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1. How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers (docs.google.com)
704 points by itsbenlee on Nov 19, 2018 | 122 comments
2. Autodesk to Acquire PlanGrid (YC W12) to Accelerate Construction Productivity (autodesk.com)
417 points by gwintrob on Nov 20, 2018 | 76 comments
3. Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline (lwn.net)
267 points by Tomte on Nov 20, 2018 | 118 comments
4. NYC subway and bus services have entered 'death spiral', experts say (theguardian.com)
347 points by ricardoreis on Nov 20, 2018 | 456 comments
5. For a brief period, the Windows kernel tried to deal with gamma rays (microsoft.com)
318 points by ingve on Nov 20, 2018 | 118 comments
6. Relit: Typed Literal Macros for Reason (github.com/cyrus-)
123 points by wcrichton on Nov 19, 2018 | 17 comments
7. The spread of low-credibility content by social bots (nature.com)
120 points by infodocket on Nov 20, 2018 | 68 comments
8. Shamir’s Secret Sharing Scheme (ericrafaloff.com)
213 points by notverysecure on Nov 20, 2018 | 42 comments
9. The day MIT won the Harvard-Yale game (espn.com)
150 points by dskhatri on Nov 20, 2018 | 40 comments
10. JAB Code – A high-capacity 2D color bar code (github.com/jabcode)
170 points by Confiks on Nov 20, 2018 | 170 comments
11. A Binary Star Is About to Go Supernova and Could Produce a Gamma-Ray Burst (sciencealert.com)
178 points by hardlianotion on Nov 20, 2018 | 109 comments
12. Never connect to ProtonMail using Chrome (reddit.com)
461 points by dredmorbius on Nov 19, 2018 | 275 comments
13. OpenCV 4.0 (opencv.org)
252 points by conductor on Nov 20, 2018 | 33 comments
14. Architects have a lot to learn from the sound engineering of the ancients (nautil.us)
138 points by dnetesn on Nov 20, 2018 | 56 comments
15. Show HN: SkillUpper – practice coding interview questions step-by-step (skillupper.com)
143 points by rhc2104 on Nov 19, 2018 | 33 comments
16. Rot8000 (rot8000.com)
158 points by max_sendfeld on Nov 20, 2018 | 54 comments
17. The present phase of stagnation in the foundations of physics is not normal (backreaction.blogspot.com)
251 points by mathgenius on Nov 20, 2018 | 207 comments
18. A debt-collection machine that’s chewing up small businesses across America (bloomberg.com)
450 points by acdanger on Nov 20, 2018 | 141 comments
19. Automatic Differentiation in Machine Learning: A Survey [pdf] (jmlr.org)
127 points by sonabinu on Nov 20, 2018 | 20 comments
20. The Graphic Art of Incredibles 2 (joshholtsclaw.com)
274 points by yarapavan on Nov 20, 2018 | 56 comments
21. IBM z14 Microprocessor and System Control Design (wikichip.org)
150 points by rbanffy on Nov 20, 2018 | 86 comments
22. LegoOS: Disseminated, Distributed OS for Hardware Resource Disaggregation [pdf] (usenix.org)
91 points by ingve on Nov 19, 2018 | 30 comments
23. “The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014) (kernel.org)
429 points by wolfgang42 on Nov 20, 2018 | 108 comments
24. Life inside MPEG (chiariglione.org)
77 points by clouddrover on Nov 19, 2018 | 54 comments
25. Want to Recruit Better Engineers? Open Source Your Code (angel.co)
272 points by kapilkale on Nov 19, 2018 | 136 comments
26. Deep learning pioneer Yoshua Bengio is worried about AI’s future (technologyreview.com)
185 points by jonbaer on Nov 19, 2018 | 137 comments
27. Karl Friston: a neuroscientist who might hold the key to true AI (wired.com)
190 points by MKais on Nov 20, 2018 | 98 comments
28. The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest Cities (bloomberg.com)
270 points by kimsk112 on Nov 20, 2018 | 316 comments
29. Comparison of Metaheuristics [pdf] (umd.edu)
35 points by mindcrime on Nov 20, 2018 | 7 comments
30. “Devil Girl from Mars”: Why I Write Science Fiction (1998) (web.mit.edu)
92 points by benbreen on Nov 19, 2018 | 10 comments

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