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1. Matrix Calculus (matrixcalculus.org)
408 points by sytelus on Nov 18, 2017 | 51 comments
2. How Facebook's Instagram Acquisition Led to the Open Sourcing of React.js (stackshare.io)
256 points by fagnerbrack on Nov 18, 2017 | 76 comments
3. A Founder Salary Calculator (christophjanz.blogspot.com)
249 points by chrija on Nov 18, 2017 | 192 comments
4. Stockfish Wins Chess.com Computer Championship (chess.com)
225 points by wglb on Nov 18, 2017 | 85 comments
5. “Last Mile” Barriers to Removing Legacy BIOS [pdf] (uefi.org)
212 points by okket on Nov 18, 2017 | 229 comments
6. The axolotl has nearly disappeared from its natural habitat (nature.com)
164 points by QAPereo on Nov 18, 2017 | 31 comments
7. Luxon – A library for working with dates and times in JS (github.com/moment)
185 points by kermire on Nov 18, 2017 | 76 comments
8. Ancient data, modern math and the hunt for lost cities of the Bronze Age (washingtonpost.com)
125 points by world2vec on Nov 18, 2017 | 21 comments
9. Tosheets, utility to send stdin to Google sheets (github.com/kren1)
161 points by kren1 on Nov 17, 2017 | 28 comments
10. The Atoms of Programming (sicpers.info)
131 points by mpweiher on Nov 18, 2017 | 21 comments
11. Show HN: Chord Progressions (peterburk.github.io)
161 points by peterburkimsher on Nov 17, 2017 | 101 comments
12. Creating an Autonomous System for Fun and Profit (thelifeofkenneth.com)
140 points by signa11 on Nov 18, 2017 | 16 comments
13. Argentina says signals detected, likely from missing submarine (reuters.com)
130 points by daegloe on Nov 18, 2017 | 106 comments
14. How the BBC News website has changed over the past 20 years (bbc.co.uk)
89 points by dberhane on Nov 18, 2017 | 30 comments
15. New AWS Deep Learning AMIs for Machine Learning Practitioners (amazon.com)
79 points by rbanffy on Nov 18, 2017 | 7 comments
16. Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation (1960) (fermatslibrary.com)
36 points by slbenfica on Nov 17, 2017 | 4 comments
17. Kdb+ and Python: EmbedPy and PyQ (kx.com)
99 points by gricardo99 on Nov 17, 2017 | 38 comments
18. Reproducible Tails builds (boum.org)
96 points by Santosh83 on Nov 18, 2017 | 16 comments
19. Primes and Primality Testing (clerro.com)
44 points by animeshk on Nov 18, 2017 | 25 comments
20. Monotonicity Types: Towards a Type System for Eventual Consistency (neu.edu)
101 points by cmeiklejohn on Nov 17, 2017 | 8 comments
21. Statistical and Discrete Methods for Scientific Computing (2016) (wpressutexas.net)
70 points by kercker on Nov 18, 2017 | 3 comments
22. An Inconvenient Truth about Smart Cities (scientificamerican.com)
120 points by imwally on Nov 18, 2017 | 95 comments
23. Why the Update Fever Is Bad (irrlicht3d.org)
149 points by irrlichthn on Nov 18, 2017 | 110 comments
24. AWS Amplify – A declarative library for application development (github.com/aws)
95 points by appwiz on Nov 18, 2017 | 9 comments
25. The Exterior Algebra and Central Notions in Mathematics (2015) [pdf] (ams.org)
73 points by _culy on Nov 18, 2017 | 44 comments
26. Kaspersky: Yes, we obtained NSA secrets. No, we didn’t help steal them (arstechnica.com)
166 points by gvb on Nov 18, 2017 | 126 comments
27. Highest-quality GIF encoder based on pngquant (gif.ski)
99 points by modinfo on Nov 18, 2017 | 27 comments
28. Popular Science Writing: A Challenge to Academic Cultures [pdf] (ou.edu)
34 points by lainon on Nov 17, 2017 | 13 comments
29. MLHelper: Algorithms and utils for Machine Learning in JavaScript (github.com/laoqiren)
65 points by laoqiren on Nov 18, 2017 | 7 comments
30. IRC necromancy (virtuallyfun.com)
89 points by beefhash on Nov 18, 2017 | 77 comments

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