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1. The Follower Factory (nytimes.com)
432 points by gregkerzhner on Jan 27, 2018 | 165 comments
2. Terraforming 1Password (agilebits.com)
346 points by kawera on Jan 27, 2018 | 118 comments
3. Finding Profitable Startup Ideas (capitalandgrowth.org)
297 points by jkuria on Jan 27, 2018 | 95 comments
4. USAF Is Jamming GPS in Western U.S. For Largest Ever Red Flag Air War Exercise (thedrive.com)
226 points by tony101 on Jan 27, 2018 | 149 comments
5. An Italian Song That Sounds Like English But Is Nonsense (atlasobscura.com)
373 points by idiocratic on Jan 27, 2018 | 209 comments
6. Operation Gunman – how the Soviets bugged IBM typewriters (2015) (cryptomuseum.com)
229 points by dictum on Jan 27, 2018 | 18 comments
7. Kaggle Learn review: there is a deep learning track and it is worth your time (techandmortals.wordpress.com)
219 points by akashtndn on Jan 27, 2018 | 12 comments
8. You Can’t Fire Equifax, but Your Employer Can (nytimes.com)
209 points by tysone on Jan 26, 2018 | 87 comments
9. ‘We Shall Overcome’ Is Put in Public Domain in a Copyright Settlement (nytimes.com)
132 points by tchalla on Jan 27, 2018 | 35 comments
10. Amazon’s $23M book about flies (2011) (michaeleisen.org)
186 points by YeGoblynQueenne on Jan 27, 2018 | 106 comments
11. Show HN: Find a co-hacker for your project (projectboard.xyz)
149 points by bloatedcarpel on Jan 27, 2018 | 64 comments
12. Study produces 3D images that float (byu.edu)
160 points by snr on Jan 26, 2018 | 56 comments
13. If you watch closely enough, everything is a speaker (kottke.org)
250 points by jXCw1N0jtH3 on Jan 27, 2018 | 52 comments
14. Data Science at the Command Line (datascienceatthecommandline.com)
215 points by kawera on Jan 27, 2018 | 35 comments
15. Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans (bostonreview.net)
144 points by lermontov on Jan 26, 2018 | 83 comments
16. Postgres indexes under the hood (rcoh.me)
162 points by rusbus on Jan 27, 2018 | 23 comments
17. Newton’s Financial Misadventures in the South Sea Bubble [pdf] (umn.edu)
96 points by _culy on Jan 27, 2018 | 35 comments
18. Towards LaTeX in the Browser (hackernoon.com)
110 points by jxxcarlson on Jan 27, 2018 | 67 comments
19. U.S trade body backs Bombardier against Boeing (reuters.com)
102 points by rbanffy on Jan 26, 2018 | 25 comments
20. My Delorean runs Perl (opensource.com)
190 points by rcarmo on Jan 27, 2018 | 54 comments
21. Show HN: A radically more scalable alternative to Bayesian Optimization (github.com/chrisstroemel)
96 points by chroem- on Jan 26, 2018 | 22 comments
22. What Life Looks Like When Night Lasts for Days (nytimes.com)
105 points by andersson42 on Jan 27, 2018 | 35 comments
23. VM escape vulnerabilities patched in VirtualBox (techrepublic.com)
121 points by emptysands on Jan 27, 2018 | 42 comments
24. Python 1.0.0 is out (1994) (groups.google.com)
163 points by sndean on Jan 27, 2018 | 145 comments
25. New population of one of world's rarest fish found off Tasmania (npr.org)
56 points by s0rce on Jan 27, 2018 | 8 comments
26. Ted Nelson’s published papers on computers and interaction, 1965 to 1977 (archive.org)
104 points by krstoff on Jan 27, 2018 | 33 comments
27. Increased Network Bandwidth for EC2 Instances (amazon.com)
73 points by jeffbarr on Jan 27, 2018 | 27 comments
28. The revolutionary ideas of Thomas Kuhn (the-tls.co.uk)
67 points by benbreen on Jan 26, 2018 | 14 comments
29. Wastes of Time We Regret When We Get Older (lifehacker.com.au)
159 points by kawera on Jan 27, 2018 | 118 comments
30. The good guy/bad guy myth (aeon.co)
154 points by anacleto on Jan 27, 2018 | 207 comments

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