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1. Set Theory and Algebra in CS: Introduction to Mathematical Modeling (2013) [pdf] (semanticscholar.org)
317 points by lainon on Aug 25, 2018 | 50 comments
2. The Future of Notebooks: Lessons from JupyterCon (willcrichton.net)
353 points by wcrichton on Aug 25, 2018 | 154 comments
3. Skim reading is the new normal. The effect on society is profound (theguardian.com)
327 points by pmoriarty on Aug 25, 2018 | 211 comments
4. Japan to add millions of new nodes to federated Nextcloud network (nextcloud.com)
237 points by r3bl on Aug 25, 2018 | 64 comments
5. Don’t Shoot Messenger (eff.org)
197 points by DiabloD3 on Aug 24, 2018 | 20 comments
6. Centralized Wins. Decentralized Loses (highscalability.com)
275 points by ghosthamlet on Aug 25, 2018 | 150 comments
7. My life with 12 programmers, 2 rooms and one 21st-century dream (2016) (salon.com)
269 points by testb on Aug 24, 2018 | 167 comments
8. How to Fit a Large Program into a Small Machine (1999) (mud.co.uk)
148 points by tosh on Aug 25, 2018 | 35 comments
9. Using John Varney's rhythm wheel to differentiate 3/4 and 6/8 time signatures (megan-vo.github.io)
95 points by mathisonian on Aug 24, 2018 | 89 comments
10. Elm 0.19 Broke Us (dev.to)
276 points by maxhallinan on Aug 25, 2018 | 226 comments
11. Money Really Does Lead to a More Satisfying Life (nytimes.com)
263 points by mpweiher on Aug 25, 2018 | 146 comments
12. Energy Department teams up with Bill Gates to move mini-nuclear plants to market (washingtonexaminer.com)
207 points by rmason on Aug 25, 2018 | 114 comments
13. Beyond the pixel plane: sensing and learning in 3D (thegradient.pub)
129 points by gtmtg on Aug 25, 2018 | 15 comments
14. The MRISC32 – A vector first CPU design (bitsnbites.eu)
87 points by mbitsnbites on Aug 24, 2018 | 18 comments
15. An Oral History of ‘GoldenEye 007’ on the N64 (melmagazine.com)
175 points by ForHackernews on Aug 25, 2018 | 95 comments
16. The Approval Economy (zandercutt.com)
113 points by imartin2k on Aug 24, 2018 | 34 comments
17. The Paradox of Karl Popper (scientificamerican.com)
147 points by lainon on Aug 25, 2018 | 78 comments
18. Great Barrier Reef headed for ‘massive death’ (cnn.com)
169 points by Tomte on Aug 25, 2018 | 124 comments
19. What happens when we work non-stop (bbc.com)
173 points by vjsc on Aug 24, 2018 | 44 comments
20. The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined (nytimes.com)
222 points by boulos on Aug 25, 2018 | 358 comments
21. Training classifiers with natural language explanations (acolyer.org)
92 points by ngaut on Aug 24, 2018 | 1 comment
22. The evolutionary mystery of gigantic human brains (arstechnica.com)
68 points by nnx on Aug 24, 2018 | 42 comments
23. Sarcasm Analysis Using Conversation Context (arxiv.org)
78 points by rbanffy on Aug 25, 2018 | 19 comments
24. Security Chasms of WASM [pdf] (blackhat.com)
78 points by rfinney on Aug 24, 2018 | 9 comments
25. Evenly distributing points on a sphere (extremelearning.com.au)
88 points by Signez on Aug 25, 2018 | 20 comments
26. TKVDB: radix tree persistent key/value storage engine written in ANSI C (github.com/vmxdev)
105 points by vmxdev on Aug 25, 2018 | 20 comments
27. How Paper Batteries Charged by Bacteria Could Power the Internet of Things (ieee.org)
56 points by rbanffy on Aug 24, 2018 | 26 comments
28. German Cryptanalytic Attacks on the British World War II “TYPEX” Machine (columbia.edu)
73 points by sohkamyung on Aug 25, 2018 | 19 comments
29. Understand what AI sees (hackernoon.com)
100 points by dirtPUNK on Aug 24, 2018 | 42 comments
30. The First Photo of a Human Being, and How the Scene's Changed from 180 Years Ago (vintag.es)
59 points by prismatic on Aug 24, 2018 | 28 comments

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