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1. Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency (dropbox.com)
987 points by nuriaion on Sept 6, 2017 | 84 comments
2. The fertility of the older mind (bbc.com)
290 points by ALee on Sept 6, 2017 | 115 comments
3. Publishing with Apache Kafka at The New York Times (confluent.io)
369 points by rmoff on Sept 6, 2017 | 146 comments
4. Ask HN: How to start afresh in a new domain after years of expertise in another?
389 points by vcool07 on Sept 6, 2017 | 88 comments
5. Voynich manuscript: the solution? (the-tls.co.uk)
266 points by noahth on Sept 6, 2017 | 91 comments
6. Stuff Goes Bad: Erlang in Anger (2016) (erlang-in-anger.com)
293 points by mutor on Sept 6, 2017 | 25 comments
7. Lisp Machine Manual (1984) (hanshuebner.github.io)
142 points by sillysaurus3 on Sept 6, 2017 | 152 comments
8. Bank of Canada increases overnight rate target to 1 per cent (bankofcanada.ca)
261 points by lpgauth on Sept 6, 2017 | 207 comments
9. Radar reveals two moons orbiting asteroid Florence (astronomynow.com)
211 points by japaget on Sept 6, 2017 | 51 comments
10. AssemblyScript: A Subset of TypeScript That Compiles to WebAssembly (github.com/assemblyscript)
205 points by indescions_2017 on Sept 6, 2017 | 73 comments
11. How to Recognize Burnout Before You’re Burned Out (nytimes.com)
402 points by SREinSF on Sept 6, 2017 | 233 comments
12. The Incredible Growth of Python (stackoverflow.blog)
333 points by kjhughes on Sept 6, 2017 | 220 comments
13. Boston Red Sox Used Apple Watches to Steal Signs Against Yankees (nytimes.com)
186 points by coloneltcb on Sept 5, 2017 | 73 comments
14. Playing with Kernel TLS in Linux 4.13 and Go (filippo.io)
130 points by FiloSottile on Sept 6, 2017 | 16 comments
15. Michelangelo: Uber’s Machine Learning Platform (uber.com)
268 points by holografix on Sept 6, 2017 | 93 comments
16. Dhall: a programmable configuration language that is not Turing-complete (github.com/dhall-lang)
157 points by happy-go-lucky on Sept 6, 2017 | 61 comments
17. Interactive Demo of Bloom Filters (jasondavies.com)
188 points by tekromancr on Sept 6, 2017 | 53 comments
18. Inside a fundraising in France: a CEO point of view (medium.com/flavienguillocheau)
111 points by cocoflunchy on Sept 6, 2017 | 8 comments
19. Physical recovery from binge TV-watching gets harder as we get older (npr.org)
161 points by ALee on Sept 6, 2017 | 97 comments
20. Leaked document: EU Presidency calls for massive internet filtering (edri.org)
490 points by sdiepend on Sept 6, 2017 | 138 comments
21. Hardware Architectures for Deep Neural Networks [pdf] (rle.mit.edu)
172 points by blopeur on Sept 6, 2017 | 17 comments
22. Lost Languages Discovered in One of the Oldest Continuously Run Libraries (smithsonianmag.com)
179 points by MBCook on Sept 6, 2017 | 87 comments
23. 23andMe is raising about $200M, led by Sequoia (techcrunch.com)
181 points by doener on Sept 6, 2017 | 168 comments
24. Zika virus used to treat aggressive brain cancer in mice (bbc.com)
69 points by ramzyo on Sept 5, 2017 | 35 comments
25. Remake – GNU Make with comprehensible tracing and a debugger (sourceforge.net)
112 points by pmoriarty on Sept 5, 2017 | 29 comments
26. I printed a huge batch of connectors to make a 15ft structure out of plastic (formlabs.com)
100 points by dezork on Sept 6, 2017 | 18 comments
27. Olin College Produces Founders at Five Times the Rate of Stanford (ledwards.com)
219 points by nertzy on Sept 6, 2017 | 116 comments
28. Scotland plans to make petrol and diesel cars obsolete by 2032 (engadget.com)
107 points by lxm on Sept 6, 2017 | 97 comments
29. Get to Know the Actor Model with JavaScript (roperzh.com)
85 points by roperzh on Sept 5, 2017 | 51 comments
30. Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of your voice
154 points by adbrebs on Sept 6, 2017 | 93 comments

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