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1. The Yoda of Silicon Valley (nytimes.com)
976 points by sohkamyung on Dec 17, 2018 | 331 comments
2. Sandspiel – A falling sand game built in Rust and WebGL (sandspiel.club)
1323 points by 15DCFA8F on Dec 17, 2018 | 185 comments
3. MIPS Goes Open Source (eetimes.com)
508 points by walterbell on Dec 17, 2018 | 147 comments
4. Neural Networks as Ordinary Differential Equations (rkevingibson.github.io)
474 points by agronaut on Dec 17, 2018 | 60 comments
5. Robinhood Checking Moved Fast and Broke (bloomberg.com)
462 points by kgwgk on Dec 17, 2018 | 256 comments
6. Clojure 1.10 release (clojure.org)
355 points by finalfantasia on Dec 17, 2018 | 94 comments
7. How the 0.001% invest (economist.com)
388 points by nikbackm on Dec 16, 2018 | 205 comments
8. Improvisational theater can reduce anxiety in teens who struggle socially (umich.edu)
227 points by EndXA on Dec 17, 2018 | 111 comments
9. Long Before Trees Overtook the Land, Earth Was Covered by Giant Mushrooms (smithsonianmag.com)
253 points by benryon on Dec 17, 2018 | 101 comments
10. Millitext – A subpixel text encoding font (morr.cc)
244 points by jonshariat on Dec 17, 2018 | 56 comments
11. Browsers (adactio.com)
341 points by indysigners on Dec 16, 2018 | 292 comments
12. Minikanren – An embedded DSL for logic programming (minikanren.org)
224 points by tosh on Dec 17, 2018 | 44 comments
13. LLVM Relicensing Effort (llvm.org)
214 points by frutiger on Dec 17, 2018 | 99 comments
14. Lessons Learned Implementing Common Lisp with LLVM [video] (youtube.com)
152 points by StreamBright on Dec 17, 2018 | 30 comments
15. Inventor May Have Cured Motion Sickness Without Drugs (defenseone.com)
259 points by aresant on Dec 17, 2018 | 113 comments
16. Cook My Meat: heat diffusion through meat over time (csail.mit.edu)
226 points by tomkinstinch on Dec 17, 2018 | 66 comments
17. Rust Analyzer in 2018 and 2019 (ferrous-systems.com)
181 points by jamesmunns on Dec 17, 2018 | 50 comments
18. Systematic Parsing of X.509: Eradicating Security Issues with a Parse Tree (arxiv.org)
146 points by snaky on Dec 16, 2018 | 25 comments
19. There's no such thing as a free watch (2017) (topic.com)
162 points by tomkinstinch on Dec 17, 2018 | 88 comments
20. A EULA in FOSS clothing? (dtrace.org)
205 points by bcantrill on Dec 17, 2018 | 87 comments
21. Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now Threaten Industry (wsj.com)
149 points by lxm on Dec 16, 2018 | 256 comments
22. Pushback Derails Company That Thrived on Patent Lawsuits (wsj.com)
84 points by seibelj on Dec 16, 2018 | 8 comments
23. Pendulum Waves (2010) (fas.harvard.edu)
119 points by kp25 on Dec 17, 2018 | 24 comments
24. LiveAgent: Over $250K monthly recurring revenue with a spin-off project (failory.com)
87 points by nicoserdeir on Dec 16, 2018 | 36 comments
25. A Millennial’s Tiny Satellites Are Helping China Advance in the Space Race (bloomberg.com)
57 points by Leary on Dec 16, 2018 | 35 comments
26. Rosetta witnesses birth of bow shock around comet (esa.int)
66 points by based2 on Dec 16, 2018 | 3 comments
27. Few people are actually trapped in filter bubbles. Why do they say they are? (niemanlab.org)
95 points by undefined1 on Dec 16, 2018 | 108 comments
28. Goldman Legal Woes Mount as Malaysia Slaps First Criminal Charge (bloomberg.com)
176 points by kimsk112 on Dec 17, 2018 | 37 comments
29. Oculus GoBlack – How to Make Your Oculus Go Better (palmerluckey.com)
145 points by DanAndersen on Dec 17, 2018 | 94 comments
30. Chronicle, Alphabet’s cybersecurity defense company moonshot (engadget.com)
56 points by lawrenceyan on Dec 16, 2018 | 16 comments

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