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1. Uber and Waymo Reach Settlement (uber.com)
557 points by chollida1 on Feb 9, 2018 | 266 comments
2. Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure” (googleblog.com)
806 points by el_duderino on Feb 8, 2018 | 812 comments
3. Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users (epicgames.com)
414 points by johnnyapol on Feb 9, 2018 | 174 comments
4. Science’s Pirate Queen (theverge.com)
496 points by IntronExon on Feb 8, 2018 | 251 comments
5. Amazon will launch its own delivery service to compete with FedEx, UPS (bgr.com)
421 points by artsandsci on Feb 9, 2018 | 296 comments
6. Fertility 'breakthrough' as human eggs grown in lab for first time (independent.co.uk)
345 points by vezycash on Feb 9, 2018 | 126 comments
7. Is developer compensation becoming bimodal? (danluu.com)
381 points by signa11 on Feb 9, 2018 | 561 comments
8. VLC 3.0 release (videolan.org)
827 points by jbk on Feb 9, 2018 | 294 comments
9. Home-made drones now threaten conventional armed forces (economist.com)
181 points by pmuk on Feb 8, 2018 | 148 comments
10. Impala: Scalable Distributed Deep Reinforcement Learning (deepmind.com)
135 points by gwern on Feb 9, 2018 | 28 comments
11. How and Why Athletes Go Broke (2009) (si.com)
158 points by gwern on Feb 9, 2018 | 262 comments
12. What Thunderbird Learned at FOSDEM (blog.mozilla.org)
196 points by robin_reala on Feb 9, 2018 | 152 comments
13. Advanced SQL window function quiz (windowfunctions.com)
163 points by andy_boot on Feb 8, 2018 | 79 comments
14. QUIC as a solution to protocol ossification (lwn.net)
203 points by signa11 on Feb 9, 2018 | 120 comments
15. Anatomy of a Ceph meltdown (chneukirchen.org)
147 points by panic on Feb 9, 2018 | 104 comments
16. JIT Compilation for Emacs Lisp (tromey.com)
180 points by deng on Feb 9, 2018 | 50 comments
17. “The effects of lifelong exposure to a perverse contingency” (2002) (nih.gov)
197 points by jackpirate on Feb 9, 2018 | 77 comments
18. Symbolic Assembly: Using Clojure to Meta-Program Bytecode (2017) [video] (youtube.com)
61 points by espeed on Feb 9, 2018 | 2 comments
19. Search for Lost Hammer Led to Largest Cache of Roman Treasure Ever Found in UK (smithsonianmag.com)
111 points by diodorus on Feb 8, 2018 | 24 comments
20. Skylight, a Ruby profiler, free for open source applications (skylight.io)
120 points by chancancode on Feb 9, 2018 | 32 comments
21. OpenBoard – An interactive whiteboard for schools and universities (openboard.ch)
115 points by buovjaga on Feb 9, 2018 | 19 comments
22. Facebook's Desperate Smoke Screen (calnewport.com)
278 points by mengledowl on Feb 9, 2018 | 248 comments
23. Escaping Data from Faraday-Caged, Air-Gapped Computers via Magnetic Fields (arxiv.org)
161 points by air7 on Feb 9, 2018 | 72 comments
24. Magpies' brain power may be boosted by living in larger groups (abc.net.au)
43 points by a_bonobo on Feb 8, 2018 | 9 comments
25. A Sleeping Alexa Can Listen for More Than Just Its Name (ieee.org)
150 points by teklaperry on Feb 9, 2018 | 168 comments
26. Show HN: Thanks – See which NPM dependencies are seeking donations (github.com/feross)
138 points by feross on Feb 8, 2018 | 21 comments
27. Show HN: Bounding-box labeler tool to generate the training data for YOLO v2 (github.com/cartucho)
64 points by cartucho on Feb 9, 2018 | 16 comments
28. The crisis of American forensics (thenation.com)
74 points by zeveb on Feb 6, 2018 | 15 comments
29. A History of Capacity Challenges in Computer Science [pdf] (stanford.edu)
66 points by luu on Feb 8, 2018 | 5 comments
30. Show HN: TablePlus – A macOS client for relational databases (medium.com/tableplus)
333 points by bit_4l on Feb 9, 2018 | 155 comments

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