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1.Earth on AWS – Open geospatial data (amazon.com)
663 points by thecodeboy on Nov 5, 2017 | 89 comments
2.Does anyone remember websites? (tttthis.com)
895 points by dfps on Nov 5, 2017 | 365 comments
3.Alpha Go Zero: How and Why It Works (hibal.org)
354 points by Mageek on Nov 4, 2017 | 109 comments
4.Craniopagus Twins Share a Brain and See Out of Each Others Eyes (cbc.ca)
355 points by Osiris30 on Nov 5, 2017 | 141 comments
5.Profiling Go (integralist.co.uk)
167 points by 0x4542 on Nov 4, 2017 | 8 comments
6.28-year-old makes millions buying from Walmart, selling on Amazon (msn.com)
392 points by kolbe on Nov 5, 2017 | 193 comments
7.Strategy: How to Develop, Structure and Shape a Winning System (chrisbolman.com)
224 points by bolmn on Nov 5, 2017 | 29 comments
8.“One Damn Slide After Another”: PowerPoint at Every Occasion for Speech (2016) (computationalculture.net)
187 points by panic on Nov 5, 2017 | 109 comments
9.Lessons of an MIT Education (tamu.edu)
355 points by funkylexoo on Nov 5, 2017 | 247 comments
10.How Netflix works: the stuff that happens when you hit Play (medium.com/refraction-tech-everything)
195 points by sds111 on Nov 5, 2017 | 57 comments
11.Fengari: Lua for the Browser (fengari.io)
97 points by mabynogy on Nov 4, 2017 | 27 comments
12.If you type the letter “i” and it autocorrects to an “A” with a symbol (support.apple.com)
270 points by doxinho on Nov 5, 2017 | 249 comments
13.Paradise Papers: New leak from offshore finance firm (icij.org)
647 points by _abnl on Nov 5, 2017 | 432 comments
14.Show HN: GAN Playground – Play with Generative Adversarial Neural Nets In-Browser (reiinakano.github.io)
97 points by reiinakano on Nov 5, 2017 | 14 comments
15.A man who built a plane on his Mumbai rooftop (bbc.com)
139 points by dnyanesh on Nov 5, 2017 | 52 comments
16.Critical and Significant Dates (2013) (skeena.net)
47 points by Tomte on Nov 4, 2017 | 3 comments
17.Show HN: PySchemes – A library for validating data structures in Python (github.com/shivylp)
94 points by shivaprasad on Nov 5, 2017 | 34 comments
18.Guy Fawkes night’s oddest traditions are due to a 1606 law (2014) (theconversation.com)
98 points by pepys on Nov 5, 2017 | 51 comments
19.Lightmod – A beginner-friendly, all-in-one tool for full stack Clojure (sekao.net)
152 points by malloryerik on Nov 5, 2017 | 25 comments
20.Hunting Mushrooms, and What Makes Some Glow in the Dark (nytimes.com)
55 points by DrScump on Nov 4, 2017 | 28 comments
21.Facebook and Google Are Actually Net States. And They Rule the World (wired.com)
149 points by kensai on Nov 5, 2017 | 35 comments
22.The Dramatically Different World of ’70s Dating Ads (atlasobscura.com)
95 points by pepys on Nov 4, 2017 | 19 comments
23.Pentagon Releases Marine General Held at Guantanamo (wsj.com)
94 points by JumpCrisscross on Nov 5, 2017 | 50 comments
24.Funding Open Source: How Webpack Reached $400k+/year (medium.com/open-collective)
118 points by naspeh on Nov 5, 2017 | 58 comments
25.Cosmic radiation exposure and persistent cognitive dysfunction (nature.com)
64 points by pwg on Nov 5, 2017 | 36 comments
26.Slovenia's love affair with a salamander (2016) (newyorker.com)
50 points by bryanrasmussen on Nov 5, 2017 | 1 comment
27.Gut Microbes Can Shape Responses to Cancer Immunotherapy (scientificamerican.com)
84 points by daegloe on Nov 5, 2017 | 10 comments
28.Go at Digital Ocean (speakerdeck.com)
189 points by dcu on Nov 5, 2017 | 103 comments
29.Ask HN: How do you manage multiple learning projects?
161 points by jansho on Nov 5, 2017 | 78 comments
30.Visiting Lord's Bridge: The Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory Near Cambridge (vla22.dreamwidth.org)
25 points by fanf2 on Nov 5, 2017 | 5 comments

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