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1. Teach Yourself to Echolocate: A beginner’s guide to navigating with sound (atlasobscura.com)
571 points by zebraman on Oct 13, 2018 | 105 comments
2. The Reason We Haven’t Directly Detected Dark Matter (medium.com/starts-with-a-bang)
334 points by alex_young on Oct 13, 2018 | 295 comments
3. The Murgia Hack System (mhsys.org)
139 points by ingve on Oct 13, 2018 | 12 comments
4. Rapids – Open GPU Data Science (rapids.ai)
124 points by msis on Oct 13, 2018 | 25 comments
5. CSS Layout cookbook (developer.mozilla.org)
322 points by filipoi on Oct 13, 2018 | 24 comments
6. Why Futurism Has a Cultural Blindspot (2015) (nautil.us)
119 points by dnetesn on Oct 13, 2018 | 69 comments
7. Model-Based Machine Learning Book (mbmlbook.com)
365 points by r0f1 on Oct 12, 2018 | 12 comments
8. An Amateur Rap Crew Stole Surveillance Tech that Tracks Almost Every American (forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster)
313 points by kawera on Oct 12, 2018 | 111 comments
9. See what you can create with 140 characters of JavaScript and a canvas (dwitter.net)
183 points by pajtai on Oct 12, 2018 | 24 comments
10. A Great Old Timey Game Programming Hack (2013) (moertel.com)
252 points by esaym on Oct 13, 2018 | 22 comments
11. Quitting my job has been the best thing I've done for my career (joshuahu.io)
315 points by jhu247 on Oct 12, 2018 | 224 comments
12. Air India Express 737 Hits ILS, Damages Wall on Departure, Flies for 4 Hours (flightradar24.com)
224 points by singhshashi on Oct 12, 2018 | 238 comments
13. BetrFS: An in-kernel file system that uses Bε trees to organize on-disk storage (betrfs.org)
167 points by espeed on Oct 12, 2018 | 46 comments
14. Is Chronic Anxiety a Learning Disorder? (scientificamerican.com)
225 points by laurex on Oct 12, 2018 | 72 comments
15. Ask HN: 40+ Career Advice?
384 points by nextstep40plus on Oct 13, 2018 | 229 comments
16. Lab-Grown Human Retinas Illuminate How Eyes Develop Color Vision (scientificamerican.com)
55 points by ihsoj on Oct 12, 2018 | 11 comments
17. Setting, Elaborating, Reflecting on Goals Improves Academic Performance (2010) [pdf] (utoronto.ca)
70 points by shawndumas on Oct 13, 2018 | 4 comments
18. Chess Game Using Racket’s Pasteboard (alex-hhh.github.io)
107 points by bwidlar on Oct 13, 2018 | 11 comments
19. The byproducts of reading OpenBSD netcat code (nanxiao.me)
68 points by nanxiao on Oct 13, 2018 | 11 comments
20. Invisible Manipulation: ways our data is being used against us (privacyinternational.org)
159 points by crunchiebones on Oct 13, 2018 | 78 comments
21. TinySeed – A Startup Accelerator Designed for Bootstrappers (robwalling.com)
342 points by ljoshua on Oct 12, 2018 | 101 comments
22. How Bad Is It to Forget Someone's Name? (theatlantic.com)
146 points by walterbell on Oct 10, 2018 | 112 comments
23. Documents OCR: Improving Efficiency by Making PDFs Searchable (medium.com/oscar-tech)
126 points by ebibi on Oct 11, 2018 | 42 comments
24. Are influencers overrated? New Study questions effectiveness of targeting “hubs” (stanford.edu)
81 points by anigbrowl on Oct 13, 2018 | 23 comments
25. Fantasy Maps That Put the World’s Tallest Mountains Side by Side (atlasobscura.com)
79 points by Thevet on Oct 12, 2018 | 3 comments
26. The S.E.C. Dusts Off a Never-Used Cyber Enforcement Tool (nytimes.com)
58 points by walterbell on Oct 11, 2018 | 4 comments
27. Thank you for calling tech support, now please die (2015) (arstechnica.com)
95 points by nwrk on Oct 13, 2018 | 26 comments
28. Cimple: Instruction and Memory Level Parallelism (arxiv.org)
56 points by moab on Oct 12, 2018 | 16 comments
29. Big Integer Design (bearssl.org)
101 points by matt_d on Oct 13, 2018 | 8 comments
30. Firebase outages and misleading status reporting (medium.com/scosta)
143 points by sauldcosta on Oct 13, 2018 | 49 comments

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