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1. The web sucks if you have a slow connection (danluu.com)
1269 points by philbo on Feb 8, 2017 | 598 comments
2. Introducing Keybase Chat (keybase.io)
990 points by aston on Feb 8, 2017 | 192 comments
3. The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow (dev-books.com)
644 points by vladwetzel on Feb 8, 2017 | 246 comments
4. Fluid Paint Simulation (david.li)
605 points by anonfunction on Feb 8, 2017 | 87 comments
5. Thousands of deadly U.S. military airstrikes have gone unreported (militarytimes.com)
568 points by 3131s on Feb 8, 2017 | 307 comments
6. BSDploy – FreeBSD jail provisioning (bsdploy.net)
136 points by _gjrn on Feb 8, 2017 | 85 comments
7. Redash – Connect to any data source, easily visualize and share your data (github.com/getredash)
463 points by handpickednames on Feb 8, 2017 | 90 comments
8. New GM Cruise Self-Driving Video Shows More Mastery of SF Roads (driverless.id)
186 points by wonderhowto on Feb 8, 2017 | 171 comments
9. NeXT: Steve Jobs’ Dot.com IPO That Never Happened (computerhistory.org)
150 points by stefanu on Feb 8, 2017 | 98 comments
10. E.U. Agrees to Cross-Border Access to Streaming Services (variety.com)
131 points by perseusprime11 on Feb 8, 2017 | 64 comments
11. India floats the idea of a universal basic income (economist.com)
268 points by Mz on Feb 7, 2017 | 233 comments
12. A330 flight control laws saved Voyager, inquiry finds (flightglobal.com)
219 points by rwmj on Feb 7, 2017 | 177 comments
13. Optimizations in Syntax Highlighting (visualstudio.com)
257 points by riejo on Feb 8, 2017 | 54 comments
14. Why are all Windows drivers dated June 21, 2006? (microsoft.com)
245 points by ikeboy on Feb 8, 2017 | 106 comments
15. I am going to eradicate the inbound Windows Support scam (jollyrogertelephone.com)
331 points by hourislate on Feb 8, 2017 | 151 comments
16. 10GHz at under 1V by 2005 - The future of Intel’s manufacturing processes [2000] (anandtech.com)
278 points by cft on Feb 8, 2017 | 164 comments
17. Electronics robust enough for Venus (scitation.org)
210 points by sohkamyung on Feb 8, 2017 | 56 comments
18. Regex: badly needs fuzzing (boost.org)
193 points by infogulch on Feb 8, 2017 | 170 comments
19. Search at Slack (slack.engineering)
197 points by isabellat on Feb 8, 2017 | 91 comments
20. PICO-8 lighting, part 1: thin dark line (medium.com/krajzeg)
197 points by bpierre on Feb 8, 2017 | 30 comments
21. The Case for IBM Buying Nvidia, Mellanox, and Xilinx (nextplatform.com)
76 points by Katydid on Feb 7, 2017 | 47 comments
22. How MooTools was built (betweenthewires.org)
102 points by hulkaad on Feb 8, 2017 | 23 comments
23. BlackBerry to turn BBM secure-messaging system into subscription service (theglobeandmail.com)
66 points by noarchy on Feb 8, 2017 | 51 comments
24. RegExr: Learn, Build, and Test RegEx (regexr.com)
131 points by rinesh on Feb 8, 2017 | 31 comments
25. Do People View All 360°? (vrtigo.io)
123 points by mdchaudhari on Feb 8, 2017 | 69 comments
26. Facebook releases ResNeXt for image classification and object detection (github.com/facebookresearch)
118 points by jimarcey on Feb 8, 2017 | 11 comments
27. More on GVFS (microsoft.com)
127 points by dstaheli on Feb 8, 2017 | 77 comments
28. Joyous Africans Take to the Rails, with China’s Help (nytimes.com)
131 points by e15ctr0n on Feb 8, 2017 | 108 comments
29. I wrote a Forth implementation for x86 (2012) (davazp.net)
95 points by sea6ear on Feb 8, 2017 | 11 comments
30. Urbit in 2017 (urbit.org)
141 points by alfredxing on Feb 7, 2017 | 147 comments

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