
17. Practicing Elixir or any programming language (ericdouglas.github.io)
173 points by ericdouglas on Aug 24, 2017 | 58 comments
18. What do you get if you publish a paper in a highly-ranked journal? (blogs.sciencemag.org)
122 points by ilamont on Aug 25, 2017 | 82 comments
19. Clarity Icons: open source icons (vmware.github.io)
217 points by johnewo on Aug 24, 2017 | 41 comments
20. As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check (nytimes.com)
265 points by kawera on Aug 25, 2017 | 277 comments
21. Epistle 3 (marclaidlaw.com)
470 points by verroq on Aug 25, 2017 | 177 comments
22. In-Depth View of Wave Computing’s DPU Architecture, Systems (nextplatform.com)
62 points by rbanffy on Aug 25, 2017 | 9 comments
23. Good News for Young Strivers: Networking Is Overrated (nytimes.com)
176 points by wallflower on Aug 24, 2017 | 108 comments
24. Teacher builds $50M a year business with learning materials (ocregister.com)
186 points by lxm on Aug 24, 2017 | 14 comments
25. 'Environmental Nightmare' After Thousands of Atlantic Salmon Escape Fish Farm (npr.org)
163 points by merraksh on Aug 25, 2017 | 180 comments
26. Pybind11 — Seamless operability between C++11 and Python (github.com/pybind)
135 points by tony on Aug 25, 2017 | 117 comments
27. The U.S. is risking an academic brain drain (axios.com)
201 points by lxm on Aug 25, 2017 | 197 comments
28. Alaska’s Permafrost Is Thawing (nytimes.com)
209 points by DiabloD3 on Aug 25, 2017 | 139 comments
29. Measuring Reproducibility in Computer Systems Research [pdf] (arizona.edu)
41 points by hrasyid on Aug 25, 2017 | 5 comments
30. Launch HN: NextDrop Technologies (YC S17) – Water Marketplace for Urban India
114 points by anusridharan on Aug 25, 2017 | 54 comments

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