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1. Show HN: Observable Notebooks (observablehq.com)
654 points by jashkenas on Jan 31, 2018 | 128 comments
2. Content-aware image resize library (github.com/esimov)
614 points by boyter on Jan 30, 2018 | 78 comments
3. AMD Returns to Full-Year Profitability, Forecasts Strong 2018 (extremetech.com)
497 points by artsandsci on Jan 31, 2018 | 238 comments
4. Why Create a New Unix Shell? (oilshell.org)
408 points by shadeless on Jan 31, 2018 | 292 comments
5. Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake Accounts (nytimes.com)
336 points by ganlad on Jan 31, 2018 | 167 comments
6. Show HN: A Decentralized StatusPage on IPFS (dstatuspage.net)
316 points by paulogr on Jan 31, 2018 | 127 comments
7. Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes (bloomberg.com)
262 points by dismal2 on Jan 31, 2018 | 250 comments
8. Amazon Health (stratechery.com)
284 points by joeyespo on Jan 31, 2018 | 103 comments
9. Orcas can imitate human speech, research reveals (theguardian.com)
232 points by okket on Jan 31, 2018 | 140 comments
10. Uber Bike – A New Way to Commute or Explore (uber.com)
264 points by brendannee on Jan 31, 2018 | 289 comments
11. Programming the Linux Framebuffer (cmcenroe.me)
164 points by mmphosis on Jan 31, 2018 | 24 comments
12. C++ and the Culture of Complexity (2013) (greaterthanzero.com)
211 points by contrarian_ on Jan 31, 2018 | 279 comments
13. Send the Barbarian in First (thewalrus.ca)
211 points by ductionist on Jan 30, 2018 | 122 comments
14. The perplexing life of Ernő Rubik (1986) (fei.edu.br)
128 points by musha68k on Jan 31, 2018 | 28 comments
15. Formula E reveals second-generation car (motorsport.com)
116 points by tankenmate on Jan 31, 2018 | 81 comments
16. Free Software Foundation Receives $1M Donation from Pineapple Fund (fsf.org)
255 points by madmax108 on Jan 31, 2018 | 99 comments
17. Andrew Ng launches $175M AI fund (techcrunch.com)
196 points by dsaw on Jan 31, 2018 | 65 comments
18. Launch HN: ClearBrain (YC W18) – predictive models for app conversions and churn
83 points by bmahmood on Jan 31, 2018 | 20 comments
19. Discontinue support for weak cryptographic standards (githubengineering.com)
141 points by aorth on Jan 31, 2018 | 36 comments
20. Hans Peter Luhn and the Birth of the Hashing Algorithm (ieee.org)
126 points by sohkamyung on Jan 31, 2018 | 28 comments
21. RFC 8314: Use of Transport Layer Security for Email Submission and Access (ietf.org)
77 points by okket on Jan 31, 2018 | 44 comments
22. A theory of the learnable (acolyer.org)
87 points by mpweiher on Jan 31, 2018 | 9 comments
23. Language at the End of the World (cabinetmagazine.org)
66 points by Thevet on Jan 31, 2018 | 1 comment
24. Patchwork – Decentralized messaging and sharing app built on Secure Scuttlebutt (github.com/ssbc)
167 points by mercer on Jan 31, 2018 | 64 comments
25. Like an AI Could Ever Spot Sarcasm (nvidia.com)
131 points by bcaulfield on Jan 31, 2018 | 106 comments
26. Archiving the alternative press threatened by wealthy buyers (freedom.press)
94 points by thisisparker on Jan 31, 2018 | 14 comments
27. How a late-blossoming classics don became Britain’s most beloved intellectual (theguardian.com)
92 points by diodorus on Jan 30, 2018 | 92 comments
28. How a Fine-Dining Empire Made the Southwest Palatable to Outsiders (2016) (collectorsweekly.com)
56 points by samclemens on Jan 31, 2018 | 15 comments
29. Do or undo – there is no VACUUM (rhaas.blogspot.com)
139 points by craigkerstiens on Jan 31, 2018 | 23 comments
30. Making network authentication simple in a Bring Your Own Device environment (gist.github.com)
107 points by fanf2 on Jan 31, 2018 | 25 comments

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