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1. India's farmed chickens dosed with world's strongest antibiotics, study finds (theguardian.com)
495 points by Gupie on Feb 1, 2018 | 192 comments
2. Sprawling Mayan network discovered under Guatemala jungle (bbc.com)
393 points by rbanffy on Feb 2, 2018 | 117 comments
3. John Hennessy named chairman of Alphabet/Google (ieee.org)
455 points by teklaperry on Feb 2, 2018 | 101 comments
4. A.I. Has Arrived in Investing, Humans Are Still Dominating (nytimes.com)
215 points by smollett on Feb 2, 2018 | 124 comments
5. EBay to Ditch PayPal for Dutch Payment Processor Adyen (bloomberg.com)
360 points by watchdogtimer on Feb 1, 2018 | 191 comments
6. RFC: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Minimal Images (dustinkirkland.com)
280 points by pella on Feb 2, 2018 | 115 comments
7. Why some apps use fake progress bars (2017) (theatlantic.com)
245 points by franciscop on Feb 2, 2018 | 194 comments
8. DragonFFI: C Foreign Function Interface and JIT Using Clang/LLVM (github.com/aguinet)
120 points by matt_d on Feb 2, 2018 | 23 comments
9. Ikea founder leaves fortune to no one, structures it to ensure it lasts forever (bloomberg.com)
422 points by thinkloop on Feb 1, 2018 | 357 comments
10. Lying to TCP makes it a best-effort streaming protocol (eighty-twenty.org)
213 points by tonyg on Feb 1, 2018 | 91 comments
11. A first naïve look at Truffle Ruby (github.com/oracle)
118 points by thibaut_barrere on Feb 2, 2018 | 65 comments
12. How WeChat Came to Rule China (theverge.com)
128 points by msh on Feb 1, 2018 | 77 comments
13. The Social Dynamics of Programming Together in Dynamicland (dynamicland.org)
84 points by GuiA on Feb 2, 2018 | 15 comments
14. CSS Grid changes everything [video] (youtube.com)
280 points by mladen5 on Feb 2, 2018 | 86 comments
15. Solving Minesweeper and making it better (2015) (magnushoff.com)
271 points by maggit on Feb 2, 2018 | 73 comments
16. Gut Microbes Combine to Cause Colon Cancer, Study Suggests (nytimes.com)
228 points by montrose on Feb 2, 2018 | 52 comments
17. Showing Off to the Universe: Beacons for the Afterlife of Our Civilization (stephenwolfram.com)
83 points by jedwhite on Jan 30, 2018 | 20 comments
18. Minimodem – General-purpose software audio FSK modem (2016) (whence.com)
157 points by mmastrac on Feb 2, 2018 | 62 comments
19. Plan 9 public grid (9gridchan.org)
182 points by zeveb on Feb 2, 2018 | 43 comments
20. New reports suggest limits to autonomous vehicle performance (ieee.org)
105 points by charlysl on Feb 2, 2018 | 125 comments
21. DensePose: Dense Human Pose Estimation in the Wild (densepose.org)
114 points by lainon on Feb 2, 2018 | 17 comments
22. No Cutting Corners on the iPhone X (medium.com/tall-west)
199 points by tambourine_man on Feb 1, 2018 | 190 comments
23. Bloxels – Build Your Own Video Games (bloxelsbuilder.com)
130 points by handpickednames on Feb 2, 2018 | 72 comments
24. The Popularity of Near-Death Experience (lareviewofbooks.org)
57 points by breitling on Feb 2, 2018 | 38 comments
25. Very old, very sophisticated tools found in India (washingtonpost.com)
160 points by cpncrunch on Feb 1, 2018 | 74 comments
26. What If GPS Stood for “Galactic Positioning System”? (ieee.org)
136 points by charlysl on Feb 2, 2018 | 60 comments
27. Family fun with deepfakes (svencharleer.com)
427 points by robinhouston on Feb 2, 2018 | 263 comments
28. Google’s Fuchsia OS on the Pixelbook (arstechnica.com)
166 points by dumindunuwan on Feb 2, 2018 | 123 comments
29. The Evolution of Bitcoin Hardware [pdf] (ucsd.edu)
116 points by Katydid on Feb 2, 2018 | 39 comments
30. HEVC and the No Good Month of January (streaminglearningcenter.com)
125 points by clouddrover on Feb 1, 2018 | 28 comments

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