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1. John Perry Barlow has died (eff.org)
1485 points by schoen on Feb 7, 2018 | 126 comments
2. Designing Windows 95’s User Interface (socket3.wordpress.com)
568 points by LaSombra on Feb 7, 2018 | 394 comments
3. Tinc VPN: Secure Private Network Between Hosts (tinc-vpn.org)
420 points by phantom_oracle on Feb 7, 2018 | 195 comments
4. A photographer capturing subcultures that refuse to die (huckmagazine.com)
298 points by kikitee on Feb 7, 2018 | 122 comments
5. Growing from 0 to 4M users on our fashion app with vertical machine learning (medium.com/aldamiz)
306 points by aldamiz on Feb 7, 2018 | 71 comments
6. LCUI – A small C library for building user interfaces with XML and CSS (github.com/lc-soft)
335 points by ausjke on Feb 7, 2018 | 127 comments
7. The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet (gizmodo.com)
522 points by curtis on Feb 7, 2018 | 255 comments
8. Car Hacker's Handbook (2016) (opengarages.org)
337 points by rbanffy on Feb 7, 2018 | 72 comments
9. Googlebot’s JavaScript random() function is deterministic (tomanthony.co.uk)
311 points by TomAnthony on Feb 7, 2018 | 108 comments
10. The cpu_features library (googleblog.com)
183 points by stablemap on Feb 7, 2018 | 35 comments
11. A Developer’s Guide to Responding to National Security Letters (twilio.com)
271 points by tony101 on Feb 7, 2018 | 69 comments
12. Repairing the card reader for a 1960s mainframe: cams, relays and a clutch (righto.com)
140 points by zdw on Feb 7, 2018 | 65 comments
13. Distributed Databases Should Work More Like CDNs (cockroachlabs.com)
212 points by loiselleatwork on Feb 7, 2018 | 83 comments
14. Capsule networks can overcome some shortcomings of CNNs (oreilly.com)
101 points by severine on Feb 6, 2018
15. The conceptual origins of Maxwell's equations and gauge theory (2014) [pdf] (umd.edu)
134 points by espeed on Feb 7, 2018 | 29 comments
16. WireGuard: fast, modern, secure VPN tunnel (wireguard.com)
227 points by jermaustin1 on Feb 7, 2018 | 43 comments
17. Show HN: An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume (ceev.io)
185 points by mitchas on Feb 7, 2018 | 93 comments
18. Nest to join forces with Google’s hardware team (nest.com)
134 points by shawndumas on Feb 7, 2018 | 124 comments
19. Newly Discovered Form of Water Ice Is ‘Really Strange’ (nytimes.com)
115 points by rbanffy on Feb 6, 2018 | 23 comments
20. Python’s Weak Performance Matters (metarabbit.wordpress.com)
298 points by georgecmu on Feb 7, 2018 | 325 comments
21. LMARV-1: A RISC-V processor you can see [video] (youtube.com)
120 points by Retr0spectrum on Feb 7, 2018 | 19 comments
22. Discovering types for entity disambiguation (blog.openai.com)
85 points by gdb on Feb 7, 2018 | 6 comments
23. Visualising Electromagnetic Fields (lukesturgeon.co.uk)
108 points by lelf on Feb 7, 2018 | 33 comments
24. Americans are spending less on clothing (bloomberg.com)
217 points by lxm on Feb 7, 2018 | 323 comments
25. Launch HN: Substack (YC W18): Paid email newsletters made simple
124 points by cjbest on Feb 7, 2018 | 88 comments
26. Spider-Like Creature with a Scorpion’s Tail Found Trapped in Amber (nytimes.com)
98 points by Osiris30 on Feb 7, 2018 | 59 comments
27. Many Animals Can Count (nytimes.com)
130 points by dnetesn on Feb 7, 2018 | 72 comments
28. Elevated Use of Absolutist Words Is a Marker of Anxiety, Depression [pdf] (sagepub.com)
269 points by tjalfi on Feb 7, 2018 | 167 comments
29. Probing Planets in Extragalactic Galaxies Using Quasar Microlensing (arxiv.org)
72 points by IntronExon on Feb 7, 2018 | 26 comments
30. Airbnb’s Battle to Stay Private (bloomberg.com)
104 points by thedogeye on Feb 7, 2018 | 84 comments

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