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1. Eve: Programming designed for humans (witheve.com)
1070 points by ibdknox on Oct 28, 2016 | 374 comments
2. Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getting sick (latimes.com)
745 points by whitepoplar on Oct 28, 2016 | 1021 comments
3. Google AI invents its own cryptographic algorithm (arstechnica.co.uk)
519 points by wallflower on Oct 28, 2016 | 162 comments
4. A very valuable vulnerability (daemonology.net)
315 points by cperciva on Oct 28, 2016 | 48 comments
5. Secret Management with Vault (seatgeek.com)
209 points by josegonzalez on Oct 28, 2016 | 59 comments
6. New technique would reveal the basis for machine-learning systems’ decisions (sciencebulletin.org)
115 points by renafowler on Oct 28, 2016 | 32 comments
7. Incident Report: Inadvertent Private Repository Disclosure (github.com/blog)
187 points by jamesfryman on Oct 28, 2016 | 41 comments
8. Ask HN: Any other blind devs interested in working on dev tools for the blind?
530 points by blinddev on Oct 28, 2016 | 133 comments
9. Continuous MySQL backup validation: Restoring backups (facebook.com)
104 points by jivid on Oct 28, 2016 | 27 comments
10. Pre-Safe Sound: Playing ‘pink noise’ in the split second before impact (2015) (mercedes-benz.com)
345 points by rosstex on Oct 28, 2016 | 156 comments
11. Let researchers try new paths (nature.com)
74 points by jaoued on Oct 28, 2016 | 27 comments
12. The Ruins of Dead Social Networks (2011) (theatlantic.com)
72 points by benbreen on Oct 27, 2016 | 24 comments
13. Stan Ulam, John von Neumann, and the Monte Carlo Method (1987) [pdf] (lanl.gov)
77 points by Vannatter on Oct 28, 2016 | 19 comments
14. Defending against Rowhammer in the Linux kernel (lwn.net)
118 points by ldayley on Oct 28, 2016 | 45 comments
15. Newly Redesigned Boston.gov Just Went Open Source (routefifty.com)
103 points by rmason on Oct 28, 2016 | 23 comments
16. How to De-Risk a Startup (codingvc.com)
240 points by lpolovets on Oct 27, 2016 | 37 comments
17. Could an astronaut’s corpse bring new life to another world? (astronomy.com)
117 points by benbreen on Oct 26, 2016 | 73 comments
18. Charts That Scare Wall Street (bloomberg.com)
194 points by JumpCrisscross on Oct 28, 2016 | 85 comments
19. Swiss rail operator to sell bitcoins at its ticket machines (reuters.com)
139 points by huhtenberg on Oct 28, 2016 | 37 comments
20. The bizarre role reversal of Apple and Microsoft (backchannel.com)
227 points by steven on Oct 28, 2016 | 210 comments
21. How to Get Fired Using Switch Statements and Statement Expressions (robertelder.org)
237 points by mirceasoaica on Oct 28, 2016 | 41 comments
22. Common swifts can stay aloft for up to 10 months (nytimes.com)
122 points by mhb on Oct 27, 2016 | 51 comments
23. Zcash begins (z.cash)
209 points by carlchenet on Oct 28, 2016 | 175 comments
24. Wall Street's Frantic Push to Hire Coders (bloomberg.com)
170 points by applecore on Oct 28, 2016 | 186 comments
25. Microsoft offers Apple users $650 off to trade a MacBook for a Surface (techcrunch.com)
234 points by hackerkid on Oct 28, 2016 | 114 comments
26. Magic Leap goes to Finland in pursuit of VR and AR talent (techcrunch.com)
99 points by SkarredGhost on Oct 28, 2016 | 63 comments
27. Engines of Evidence – A Conversation with Judea Pearl (edge.org)
103 points by clumsysmurf on Oct 28, 2016 | 23 comments
28. New MacBook Pro Is Not a Laptop for Developers Anymore (devteam.space)
519 points by alexeysemeney on Oct 28, 2016 | 775 comments
29. George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’ (electrek.co)
330 points by gatsby on Oct 28, 2016 | 473 comments
30. Twitter Has an Old Media Problem, Here’s a Solution (nytimes.com)
66 points by hvo on Oct 28, 2016 | 62 comments

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